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Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/9934/
71
/148/
72
/245/
3.8
/11694/
88
/24/
73
/65/

Senso (1954)
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.2
/20224/
72
/535/
76
/1158/
3.7
/26635/
92
/51/
80
/455/
81
/17/

Il Divo (2008)
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
poster
75
7.1
/14296/
72
/794/
76
/1400/
3.6
/23954/
86
/106/
73
/24/
64
/22/
cc age 16+

The Traitor (2019)
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
poster
Netflix
71
69
7.0
/27293/
71
/1299/
70
/1378/
3.4
/34886/
75
/8/
74
/31/
cc age 15+

Rose Island (2020)
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.9
/751/
71
/33/
73
/23/
3.6
/1360/
77
/48/
60
/4/
61
/15/

Shooting the Mafia (2019)
Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the Italian Mafia, she was an unwavering witness to its crimes. Her art and courage helped end the horrific and bloody reign of the Corleonesi clan.
poster
47
5.3
/41213/
58
/1529/
59
/940/
2.8
/28237/
18
/33/
38
/1104/

Caligula (1979)
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
poster
68
44
6.8
/1651/
68
/115/
65
/65/
3.4
/937/
100
/5/
42
/4/

Our Godfather (2019)
The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in Palermo between 1986 and 1987.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
40
6.6
/873/
57
/30/
61
/55/
3.2
/1593/
100
/8/
69
/3/

The Bohemian (2022)
The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.
poster
70
38
7.3
/890/
65
/16/
75
/71/
3.6
/645/
67

The Conspirators (1969)
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
poster
65
33
7.2
/478/
70
/13/
75
/51/
3.6
/918/
40
/5/

Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019)
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.
poster
59
27
6.6
/1573/
59
/28/
62
/26/
3.3
/409/
63
/8/
42
/4/

Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
poster
67
26
7.0
/278/
54
/7/
65
/7/
3.5
/785/
78
/9/

The March on Rome (2022)
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
poster
57
23
5.2
/399/
59
/17/
55
/46/
3.2
/746/

The Capture of Roma (1905)
The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.
poster
59
21
6.4
/647/
59
/16/
66
/54/
3.4
/528/
38
/3/

We Believed (2010)
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
poster
?
5.0
/12/
60
/2/
40
/3/

The Daughter of the Pope: Lucrezia Borgia (2024)
The incredible story of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), deliberately used politically by her powerful family and historically slandered as a poisoner and incestuous femme fatale. But who was the real Lucrezia?
poster
?
6.2
/18/
60
/1/
64
/4/

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (2024)
A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Unification of Italy (1963)
Traces the struggle to unify Italy from Napoleon's invasion in 1805 to the Plebiscite of Rome in 1870. Uses authentic costumes against historic locales.
poster
?
9.0
/11/

City of Baseball (2007)
"City of Baseball" is a documentary that explores both the past and the present of the Italian baseball league in the seaside resort of Nettuno near Rome. Through league pioneers, current players, fans, and local historians, "City of Baseball" captures the story of how the 1944 Allied invasion of Nettuno brought the American pastime to a town which embraced the sport with a passion that continues today.
poster
55
?
6.2
/736/
50
/9/
56
/83/

Porn to Be Free (2016)
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
poster
?
7.3
/33/
55
/4/

Italia: Fire and Ashes (2023)
The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring filmmakers were able to create an original style amalgamating literature, theater, painting and opera; a tale of splendor and decadence.
poster
?
6.9
/11/
85
/2/
75
/2/

Galileo Galilei - Urknall der modernen Physik (2021)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Manca Moro (2021)
Born to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother in Tunisia, I have always been wealthy of three cultures. This motherland is where were born my Algerian ancestors when it was called Ifriqya but also my Sicilian grand-parents whose parents were part of the important migration flux of the beginning of the last century. A reservoir of workforce by the thousands reached the shores of this "promised land". A hundred years later, I embark on a quest to rediscover my Sicilian family, exiled for the past sixty years, scattered between Italy and France.
poster
57
?
5.4
/222/
55
/6/
62
/12/

La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal (2017)
The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she left communist Hungary and moved to Italy, where she found a fertile environment for a life dedicated to scandal.
poster
?
53
/3/

The Imperial Lullaby (2020)
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.
poster
?
8.2
/6/
100
/2/

A Place of Our Own (2014)
N/A
poster
?
100
/1/

Alla Scoperta dei Musei Vaticani
N/A
poster
?
66
/3/
60
/2/

Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy (2021)
Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.
poster
?
6.9
/50/
80
/1/
70
/2/

Forza Italia! (1977)
Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage.
poster
?
6.6
/36/
56
/5/

Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter (2020)
An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity.
poster
?
6.9
/89/
25
/2/
61
/7/

Arrivano i bersaglieri (1980)
In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen
poster
?
5.9
/63/
56
/5/

Giovanni de Medici: The Leader (1937)
Returned from exile where he accompanied his mother Caterina Sforza, Giovanni de 'Medici (1498-1526), becomes, under the name of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, captain of fortune at the service of the idea of a united Italy.
poster
?
6.9
/9/

Up to Down (2019)
Naples. Home of the unbowed, of madmen and paupers. A city that refuses to lick anyone's boots, let alone stoop to pretense. This documentary bad trip takes us on a tour of the city's dismal suburbs and into the homes of the marginalized and rejected: a man, a girl, and a masked boxer - three protagonists yearning for something else, although they're not quite sure what. (Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019)
poster
Criterion Channel
70
?
7.6
/96/
60
/5/
70
/2/
3.7
/367/

Women of the Resistance (1965)
Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.
poster
Kanopy
?
6.1
/79/
66
/3/
65
/4/

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
poster
?

Trucioli de familha (2023)
N/A
poster
?

Notte di marzo (2021)
March 1944. Rome is under Nazi occupation. Elena and a group of young partisans decide to rebel.
poster
?

Decumano Maximo (2021)
The film is a journey through time and space on the trail of the unrecognized Social War, the epochal conflict that saw the Italic cities of the Marsi, Samnites and other "peripheral" peoples oppose the overwhelming power of Rome from 91 to 88 BC. . Against its indiscriminate domination, its yoke, its seldom enlightened centralism.


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