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1. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller
Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.
Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alexandra Essoe, Franco Nero
Votes: 83,625
2. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,304
3. Rome, Open City (1945)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Votes: 29,014
4. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller
Votes: 19,201 | Gross: $7.92M
5. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores
Votes: 7,305
6. Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Unrated | 410 min | Biography, Drama, History
The rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Stars: George C. Scott, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Lee Grant
Votes: 650
7. Paisan (1946)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon
Votes: 9,569
8. General Della Rovere (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, War
Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo, Giovanna Ralli
Votes: 3,692
9. The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
100 min | Drama, Mystery
A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Votes: 3,154
10. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,662
11. Massacre in Rome (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner
Votes: 1,486
12. The Fallen (2004)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
The story of ordinary men during WWII as seen from three different points of View.
Director: Ari Taub | Stars: Christopher R Swanson, Daniel Asher, Brian Bancale, C.J. Barkus
Votes: 938
13. The Last 4 Days (1974)
PG | 91 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 875
14. Five for Hell (1969)
95 min | Action, Adventure, War
Five oddball American commandos infiltrate a well-guarded villa to steal the documents for "Plan K", which the Nazis intend to use to drive the Allies out of Italy.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Gianni Garko, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Aldo Canti
Votes: 674
15. The Man Who Will Come (2009)
115 min | Drama, War
In the winter of 1943 a young girl named Martina stays silent following the death of her brother several years before. Her mother's pregnancy gives her hope, but as her brother is born the Nazis begin rounding up civilians.
Director: Giorgio Diritti | Stars: Greta Zuccheri Montanari, Claudio Casadio, Alba Rohrwacher, Maya Sansa
Votes: 1,813
16. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
120 min | Drama, War
The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans during World War II. During the four days in Naples, the revolt turns over in just a few hours. ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi, Silvana Buzzanca
Votes: 1,020
17. Fighter Attack (1953)
Approved | 80 min | War
World War II action in Italy involving fighter pilot's last sortie, and the help he receives from Italian partisans in an effort to complete it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, J. Carrol Naish, Joy Page, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 200
18. Il partigiano Johnny (2000)
135 min | Drama, War
After 8 September 1943, Northern Italy is occupied by the Germans. The Italian army collapses and the soldiers escape to the mountains to set up a resistance. Many civilians do the same, ... See full summary »
Director: Guido Chiesa | Stars: Stefano Dionisi, Gabriele Montanari, Toni Bertorelli, Lina Bernardi
Votes: 327
19. Gli sbandati (1955)
102 min | Drama
In the summer of 1943 Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the bombings and retreated to their country villa, where they host two of Andrea's contemporaries, cousin Carlo,... See full summary »
Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Isa Miranda, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Goliarda Sapienza
Votes: 257
20. It Happened in '43 (1960)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman married to a man in a wheelchair, with a deserter from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the power grab of a ... See full summary »
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 453
21. La fuga degli innocenti (2004 TV Movie)
200 min | Drama, War
This is a true story about 40 Jewish children on their way to Palestine who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in ... See full summary »
Director: Leone Pompucci | Stars: Ken Duken, Jasmine Trinca, Ennio Fantastichini, Toni Bertorelli
Votes: 115
22. The Garden of Redemption (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, War
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Marta Amaro, Anthony LaPaglia, João Arouca, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 376
23. Un giorno da leoni (1961)
118 min | Drama, War
The Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance to the Germans in Italy during World War II.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Renato Salvatori, Carla Gravina, Tomas Milian, Nino Castelnuovo
Votes: 124
24. Baciami piccina (2006)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Cimpanelli | Stars: Neri Marcorè, Vincenzo Salemme, Elena Russo, Marco Messeri
Votes: 137
25. Luigi Einaudi. Diario dell'esilio svizzero (2000)
75 min | Documentary, Biography, History
