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, neorealism, art house, serious, atmospheric and masterpiece films and TV shows about / with italian neorealism, society, prostitute, husband wife relationship, family relations, couples, love and romance, surrealism, flashback and couple relations plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance 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), Teorema (1968), The Conformist (1970), Toxic Love (1983).

List of italian neorealism movies

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Il Posto (1961)
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, spiritual, insightful ...
Plot: italian neorealism, coming of age, european, worker, boy, teenager, corporation, angry, realism, young adult, spirituality, time travel ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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 10K
The Scrounger (1961)
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, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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 10K
Mamma Roma (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 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, thief, friendship, human nature, hopes, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, post world war two
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
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Bandits of Orgosolo (1961)
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: spiritual
Plot: italian neorealism, great ending, spirit, mountain, dog, fog, voice over narration, fugitive, shepherd, bandit, false accusation
Place: sardinia, italy
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The Grim Reaper (1962)
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, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: italian neorealism, swing, soldier, murder, investigation, prostitute, police investigation, manipulation, who done it, amateur detective, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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Red Desert (1964)
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, factory, depression, fog, existentialism, society, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, car accident, anxiety, minimal dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, italy
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Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 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: seduction, italian neorealism, time travel, dream, feminism, satire, pregnancy, violent father, abandonment, family feud, parents and children, manners ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: sicily, europe, italy, southern italy
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Teorema (1968)
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, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, surrealism, lgbt, mysterious stranger, gay, parable, homosexuality, lgbtq, erotica, sex, seduction, female nudity ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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 33K
The Conformist (1970)
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, neo noir ...
Plot: fascism, assassination, italian fascism, fascist, murder, honeymoon, professor, politics, existentialism, confession, child molestation, ambush ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
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We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
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, realistic, semi serious, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: world war two, resistance, midlife crisis, fascism, italian neorealism, partisan, corruption, european, amor, circus, friendship, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1974, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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 7.3
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Toxic Love (1983)
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: serious, realistic, gloomy, rough, bleak ...
Plot: addiction, italian neorealism, police officer, underground, drug addiction, heroin, social issues, deadend life, rebelliousness, prostitute, youth, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, italy, rome italy
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Eight and a Half (1963)
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: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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The Stranger (1967)
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, neorealism, existential, contemplative ...
Plot: nihilism, murder, philosophy, society, courtroom drama, death of mother, mourning, italian neorealism, death penalty, social outcast, summer, art ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1930s
Place: algeria, middle east
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Death in Venice (1971)
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 HĂ´tel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style: sentimental, art house, scenic, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: obsession, fall in love, boy, gays and lesbians, hotel, unrequited love, love and romance, art, teenage boy, pedophilia, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1971, victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: italy, venice, europe
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Girl in the Window (1961)
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: prostitute, love, italian neorealism, holiday, coal, miner, male female relationship, gay bar, coal mining, man hits a woman, jealousy, mining ...
Place: amsterdam
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country".
Style: biting, sexy, not serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: italian neorealism, couples, social relations, spouse leaving, sexual dysfunction, society, dishonesty, youth, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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 7.4
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The Damned (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
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: disturbing, controversial, neorealism, dread, sad ...
Plot: decadence, oedipus complex, pedophile, mother son incest, incest, pedophilia, suicide, hide and seek, lgbt, fascism, male nudity, party ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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Day for Night (1973)
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: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place: france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
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Boccaccio '70 (1962)
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, art house, neorealism, political, realistic ...
Plot: womanizer, blue collar, european, prostitution, fetish, kaiju, dark humor, wedding, working class, italian neorealism, reflection, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
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, murder, cousin cousin relationship, manipulation, sicilian, husband wife relationship, marriage, forbidden love, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe
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Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: human relationship, religion, italian neorealism, love letter, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
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The Leopard (1963)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style: epic, visual, political, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Plot: decadence, revolution, politics, civil war, melancholy, catholic, literary, ambition, death, execution, italian history, battles ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1963, 1800s ...
Place: sicily, italy, corsica, palermo italy, naples italy ...
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, infidelity, art, spiritualism, hermaphrodite, insanity, memory, medium, eccentricity, female protagonist, extramarital affair, mistress ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy
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Blow-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
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: surreal, cerebral, independent film, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot: photographer, photography, photograph, fashion, voyeurism, murder witness, fashion model, fashion photographer, nudity, free love, photo studio, voyeur ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, paris france, united kingdom
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: ancient rome, surrealism, gay, roman, ancient history, lgbt, decadence, hermaphrodite, ancient, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1969
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe, sicily ...
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Medea (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Style: spiritual, psychedelic, neorealism, epic, surreal ...
Plot: greek mythology, ancient world, mythology, ancient history, ancient, antiquity, greek, myth, vengeance, female nudity, filicide, legends and myths ...
Time: ancient times, year 1969
Place: ancient greece, greece
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 7.3
 14K
Roma (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Style: art house, atmospheric, stylized, visual, colorful ...
Plot: fashion, memory, surrealism, society, lifestyle, satire, female nudity, politics, child, illegal prostitution, fascism, italian history ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972, 1930s, 1920s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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 7.8
 47K
I Remember (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
Style: art house, surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot: coming of age, fascism, surrealism, satire, big breasts, memory, family life, group of friends, social relations, human nature, childhood, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 1930s
Place: italy, europe
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Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Style: surreal, erotic, art house, visual, cerebral ...
Plot: womanizer, casanova, sex, voyeurism, biopic, looking for sex, italian neorealism, passion, clergy, decadence, renaissance, sleaze ...
Time: 18th century, year 1976
Place: italy, europe, venice, france, england ...
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Socrates (1970)
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After Athens falls under the government of the Thirty Tyrants, the lives of citizens are no longer safe. The philosopher Socrates, meanwhile, continues his so-called philosophical "preaching", gathering more and more young disciples. The ...
Style: philosophical, artsy
Plot: philosophy, philosopher, ancient world, ancient, atheist, antiquity, lawyer, greek mythology, quantum physics, ancient history, time machine, peplum ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, athens greece
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