1. Boys on the Outside (Ragazzi fuori)
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
It has an average vote of 6.777 on TMDB.
2. L'ultimo padrino (L'ultimo padrino)
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
3. The Pack (Il branco)
In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard. The only one who pulls back from the group is Raniero, the others willingly accept to follow him. Slowly the news of the two imprisoned tourists spread like wildfire and attracts all the men of the area.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
4. Hermitage (Hermitage)
Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on actor's movements and actions, and more specifically, on his presence and his schemes. Camouflaged or naked, still or moving, his body seems to play and be played at the same time, shifted by objective and subjective tensions, both metaphorically and visually speaking.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
5. The Life (Yo puta)
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
6. Giovanni Falcone (Giovanni Falcone)
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
7. Soldati - 365 all'alba (Soldati - 365 all'alba)
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
8. Fort Apache Napoli (Fortapàsc)
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
It has an average vote of 7.121 on TMDB.
9. The Mass Is Ended (La messa è finita)
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
It has an average vote of 7.39 on TMDB.
10. The Giant (Handia)
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
11. The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (Noi e la Giulia)
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. Vieni avanti cretino (Vieni avanti cretino)
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
13. Nati stanchi (Nati stanchi)
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.
It has an average vote of 6.807 on TMDB.
14. Anplagghed al cinema (Anplagghed al cinema)
A queue at the ATM machine, a displaced family after a seismic shock that has half-washed their home, a tour within an art gallery, moments of everyday life that become the cues for the emergence of comic, farce, paradoxical situations – trademarks of one of the most successful Italian comic groups.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
15. Angst (Angst)
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.078 on TMDB.
16. Saturn in Opposition (Saturno contro)
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
It has an average vote of 6.878 on TMDB.
17. Sonatine (Sonatine)
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
It has an average vote of 7.493 on TMDB.
18. Accattone (Accattone)
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
It has an average vote of 7.737 on TMDB.
19. Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂)
In 1920s China, a nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family and compete with his three wives for his attention, slowly uncovering the dark truths that lie within their gilded cage.
It has an average vote of 7.939 on TMDB.
20. Come tu mi vuoi (Come tu mi vuoi)
Giada is a overachieving student who works to pay for college. Riccardo is a spoiled brat who answers her tutoring ad in order to improve his abysmal grades. She's shy and homely. He's handsome and brazen. As they say, opposites attract.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
