Italian Academy Award movies winners and nominees

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

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. Neapolitans slung on rifles and guns or armed themselves with stones, house-objects, gasoline-bottles, anything and everything, anonymous and silent. Gennarino Capuozzo, a 10-year-old killed on a barricade while he was fighting against the invaders, is remembered as a hero.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

A high-ranking police inspector kills his mistress and deliberately plants clues indicating his responsibility for the crime in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.

A gay brother visits his childhood home where his sister still lives with her lesbian niece and her girlfriend. They reminisce about the better past and their parents.

Three men face their mother's death.

Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.

With the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.