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Gomorra aka Gomorrah (Italy , 2008)

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Ratings - IMDB - 7.0 | Matacritic - 87 | Rotten Tomatoes - 91%
Release Year - 2008
Country - Italy
Genres - Crime | Drama
IMDB page | Metacritic page | Rotten Tomatoes

In 2006, a book on organised crime in Naples shocked the world. Its author, Roberto Saviano, has been living under police protection ever since.
Now a motion picture tells the unbelievable true story.
"A FURIOUS and BRILLIANT Engagement With The Times In Which We Live" - A.O.Scott, The New York Times

"STUNNING. A Reinvention of the Mafioso Movie." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

"The Greatest Mafia Movie Ever Made. Strips Every Last Pretense of Romanticism from 'The Godfather' Saga." - Stephen Schaeffer, The Boston Herald

Synopsis: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families.

"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.

Awards
  • Winner of Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival
  • Winner of five  European Film Awards  including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay
  • Nominated for Golden Globe - Best Foreign Film
  • Nominated for the Palme d'Or at  the Cannes Film Festival
  • Italy's Official Entry in Best Foreign Language Film category
Lists - The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008
  • Ranked 2nd - Josh Rosenblatt, The Austin Chronicle
  • Ranked 5th - Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times ,Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly , Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
  • Ranked 6th - A.O. Scott - The New York Times , Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe
  • Ranked 7th - Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
  • Ranked 10th - Empire
Special Mention
  • Rated by more than 21k users on IMDb
  • Rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 137 critics review

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La battaglia di Algeri aka The Battle of Algiers (Italy , 1966)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Matacritic - 94
Release Year - 1966
Country - Italy
Genres - Drama | History | War
IMDB page | Metacritic page

The Revolt that Stirred the World! 
An account of the bloodiest revolution in modern history.
"A Most Extraordinary Film" - New York Times
"The most emotionally powerful revolutionary epic since Eisenstein's Potemkin!" - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Synopsis : The Battle of Algiers  is a 1966 war film based on occurrences during the Algerian War (1954–62) against French colonial occupation in North Africa, the most prominent being the titular Battle of Algiers. The film has been critically celebrated and often taken, by insurgent groups and states alike, as an important commentary on urban guerilla warfare. The highly dramatic film is about the organisation of a guerrilla movement and the methods used to annihilate it by the colonial power.

A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.

Awards
  • Nominated for 3 Oscars - Best Foreign Language film, Best Director, Best Screenplay
  • Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
  • Other awards -  The City of Venice Cinema Prize (1966); the International Critics Award (1966); the City of Imola Prize (1966); the Italian Silver Ribbon Prize (director, photography, producer); Ajace Prize of the Cinema d'Essai (1967); the Italian Golden Asphodel (1966); Diosa de Plata at the Acapulco Film Festival (1966); the Golden Grolla (1966); the Riccione Prize (1966); voted "Best Film of 1967" by Cuban critics
Lists
  • Ranked #6 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • Ranked 120th place on Empire Magazine's list of the 500 greatest movies of all time
  • IMDb Top 250 #192
Special Mention
  • The film was screened in Pentagon in 2003 regarding it as a useful illustration of the problems faced in Iraq.A flyer for the screening read: 
    • "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film."
  • Rated by more than 18k users on IMDb

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La Strada (Italy , 1954)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.2
Release Year - 1954
Country - Italy
Genres - Drama
IMDB page

Synopsis : La Strada (English: The Road) is a 1954 Italian neorealist drama directed by Federico Fellini in which a naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) is sold to a brutish man (Anthony Quinn) and goes on the road as a part of his itinerant show.

Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatever the normally small crowd is prepared to give. He teaches Gelsomina a drum roll as part of his introduction. He doesn't treat her well and when she tries to run away, he beats her. They eventually join a small traveling circus where they meet Il Matto but a disagreement leads to tragedy. Zampano eventually abandons the girl and it's only many years later that he learns of her fate.


Awards - Won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - 1956
Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival
Bodil Awards - Best European Film
Won more than 50 international awards


Lists - IMDb Top 250 # 203
Roger Ebert Top 100


Special Mention - Rated by more than 22k users on IMDb


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Il Posto (Italy , 1961)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.1
Release Year -1961
Country - Italy
Genres – Comedy | Drama


Synopsis - Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking "a job for life" from a big city corporation. After a bizarre screening process made up of written exams, physical agility exercises, and interview questions such as "Do you drink to forget your troubles?" (Domenico and Antonietta are no older than 17 or 18), they land jobs in the "Technical Division" and "Typing Services" respectively. From there, Domenico works as an underutilized errand boy until a clerk position is vacated by the death of an older employee. Domenico finally takes his place in a room of 12 other clerks with a manager overseeing them from a desk at the head of the room. The film ends as Domenico ponders his fate, from behind his tiny desk at the back of the small windowless room, listening to the sound of the mimeograph machine as it runs off carbon copies next to the manager's desk.






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C'era una volta il West aka Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy , 1968)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.8
Release Year -1968
Country - Italy
Genres – Western
IMDB page


Synopsis: Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.

Tagline: There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.

Awards & Lists : IMDb Top 250 #20 | 5 wins
Special Mention : Rated by more than 95k users on IMDb





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8½ (Italy , 1963)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.2
Release Year -1963
Country - Italy
Genres – Drama | Fantasy

Synopsis: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.



