BEST ITALIAN MOVIES 2000- 2010

After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

The story of Massimo's creative crisis, a director on his second film

Giacomo meets Giovanni, his former best friend with whom he quarreled three years before. Giovanni persuades him to go visit their third friend Aldo, who is dying in Sicily; flashbacks tell their story: Aldo was the phantom in operas, Giacomo was dubbing films in which he only made noises, and Giovanni worked as a living department-store mannequin. Unsatisfied with their careers, they try to stage their own show but women troubles separate them.

Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.

A couple of criminals look for a little box full of drug, all around Bari

A serial killer, called the Iguana, is terrorizing Bologna. He is able to change continuously identity. Grazia is investigating trying to find out the truth about the Iguana. Only a blind boy obsessioned by "Almost Blue", a jazz song, could help her.

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.

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

The story of two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, who are on the decline and lead strangely parallel lives. One is a pop singer whose success ends after a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.

Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in Italy.

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

Al Caruso, John Gresco and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. However, their efforts are more than headache-inducing, and when they are given one last chance to protect the boss's aunt, she is accidentally killed and the three men are sentenced to death. They come up with a plan to sell the boss to the police and the FBI. However, Al suffers from short-term memory loss and has to be told the story by John and Jack.

A solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

Claudio, age 17, has a simple aspiration: he wants to be a mechanic. His father, though, would like him to take over his small auto-wrecker company that he has built up over his lifetime.

A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Two men, brothers- in-law, are on the hunt for a stolen car.

In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".

An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.

A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.

Albanian teenager, Saimir, emigrates to Italy to start a new life with his father. His father tries to make a living transporting illegal immigrants. When this fails to make his father any money, he is drawn into an insidious prostitution ring. Saimir helps his father, but a love interest makes him question his life and future.

A film based on true events from Italy. In the 1970s, a group of revolutionaries launched the broadcast of the underground Radio Alice. The people involved led a political struggle and a creative form of anarchy. The film follows their stories up until March 1977, when the Carabinieri shot an unarmed protester to incite unrest, during which the radio station was shut down.