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Movies in Italian

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Action

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Suburra	2015	Stefano Sollima	Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola
Romanzo Criminale	2005	Michele Placido	Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino
Gomorrah	2008	Matteo Garrone	Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale
John Wick: Chapter 2	2017	Chad Stahelski	Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane

Adventure

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
L'avventuriero	1967	Terence Young	Anthony Quinn, Capucine, Saro Urzì
Il figlio di Spartacus	1963	Sergio Corbucci	Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale
The Adventures of Pinocchio	1972	Luigi Comencini	Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida, Franco Franchi
Mediterraneo	1991	Gabriele Salvatores	Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna

Animation

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
La Linea	1971	Osvaldo Cavandoli	Carlo Bonomi (voice)
La freccia azzurra	1996	Enzo D'Alò	Mino Caprio (voice), Carlo Croccolo (voice), Marisa Laurito (voice)
La gabbianella e il gatto	1998	Enzo D'Alò	Paolo Villaggio (voice), Roberto Benigni (voice), Massimo Ceccherini (voice)
La stella di Andra e Tati	2019	Rosalba Vitellaro	Ilaria Carrara (voice), Rosalba Vitellaro (voice), Federico Tolardo (voice)

Biography

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Il divo	2008	Paolo Sorrentino	Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti
Man of la Mancha	1972	Arthur Hiller	Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco
La voce della Luna	1991	Federico Fellini	Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani
Il giovane favoloso	2014	Mario Martone	Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio

Comedy

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Amici miei	1975	Mario Monicelli	Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
Pane e tulipani	2000	Silvio Soldini	Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
Perfetti

Crime

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
La Piovra	1984-2001	Damiano Damiani, Luigi Perelli, etc.	Michele Placido, Patricia Millardet, Remo Girone
Il camorrista	1986	Giuseppe Tornatore	Ben Gazzara, Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta
Romanzo Criminale	2005	Michele Placido	Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino
Gomorrah	2008	Matteo Garrone	Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale

Documentary

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Sacro GRA	2013	Gianfranco Rosi	n/a
Fire at Sea	2016	Gianfranco Rosi	n/a
My Father and I	2018	Carlo Zoratti	Carlo Zoratti, Aldo Zoratti

Drama

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
La grande bellezza	2013	Paolo Sorrentino	Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Il Postino	1994	Michael Radford	Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Cinema Paradiso	1988	Giuseppe Tornatore	Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi
I cento passi	2000	Marco Tullio Giordana	Luigi Lo Cascio, Tony Sperandeo, Lucia Sardo

Fantasy

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
La vita è bella	1997	Roberto Benigni	Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	1988	Terry Gilliam	John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley

History

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Il Gattopardo	1963	Luchino Visconti	Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
The Name of the Rose	1986	Jean-Jacques Annaud	Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger

Horror

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Suspiria	1977	Dario Argento	Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Dellamorte Dellamore	1994	Michele Soavi	Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi
Non ho sonno	2001	Dario Argento	Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli

Musical

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Nine	2009	Rob Marshall	Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard,

Musical

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Nine	2009	Rob Marshall	Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz
The Gospel According to St. Matthew	1964	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini

Romance

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Malèna	2000	Giuseppe Tornatore	Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
La finestra di fronte	2003	Ferzan Özpetek	Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova
Tre metri sopra il cielo	2004	Luca Lucini	Riccardo Scamarcio, Katy Louise Saunders, Maria Chiara Augenti
Call Me by Your Name	2017	Luca Guadagnino	Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

Sci-fi

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
La Jetée	1962	Chris Marker	Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
The Day the Earth Froze	1959	Val Guest	Barbara Shelley, William Sylvester, Edward Judd

Thriller

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Blow-Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni	David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2009	Niels Arden Oplev	Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
The Best Offer	2013	Giuseppe Tornatore	Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks
Suburra	2015	Stefano Sollima	Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola

War

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Kapò	1960	Gillo Pontecorvo	Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva
Il conformista	1970	Bernardo Bertolucci	Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin
La vita è bella	1997	Roberto Benigni	Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
La tigre e la neve	2005	Roberto Benigni	Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi

Western

Title	Year	Director	Main cast
Django	1966	Sergio Corbucci	Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo	1966	Sergio Leone	Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach

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