Best Italian Movies?

Anything Pasolini.

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Some of my favorite Italian Movies:


Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica


The Passenger (1975) by Michelangelo Antonioni


The Battle of Algiers (1966) by Gillo Pontecorvo


Red Desert (1964) by Michelangelo Antonioni


Rome, Open City (1945) by Roberto Rossellini


Nostalghia (1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky


The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) by Pier Paolo Pasolini


Satyricon (1969) by Federico Fellini


Accattone (1961) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Mamma Roma (1962) by Pier Paolo Pasolini


8½ (1963) by Federico Fellini


Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni


L'avventura (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni


Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento


Umberto D. (1952) by Vittorio De Sica

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Some of the best Italian movies above ^

Marco Bellocchio made a very interesting movie "Fist in Pocket"

Instant board hug for the Argento and Fulci on your list. And Dellamorte Dellamore! I watch a lot of old Italian giallos and splatter. Total sucker for it!

I have that as a poster on my living room wall. That, a poster of Dawn of the Dead (original), and a HUGE mural poster of Tomb of Ligeia.

Days and Clouds (2007)

Dolce Vita, Amarcord, Matrimonio all'italiana, I soliti ignoti

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Girl with a Suitcase (V. Zurlini, 1961)
La Terra Trema (L. Visconti, 1948)
The Most Beautiful Wife (D. Damiani, 1970)
The Four Days of Naples (N. Loy, 1962)
Ugly, Dirty and Bad (E. Scola, 1976)

Italy is probably my favorite country for movies. I still have a lot to see, but the diversity in all of the available films is fantastic. Some of the best genre movies come from this country, but there is also Fellini and others for the more "art" inclined cinema enthusiasts.

Umberto D. (1952; Vittorio De Sica)
Divorce Italian Style (1961; Pietro Germi)
8½ (1963; Federico Fellini)
Blood and Black Lace (1964; Mario Bava)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964; Sergio Leone)
For a Few Dollars More (1965; Sergio Leone)
Django (1966; Sergio Corbucci)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966; Sergio Leone)
The Great Silence (1968; Sergio Corbucci)
The Mercenary (1968; Sergio Corbucci)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968; Sergio Leone)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970; Dario Argento)
The Conformist (1970; Bernardo Bertolucci)
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971; Lucio Fulci)
Amarcord (1973; Federico Fellini)
Torso (1973; Sergio Martino)
Le orme (1975; Luigi Bazzoni)
Allegro non troppo (1976; Bruno Bozzetto)
Suspiria (1977; Dario Argento)
Zombie (1979; Lucio Fulci)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980; Ruggero Deodato)
House on the Edge of the Park (1980; Ruggero Deodato)
Nightmare City (1980; Umberto Lenzi)
The Beyond (1981; Lucio Fulci)
The New York Ripper (1982; Lucio Fulci)
Nostalghia (1983; Andrei Tarkovsky)
Opera (1987; Dario Argento)

Does "Amarcord" start with some kind of homosexual theater? (I think I turned it off after 10 minutes)

Sweet! Italians are masters of sleaze. Love 'em, too.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

I also agree Italy (per capita) create the best movies.

Truer words have never been spoken. It's no coincidence that all of the best adult film directors and producers have been Italian.

Yeah, they're the best in Europe, no doubt. HK directors were the Asian masters of sleaze.

I don't think any Asian country can compete with the Japanese when it comes to producing filth.

Bicycle Thieves !

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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue — a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then it’s a good film; if it’s not a dialogue, it’s a bad film."

- Michael "Gloomy Old Fart" Haneke

Vittorio De Sica is my favorite director. Have you seen others of his? I'd recommend anyone

-Bicycle Thieves
-Umberto D
-Shoeshine
-Sunflower
-The Roof
-Miracle in Milan
-Marriage Italian Style

Somebody slipped a Russian in their list,

anyways my favorites one per filmmaker would be...

Crossovers

Red Desert - Michelangelo Antonioni (really it's Blow up, but thats a bit of a cop out)

The Dreamers - Bernardo Bertolucci(really it's The Last Emperor, but once again a cop out)

Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone

The Gallo's

Blood and Black Lace - Mario Bava
House on the Edge of the Park - Ruggero Deodato
Deep Red - Dario Argento (this is the highest of all the Italian film's I've seen)

Exploitation

Caligula - Tinto Brass
Arabian Nights - Pier Pasolini (lot of tough choices for Pasolini)

Classics

Paisan - Roberto Rossellini
Umberto D - Vittorio De Sica
Amacord - Federico Fellini
Divorce Italian Style - Pietro Germi
Il Posto - Errmano Olmi
Fists in the Pocket - Marco Bellocchio

and the best modern one is

Il Divo - Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty was also amazing but this one stuck with me more)

Has anyone seen "The Best of Youth"?

(My favorite Italian movie is still "La Strada")