Italian neorealism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant italian neorealism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, neorealism, art house, bleak and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with italian neorealism, couples, society, love, love and romance, runaway, family relations, obsession, husband wife relationship and couple relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Italy, France, West Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as italian neorealism: Il Posto (1961), The Scrounger (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), Bandits of Orgosolo (1961), The Grim Reaper (1962), Red Desert (1964), Seduced and Abandoned (1964), Theorem (1968), The Conformist (1970), Toxic Love (1983).
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List of italian neorealism movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to ...
Style:
neorealism, sad, art house, insightful, social ...
Plot:
italian neorealism, coming of age, worker, european, teenager, boy, spirituality, angry, young adult, realism, little boy, time travel ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style:
neorealism, realistic, serious, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, life is a bitch, family relations, italian neorealism, criminal heroes, downfall, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, gay, thief, friendship, human nature, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1962, 60s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, mexico, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Sardinian peasant is implicated in the murder of a policeman and, although innocent, he doesn’t give himself up, lacking faith in the judicial system and fearing that he may lose his sheep while awaiting trial. He leaves for the mountains with ...
Style:
neorealism, bleak, black and white, spiritual
Plot:
fugitive, false accusation, bandit, mountain, italian neorealism, sheep, village life, desperation, loss, poverty, social injustice, island ...
Time:
60s
Place:
sardinia, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night. They are questioned and have to explain why they were there. One of them is the killer.
Style:
neorealism, neo noir, contemplative, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
italian neorealism, swing, murder, prostitute, soldier, investigation, police investigation, manipulation, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, depression, fog, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, existentialism, mother son relationship, society, factory, passion, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and ...
Style:
neorealism, cynical, dark comedy, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
violent father, seduction, italian neorealism, unwanted pregnancy, sicilian, pregnant girl, infamy, feminism, dream, time travel, pregnancy, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy, southern italy
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, eros, allegory, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, bourgeoisie, gay, gay interest, surrealism, seduction, sex, lgbt, mysterious stranger, visitor, parable, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable ...
Style:
sad, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war two, resistance, midlife crisis, fascism, italian neorealism, partisan, unrequited love, corruption, european, circus, amor, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1960, year 1974, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, italian neorealism, gay, police officer, underground, drug addiction, heroin, social issues, deadend life, youth, danger, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style:
psychological, art house, cerebral, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, filmmaking, midlife crisis, loneliness, stream of consciousness, flashback, memory, satire, catholic, dream, actress ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france, england ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Algeria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus. Marcello Mastrioanni stars as Meursault, a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, ...
Style:
philosophical, neo noir, existential, neorealism, psychological ...
Plot:
nihilism, murder, philosophy, prison, death of mother, funeral, mourning, society, courtroom drama, italian neorealism, sun, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1967, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, middle east
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style:
sentimental, art house, melancholic, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, boy, fall in love, lgbtq, hotel, gays and lesbians, love and romance, art, forbidden love, unrequited love, teenage boy, pedophilia ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912 ...
Place:
italy, venice, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal."
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, grim, art house ...
Plot:
survival, poverty, post war, mountain, frustration, salvation, black market, alienation, social realism, desperation, working class, trauma ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1945
Place:
alps, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light ...
Plot:
holiday, prostitute, love, italian neorealism, coal, miner, man hits a woman, jealousy, gay bar, male female relationship, coal mining, prostitution ...
Place:
amsterdam
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.
Style:
contemplative, neorealism, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
minimal dialogue, italian neorealism, sicilian, european, worker, long distance relationship, longing, renewed love, couples, promotion, introspection, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style:
sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, young lovers, love triangle, unfulfilled love, first love, teenage girl, marriage, single mother, separation, mechanic, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, year 1957, year 1958, 20th century ...
Place:
france, algeria, normandy, europe, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style:
art house, anthology, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, love triangle, male male relationship, summer, adultery, love, crazy love, bittersweet, inadvertently, family relations, making love ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew ...
Style:
neo noir, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, incest, forbidden love, sex with brother, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, deportation, family relations, sex with sister, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, abbey ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1965, 60s, 21st century
Place:
italy, ancient greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, erotic, talky, clever ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
counterculture, politics, sex, relationships, women, murder, revolution, european, hippie, sexuality, social commentary, violence ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Style:
sexy, art house, psychological, talky, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
swimming pool, summer, passion, sex, holiday, art, relationships, crazy love, threesome, morality, artist, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
saint tropez, france, mediterranean sea, cote d'azur, french riviera ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country".
Style:
biting, sexy, realistic, not serious, witty ...
Plot:
italian neorealism, couples, spouse leaving, social relations, sexual dysfunction, couple relations, youth, society, dishonesty, love and romance, love affair, small town ...
Time:
year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime. The transition from democracy to dictatorship is thus dramatized through the lives of the family which also owns a powerful German ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, disturbing, sad, retro ...
Plot:
decadence, oedipus complex, mother son incest, male nudity, suicide, hide and seek, incest, pedophile, fascism, skinny dipping, bare breasts, party ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, pre world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style:
sexy, tense, humorous, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, satire, adaptation, director, workplace, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, workplace situations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, future, 70s, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, nice france, french riviera, riviera
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Style:
erotic, romantic, sexual, neorealism, spiritual ...
Plot:
eroticism, female nudity, illicit affair, love triangle, nobleman, nudity, unfaithfulness, adultery, extramarital affair, adulterous husband, mistress, bare breasts ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century, year 1976, 1890s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
Style:
aesthetic, social, inspirational, neorealism, serious ...
Plot:
illiteracy, shepherd, child abuse, coming of age, father son relationship, zoophilia, abusive father, human spirit, bestiality, father, rural setting, donkey ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
sardinia, persia, italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 205 min.
Story:
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a ...
Style:
anthology, sexy, art house, sexual, neorealism ...
Plot:
womanizer, giant, european, blue collar, dark humor, fetish, kaiju, wedding, reflection, italian neorealism, working class, marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1970
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Style:
black comedy, humorous, witty, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
divorce, sicilian, cousin cousin relationship, murder, manipulation, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s, 18th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, erotic, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
photographer, photography, photograph, fashion, voyeurism, corpse, murder witness, fashion photographer, fashion model, nudity, free love, photo studio ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, paris france
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