My Favorite Italian Films (allisoncm)

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.

Summer 1943: The war is in full swing in southern Italy. Together with friends, Carlo enjoys a carefree summer in youthful naïveté. He falls in love with Roberta, whose husband was killed in the war.

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

Many years after her father's disappearance, Caterina discovers that she can talk to herself when she is 12 and tries to convince the girl to prevent her father from letting them go to sea alone on the day the murder takes place. The woman also tries to contact Marianna Dell'Acqua, the ex-lover of her father, who in the meantime is in prison.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.

The son of a dead Italian nobleman and a wealthy American woman forgets the disappointment of finding he has no talent for being a painter by succumbing to the sexual advances of an amoral model who believes in indiscriminate love affairs.

A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.

A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

Director Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.

Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.