Italian Submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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1. Shoeshine (1946)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortensi
Votes: 8,120
1947 (Won Honorary Award)
2. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,278 | Gross: $0.33M
1949 (Won Honorary Award)
3. The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 993
1950 (Won Honorary Award)
4. The Road (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Votes: 66,618
1956 (Won)
5. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,978 | Gross: $0.75M
1957 (Won)
6. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,525
1958 (Nominated)
7. The Great War (1959)
Approved | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli
Votes: 4,610
1959 (Nominated
8. Kapo (1960)
116 min | Drama, War
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Didi Perego
Votes: 2,597
1960 (Nominated)
9. La Notte (1961)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Votes: 24,059 | Gross: $0.04M
1961
10. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
120 min | Drama, War
The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans during World War II. During the four days in Naples, the revolt turns over in just a few hours. ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi, Silvana Buzzanca
Votes: 1,019
1962 (Nominated)
11. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,275 | Gross: $0.05M
1963 (Won)
12. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Votes: 10,132
1964 (Won)
13. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano
Votes: 11,044
1965 (Nominated)
14. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,714 | Gross: $0.06M
1966 (Nominated)
15. China Is Near (1967)
107 min | Drama
Vittorio is running as a Socialist candidate for the municipal office, but he gets overwhelmed by love, family and political entanglements.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina
Votes: 453
1967
16. The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
M | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth
Votes: 1,727
1968 (Nominated)
17. Fellini Satyricon (1969)
R | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Votes: 17,193 | Gross: $1.14M
1969
18. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando
Votes: 13,349 | Gross: $0.27M
1970 (Won)
19. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
R | 94 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Votes: 7,681 | Gross: $0.60M
1971 (Won)
20. Roma (1972)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses
Votes: 13,810 | Gross: $0.73M
1972
21. Amarcord (1973)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,852 | Gross: $0.58M
1974 (Won)
22. Scent of a Woman (1974)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli, Moira Orfei
Votes: 5,169
1975 (Nominated)
23. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,490 | Gross: $0.01M
1976 (Nominated)
24. A Special Day (1977)
Approved | 106 min | Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Votes: 15,849
1977 (Nominated)
25. Viva Italia! (1977)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 2,113
1978 (Nominated)
26. To Forget Venice (1979)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A gay brother visits his childhood home where his sister still lives with her lesbian niece and her girlfriend. They reminisce about the better past and their parents.
Director: Franco Brusati | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson, Nerina Montagnani
Votes: 389
1979 (Nominated)
27. A Leap in the Dark (1980)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido, Gisella Burinato
Votes: 523
1980
28. Three Brothers (1981)
PG | 113 min | Drama
Three men face their mother's death.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 1,794
1981 (Nominated)
29. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
R | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 4,655
1982
30. The Ship Sails On (1983)
PG | 128 min | Drama, History, Music
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Votes: 6,732
1983
31. Where's Picone? (1984)
122 min | Comedy
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Sastri, Aldo Giuffrè, Clelia Rondinella
Votes: 319
1984
32. Maccheroni (1985)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades, only to discover that old friends have involved him in a massive hoax.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli
Votes: 858 | Gross: $0.43M
1985
33. Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido, Roberto Herlitzka, Massimo Wertmüller
Votes: 371
1986
34. The Family (1987)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Romance
With the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Emanuele Lamaro
Votes: 2,490 | Gross: $0.35M
1987 (Nominated)
35. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,169
1988
36. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 283,149 | Gross: $11.99M
1989 (Won)
37. Open Doors (1990)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci
Votes: 1,002 | Gross: $0.12M
1990 (Nominated)
38. Mediterraneo (1991)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio
Votes: 16,434 | Gross: $4.53M
1991 (Won)
39. The Stolen Children (1992)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel
Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.93M
1992
40. Il grande cocomero (1993)
95 min | Drama, Family
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Anna Galiena, Alessia Fugardi, Silvio Vannucci
Votes: 558
1993
41. Lamerica (1994)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Votes: 2,379 | Gross: $0.44M
1994
42. The Star Maker (1995)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer and the types of people he encounters.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 5,480 | Gross: $0.12M
1995 (Nominated)
43. La mia generazione (1996)
95 min | Drama
A terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? It's what the Army official who's taking him to the woman is ... See full summary »
Director: Wilma Labate | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Vincenzo Peluso
Votes: 157
1996
44. The Best Man (1997)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Inés Sastre, Dario Cantarelli, Cinzia Mascoli
Votes: 448 | Gross: $0.09M
1997
45. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,772 | Gross: $57.60M
1998 (Won)
46. Not of This World (1999)
100 min | Drama
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
Director: Giuseppe Piccioni | Stars: Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Carolina Freschi, Maria Cristina Minerva
Votes: 826
1999
47. One Hundred Steps (2000)
114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 6,407
2000
48. The Son's Room (2001)
R | 99 min | Drama
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice
Votes: 21,450 | Gross: $1.01M
2001
49. Pinocchio (2002)
G | 108 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Despite guidance from the Blue Fairy and the love of his father, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffrè, Mino Bellei
Votes: 8,640 | Gross: $3.68M
2002
50. I'm Not Scared (2003)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna
Votes: 15,555 | Gross: $1.62M
2003
51. The Keys to the House (2004)
PG | 111 min | Drama
Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Andrea Rossi, Charlotte Rampling, Alla Faerovich
Votes: 2,473
2004
52. Don't Tell (2005)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by ... See full summary »
Director: Cristina Comencini | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca
Votes: 2,580 | Gross: $0.03M
2005 (Nominated)
53. Golden Door (2006)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Vincent Schiavelli, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 5,198 | Gross: $1.06M
2006
54. The Unknown Woman (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Haunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Piera Degli Esposti
Votes: 16,040 | Gross: $0.02M
2007 (Shortlisted)
55. Gomorrah (2008)
Not Rated | 137 min | Crime, Drama
Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo, Simone Sacchettino
Votes: 51,227 | Gross: $1.58M
2008
56. Baaria (2009)
Not Rated | 163 min | Comedy, Drama
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina
Votes: 7,994 | Gross: $0.00M
2009
57. The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Pandolfi
Votes: 5,444
2010
58. Terraferma (2011)
R | 88 min | Drama
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Mimmo Cuticchio
Votes: 3,212
2011
59. Caesar Must Die (2012)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca
Votes: 6,816
2012
60. The Great Beauty (2013)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso
Votes: 97,454 | Gross: $2.85M
2013 (Won)
61. Human Capital (2013)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Matilde Gioli, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Guglielmo Pinelli
Votes: 13,437 | Gross: $0.16M
2014
62. Don't Be Bad (2015)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Vittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.
Director: Claudio Caligari | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D'Amico, Roberta Mattei
Votes: 5,065
2015
63. Fire at Sea (2016)
114 min | Documentary
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi | Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo
Votes: 6,058 | Gross: $0.12M
2016
64. A Ciambra (2017)
Unrated | 118 min | Crime, Drama
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Carpignano | Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato
Votes: 2,942 | Gross: $0.03M
2017
65. Dogman (2018)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi
Votes: 29,787 | Gross: $0.15M
2018
66. The Traitor (2019)
R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi
Votes: 13,003
2019
67. Notturno (I) (2020)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary
Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
Votes: 1,318
2020
68. The Hand of God (2021)
R | 130 min | Drama
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert
Votes: 49,623
2021 (Nominated)
69. Nostalgia (I) (2022)
Unrated | 117 min | Drama
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 3,313
2022
70. Io Capitano (2023)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo, Hichem Yacoubi
Votes: 10,285
2023 (Nominated)
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