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1970

  • Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, by Elio Petri (ex aequo)
  • Metello, by Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

     (ex aequo)

1971

  • The Conformist (film)
    The Conformist (film)
    The Conformist is a 1970 political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the 1951 novel The Conformist by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli, among others...

    , by Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

     (ex aequo)
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 1970 Italian film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. It stars Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. The film is based upon Giorgio Bassani's novel of the same name.-Plot:...

    , by Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio de Sica
    Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

     (ex aequo)
  • Waterloo (Waterloo), by Sergei Bondarchuk
    Sergei Bondarchuk
    Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...

     (ex aequo)

1972

  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven
    The Working Class Goes to Heaven
    The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions...

    , by Elio Petri (ex aequo)
  • Questa specie d'amore, by Alberto Bevilacqua
    Alberto Bevilacqua
    Alberto Bevilacqua is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass , was impressed and published it...

     (ex aequo)

1973

  • Alfredo, Alfredo
    Alfredo, Alfredo
    Alfredo, Alfredo is a 1972 Italian language award winning comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.Starring Dustin Hoffman, it is dubbed into Italian by Ferruccio Amendola.-Awards:* Golden Globe Nominee: Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film...

    , by Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

     (ex aequo)
  • Ludwig
    Ludwig (film)
    Ludwig is a 1972 film directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Visconti's muse, Helmut Berger, stars as Ludwig, while Romy Schneider reprises her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a very different portrayal compared to her role in...

    , by Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

     (ex aequo)

1974

  • Amarcord
    Amarcord
    Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the fictional town of Borgo in 1930s Fascist Italy...

    , by Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

     (ex aequo)
  • Pane e cioccolata, by Franco Brusati (ex aequo)

1975

  • Fatti di gente per bene  by Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini
    Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

     (ex aequo)
  • Conversation Piece
    Conversation Piece (film)
    Conversation Piece is an award-winning 1974 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.The film features an international cast including the American actor Burt Lancaster, the Austrian Helmut Berger and the Italians Silvana Mangano and Claudia Cardinale and the French actress Dominique Sanda in a...

      by Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

      (ex aequo)

1977

  • The Desert of the Tartars
    The Desert of the Tartars
    The Desert of the Tartars is a 1976 award-winning film by Italian director Valerio Zurlini with an international cast, including Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Max von Sydow, Francisco Rabal, Helmut Griem, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Fernando Rey, and Jean-Louis Trintignant...

      produced by Italnoleggio Cinematografico (ex aequo)
  • Un borghese piccolo piccolo
    Un borghese piccolo piccolo
    An Average Little Man is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on on the novel of the same name written by Vincenzo Cerami. The first hour is a fine example of commedia all'italiana but the second part is a psychological drama and a tragedy...

      produced by Aurelio De Laurentiis
    Aurelio De Laurentiis
    Aurelio De Laurentiis is a prominent Italian film producer, through his company, Filmauro. He is also the current chairman of his native Italian football club Napoli....

      e Luigi De Laurentiis  (ex aequo)

1978

  • Il prefetto di ferro
    Il prefetto di ferro
    Il prefetto di ferro is a 1977 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

      by Pasquale Squitieri (ex aequo)
  • In nome del Papa Re  by Luigi Magni
    Luigi Magni
    Luigi Magni is an Italian screenwriter and film director active since 1959 as a screenwriter and 1968 as a film director.-Screenwriter:*La cambiale *Il corazziere *Gli attendenti...

     (ex aequo)

1979

  • Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
    Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
    Christ Stopped at Eboli is a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Carlo Levi. It was directed by Francesco Rosi and stars Gian Maria Volonté as Carlo Levi, with Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Léa Massari, and Irene Papas....

      by Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

     (ex aequo)
  • To forget Venice
    To Forget Venice
    Dimenticare Venezia is a 1979 Italian awarded drama film written and directed by Franco Brusati.-Awards:*Academy Award nominee: Best Foreign Film*David di Donatello: Best Film...

      by Franco Brusati  (ex aequo)
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a 1978 Italian film written and directed by Ermanno Olmi. The film concerns Lombard peasant life in a cascina of the late 19th century. It has some similarities with the earlier Italian neorealist movement, in that it focuses on the lives of the poor, and the parts...

      by Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

     (ex aequo)

1983

  • La notte di San Lorenzo, regia di Paolo e Vittorio Taviani

1984

  • Le Bal
    Le Bal (film)
    Le bal is a 1983 Italian-Franco-Algerian film without dialogue directed by Ettore Scola that represents the fifty-year story of the French society by way of a ballroom in France.-Cast:...

