Italy (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
R | 229 min | Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Votes: 347,411 | Gross: $5.32M
2. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 264,466 | Gross: $18.10M
3. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 60,030
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
R | 178 min | Adventure, Western
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.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
Votes: 750,590 | Gross: $6.10M
5. Malena (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Votes: 101,928 | Gross: $3.45M
6. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 683,904 | Gross: $57.60M
7. Suspiria (I) (2018)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela
Votes: 75,773 | Gross: $2.47M
8. Caligula (1979)
Unrated | 156 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy
Votes: 35,822 | Gross: $23.44M
9. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 55,527
10. Fate: The Winx Saga (2021– )
TV-MA | Action, Adventure, Drama
A live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's Winx Club (2004). It follows Bloom as she adjusts to life in the Otherworld, where she must learn to control her dangerous magical powers.
Stars: Freddie Thorp, Sadie Soverall, Theo Graham, Abigail Cowen
Votes: 39,987
11. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 165 min | Western
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.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 326,130 | Gross: $5.32M
12. All Ladies Do It (1992)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A happily married 24-year-old woman who experiences an inexplicable, rather restless craving to finally live her life intensely, retells her extra-marital escapades to her husband intending to spice up their marriage.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Claudia Koll, Paolo Lanza, Franco Branciaroli, Isabella Deiana
Votes: 4,977
13. Monamour (2005)
104 min | Drama
A neglected housewife has an affair behind her boring husband's back, triggering a passionate transformation. Now, a dash of infidelity awakens his dormant enthusiasm for her; however, is his new-found interest too little, too late?
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Anna Jimskaia, Riccardo Marino, Max Parodi, Nela Lucic
Votes: 5,348
14. Medici (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.
Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen, Sebastian De Souza
Votes: 18,986
15. Bones and All (2022)
R | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Romance | Completed
Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark Rylance, Chloë Sevigny
16. Gangs of New York (2002)
R | 167 min | Crime, Drama
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 437,783 | Gross: $77.81M
17. That Dirty Black Bag (2022– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Western
Two men face off in a savage, deserted world.
Stars: Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper, Niv Sultan, Guido Caprino
Votes: 2,319
18. Gomorrah (2014–2021)
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.
Stars: Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito, Cristiana Dell'Anna
Votes: 39,119
19. My Brilliant Friend (2018– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Margherita Mazzucco, Gaia Girace, Annarita Vitolo
Votes: 14,649
20. DI4RIES (2022)
30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
First crushes, first kisses, beautiful friendships - and quarrels between rivals. At the Galileo Galilei middle school, days go by among a thousand surprises.
Stars: Andrea Arru, Liam Nicolosi, Draegon Hennessy, Biagio Vendetti
Votes: 209
21. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 155 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 257,594 | Gross: $11.99M
22. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
NC-17 | 129 min | Drama, Romance
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti
Votes: 53,907 | Gross: $36.14M
23. That Malicious Age (1976)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
Director: Silvio Amadio | Stars: Gloria Guida, Nino Castelnuovo, Anita Sanders, Mimmo Palmara
Votes: 372
24. The Hand of God (2021)
R | 130 min | Drama
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert
Votes: 40,724
25. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 215,602 | Gross: $14.50M
26. Serpico (1973)
R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Votes: 122,210 | Gross: $29.80M
27. Cheeky (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment that overlooks the Thames. There she meet the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Yuliya Mayarchuk, Jarno Berardi, Francesca Nunzi, Max Parodi
Votes: 5,752
28. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
R | 132 min | Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down an escaped Mexican outlaw.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp
Votes: 254,180 | Gross: $15.00M
29. Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
112 min | Drama
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan
Votes: 11,760
30. What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986)
95 min | Comedy
A teenager returns home to spend his summer vacation. However, in a mansion full of women, he will have no choice but to expand his education in titillating ways.
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Serena Grandi, Claudine Auger, Marina Vlady, Fabrice Josso
Votes: 3,341
31. Suspiria (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Votes: 92,396
32. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 76,384 | Gross: $111.72M
33. Paprika (1991)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard, Stéphane Bonnet
Votes: 4,002
34. ZeroZeroZero (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cocaine shipment makes its way to Europe, starting from the moment a powerful cartel of Italian criminals decides to buy it, to its journeys through Mexico, to its shipment across the Atlantic Ocean.
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Giuseppe De Domenico, Harold Torres
Votes: 24,622
35. Devils (2020– )
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Thriller
A worldwide financial conspiracy is discovered by a group of traders of a large investment bank.
Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Malachi Kirby, Pia Mechler, Patrick Dempsey
Votes: 4,296
36. The Voyeur (1994)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A troubled college professor becomes obsessed with the idea that his emotionally distant wife is having an affair with his invalid father.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Katarina Vasilissa, Francesco Casale, Cristina Garavaglia, Raffaella Offidani
Votes: 3,407
37. Beckett (2021)
TV-MA | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.
Director: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Stars: John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 25,856
38. The Best Offer (2013)
R | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 118,406 | Gross: $0.09M
39. Detective Montalbano (1999–2021)
TV-14 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Commissioner Montalbano works in Vigata, Montelusa province with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, in each episode Montalbano solves complicated cases with his characteristic cunning in a rural Sicily ruled by the mafia.
Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo, Cesare Bocci
Votes: 3,874
40. Leonardo (2021– )
Not Rated | 409 min | Biography, Drama, History
The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.
Stars: Aidan Turner, Matilda De Angelis, Freddie Highmore, Carlos Cuevas
Votes: 3,177
41. A Classic Horror Story (2021)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In this gruesome suspense film, strangers traveling in southern Italy become stranded in the woods, where they must fight desperately to get out alive.
Directors: Roberto De Feo, Paolo Strippoli | Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Francesco Russo, Peppino Mazzotta, Will Merrick
Votes: 17,737
42. The Poison Rose (2019)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Inspired by classic film noir, Carson Phillips, an ex-football star turned PI, has a soft spot for a lady in distress.
Directors: Francesco Cinquemani, George Gallo | Stars: John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Brendan Fraser, Famke Janssen
Votes: 8,918
43. The Great Beauty (2013)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
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.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso
Votes: 90,308 | Gross: $2.85M
44. Youth (I) (2015)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda
Votes: 78,316 | Gross: $2.70M
45. Dark Glasses (2022)
86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy named Chin. Together they will track down a dangerous killer through the darkness of Italy.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Gherpelli, Mario Pirrello
Votes: 1,512
46. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 117,333 | Gross: $0.05M
47. La dolce vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 72,844 | Gross: $19.52M
48. Tenebrae (1982)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American writer in Rome is stalked and harassed by a serial killer who is murdering everyone associated with his work on his latest book.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 23,761
49. Frivolous Lola (1998)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Set in the 1950s Italian countryside, the film tells the story of Lola and Masetto, a young couple whose views on premarital sex differ drastically.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Anna Ammirati, Patrick Mower, Max Parodi, Susanna Martinková
Votes: 3,878
50. A Bigger Splash (2015)
R | 125 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
A famous rock star's vacation in Italy with her boyfriend is disrupted by the unexpected of an old friend and his daughter.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson
Votes: 30,102 | Gross: $1.98M