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- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsMarina BertiJacques SernasMischa Auer Jr.Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in a refuge with some girls.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsJack PalanceThomas HunterRobert HundarIrish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squad can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. Because Colonel Ackerman, whose troops killed his last platoon, is the leader of the platoon in charge of the gun, McPhearson insists on trying to complete the commandos' mission.
- DirectorJosé Luis MerinoStarsStelvio RosiErna SchurerGuy MadisonA group of German Tank Crew fight to survive in france while a french woman falls in love with the German lieutenant
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsJames DalyPier AngeliNino CastelnuovoDuring the Second World War, a major American seeks to recover, with the help of some partisans, a valuable memorandum from the hands of the Nazis.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFrederick StaffordVan JohnsonFrancisco RabalIn World War II, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting Royal Air Force operations during the Battle of Britain.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsBud SpencerFranco NeroRichard JohnsonAt the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Germans.
- DirectorGianfranco ParoliniStarsGianni GarkoMargaret LeeKlaus KinskiFive oddball American commandos infiltrate a well-guarded villa to steal the documents for "Plan K", which the Nazis intend to use to drive the Allies out of Italy.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsAnton DiffringCarl ParkerUgo AdinolfiDuring WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.
- DirectorTonino RicciStarsKlaus KinskiGeorge HiltonRai SandersAn inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroStarsRichard HarrisonPamela TudorAlain GerardA rag tag bunch of US marines are sent in to the Pacific Island of Rabaul to clear any remaining Japanese forces after heavy bombing. They meet fierce resistance.
- DirectorBitto AlbertiniStarsGuy MadisonVenantino VenantiniAnthony SteelA German Captain and American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
- DirectorGianfranco De BosioStarsGian Maria VolontèPhilippe LeroyGiulio BosettiWar drama inspired by real life events of the Italian partisan Otello Pighin.
- DirectorCharles FrendBruno VailatiStarsLilli PalmerJames MasonGabriele FerzettiAn Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsSilvana ManganoFrank WolffVivi GioiThis film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
- DirectorMario AmendolaStarsRaimondo VianelloTino BuazzelliMargaret LeeAn Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsBurt LancasterPaul ScofieldJeanne MoreauIn 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsMario AdorfAnna KarinaMarie LaforêtIn WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
- DirectorStenoStarsRita PavoneFrancis BlancheTerence HillA waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsKen ClarkHorst FrankJeanne ValérieGerman commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert and tasked with getting to Casablanca to assassinate Allied leaders.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykDuilio ColettiStarsRobert MitchumPeter FalkRobert RyanAnzio: one of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead--four months and 30,000 casualties before the Allies finally march to Rome.
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsLee Van CleefJack KellyGiampiero AlbertiniDuring World War II, an Italian-American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsGuy MadisonPeter Lee LawrenceErika BlancThe movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
- DirectorGianni PucciniStarsGian Maria VolontèLisa GastoniCarla GravinaThe true story of seven Italian brothers, farmers and Catholic, who became Communist and fought for justice and freedom against Fascism. Shot in December 1943 in Reggio Emilia, they are the first and most famous heroes in the Italian "Resistenza" (resistance against German Fascism).
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre CasselAn account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsFrederick StaffordGeorge HiltonMichael RennieWorld war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGina LollobrigidaAndrea ChecchiVittorio DuseAbout a group of Italian resistance fighters from Genoa and led by Commander Vento. They must seize a shipment of weapons destined for the German occupation.
- DirectorOreste BiancoliStarsMarcello MastroianniMarina VladyCamillo PilottoPenne Nere is set in Italy during the last crucial two years of World War II, after the Badoglio government signed an armistice with the Allies. Throughout the nation the original Fascist army is disbanded and soldiers are pretty much on their own. One such soldier is Pietro (Marcello Mastroianni), who is on his way to his home village of Stella and his beloved Gemma. Once in the village, he gets involved with other soldiers and the villagers in an action to prevent a battalion of Germans from blowing up their dam.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsAldo SilvaniMilly VitaleLuciano TajoliTwo Italian soldiers are chased by the Germans and Yugoslav partisans in Trieste after the Italian armistice.
- DirectorFrancesco De RobertisStarsAntonio CapriceGiuseppe CarignaniLudovico CerianaIn 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower. During the fighting that follows a young woman named Kalina is captured by the Italians, but in order to win favour with the local people she is spared. A peaceful rapport then builds up between Italian soldiers and Russian villagers, and a special fondness grows between Kalina and Captain Valli, the colonel's godson. Suddenly, the men receive orders to depart and make their way to the front line which is under Russian siege. However, the German commander does not believe the Italian presence will be effective, so on a point of honour the Savoy Cavalry decide to demonstrate their worth. Moving to the front they charge into the enemy batteries and eventually overwhelm them. Sadly, few survive the heroic charge.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsEleonora Rossi DragoPierre CressoyGirolamo ManiscoA team of Italian divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal Navy ships at anchor in Gibraltar harbour.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsFausto TozziEttore ManniMonica ClayIn the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
- DirectorFrancesco De RobertisStarsDawn AddamsAntonio CentaFranco SilvaBritish intelligence attempts to combat the plans of the Italian navy to attach mines to the hulls of English navy warships.