On the 8th of September 1943 Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961), future first president of the Italian Republic, abandoned Turin, which was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and went to Switzerland. It was... See full summary »
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Roberto Einaudi, Mario Ansermin, Zaccaria Aldo Curtaz
26. From the Cloud to the Resistance (1979)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Guido Lombardi, Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini
Votes: 484
27. Uomini e no (1980)
105 min | Drama, War
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the Fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ... See full summary »
Director: Valentino Orsini | Stars: Flavio Bucci, Monica Guerritore, Ivana Monti, Massimo Foschi
Votes: 45
28. Libere (2017)
75 min | Documentary
Director: Rossella Schillaci | Stars: Chiara Acciarini, Maria Airaudo, Giuliana Gadola Beltrami, Alda Bianco
Votes: 10
29. Dieci italiani per un tedesco (Via Rasella) (1962)
95 min | Drama, War
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Director: Filippo Walter Ratti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Carlo D'Angelo, Sergio Fantoni
Votes: 68
30. Due lettere anonime (1945)
90 min | Drama, War
After years at the Russion front in WW II, the Italian soldier Bruno returns home. But he receives an anonymous letter warning him that during his absence, his fiancée Gina has begun an ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Clara Calamai, Andrea Checchi, Otello Toso, Carlo Ninchi
Votes: 93
32. Porzûs (1997)
121 min | Drama, History, War
Italy 1945: the war is ending and the iron curtain is falling down. In the north eastern part of the country partisans of different political orientation begin to question about the future ... See full summary »
Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: Lorenzo Crespi, Gianni Cavina, Gastone Moschin, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 103
33. Giorni di furore (1964)
106 min | Documentary
Directors: Alfieri Canavero, Giovanni Canavero, Gianni Dolino, Isacco Nahoum | Stars: Italo Calvino, Paolo Spriano
34. Due mostrine SS da Boves (1965)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Eroni | Stars: Carlo Bottero, Pierangelo Civera, Duilio Del Prete, Umberto Fino
35. La tua donna (1954)
105 min | Drama
During World War II, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), the head of a group of Italian partisans, hides at a farm to escape from the Germans. Here he meets Luisa (Lea Padovani) and soon the ... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Paolucci | Stars: Patricia Neal, Massimo Girotti, Lea Padovani, Enrico Viarisio
Votes: 46
36. Aldo dice 26x1 (1945)
Partisan life under the Fascists.
Directors: Carlo Borghesio, Fernando Cerchio
37. The Righteous Enemy (1987)
84 min | Documentary
Rochlitz's documentary about the non-Jewish Italian resistance to Hitler's "Final Solution" explores how Italian officials prevented the deportation of some 40,000 Jews in Italian-occupied France, Greece, and Yugoslavia.
Director: Joseph Rochlitz
Votes: 6
39. Momenti di vita e lotta partigiana (1945)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Giuseppe Pollarolo
40. Tutti suoi figli (1977)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Franco Castelli | Stars: Iginio Bonazzi, Nicola Grosa
41. I ribelli (1973)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Collettivo Cinema Militante | Stars: Sergio Bellone, Paolo Gobetti
42. Piacere, Ada Gobetti (2008)
51 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Ada Marchesini Gobetti, Rosalba Legato
43. Resistenza, una nazione che risorge (1978)
200 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: Ansano Giannarelli
44. Lettere di condannati a morte della resistenza (1953)
Documentary, History, War
Director: Fausto Fornari
45.
The Third Man (1959–1965)
Episode:
A Question in Ice
(1964)
Crime, Drama
When the body of Italian partisan who was last seen with Harry Lime during World War II is discovered at the end of a glacier, Harry returns to the Alps to face retribution from the agent's former compatriots.
Director: Robert M. Leeds | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jonathan Harris, Marius Goring, Joanna Dunham
Votes: 78
46.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Mediterranean
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Winston Churchill
Votes: 6
47.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Why Did Italy Switch Sides in WW2?
(2022)
19 min | Documentary, Animation
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
48.
Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode:
Le dernier acte
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Its 1944, and as the Allied forces take over the West and Nazis retreat in the East, Hitler orders his country to its ruin from his underground bunker.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ahmed Ben Bella, Blondi
Votes: 7
49.
Nazi Mega Weapons (2013– )
Episode:
Hitler's Italian Fortress
(2017)
43 min | Documentary, History, War
When Albert Kesselring recommends the creation of forty defensive lines to make the allies pay for every inch of Italy they capture, Hilter loves the idea. But the allies have more to worry... See full summary »
Directors: Anthony Harwell, Sid Bennett | Stars: Patrick Bury, Julian Forsyth, Carsten Hayes, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 36