1. Boys on the Outside (Ragazzi fuori)
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
It has an average vote of 6.777 on TMDB.
2. The Life (Yo puta)
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
3. Hermitage (Hermitage)
Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on actor's movements and actions, and more specifically, on his presence and his schemes. Camouflaged or naked, still or moving, his body seems to play and be played at the same time, shifted by objective and subjective tensions, both metaphorically and visually speaking.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
4. L'ultimo padrino (L'ultimo padrino)
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
5. The Pack (Il branco)
In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard. The only one who pulls back from the group is Raniero, the others willingly accept to follow him. Slowly the news of the two imprisoned tourists spread like wildfire and attracts all the men of the area.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
6. Auguri professore (Auguri professore)
Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.
It has an average vote of 6.17 on TMDB.
7. Giovanni Falcone (Giovanni Falcone)
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
8. Soldati - 365 all'alba (Soldati - 365 all'alba)
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
9. Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco) (Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco))
Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
10. Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto)
Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, 'Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities'. These appear during the celebration of the holiday of Ferragosto on 15 August. That's when everybody leaves town to have fun. Opportunity knocks on Gianni's door in the most unexpected way.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. The Mass Is Ended (La messa è finita)
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
It has an average vote of 7.39 on TMDB.
12. The Giant (Handia)
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
13. Nati stanchi (Nati stanchi)
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.
It has an average vote of 6.807 on TMDB.
14. Vieni avanti cretino (Vieni avanti cretino)
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
15. Anplagghed al cinema (Anplagghed al cinema)
A queue at the ATM machine, a displaced family after a seismic shock that has half-washed their home, a tour within an art gallery, moments of everyday life that become the cues for the emergence of comic, farce, paradoxical situations – trademarks of one of the most successful Italian comic groups.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Naked
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
17. Premature
On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, until he gets it right.
It has an average vote of 5.484 on TMDB.
18. The Damned United
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
It has an average vote of 7.231 on TMDB.
19. Saturn in Opposition (Saturno contro)
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
It has an average vote of 6.878 on TMDB.
20. Accattone (Accattone)
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
It has an average vote of 7.737 on TMDB.
