Best Italian Movies?

I can't believe it:

No one has mentioned "Life is Beautiful" or "The conformist"!

Love 'em.

Bicycle Thief is very good.

I think Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns like the Dollars Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, etc. are some of the greatest westerns put to film.

Other Leone movies like Once Upon a Time in America are also fantastic.

The New Barbarians. Death by butt-drill.

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I will post what I consider the greatest Italian films of all time and I will try to also include films that have not yet been mentioned.
This list might be quite overwhelming at first, I realise, but seriously - If you don't recognise some of the directors' name and/or haven't watched their films, do it asap. You will definitely not be disappointed!

[Directors are in alphabetical order and films are in order of personal preferences.]

Antonioni

L'avventura (1960)
Blow-Up (1966)
L'eclisse (1962)
La notte (1961)
Il Deserto Rosso (1964)


Argento

Suspiria (1977)
Profondo Rosso (1975)
Tenebre (1982)


Benigni

La Vita è Bella (1997)


Bertolucci

Il Conformista (1970)


De Sica

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
I Bambini Ci Guardano (1944)
Umberto D. (1952)
Sciuscià (1946)
Miracolo a Milano (1951)
La Ciociara (1960)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)


Fellini

8½ (1963)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Amarcord (1973)
La Strada (1954)
I Vitelloni (1953


Germi

Divorzio All'italiana (1963)
Sedotta e Abbandonata (1964)


Monicelli

Big Deal On Madonna Street (1958)
La Grande Guerra (1959)
Il Marchese del Grillo (1981)
I Compagni (1963)
L'armata Brancaleone (1966)


Olmi

Il Posto (1961)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
I Fidanzati (1963)


Passolini

Mamma Roma (1962)
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Teorema (1968)
Attacone (1961)
Oedipus Rex (1967)


Petri

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)


Pontecorvo

Kapò (1960)
Battle Of Algiers (1966) [not really an italian film though]


Risi

Il Sorpasso (1962)


Rossellini

Roma Città Aperta (1945)
Il generale Della Rovere (1959)
Viaggio in Italia (1954)
Germania Anno Zero (1948)
Paisan (1946)
Europa '51 (1952)
Stromboli (1950)


Scola

Una giornata particolare (1977)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)


Visconti

Rocco And His Brothers (1960)
Il Gattopardo (1963)
Ossessione (1943)
Senso (1954)
Death In Venice (1971)
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
La terra trema (1948)
Bellissima (1951)

A very good summary, what is your favorite among them?

To me I'd say La Dolce Vita, Cinema Paradiso, Umberto D, L'Eclisse and anything by Sergio Leone.

I also watched La Terra Trema last week, which was really good

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My favorites are Bicycle Thieves and 8½. Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita are close runner-ups.

Cool that you watched La Terra Trema! It is fantastic

Attack and Retreat(1966)

"Puccini" 2009 TV movie is one of my favorites

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but what the hell? I'll mention it anyway.

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