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Top Italian Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1 2 1966 Sergio Leone 44
2 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
3 Once Upon a Time in the West3 1968 Sergio Leone 58
4 8 1/24 1963 Federico Fellini 74
5 La Dolce Vita4 1960 Federico Fellini 86
6 Once Upon a Time in America3 1984 Sergio Leone 133
7 The Battle of Algiers5 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
8 Amadeus3 4 6 1984 Milos Forman 163
9 Don't Look Now7 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
10 L'Avventura4 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
11 The Wages of Fear4 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
12 Cinema Paradiso4 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
13 The Conformist1 4 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
14 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
15 Blow-Up7 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
16 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 250
17 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
18 The Leopard4 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
19 Playtime4 1967 Jacques Tati 300
20 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
21 Dawn of the Dead3 1978 George A. Romero 307
22 Belle de Jour4 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
23 Amarcord4 1973 Federico Fellini 367
24 Contempt4 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
25 Le Samouraï4 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
26 A Fistful of Dollars1 2 1964 Sergio Leone 383
27 Army in the Shadows4 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
28 Last Year at Marienbad4 1961 Alain Resnais 392
29 Eyes without a Face4 1960 Georges Franju 406
30 Hidden1 4 8 2005 Michael Haneke 409
31 Pierrot le Fou4 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
32 Downfall1 8 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
33 Doctor Zhivago3 1965 David Lean 425
34 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
35 Last Tango in Paris4 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 451
36 Cleo from 5 to 74 1962 Agnès Varda 461
37 Day for Night4 1973 François Truffaut 467
38 For a Few Dollars More1 2 1965 Sergio Leone 468
39 The Earrings of Madame De…4 1953 Max Ophüls 490
40 Nights of Cabiria4 1957 Federico Fellini 496
41 Alphaville4 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
42 Dancer in the Dark1 3 4 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 2000 Lars von Trier 532
43 The Gospel According to St. Matthew4 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
44 L'Eclisse4 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 596
45 Dogville1 4 7 9 10 11 12 2003 Lars von Trier 626
46 The Last Emperor4 7 15 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 651
47 Le Cercle rouge4 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
48 Mon Oncle4 1958 Jacques Tati 682
49 Rocco and His Brothers4 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
50 Serpico3 1973 Sidney Lumet 767
51 Death in Venice4 1971 Luchino Visconti 778
52 Hotel Rwanda7 16 2004 Terry George 789
53 Au Revoir, les Enfants1 4 1987 Louis Malle 792
54 The Passenger4 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 833
55 A Prophet4 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
56 Jean de Florette4 17 1986 Claude Berri 881
57 Werckmeister Harmonies1 4 18 2000 Béla Tarr 890
58 Call Me by Your Name4 2017 Luca Guadagnino 892
59 The Others2 3 4 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 902
60 Salò4 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 928
61 Voyage in Italy4 1954 Roberto Rossellini 937
62 Nostalgia19 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 943
63 The White Ribbon1 4 8 20 2009 Michael Haneke 946
64 Orlando4 7 9 19 1992 Sally Potter 955
65 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1018
66 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 1049
67 The Train3 4 1964 John Frankenheimer 1064
68 Barbarella4 1968 Roger Vadim 1078
69 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1096
70 The Best of Youth 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana 1147
71 Berlin Alexanderplatz1 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1174
72 Le Boucher4 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
73 The Sea Inside2 4 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1232
74 The Trial1 4 1962 Orson Welles 1244
75 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 1246
76 King of New York3 1990 Abel Ferrara 1255
77 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1257
78 20461 4 15 21 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1304
79 Time of the Gypsies7 22 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
80 La Femme Nikita4 1990 Luc Besson 1309
81 I Vitelloni4 1953 Federico Fellini 1343
82 Le Trou4 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
83 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1364
84 Week End4 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
85 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1376
86 Romeo and Juliet7 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1398
87 La Notte4 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
88 The Red Desert4 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
89 Open Your Eyes2 4 1997 Alejandro Amenábar 1466
90 The Great Silence4 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1479
91 The Queen3 4 7 2006 Stephen Frears 1498
92 Manon of the Spring4 17 1986 Claude Berri 1503
93 Germany, Year Zero1 4 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1517
94 Django2 1966 Sergio Corbucci 1583
95 19001 4 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