- DirectorAntonio LeonviolaMarc-Antonio BragadinCarlo LizzaniStarsRaf ValloneFranco FabriziAndrea ChecchiThe Italian Navy attack the British fleet in 1941 when they are anchored in the bay of Suda in Crete.
- DirectorFrancesco De RobertisOdoardo FioryStarsMara LaneEduardo CiannelliGiorgio AlbertazziCenters around Italian naval secret agents who acquire a British code book and Italian counterespionage agents tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.
- DirectorFrancesco MaselliStarsLucia BosèIsa MirandaJean-Pierre MockyIn the summer of 1943 Countess Luisa and her son Andrea left Milan to escape the bombings and retreated to their country villa, where they host two of Andrea's contemporaries, cousin Carlo, son of a fascist hierarch who fled to Switzerland, and friend Ferruccio, son of an army officer engaged in war.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsLois MaxwellRenato BaldiniCarlo BelliniDuring WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
- DirectorAntonio MusuStarsGabriele FerzettiEleonora Rossi DragoPierre CressoyA destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs
- DirectorGuido MalatestaStarsFausto TozziRossana RoryGabriele TintiBattle of El Alamein from the Italian viewpoint.
- DirectorWolfgang StaudteStarsVittorio De SicaFolco LulliHeinz ReinckeDuring the Second World War, the captain of a small merchant ship is ordered to embark a cannon, with a German artilleryman, to defend himself against the English.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsVittorio De SicaHannes MessemerSandra MiloBardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsMassimo GirottiFolco LulliJean-Marc BoryItalian submariners trapped in their damaged boat on the ocean floor.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsRenato RascelClaudia MoriTino BuazzelliIn fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsLeo GennGiovanna RalliSergey BondarchukDuring the Second World War three allied prisoners: a Soviet, an American, and an Englishman, attempt to escape Rome with the help of a young couple who are residents of the city.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiSerge ReggianiCarla GravinaWhen Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsBelinda LeeGabriele FerzettiEnrico Maria SalernoIn the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman married to a man in a wheelchair, with a deserter from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the power grab of a fanatical local fascist leader who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposition, among them the young deserter's father. Oppressive fog covers both dramas as a reminder of how values such as courage, love, and truth are fading.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGérard BlainAnna Maria FerreroBernard BlierAlvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The war goes on, and after the Nazis the Allied enter Roma as liberators. Now the Hunchback, like all the Rome's inhabitants, is finally a free man. But he doesn't leave the renegade life style as expected. In fact the Hunchback becomes one of the most well known bandits of the city, representing a problem for the new "occupants": the Allied.
- DirectorGianni PucciniStarsGabriele FerzettiDorian GrayJean-Marc BoryItaly signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsVan HeflinCharles LaughtonMylène DemongeotGerman raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsDavid NivenAlberto SordiAmedeo NazzariIn 1941 during the desert war in Abyssinia the Italian captain Blasi and the British major Richardson alternate between being bitter enemies or best friends depending on the circumstances.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenato SalvatoriCarla GravinaTomas MilianThe Italian armistice and the beginning of resistance to the Germans in Italy during World War II.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsAlberto SordiLea MassariFranco FabriziSilvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsUgo TognazziGeorges WilsonMireille GranelliThe quest of a Fascist soldier, whose mission is to catch a political enemy during at the end of World War II.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsEleonora Rossi DragoJacques CharrierFrancisco RabalIn September 1943, young Marco Laudato enlists in the army of the Republic of Salò, even if he is not certain of his reasons. During training he and Elia, an older comrade, become friends. In one of the first retaliatory actions, he is wounded and is almost considered a hero. He is taken to a hospital where he falls in love with Anna, the nurse who takes care of him.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsTotòVittorio De SicaGianni AgusSeptember 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRaffaele BarbatoCharles BelmontRegina BianchiThe 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. Neapolitans slung on rifles and guns or armed themselves with stones, house-objects, gasoline-bottles, anything and everything, anonymous and silent. Gennarino Capuozzo, a 10-year-old killed on a barricade while he was fighting against the invaders, is remembered as a hero.
- DirectorFilippo Walter RattiStarsGino CerviAndrea ChecchiCarlo D'AngeloA cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
- DirectorStenoStarsTotòWalter PidgeonNino TarantoIn WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJohn MillsEttore ManniRoberto RissoDuring World War II, two Italian frogmen, who placed magnetic mines under a British warship, are captured and interrogated by British intelligence about their mission.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsNicolas CageRicky TognazziPatrice-Flora PraxoIn 1936, when Ethiopia is being invaded by the Italian army, Lieutenant Silvestri sets off for the nearest camp hospital to take care of a toothache. En route he meets a young Ethiopian girl, which leads to a tragic course of events that devastates his entire life.
- DirectorMaurizio PradeauxStarsRichard HarrisonPilar VelázquezGiacomo Rossi StuartThe mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.
