Ngl, fonzies had some great movies. No La dolce vita or La vita è bella?

Probably the most iconic Finnish films are made by Aki Kaurismäki. The man without a past is still probably my favorite.

It's shite being asked what is the most iconic movie from your country!

Nosferatu

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Its about a supermodel from east germany trying to make it in the west

For knowers of cinema, picrel

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Di quelli non ancora visti citati fin'ora:

Nuovo cinema paradiso

Novecento (La storia del pianista sull'oceano)

Mediterraneo

La grande bellezza (non amo Sorrentino ma come film ha avuto il suo impatto, per anni ho sentito citare spesso il monologo iniziale di Toni Servillo in mille situazioni diverse) oppure Il divo

Esterno notte o Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina di Bellocchio (il suo Pugni in tasca fa già parte della lista originale)

C'è ancora domani (almeno per l'impatto sociale che ha avuto)

La chimera o Lazzaro Felice di Alice Rorhwacher

L'ultimo imperatore di Bertolucci (di cui ha già Novecento e Il conformista nella lista originale)

Film più vecchi del '78 ma secondo me meritevoli della lista se la estendessero a 150:

Pasqualino Settebellezze (che rese Lina Wertmuller la prima regista donna candidata ad un oscar come miglior regista)

Io la conoscevo bene di Pierangeli

Todo modo e La classe operaia va in paradiso di Elio Petri (c'è comunque un altro suo film nella lista, Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)

Brancaleone di Monicelli (che però ha già 5 film presenti nella lista originale)

Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli di Francesco Rosi (che in realtà è del 1979) oppure Il caso Mattei o Le mani sulla città

C’era una volta in america - Sergio Leone

Gomorra - Matteo Garrone

Di sorrentino fatico a scegliere ma Grande Bellezza e Conseguenze dell’Amore

Buongiorno Notte - Marco Bellocchio

Caro Diario / La stanza del figlio - Nanni Moretti

La meglio gioventu - Marco Tullio Giordana

Il Mestiere delle Armi - Ermanno Olmi

Viaggi Di Nozze - Carlo Verdone

Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot - Carlo Mainetti

Poi ok non saranno pietre miliari ma per me Paz / Tutti Giu per terra / Radiofreccia sono super cult

Ecco il mio parere:

• Non ci resta che piangere (1984) - Benigni/Troisi
• Johnny Stecchino (1991) - Benigni
• La vita è bella (1997) - Benigni
• Ricomincio da tre (1981) - Troisi
• Un sacco bello (1980) - Verdone
• Tre uomini e una gamba (1997) - AGG
• Benvenuti al sud (2010) - Luca Miniero
• Noi e la Giulia (2015) - Edoardo Leo
• Perfetti sconosciuti (2016) - Paolo Genovese

Sarò scontato e banale ma, Tre uomini e una gamba (1997).

È un film generazionale che ha anche "influenzato" la cultura italiana: pensate a «il mio falegname con trentamila lire lo faceva meglio» che è diventato un modo di dire o a tutte le altre battute che quando vengono citate vengono colte quasi da tutti.

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Altri film meritevoli sono quelli di Bud Spencer e Terence Hill.

Se si parla di film che "hanno cambiato la memoria collettiva del paese", La Vita è bella ci sta assolutamente. Idem Non ci resta che piangere. Rimanendo in tema Troisi Pensavo fosse amore invece era un calesse ci sta anche lui tutto.

Nel 21esimo secolo, Il Divo e Gomorra hanno avuto il loro impatto sulla memoria collettiva. Penso anche che C'è ancora domani rispetta il requisito.

I find Visconti very underrated. I love the lushness and sensuality of "Senso" (1954). Extraordinary color and costumes, and the location work in Rome and Venice ground the film and add realism. You can tell the man adored and directed opera - what I wouldn't give to see one of his productions with Callas!

The Leopard is definitely one of cinema’s great masterpieces. And it’s a movie only he could have made.

