1. Angelina (L'onorevole Angelina)
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
2. Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (Lou Andreas-Salomé)
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and essayist, Salomé’s desire to live a life free from convention scandalized society but spurred genius and passion in others, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Rée and her lover, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud, she became the first female psychoanalyst.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. Malati di sesso (Malati di sesso)
Two sex addicts go for a vacation in Courmayeur where they hope to be cured of their problem
It has an average vote of 4.1 on TMDB.
4. Capri-Revolution (Capri-Revolution)
In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
5. Natale in casa Cupiello (Natale in casa Cupiello)
Based on the tragicomedy written by Edoardo de Filippo in 1931, Christmas at the Cupiello's captures a life episode of a middle-class Italian family around Christmas. Shot in Neapolitan language, the movie has a whimsical charm.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
6. Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi)
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
7. Thou Shalt Not Hate (Non odiare)
Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone abandons him to his destiny. Filled with guilt, he ends up tracing the man’s family: Marica, the eldest daughter; Marcello, a teenager plagued with racial hate; and little Paolo. The night will come when Marica knocks at Simone’s door and unknowingly asks for payback.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
8. Troppo forte (Troppo forte)
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
9. Christmas Present (Regalo di Natale)
On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite after a long time to rip off a rich industrialist in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.
It has an average vote of 7.325 on TMDB.
10. Ricordi? (Ricordi?)
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
11. Suburra (Suburra)
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
It has an average vote of 7.296 on TMDB.
12. Yao (Yao)
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
13. Ciao, Professore! (Io speriamo che me la cavo)
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
It has an average vote of 7.158 on TMDB.
14. The Sacrifice (Offret)
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
15. Ultras (Ultras)
An aging soccer fanatic faces down the reality of his past while struggling to give himself and a young follower very different futures.
It has an average vote of 6.15 on TMDB.
16. Leopardi (Il giovane favoloso)
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
It has an average vote of 6.806 on TMDB.
17. The Professor and the Madman
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
It has an average vote of 7.151 on TMDB.
18. Tolo Tolo (Tolo Tolo)
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
It has an average vote of 6.118 on TMDB.
19. An Officer and a Spy (J'accuse)
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
It has an average vote of 7.076 on TMDB.
20. Hubie Halloween
Hubie Dubois, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts , is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.
It has an average vote of 5.935 on TMDB.