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1. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz
Votes: 40,096 | Gross: $0.48M
2. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,194 | Gross: $0.27M
3. 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: 13,309 | Gross: $0.27M
4. Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008–2010)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Roja, Marco Bocci, Daniela Virgilio
Votes: 6,710
5. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 18,983 | Gross: $0.24M
6. 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: 6,394
7. Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
PG | 92 min | Crime, Drama
In a city rife with corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney as they attempt to nab an elusive Mafia boss.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Claudio Gora
Votes: 1,744
8. Marianne & Juliane (1981)
106 min | Drama
Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Votes: 2,615
9. Romanzo Criminale (2005)
152 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria
Votes: 9,654
10. The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
125 min | Drama
A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 4,051
11. Illustrious Corpses (1976)
PG | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Paolo Bonacelli
Votes: 2,796
12. How to Kill a Judge (1975)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Franco Nero, Françoise Fabian, Pierluigi Aprà, Giancarlo Badessi
Votes: 652
13. The Third Generation (1979)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen
Votes: 2,801
14. Angel of Evil (2010)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Moritz Bleibtreu
Votes: 3,435
15. 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: 1,791
16. Todo modo (1976)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama
Party leader and power broker M. is holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansing.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Ciccio Ingrassia
Votes: 1,539
17. Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An Italian businessman decides whether to pay a ransom for his abducted son or not.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo
Votes: 1,132
18. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
108 min | Drama
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm
Votes: 2,195
19. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni
Votes: 3,047
20. Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Not Rated | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A bank cashier who's allergic to banknotes quits his job after an armed robbery. He decides to start a new life--as a thief. He starts by targeting a popular former client, a butcher. But being a neurotic Marxist has its drawbacks.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi, Mario Scaccia
Votes: 1,304
21. Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò, Jacques Herlin
Votes: 1,513
22. Good Morning, Night (2003)
106 min | Drama
The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 4,039 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Mio fratello è figlio unico (2007)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Votes: 6,753 | Gross: $0.25M
24. La polizia ha le mani legate (1975)
97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a crowded hotel in downtown Milan a bomb has been planted. The timer on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young cop discovers it by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing.
Director: Luciano Ercoli | Stars: Claudio Cassinelli, Arthur Kennedy, Franco Fabrizi, Sara Sperati
Votes: 470
25. Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend (1992)
1,416 min | Drama, History
Hermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
Stars: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Frank Röth, Armin Fuchs
Votes: 354
26. Execution Squad (1972)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
This is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (Enrico Maria Salerno) tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 841
27. Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon, Giorgio Colangeli
Votes: 2,872
28. I Am Afraid (1977)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Journey into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Angelica Ippolito
Votes: 673
29. The Violent Four (1968)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Don Backy, Ray Lovelock, Ezio Sancrotti
Votes: 874
30. Germany in Autumn (1978)
123 min | Documentary, Drama
Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a ... See full summary »
Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier
Votes: 1,413
31. Contestazione generale (1970)
131 min | Comedy
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Votes: 152
32. Silent Action (1975)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Starting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Delia Boccardo, Michele Gammino
Votes: 552
33. Anna (1975)
225 min | Documentary
A 16 year old girl, 8 months pregnant, and on drugs, is taken off the streets into his apartment by an actor in Rome. The film reconstructs how they met and her past and how an attempt is then made to rescue her.
Directors: Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli | Stars: Anna Azzori, Raoul Calabrò, Pilar Castel, Stefano Cattarossi
Votes: 139
34. Dear Father (1979)
105 min | Drama
The story of the decadent lifestyle of a wealthy businessman's dysfunctional family.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée Lachapelle, Stefano Madia
Votes: 236
35. Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Carlo De Filippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli, Andrea Occhipinti
Votes: 642
36. San Babila: 8 P.M. (1976)
101 min | Crime, Drama
A group of neo-nazi youngsters, usual customers of a bar in the famous Milan public square, lives through one day of madness passing between assaults, rapes and homicides. Thanks to the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Daniele Asti, Brigitte Skay, Giuliano Cesareo, Pietro Brambilla
Votes: 477
37. Ecce bombo (1978)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
An ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Luisa Rossi, Lina Sastri, Piero Galletti
Votes: 2,466
38. Il caso Moro (1986)
110 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin, Consuelo Ferrara
Votes: 491
39. La polizia sta a guardare (1973)
95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Commissioner Cardone arrives in a small town in North Italy, where he declares war to a criminal gang specialized in kidnapping of young rich boys; a war that may cost him both his job and his family.
Director: Roberto Infascelli | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Sorel, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 266
40. The Invisible Wall (1991)
120 min | Drama
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is ''structure failure'' of the airplane, but ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Corso Salani, Angela Finocchiaro, Antonello Fassari, Ivano Marescotti
Votes: 455
41. Five Moons Plaza (2003)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
One of the main players in Italian politics, Aldo Moro, gets kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. One judge finds evidence that sheds dangerous new light on the case.
Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Rocca, Aisha Cerami
Votes: 825
42. I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
95 min | Comedy
The film tells the misadventures of a company of players who are oppressed by a tyrannical director. At the same time, his friend Michele is living with the failure of his marriage to Silvia.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Luciano Agati, Lorenza Codignola, Simona Frosi, Nanni Moretti
Votes: 1,024
43. La seconda volta (1995)
80 min | Drama
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the... See full summary »
Director: Mimmo Calopresti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Milillo, Simona Caramelli
Votes: 637
44. Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)
111 min | Drama
This documentary-style film takes place in Bologna, Italy. The Radio Alice program began on February 9, 1976. The radio station used an ex-military transmitter. They were mao-dadaists. The ... See full synopsis »
Director: Guido Chiesa | Stars: Marco Luisi, Tommaso Ramenghi, Claudia Pandolfi, Valerio Mastandrea
Votes: 648
45. Gli anni spezzati (2014– )
Drama
I dieci anni che hanno sconvolto lItalia, raccontati dal punto di vista di chi ha combattuto la violenza, lintolleranza, il terrorismo e lodio per i rivali politici restando fedele alle ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Milan Tankosic, Aleksandar Filimonovic, Ivan Zekic, Petar Milicevic
Votes: 23
46. Colpire al cuore (1982)
105 min | Drama
Emilio is a clever and introverted teenager who lives with intolerance the confidential relation between his father Dario, a left wing university professor, and his former student Giulia. ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fausto Rossi, Laura Morante, Sonia Gessner
Votes: 302
47. I banchieri di Dio (2002)
Not Rated | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of its President Roberto Calvi (Omero Antonutti... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Giancarlo Giannini, Rutger Hauer
Votes: 493
48. 12 dicembre (1972)
104 min | Documentary
On December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other... See full summary »
Directors: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Edoardo Di Giovanni, Marcello Gentili, Augusto Ludovichetti, Rosa Malacarne
Votes: 97
49. Segreti segreti (1985)
92 min | Drama
Young terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
Director: Giuseppe Bertolucci | Stars: Lina Sastri, Rossana Podestà, Giulia Boschi, Alida Valli
Votes: 105
50. La festa perduta (1981)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Four young Romans, united by their hatred against the bourgeois order, decide to resort to proletarian expropriations and resort to armed violence.
Director: Pier Giuseppe Murgia | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Donadio, Stefano Raffi, Giancarlo Sulis
Votes: 24