Best Italian Movies – page 4

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Morocco, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Style: epic, serious, exciting, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: knight, sword fight, war, medieval, battles, siege, crusade, warrior, christianity, muslim, crusader, sword and shield ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 2005 ...
Place: jerusalem, middle east, palestine, holy land, england ...
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It Was the Son (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: working class, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, tragedy, murder, friendship, mafia, family life
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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 6.8
 104K
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Style: crying, spooky, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir
Plot: mafia, american abroad, organized crime, one man army, warrior, crime boss, african american, tough guy, vigilante justice, past, haunted by the past, slim ...
Time: 2020s
Place: italy, boston, sicily, naples italy, rome italy
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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, first love, homosexuality, gay couple, gay teenager ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style: epic, ambiguous ending, melancholic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, gunfight, betrayal, childhood friend, corruption, criminal heroes, mobster ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place: new york, usa, america, israel, china ...
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 6.7
 91K
Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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 5.2
 19K
Pay the Ghost (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, intense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: halloween, ghost, missing child, police, supernatural, revenge, nightmare, rescue, professor, transformation, monster, love ...
Place: new york, ireland, usa
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 6.6
 2K
Purple Sea (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, island, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian sex ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place: sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
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 6.6
 28K
Priscilla (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, period drama
Plot: career, male female relationship, life, love affair, couple relations, friendship, friends, relationships, elvis presley, mansion, jealousy, female protagonist ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1960 ...
Place: las vegas, memphis, west germany, los angeles
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 5.2
 9K
Welcome Home (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot: murder, neighbor, countryside, trap, troubled relationship, spying, jealousy, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, trapped, danger ...
Place: italy
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 6.7
 308K
Angels & Demons (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. He discovers evidence of the unimaginable, the rebirth of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful ...
Style: exciting, intellectual, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: conspiracy, murder, twists and turns, illuminati, investigation, catholicism, vatican, riddles and clues, danger, secret society, religions or cults, religion ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, harvard university, geneva switzerland
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
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All Ladies Do It (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Diana is a Roman wife happily married to sympathetic Paolo but she is keen on playing benign games of seduction with other men while resisting the advances of chic lingerie shop owner Silvio. She narrates her adventures to Paolo in order to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: erotica, infidelity, adultery, lust, ecstasy, voyeur, cuckold, sex scene, cheating wife, looking for sex, strong sexual content, sex ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: europe, venice, italy
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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style: touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental ...
Plot: jazz, music, genius, ship, prodigy, musician, child prodigy, pianist, cruise ship, orphan, piano, trumpet player ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1998, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: italy, america, new york, new orleans
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The Last Emperor (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style: visually stunning, epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Plot: childhood, world war two, biopic, chinese history, revolution, empress, prison, drug addiction, emperor, interrogation, politics, eunuch ...
Time: 1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1910s ...
Place: china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
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 7.0
 25K
Rose Island (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, serious, feel good
Plot: civil engineer, politics, utopia, island, conflict of interest, social satire, political conflict, social problems, satire, social issues, anarchism, architecture ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 1967
Place: new york, italy, rome italy
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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada, Italy
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
Style: entertaining, psychotronic, saga, action adventure, slasher ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot: superhero, heroes, high school, school trip, peter parker character, teenage boy, bully, mutant, teenage life, secret identity, travel, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, prague, venice, america ...
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 6.8
 15K
The Life Ahead (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Style: captivating, profound, beautiful
Plot: elderly woman, street kid, problem child, juvenile delinquency, troubled youth, traumatic childhood, criminal, money problems, life is a bitch, family problems, social problems, lgbt ...
Place: italy
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 7.3
 116K
The Queen (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal ...
Style: factual, political, emotional, compassionate, thought provoking ...
Plot: british royal family, royal family, queen, historical character, head of state, monarchy, queen of england, british, politics, queen elizabeth ii, biopic, etiquette ...
Time: 90s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1997
Place: england, buckingham palace, britain, london, united kingdom ...
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 8.5
 281K
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
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 7.2
 13K
Loose Cannons (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, uplifting, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay son, gay interest, lifestyle, lgbtq, family secret, father son relationship, family disapproval, love affair, parents and children, family life, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Fathers & Daughters (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Style: touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, writers, father, single father, death of wife, childhood trauma, family relations, father and daughter, family drama, male female relationship, nervous breakdown, kids and family ...
Time: year 2015
Place: pittsburgh
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 8.1
 370K
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, South Africa, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his ...
Style: emotional, intense, informative, rough, political ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: genocide, racism, war, hotel, against humanity, cruelty, civil war, refugee, politics, war crime, murder, un ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 90s, 2000s
Place: rwanda, africa, south africa, congo, somalia ...
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The Consequences of Love (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, philosophical, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, age difference, haunted by the past, fall in love, unlikely couple, couples, dull life, dishonesty, love and romance, manipulation, drug abuse, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy, switzerland
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 6.8
 56K
Bones and All (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand ...
Style: dark, atmospheric, road movie, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: road trip, interracial romance, cannibal, drifter, heart, father, teenager, society, young adult, family relations, coming of age, cross country trip ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: kentucky, minnesota, nebraska, ohio, maryland
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and ...
Style: spaghetti western, tense, suspenseful, visually appealing, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: old west, vengeance, wild west, cowboy, revenge, desert, harmonica, gunfight, small town, mysterious character, death, showdown ...
Time: 19th century, year 1968, 1800s
Place: arizona, yuma arizona, usa
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 7.4
 111K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place: italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
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 7.2
 11K
The War Zone (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style: disturbing, bleak, rough, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, incest rape, small town, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe, london
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 4.7
 75K
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Style: parody, humorous, feel good, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: fashion model, model, farce, satire, fashion, absurd humor, fashion show, serial killer, modeling, popularity, fame, ambition ...
Time: year 2016, year 2001, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehicles during World War II, and the designer of Lamborghini cars, which he launched in 1963 as the high-end sports car company Automobili Lamborghini.
Style: dramatic, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: biopic, entrepreneur, luxury car, based on real people, car, life, business, follow your dream, success, rise to the top, life philosophy, rivalry ...
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