    , by Ettore Scola (ex-aequo)
  • E la nave va
    E la Nave Va
    And the Ship Sails On is a 1983 Italian film by Federico Fellini. It depicts the events on board a luxury liner filled with the friends of a deceased opera singer who have gathered to mourn her.- Plot :...

    , by Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

     (ex-aequo)

1987


1989

  • La leggenda del santo bevitore
    La leggenda del santo bevitore
    La leggenda del santo bevitore is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations...

    , by Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....


1990

  • Open Doors
    Open Doors (1990 film)
    Open Doors is an award-winning 1990 film directed by Gianni Amelio. Set in Palermo in the 1930s, a judge who is morally against the death penalty is confronted with the case of a man who has murdered his wife and two colleagues in cold blood...

    , by Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...


1991

  • Mediterraneo
    Mediterraneo (film)
    Mediterraneo is an Italian film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. The film is set during World War II, and regards a group of Italian soldiers who become stranded on a Greek island and are left behind by the war...

    , by Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...

     (ex-aequo)
  • Verso sera, by Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...

     (ex-aequo)

1994

  • Caro diario
    Caro diario
    Caro diario is an Italian language, semi-autobiographical film in the style of a documentary directed by Nanni Moretti in 1993. Moretti also played the central character.-Plot:...

    , by Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

     (won)
  • Per amore, solo per amore, by Giovanni Veronesi
    Giovanni Veronesi
    Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi....

  • Perdiamoci di vista!, by Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...


1995

  • La scuola, by Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...

     (won)
  • L'amore molesto, by Mario Martone
    Mario Martone
    Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Il postino
    Il Postino
    Il Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title...

    , by Michael Radford
    Michael Radford
    Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford...


1996

  • Ferie d'agosto, by Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

     (won)
  • Celluloide
    Celluloide (film)
    Celluloide is a 1996 Italian film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The story revolves around the making of the Roberto Rosselini film Rome, Open City...

    , by Carlo Lizzani
  • Stealing Beauty
    Stealing Beauty
    Stealing Beauty is a 1996 drama film directed by Academy Award-winning Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot. It stars Liv Tyler, D.W. Moffett, Jeremy Irons, and Rachel Weisz...

    , by Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

  • The Star Maker
    The Star Maker
    The Star Maker is a 1995 Italian language motion picture. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:In 1953, Joe...

    , by Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...


1997

  • La tregua, by Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

     (won)
  • Il ciclone, by Leonardo Pieraccioni
    Leonardo Pieraccioni
    Leonardo Pieraccioni is an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.Born in Florence, he made his directorial debut on Italian TV in 1995, directing I laureati...

  • Marianna Ucrìa, by Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....

  • La mia generazione, by Wilma Labate
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (film)
    Nirvana is a science fiction film, produced in Italy in 1997 by director Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini and Stefania Rocca...

    , by Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...


1998

  • Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

    , by Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

     (won)
  • Ovosodo
    Ovosodo
    Ovosodo is a 1997 Italian comedy film, written and directed by Paolo Virzi....

    , by Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

  • Aprile
    Aprile
    April is a 1998 Italian semi-autobiographical film directed by Nanni Moretti. Moretti also played the central character, a filmmaker who has to deal with Italy's political situation, his own goals as an artist and becoming a father....

    , by Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...


1999

  • Not of this World
    Fuori Dal Mondo
    Not of this World or Fuori Dal Mondo is an awarded Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni. The translation for Fuori Dal Mondo is 'outside from the world'-Cast:*Margherita Buy: Sister Caterina*Silvio Orlando: Ernesto...

    , by Giuseppe Piccioni (won)
  • The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900 is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco...

    , by Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

  • Besieged (film)
    Besieged (film)
    Besieged is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.It is based on the short story "The Siege" by James Lasdun.-Plot:David Thewlis plays an English pianist/composer living in Rome...

    , by Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...


2000s

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Year English title Original title Director
2000 Bread and Tulips
Bread and Tulips
Bread and Tulips or Pane e tulipani is an award-winning 2000 romance comedy film directed by Italian Director Silvio Soldini, and starring Licia Maglietta and Bruno Ganz...