Awards & Lists - IMDb Top 250 #193 | Won 2 Oscars | Another 13 wins
Special Mention - Rated by more than 36k users on IMDb






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Le notti di Cabiria aka Nights of Cabiria (Italy , 1957)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.2
Release Year - 1957
Country - Italy
Genres – Drama | Romance
IMDB page


"A Cinematic Masterpiece" - Janet Maslin , New York Times 
Synopsis: A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.


Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We follow her nights (and days): a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire from her and nearly drowns her, a movie star on the Via Veneto takes her home with him, at a local shrine she seeks the Madonna's intercession, then she meets an accountant who's seen her, hypnotized on a vaudeville stage, acting out her heart's longings. He courts her. Is it fate that led to their meeting? Is this finally a man who appreciates her for who she is?

Awards

  • Won Oscar - Best Foreign Language film
  • Cannes Film Festival: Best Actress , OCIC Award - Special Mention, Federico Fellini
  • David di Donatello Awards, Italy: Best Director, Best Production
  • Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain: CEC Award, Best Foreign Film

Lists - IMDB Top 250 #220

Special Mention

  • Rotten Tomatoes reported that 97% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on thirty-six reviews
  • Rated by more than 14k users on IMDB 

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La dolce vita aka The Sweet Life (Italy , 1961)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 93
Release Year - 1961
Country - Italy
Genres - Comedy | Drama
IMDB page | Metacritic page

Synopsis: Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

The movie is made with boundless energy. Federico Fellini stood here at the dividing point between the neorealism of his earlier films (like "La Strada") and the carnival visuals of his extravagant later ones ("Juliet of the Spirits," "Amarcord'').

Awards & lists - Won Oscar (Best Costume Design - 1962). Another 7 wins

 


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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso aka Cinema Paradiso (Italy , 1988)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.5 | Metacritic - 79
Release Year - 1988
Country - Italy
Genres - Drama

A celebration of youth, friendship, and the magic of the movies
Critical and box-office success | Regarded by many as a classic
Credited for reviving Italy's film industry

Synopsis: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.  

A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, who he had to leave before he left for Rome.

Seen as an example of "nostalgic postmodernism", the film intertwines sentimentality with comedy, and nostalgia with pragmaticism. It explores issues of youth, coming of age, and reflections (in adulthood) about the past. The imagery in each scene can be said to reflect Salvatore's idealised memories about his childhood. Cinema Paradiso is also a celebration of films; as a projectionist, young Salvatore (a.k.a Totò) develops the passion for films that shapes his life path in adulthood.

Awards
  • Won Oscar- Best foreign language film
  • Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix du Jury
  • Golden Globe - Best Foreign Language Film
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Film (Not in the English Language) , Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Screenplay , Best Film Music
Lists
  • Ranked #27 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • IMDB Top 250 #74
Special mention
  • Rotten Tomatoes has a 87% rating among the "Top Critics"
  • Rated by more than 63k users on IMDb

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Il conformista aka The Conformist

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 100
Release Year - 1970
Country - Italy
Genres - Drama
IMDB page | Metacritic page

Synopsis: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.


Best Film Awards - Nominated for Oscar (Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - 1972) ; Best Film (David di Donatello Awards - 1971) ; Best Classic DVD (Satellite Award - 2006)




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La vita è bella aka Life is Beautiful

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.5 | Metacritic - 59
Release Year - 1997
Country - Italy
Genres - Comedy | Drama | Romance
IMDB page

Synopsis: A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.


Best Film Awards - Audience Award - Best Feature Film (AFI Fest - 1998) ; Won Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film - 1999) ; Best Foreign Film Award (Australian Film Institute - 1999) ; Best Foreign Language Film (Blue Ribbon Award - 2000) ; Best Foreign-Language Film (Broadcast Film Critics Assosiation Awards - 1999)

Lists - Ranked #66 in IMDB Top 250 list




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Ladri di biciclette aka Bicycle Thieves

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.5
Release Year - 1948
Country - Italy
Genres - Crime | Drama
IMDB page

Synopsis: A poor young father in postwar-ravaged Rome who finally finds work putting up Rita Hayworth posters around town, only to have his precious bicycle stolen the first day on the job. In a light moment as the father and his young son chase after the thief, the boy attempts to relieve himself against a wall, and his father lets him know they don't have time for that. In another scene, the father tracks the thief into the kitchen of a brothel. 

Best Film Awards - Nominated for Oscar (Best Writing, Screenplay - 1950) ; Honorary Award (Academy Awards - 1950) ; Best Film from any Source (BAFTA Film Award - 1950) ; Best European Film (Bodil Award - 1951) ; Best Foreign Film (Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain -1951) ; Best Foreign Film (Golden Globe - 1950)

Lists - Ranked #87 in IMDB Top 250 list




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La meglio gioventù aka The Best Of Youth

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 | Metacritic - 89
Release Year - 2003
Country - Italy
Genres - Drama | Romance
IMDB page

Synopsis: Nicola and Matteo Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. They begin their adventure, helping Giorgia, a young girl confined in an asylum. Then, after the flood of Florence, Nicola meets Giulia a talented piano player with a dangerous sympathy for the BR. Alessio, a rebel spirit entered in the police, will find the optimistic photographer Mirella. These four characters and many others will cross the years of terrorism and Tangentopoli.

Best Film Awards - Special Condor (Argentinean Film Critics Association Award - 2008) ; Audience Award (Bastia Italian Film Festival - 2004) ; Un Certain Regard Award (Cannes Film Festival - 2003) ;  Best Film (David di Donatello Awards - 2004) ; People's Choice Award (Denver International Film Festival - 2003)




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