I’m a little mixed on his filmography overall beyond that - Rocco and his Brothers is quite good, I thought his adaptation of Death in Venice was effective and his sensibilities were a good fit for that particular story. I liked Senso but felt its lushness wasn’t quite enough to make up for what felt a little bit like a soap opera story and Ludwig didn’t quite work for me. Haven’t seen the others, though!

>openly gay, devoutly Catholic communist aristocrat

Interesting folks over there in Italy, with Pier Paolo Pasolini being a gay Marxist atheist who made one of the best films about Christ.

I have seen four of his films, and need to see a few more. I loved Rocco and his Brothers and The Damned. I like Death in Venice. Senso fell a bit short for me (although it is gorgeous to look at).

I’ve been wanting to see The Leopard for a while. One of the highest rated films I haven’t yet seen on various lists I’ve been working my way though

Visconti, post-neorealism, has always been a strange brew for me. While I admire his "operatic" aesthetic, I think it doesn't translate well to the film medium. It can come off as maudlin melodrama on the screen. It permeates in his work from Senso up through Ludwig to varying degrees. It's as if he's being Sirk but without the "wink-wink." If that makes any sense. My favorite films from his 50s onward output are Rocco And His Brothers and Death In Venice because the mawkishness is held to a minimum.

That said I've found Senso and The Leopard to have really captivated me over successive viewings over the years.

Not true. If you look at the aggregated critics' + filmmakers' votes, it finished 107th overall.

Lol, I remember this, it was marketed as the next " my big fat Greek wedding."

I strongly disagree about this being a bad movie.

This is not an Italian movie, It’s québécois.

there was a lot of controversy when it released because they filmed it in english. These are all french-native speaking people acting in english pretending to be Italian, it was a very odd choice.

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The advertising worked, I remembered it but never saw it.

Sadly, there are many wonderful films which are stuck on DVD in the collection and I agree; these are some of them. Another Italian film I'd love on Blu-ray, is Ettore Scola's Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (Ugly, Dirty & Bad (or) Down & Dirty 1976. Oh, and Mediterraneo by Gabriele Salvatores, 1991. If I could choose between some few films getting 4K releases, and more be given Blu-ray's (hopefully from newly struck 4K restorations), I would so go with more Blu-ray's. Preferably we get both more 4K's and regular Blu-ray's, but come on; so many films dying a death on DVD only..

Le Notti Bianche is high on my upgrade wishlist. Sort of an un-Visconti Visconti film and I love it. It’s a crime to leave those snowy nighttime shots of Livorno stuck in DVD purgatory

“La Commare Secca” has been on my upgrade wishlist for more than a decade. That one cannot happen soon enough for me.

Seduced and Abandoned does have an Italian blu-ray that is English friendly, but it looks pretty bad, unfortunately.

Radiance should be releasing Le Notti Bianche from the new restoration soon. They've been teasing it for a while.

Divorce Italian Style is on the channel at least, should probably give it another watch

I suggest you Il Primo Re (2019), 5 è il numero perfetto (2019), Mediterraneo (1991), Il Divo (2008), Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot (2015), La Mafia uccide solo d'estate (2013). Or Medici - Master of Florence, but its a tv series, like Gomorra and Suburra. Idk much about movies, probably there are some other italian masterpieces.

Lazzaro Felice (2018) is pretty great, very atypical for italian movies I've watched otherwise, but still VERY italian, in the way it plays with religion. Visually really interesting too.

hi! italian here. The Human Capital, Reality (2012), Mine Vaganti, Perfetti Sconosciuti and Smetto Quando Voglio are the essential films to understand modern day italy and how italians think and act. On My Skin, 20 Cigarettes, Il Divo, The Mafia Kills Only In The Summer and Gomorra are perfect films to get to know dramatic but historically fundamental stories for our country (ESPECIALLY on my skin, which is about a well-known case of police brutality happened here in italy; it was so shocking for us, we still talk about it to this day). Don't Be Bad, The Son's Room, Scialla! and Io e Te are the ideal to understand italy's youth. The Great Beauty, The Consequences Of Love, Dogman, Mia Madre, Io sono Lì all depicts very accurately different realities of Italy. p.s you can find a lot of these titles on netflix :)

Gomorrah

So, so good.