96 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 Ruggero Deodato 1609
97 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1631
98 Duck, You Sucker2 1971 Sergio Leone 1676
99 The Idiots2 4 9 10 1998 Lars von Trier 1677
100 Purple Noon4 1960 René Clément 1695
101 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1715
102 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 1721
103 Landscape in the Mist4 23 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1744
104 Gosford Park3 7 2001 Robert Altman 1753
105 Gangs of New York3 2002 Martin Scorsese 1774
106 Victory3 7 1981 John Huston 1809
107 A Special Day20 1977 Ettore Scola 1835
108 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1836
109 The Name of the Rose1 4 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1844
110 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1855
111 The Firemen's Ball6 1967 Milos Forman 1862
112 The Dreamers3 4 7 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci 1899
113 Othello3 1951 Orson Welles 1917
114 Fat Girl4 2001 Catherine Breillat 1967
115 Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone 1974
116 The Damned1 1969 Luchino Visconti 1976
117 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 1985
118 Two Women4 1960 Vittorio De Sica 1986
119 Monsoon Wedding1 3 4 7 24 2001 Mira Nair 1993
120 Tropical Malady1 4 25 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2009
121 Fellini Satyricon4 1969 Federico Fellini 2023
122 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis1 1970 Vittorio De Sica 2042
123 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri 2048
124 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi 2068
125 Fist in His Pocket 1965 Marco Bellocchio 2081
126 Juliet of the Spirits4 1965 Federico Fellini 2109
127 Antichrist1 4 10 26 2009 Lars von Trier 2110
128 La Cage aux Folles4 1978 Edouard Molinaro 2111
129 Enter the Void1 4 20 27 2009 Gaspar Noé 2115
130 Lacombe Lucien1 4 1974 Louis Malle 2116
131 Stromboli3 1950 Roberto Rossellini 2132
132 Land and Freedom1 2 4 7 1995 Ken Loach 2147
133 Raw4 13 2016 Julia Ducournau 2152
134 Il Posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi 2153
135 The Great Beauty4 13 2013 Paolo Sorrentino 2157
136 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2189
137 Not on Your Life2 1963 Luis García Berlanga 2210
138 Tristana2 4 1970 Luis Buñuel 2224
139 Black Orpheus4 28 1959 Marcel Camus 2238
140 Le Doulos4 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville 2248
141 Kill, Baby...Kill! 1966 Mario Bava 2250
142 Gomorrah 2008 Matteo Garrone 2256
143 No Man's Land4 7 13 29 30 2001 Danis Tanovic 2304
144 The Beyond 1981 Lucio Fulci 2308
145 Il Postino4 13 1994 Michael Radford 2353
146 The Barefoot Contessa3 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2375
147 Il Sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi 2384
148 Touchez pas au grisbi4 1954 Jacques Becker 2414
149 Together10 2000 Lukas Moodysson 2441
150 Caro Diario4 1993 Nanni Moretti 2446
151 Mission: Impossible III1 3 15 2006 J.J. Abrams 2454
152 Lola4 1961 Jacques Demy 2509
153 Blood and Black Lace1 4 31 1964 Mario Bava 2531
154 Tenebrae 1982 Dario Argento 2542
155 El Cid3 1961 Anthony Mann 2544
156 The Son's Room4 2001 Nanni Moretti 2545
157 High Tension4 32 2003 Alexandre Aja 2563
158 Black Sabbath3 4 1963 Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri 2564
159 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2582
160 French Cancan4 1955 Jean Renoir 2612
161 Ladyhawke3 1985 Richard Donner 2614
162 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2621
163 Walking and Talking1 3 4 7 1996 Nicole Holofcener 2632
164 La Femme Infidèle4 1969 Claude Chabrol 2650
165 The Italian Job1 3 4 7 2003 F. Gary Gray 2656
166 Danger: Diabolik4 1968 Mario Bava 2660
167 Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August 1974 Lina Wertmüller 2700
168 8 Women4 2002 François Ozon 2732
169 The Legend of 1900 1998 Giuseppe Tornatore 2737
170 The Great War4 1959 Mario Monicelli 2752
171 A Woman Is a Woman4 1961 Jean-Luc Godard 2766
172 Chaplin3 4 7 27 1992 Richard Attenborough 2770
173 Murmur of the Heart1 4 1971 Louis Malle 2777
174 Ulysses' Gaze1 4 7 22 23 29 32 33 1995 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2781
175 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1 1970 Dario Argento 2783
176 The Kingdom1 4 9 10 11 1994 Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier 2810

1 Joint production with (West) Germany.
2 Joint production with Spain.
3 Joint production with the United States.
4 Joint production with France.
5 Joint production with Algeria.
6 Joint production with Czechoslovakia.
7 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
8 Joint production with Austria.
9 Joint production with the Netherlands.
10 Joint production with Denmark and Sweden.
11 Joint production with Norway.
12 Joint production with Finland.
13 Joint production with Belgium.
14 Joint production with Argentina, Iceland, and Taiwan.
15 Joint production with the People's Republic of China.
16 Joint production with South Africa.
17 Joint production with Switzerland.
18 Joint production with Hungary.
19 Joint production with Russia or the Soviet Union.
20 Joint production with Canada.
21 Joint production with Hong Kong.
22 Joint production with Yugoslavia.
23 Joint production with Greece.
24 Joint production with India.
25 Joint production with Thailand.
26 Joint production with Poland.
27 Joint production with Japan.
28 Joint production with Brazil.
29 Joint production with Bosnia-Herzegovina.
30 Joint production with Slovenia.
31 Joint production with Monaco.
32 Joint production with Romania.
33 Joint production with Albania.

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