Pane e tulipani Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

Canone inverso - making love
Canone Inverso
Canone Inverso is a 2000 film directed by Ricky Tognazzi and starring Hans Matheson, Mélanie Thierry, and Lee Williams, and is based on the book Canone Inverso by Italian writer Paolo Maurensig....

Ricky Tognazzi
Ricky Tognazzi
Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

Garage Olimpo
Garage Olimpo
Olympic Garage is an Argentine drama film, directed by Marco Bechis and written by Bechis and Lara Fremder.The film was produced by Daniel Burman and Diego Dubcovsky , Amedeo Pagani , and Eric Heumann ....

 
Marco Bechis
Marco Bechis
Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...

2001 The Son's Room
The Son's Room
The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

 
La stanza del figlio Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

The Hundred Steps  I cento passi Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...

The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss is a 2006 American romantic comedy-drama film which is based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino. The plot revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment.The film stars Zach Braff,...

 
L'ultimo bacio Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

2002 The Profession of Arms Il mestiere delle armi Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

Burning in the Wind Brucio nel vento Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

Light of My Eyes Luce dei miei occhi Giuseppe Piccioni
2003 Facing Windows
Facing Windows
Facing Windows is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Ferzan Özpetek.Tagline: Desire knows no bounds.-Plot:...

La finestra di fronte Ferzan Ozpetek
Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

The Embalmer
The Embalmer
is a manga series written and illustrated by Mitsukazu Mihara. It is serialized within the magazine magazine Feel Young, and currently has been collected into 6 volumes by Shodensha. The Embalmer was previously licensed for English release by Tokyopop, and four volumes have been released. The...

 
L'imbalsamatore Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long film ...

My Mother's Smile
My Mother's Smile
My Mother's Smile is an Italian film released in 2002 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is L'ora di religione .-Summary:...

 
L'ora di religione - Il sorriso di mia madre Marco Bellocchio
Respiro
Respiro
Respiro is a 2002 Italian film written and directed by Emanuele Crialese and released in English-language markets in 2003. The film stars Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, and Francesco Casisa...

 
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...

Remember Me, My Love
Remember Me, My Love
Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.Tagline: Some loves are never forgotten.-Plot:...

 
Ricordati di me Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

2004 The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth
The Best of Youth , is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a four-part mini-series, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival where it won the prestigious Un Certain Regard award. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy in two three-hour...

La meglio gioventù Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...

Don't Move
Don't Move (film)
Don't Move is a 2004 Italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. It stars Penélope Cruz, Claudia Gerini, Elena Perino and the director himself. Both Castellitto and Cruz received critical praise for their performances, as well as several awards, including the prestigious David di Donatello...

Non ti muovere Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto
Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor and director.Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii...

Good Morning, Night
Good Morning, Night
Buongiorno, notte is an Italian film released in 2003 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The title of the feature film, Good Morning, Night, is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson.- Plot :...

 
Buongiorno, notte Marco Bellocchio
I'm Not Scared
I'm Not Scared
I'm Not Scared is a 2003 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Francesa Marciano and Niccolo Ammaniti wrote the script based on Niccolò Ammaniti's successful 2001 Italian novel Io non ho paura...

Io non ho paura Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...

What Will Happen to Us? Che ne sarà di noi Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi....

2005 The Consequences of Love
The Consequences of Love
The Consequences of Love is a 2004 Italian psychological thriller film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It tells the story of a lonely and secretive Italian businessman living in a Swiss hotel. The film competed at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It won five David di Donatello awards including Best...

 
Le conseguenze dell'amore Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...

A Children's Story
A Children's Story
A Children’s Story , also known as Certain Children in Australia, was directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi in 2004 and is an Italian film which focuses on the life of an eleven year old boy growing up in an environment of poverty and criminality in Naples...

 
Certi bambini Andrea and Antonio Frazzi
The Keys to the House
The Keys to the House
The Keys to the House is a 2004 dramatic family film telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager...

Le chiavi di casa Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

Manual of Love
Manuale d'amore
Manuale d'amore is a 2005 Italian blockbuster love comedy composed of four episodes. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale d'amore 2 – Capitoli successivi in 2007, and Manuale d'amore 3 in 2011.-Plot:...

 
Manuale d'amore Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi....

Sacred Heart
Cuore Sacro
Cuore sacro is a 2005 Italian language film which tells the story of an Italian workaholic businesswoman Irene who experiences the loss of two of her friends by suicide...

