1. I Am Self-Sufficient (Io sono un autarchico)
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
2. Draquila: Italy Trembles (Draquila - L'Italia che trema)
A documentary in opposition to the government of Silvio Berlusconi.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
3. Dark Night
Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented moments from the lives of several characters, whose fates are tragically intertwined. As the sky grows darker, the placid surface of daily life becomes disturbed by a lurking and inevitable horror.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
4. Quiet Chaos (Caos calmo)
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
5. General Della Rovere (Il generale Della Rovere)
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
It has an average vote of 7.415 on TMDB.
6. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave)
Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
It has an average vote of 6.442 on TMDB.
7. Mia madre (Mia madre)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
It has an average vote of 6.646 on TMDB.
8. Il rosso e il blu (Il rosso e il blu)
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
It has an average vote of 6.006 on TMDB.
9. Forget Paris
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
10. The Friends at the Margherita Café (Gli amici del bar Margherita)
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
11. Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto)
A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver hidden in his kitchen.
It has an average vote of 7.041 on TMDB.
12. We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam)
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
13. The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
It has an average vote of 7.087 on TMDB.
14. Two Stepmoms (Nemiche per la pelle)
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Be Sick… It's Free (Il medico della mutua)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
It has an average vote of 7.045 on TMDB.
16. Last Days
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
It has an average vote of 5.567 on TMDB.
17. The Order of Time (L’ordine del tempo)
It explores what happens to a group of long-term friends one night when, during their annual get-together to celebrate a birthday in a villa by the sea, they discover that the world might be ending within the space of a few hours. From that moment on, the time separating them from the possible end of their lives seems to flow differently, both speedily and never-endingly, over a summer’s night which will change their lives forever.
It has an average vote of 5.23 on TMDB.
18. Georgetown
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
It has an average vote of 5.934 on TMDB.
19. Palombella Rossa (Palombella Rossa)
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
It has an average vote of 7.19 on TMDB.
20. Mary Forever (Mery per sempre)
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
It has an average vote of 7.462 on TMDB.