Best Italian Movies of All Time
Italian cinema has produced some of the most influential films in world cinema, from postwar neorealism to the poetic dramas of the 1960s. This list picks well-known Italian films, listed by year.
Best Italian Movies of All Time: the list
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Vittorio De Sica directs the neorealist classic about a man who searches the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle.
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Federico Fellini directs a sprawling story of a journalist drifting through the nightlife of Rome.
The Leopard (1963)
Luchino Visconti directs an epic about a Sicilian noble family during the unification of Italy.
Amarcord (1973)
Federico Fellini directs a nostalgic portrait of a small town on the Adriatic coast in the 1930s.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Giuseppe Tornatore directs the story of a filmmaker who looks back on his childhood in a Sicilian village cinema.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Roberto Benigni directs and stars in a story of a father who protects his son in a Nazi concentration camp.
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