1Two Women
TMDB7.8
1960·577 votes
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
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2Marriage Italian Style
TMDB7.7
1964·549 votes
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
3Sunflower
TMDB7.5
1970·177 votes
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
4The Gold of Naples
TMDB7.3
1954·132 votes
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
5Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
TMDB7.4
1963·474 votes
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
6Quo Vadis
TMDB7.1
1951·453 votes
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
7Boccaccio '70
TMDB6.9
1962·157 votes
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
8The Fall of the Roman Empire
TMDB6.5
1964·224 votes
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
9Houseboat
TMDB6.4
1958·199 votes
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
10Operation Crossbow
TMDB6.7
1965·117 votes
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
11The Sign of Venus
TMDB6.8
1955·103 votes
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
12Scandal in Sorrento
TMDB6.9
1955·180 votes
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
13The Cassandra Crossing
TMDB6.3
1976·232 votes
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
14A Countess from Hong Kong
TMDB6.0
1967·195 votes
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
15Prêt-à-Porter
TMDB5.2
1994·230 votes
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
16A Special Day
TMDB8.1
1977·771 votes
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
17Nine
TMDB5.5
2009·633 votes
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
18The Life Ahead
TMDB6.7
2020·573 votes
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
19Grumpier Old Men
TMDB6.5
1995·431 votes
A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
20El Cid
TMDB6.8
1961·301 votes
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.