- DirectorValentino OrsiniStarsGiuliano GemmaTina AumontAntonio PiovanelliThe real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari. He starts his career killing publicly one of his friends that was a fascist. Than, he set up a band of partisans in north Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines, leave his husband to join the band and became Silvio's lover. Silvio Corbari succeeded also to set up a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from the Nazi occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano. But the opponent Nazi-Fascist army is too much for any kind of resistance, especially if not included in the organized CNL. All his partisan friends are captured and sentenced to death, Ines, close to be captured, suicides. Corbari, even if survives to a first hanging, can't escape to a second one. After WWII he deserved a gold medal to the memory from the Italian Republic.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniIn 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediJason RobardsPeter FalkIn WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniLyudmila SavelevaAn Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
- DirectorGianni ManeraStarsGianni ManeraAliza AdarIvano DavoliDuring the second World War an Italian lieutenant is forced by the Germans to hunt down and flush out the partisan known as Lupo, an old childhood friend, but he has no intention of betraying him.
- DirectorEnnio De ConciniStarsAlec GuinnessSimon WardAdolfo CeliA dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
- DirectorGeorge P. CosmatosStarsRichard BurtonMarcello MastroianniLeo McKernRome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
- DirectorRobert LamoureuxStarsJean LefebvrePierre MondyAldo MaccioneThree French army scouts escape capture and go behind enemy lines during WWII, urged by a lieutenant to fight rather than hide.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsPierre BlaiseAurore ClémentHolger LöwenadlerIn 1944, an 18-year-old boy from small-town France collaborates with the Gestapo and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsRod SteigerFranco NeroLisa GastoniIn 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
- DirectorRomolo GuerrieriStarsMassimo RanieriLina PolitoIsa DanieliIn 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniFernando ReyShirley StolerThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsIngrid ThulinStefano Satta FloresMichele PlacidoAn old couple, Agnes and Palita, lulled by their quiet routine, seem almost unaware of the war surrounding them, but soon the conflict breaks into their lives. The Germans come to take Palita, a supporter of the Resistance, and Agnes already knows in her heart that she will never see him again.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsAlain DelonJeanne MoreauFrancine BergéIn German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsHelmut BergerIngrid ThulinTeresa Ann SavoyKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power-hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsHelmut BergerSamantha EggarGiuliano GemmaHow World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsBo SvensonPeter HootenFred WilliamsonIn 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsGeorge PeppardGeorge HamiltonHorst BuchholzIn 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsMarcello MastroianniKen MarshallAlexandra KingAfter the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsOmero AntonuttiMargarita LozanoClaudio BigagliIn 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
- DirectorEnzo BarboniStarsJohnny DorelliGiuliano GemmaCarmen RussoSoon after the Allies land in Sicily, the U.S. Army finds itself on the other side of a 2,000 year old Roman bridge from the Italian Army. Both armies want to be the first to blow up the bridge, but they are both doing their best not to.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsGregory PeckChristopher PlummerJohn GielgudVatican efforts, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsClaudia CardinaleGiuliano GemmaCatherine SpaakA journalist wants to make a film about the life and death of Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini. For this, she will turn to her sister Miriam.
- StarsSusan SarandonAnthony HopkinsBob HoskinsA compelling drama and documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce (Bob Hoskins), from his days as a terrorist, to his alliance with Hitler, to the betrayal of his son-in-law, and untimely demise.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsColucheBeppe GrilloBernard BlierThe medical sub-lieutenant Marcello Lupi, endowed with a great humanity and common sense, at the end of 1940 was assigned to a health section installed near the oasis of Sorman, Libya and commanded by Major Bellucci.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenRobert LoggiaAndrea OcchipintiThis tense story is set during World War II Italy. A mother and her daughter flee what once was the safety of Rome to seek refuge in the mountains. Their journey turns out to be one they could never have imagined.
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsLuca ZingarettiLuisa RanieriRoberto De Francesco8 September proved to be a fateful day for the Acqui Division, part of the predominately Italian force occupying Cefalonia: it was the day the Allies concluded an armistice with Italy. Confusion now reigned between the Italian and German troops stationed on the island. The Italians longed to return peacefully to their homeland, but the Germans--now their enemies--feared the Italians might use their munitions in a hostile act. As Nazi reinforcements invaded the island, the Italian troops did something extraordinary. Following a democratic referendum involving soldiers of all ranks, rather than surrender to the Germans they elected to fight.
- DirectorAlberto NegrinStarsLeo GullottaGiuseppe FiorelloAntonia LiskovaApril 1945. The German army is losing the war and Tito's Yugoslav partisans are rapidly gaining ground.
- DirectorGiorgio CapitaniStarsMassimo GhiniAlessandra MartinesClaude BrasseurAt the height of World War II, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, finds herself in a troubled marriage, facing the turmoil of a country headed toward tragedy
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsIssei OgataRobert DawsonKaori MomoiThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- DirectorGianfranco AlbanoStarsFlavio InsinnaAna Caterina MorariuPaolo BrigugliaCatholic priest Pietro Pappagallo, a member of the Italian resistance, is executed in the Ardeatine caves.