Best italian movies & TV series

A university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.

Franz is a bus driver. One night in his empty bus, Leila, a girl on the run, gets on. He doesn't have time to deny her a cigarette that the woman has already got rid of her wig and slipped into his bed, but only to have a place to hide till the next morning. In fact, Leila is a charming scammer, shrewd and liar.

A former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in the 1980s Rome.

This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.

Oscar is a Roman guy who dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. Staging an accident to contact a manufacturer, he injures young actress Nancy. He remedies the damage by letting her recover in his home.

On Election Day, three Italians travel to their hometowns to vote.

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

In a ghetto run by a clan of outlaw gangs, the head preaches an "education" of mastering the illegal arts such as theft and banditry; while keeping a stringent code of honor that is considered ethical and moral and must never be broken.

The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Leone Stella is a videogame billionaire who has lived an exciting life. Feeling close to death, he wants to leave the company to someone named as him, a man Leone Stella or a woman Stella Leone. A big number of contestants gather for a competition where they have to redo some of the adventures of the old man, the winner being the heir of the billionaire. Between them a radio host (L. S. DJ), a priest (Don Leone Stella), a killer (Leon Stella), a former strip-dancer, a young school teacher and a lucky Leone Stella carrying a space stone talisman owned by a Japanese gang.

Former high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.

A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.

Three former school friends meet after twenty years and realize that they pursued a common enemy: the recommended. Max (Argentero Luke) is a reporter for talent in a local newspaper that was forced to round to write the most unlikely of magazines, came a step away from much needed employment is undermined by the daughter of a famous writer. Irma (Paola Cortellesi), despite being one of the most respected doctors of the hospital, lives with scholarships, and just when the contract is for the favorite is the new girlfriend of the primary.

The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish divorced husband, a careless father, and unreliable brother who's been everything jobwise. The story is told in flashback by his friends after he is mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.

A satire of modern society recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.

A greedy villain tries to coerce a woman into marrying him so he can take over her land, when a stranger rides into town intent on taking down the bad guys.

At the end of his final year at school, Alessio has managed to botch things up big time. His parents punished him by forbidding a planned trip around Europe with his friends. But Alessio decides to catch up with them on his scooter. A brief stop on the coast leads to a series of minor catastrophes and Alessio has to work off his transgressions by working for the beach owner, Tonino. He thinks only about escaping, but discovers that not only Tonino, but Tonino's entire crazy family are growing on him. As he gradually begins to settle, he learns about sensitivity, patience and the ability to recognise true feelings and values. By the end of the holidays he is more mature than he would have been if he'd traveled halfway around the world.

Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.

A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.

A dying seagull entrusts her egg to a cat named Zorba, who promises three things: he won't eat the egg, he'll care for the egg, and he'll teach the baby seagull to fly.