 
Cuore sacro Ferzan Ozpetek
Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

2006 The Caiman  Il caimano Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

Crime Novel
Romanzo Criminale
Romanzo Criminale is an Italian-language film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story...

 
Romanzo criminale Michele Placido
Michele Placido
Michele Placido is an internationally known Italian actor and director. He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series La Piovra.-Life and career:...

The Earth  La terra Sergio Rubini
Sergio Rubini
- Biography :He was born in Grumo Appula but soon moved to Rome to study acting. After some roles in theater, he debuted in a feature film with Figlio mio infinitamente caro , which was followed by Desiderando Giulia and Il caso Moro...

My Best Enemy Il mio miglior nemico Carlo Verdone
Carlo Verdone
Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...

Night Before the Exams
Notte prima degli esami
Notte prima degli esami is a 2006 Italian comedy teen film, written and directed by Fausto Brizzi. It describes the lives of two groups of Italian teenagers during the preparation of the esame di maturità...

 
Notte prima degli esami Fausto Brizzi
Fausto Brizzi
Fausto Brizzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.Fausto Brizzi got a Degree in directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in July 1994...

2007 The Unknown Woman
La sconosciuta
La sconosciuta also The Unknown Woman or The Other Woman is an enigmatic Italian psychological thriller mystery film, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore that depicts a woman alone in a foreign country, haunted by a horrible past, and in search of a lost daughter.- Plot :Irena , a Ukrainian...

La sconosciuta Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore
-Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

Along the Ridge
Anche libero va bene
Anche libero va bene is a 2006 Italian movie directed by Kim Rossi Stuart, who also wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Linda Ferri and Francesco Giammusso....

Anche libero va bene Kim Rossi Stuart
Kim Rossi Stuart
Kim Rossi Stuart is an Italian actor and director.-Career:Kim Rossi Stuart was born in Rome. His father, Giacomo, was also an actor. His mother was a former top model.He began acting at the age of 5...

Golden Door Nuovomondo Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese
Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...

My Brother is an Only Child
My Brother is an Only Child
My Brother Is an Only Child is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It is based on an Antonio Pennacchi's novel. The title comes from a song by Rino Gaetano from 1976.-Plot:This summary covers approximately the first half of the film....

 
Mio fratello è figlio unico Daniele Luchetti
Daniele Luchetti
Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...

One Hundred Nails  Centochiodi Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

2008 The Girl by the Lake  La ragazza del lago Andrea Molaioli
Giorni e nuvole Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini
Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

Quiet Chaos  Caos calmo Antonio Luigi Grimaldi and Domenico Procacci
The Right Distance  La giusta distanza Carlo Mazzacurati
Carlo Mazzacurati
Carlo Mazzacurati is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.His better known film include Il Toro and La lingua del santo...

The Wind Blows Round  E l'aura fai son vir Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello and Giorgio Diritti
2009 Gomorrah  Gomorra Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long film ...

Ex
Ex (2009 film)
Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters.The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema...

 
Ex Fausto Brizzi
Fausto Brizzi
Fausto Brizzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.Fausto Brizzi got a Degree in directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in July 1994...

Il divo
Il Divo (film)
Il Divo is a 2008 Italian biographical drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. It competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Jury Prize...

 
Il divo Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...

You can do it
You Can Do It
"You Can Do It" is a single by Ice Cube featuring Mack 10 and Ms. Toi. It appeared on Ice Cube's War & Peace Vol. 2 as well as the soundtracks for the 1999 motion picture Next Friday and the 2001 motion picture Save the Last Dance....

 
Si puo fare Giulio Manfredonia
Your whole life ahead of you  Tutta la vita davanti Paolo Virzi
Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...


2010s

Year English title Original title Director
2010 The man who will come  L'uomo che verrà Giorgio Diritti
Baarìa - La porta del vento
Baarìa - La porta del vento
Baarìa is a 2009 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.-Plot:...

 
Baarìa Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore
-Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

Floating mines  Mine vaganti Ferzan Ozpetek
Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

The first good thing  La prima cosa bella Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì
Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

Vincere
Vincere
Vincere is a film that is based on the life of the first wife of Benito Mussolini. It stars Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Ida Dalser and Filippo Timi as Benito Albino Mussolini. It was filmed under the direction of Marco Bellocchio, who also wrote the screenplay with Daniela Ceselli, and it was released...

 
Vincere Marco Bellocchio
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