“100 film italiani da salvare”

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

An Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?

An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.

A high-ranking police inspector kills his mistress and deliberately plants clues indicating his responsibility for the crime in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion.

A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.

Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.

Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

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.

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

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.

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.