Dogman (2018), Gomorrah (2008 - Film not TV show)

If you watch Fantozzi after having watched any neorealistic movie from the 1950s/60s, you will see the cultural shift in Italian society. Fantozzi is the average man, like neorealism depicted average people. Other movies that show how Italian society is in a particular period are movies by Virzì (Ovosodo is a must, for example, although I love all of them)

Il Sorpasso, Un borghese piccolo piccolo, Ro.Go.Pa.G, La ragazza con la pistola, Sedotta e Abbandonata, Miseria e Nobiltà, La Ciociara, Amore e Rabbia, La Notte, Fantasma d'amore, Una giornata particolare, Miracolo a Milano, Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Roma città aperta, Germania anno zero, Umberto D., Ladri di biciclette, Pasqualino settebellezze, Bellissima, Le streghe, Capriccio all'italiana, Matrimonio all'Italiana, Divorzio all'italiana, Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, La Strada, 8 e mezzo, I vitelloni, Amici miei, La dolce vita, Il giardino dei Finzi Contini, La grande guerra, Detenuto in attesa di giudizio, Il conte Max, Mio figlio professore...

Out of all the suggestions, i second this very much. The first movies are masterpieces. Please watch in Italian.

Altrimenti ci arrabiamo is my favorite movie, its objectively not the best film ever but its so fun to watch

Fantozzi. The first 2/3 movies of the series are an absolute cult, heavily quoted by the Italians and even people like me who were born way after they first aired watched and loved them. It's a brilliant, incredibly fun and bitter parody of the average middle class worker in the 70s. Somehow, still relatable.

It's fantastic, but word of caution for anyone who doesn't speak Italian - the English subtitles are a travesty on Amazon Prime. It takes out a lot, simplifying too much of the language in the film and cutting out some culturally specific bits that make the dialogue less interesting.

Also by the same director “la classe operaia va in paradiso”

Since this recommendation strangely isn't among the highest, I just wanted to add that the first 2 or 3 films by Fantozzi aren't exactly great wonders of cinema but they are without a doubt the most cult films in the country, and they represent very well the Italian society of the 70' and 80', but for most of the things that happen in the movies even the one of 2023

Doctor Jivago (1965) - cu Omar Sharif;

Ben Hur (1959);

Pe aripile vantului (1940) - Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, au interpretat la superlativ.

Revad periodic Twelve angry men, cu Henry Fonda. Minunat!

salut, o sa vin cu o lista cu toate filmele vechi pe care le tin minte :)) ce am vazut:

• Citizen Kane(1941)
• Gone with The Wind(1939)
• The Wizard of Oz(1939)
• On the Waterfront(1954)
• A Streetcar Named Desire(1951)
• Sunset Boulevard(1950)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953)
• Singin' in the Rain(1952)
• Gigi(1958)
• The Philadelphia Story(1940)
• It's a Wonderful Life(1946)
• North By Northwest(1959)
• Bringing Up Baby(1938)
• From Here To Eternity(1953)
• All About Eve(1950)
• Notorious(1946)
• Rebecca(1940)
• Roman Holiday(1953)
• Casablanca(1942)
• The Maltese Falcon(1941)
• His Girl Friday(1940)
• Some Like it Hot(1959)
• Double Indemnity(1944)
• Covergirl(1944)
• Sullivan's Travels(1941)
• A Clockwork Orange(1971)
• Gilda(1946)
• The Graduate(1967)
• An American in Paris(1951)
• The Holiday(1938)
• It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World(1963)
• Amadeus(1984)
• The Lady From Shanghai(1947)

ce am planificat sa vad in viitorul apropiat:

• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington(1939)
• Psycho(1962)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)
• Charade(1963)
• Meet Me in St. Louis(1944)
• To Kill A Mockingbird(1962)
• The Apartment(1960)
• Rebel Without a Cause(1955)
• Annie Hall(1977)
• 12 Angry Men(1957)
• Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)
• Gaslight(1944)
• Vertigo(1958)

Recent, mai toate cu Audrey Hepburn.

It's a wonderful life 1946. Fantastic.