1. Goliath and the Dragon (La vendetta di Ercole)
A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
It has an average vote of 5.227 on TMDB.
2. Gold of Rome (L'oro di Roma)
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
3. Antonia (Antonia)
Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
4. The Shortest Day (Il giorno più corto)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
5. We Italians (Siamo italiani)
Documentary on the Italians who have migrated to work in Switzerland.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
6. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore e signori)
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
It has an average vote of 7.089 on TMDB.
7. Ghosts of Rome (Fantasmi a Roma)
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
8. Advantageous
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
It has an average vote of 7.439 on TMDB.
10. Barbara (Barbara)
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
11. The Scent of the Night (L'odore della notte)
A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
12. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Hiroshima mon amour)
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
It has an average vote of 7.726 on TMDB.
13. By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu)
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
It has an average vote of 7.161 on TMDB.
14. Intolerable Cruelty
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
It has an average vote of 5.932 on TMDB.
15. Toc Toc (Toc Toc)
Toc Toc follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD dated at the same time.
It has an average vote of 7.102 on TMDB.
16. The Three Musketeers
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
It has an average vote of 5.803 on TMDB.
17. Lost Highway
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
It has an average vote of 7.573 on TMDB.
18. The Circle
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
19. When Harry Met Sally...
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
It has an average vote of 7.404 on TMDB.
20. The Prestige
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
It has an average vote of 8.203 on TMDB.
