1990-1999 Best Italian Movies

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.

After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.

A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.

An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.

Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious.

A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.

After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Three friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.

Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.

Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.

Aldo, called Bancomat, has been detained for two years and four months in the San Vittore prison for forgery of credit cards.

Dennis is a handsome & bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man & thief. Together they search for their dad, confront their expectations of each other, themselves, & their attitudes towards women.

Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

The story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, over the background of Livorno's neighborhood Ovosodo.

Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.

In Argentina under dictatorship in 1978, an eighteen-year-old political activist is taken by a paramilitary squad, locked in a garage and tortured. Her tormentor, a former tenant, falls in love with her.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.