Movements in Italian cinema

film genre

national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class

Italian film genre

thumb|Gastone Moschin in [[Caliber 9 (1972), directed by Fernando Di Leo]] Poliziotteschi (; : poliziottesco) constitute a subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. They are also known as '''''polizieschi all'italiana, Italo-crime, spaghetti crime films, or simply Italian crime films'. Influenced primarily by both 1970s French crime films and gritty 1960s and 1970s American cop films and vigilante films (among other influences), poliziotteschi films were made amidst an atmosphere of socio-political turmoi

movement in film history from 1916 to 1919

thumb|The Betrothed (1941 film)|The Betrothed by [[Mario Camerini (1941)]] Calligrafismo (; ) is an Italian style of filmmaking relating to some films made in Italy in the first half of the 1940s and endowed with an expressive complexity that isolates them from the general context. Calligrafismo is in a sharp contrast to Telefoni Bianchi-American style comedies and is rather artistic, highly formalistic, expressive in complexity, and deals mainly with contemporary literary material, above all the pieces of Italian realism from authors such as Corrado Alvaro, Ennio Flaiano, Emilio Cecchi, Franc