ITALY: 1990s
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1. Hardboiled Egg (1997)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, over the background of Livorno's neighborhood Ovosodo.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Regina Orioli, Alessio Fantozzi
Votes: 3,949
2. Ferie d'agosto (1996)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
The political and cultural controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in the Tirrenian sea.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Ennio Fantastichini, Laura Morante
Votes: 1,147
3. La scuola (1995)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
It is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs: the pupils are not really diligent and the teachers give their worst both from a working and personal point of view.
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Antonio Petrocelli
Votes: 1,002
4. Auguri professore (1997)
105 min | Comedy
The boys of grammar school where teaches Professor Vincenzo Lipari, Italian teacher, are in serious crisis.
Director: Riccardo Milani | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Claudia Pandolfi, Duilio Del Prete, Claudia Della Seta
Votes: 375
5. The Stolen Children (1992)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel
Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.93M
6. Lamerica (1994)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Votes: 2,378 | Gross: $0.44M
7. The Yes Man (1991)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Luchetti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel
Votes: 886
8. The Anto War (1999)
98 min | Comedy
The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.
Director: Riccardo Milani | Stars: Flavio Pistilli, Federico Di Flauro, Paolo Setta, Danilo Mastracci
Votes: 368
9. The Raffle (1991)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An incredibly beautiful young woman loses her husband and in order to pay off his debts, she decided to set-up a raffle in which she is the prize.
Director: Francesco Laudadio | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giulio Scarpati, Paolo Busiri Vici D'Arcevia, Elena Cantarone
Votes: 1,226
10. Il grande cocomero (1993)
95 min | Drama, Family
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Anna Galiena, Alessia Fugardi, Silvio Vannucci
Votes: 558
11. Nirvana (1997)
R | 113 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The main character Solo in Nirvana, a computer game developed by Jimi for release in 3 days, has gained self-awareness after a virus attack. Solo wants to be deleted. Jimi wants to find his ex.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Stefania Rocca
Votes: 7,059
12. We All Fall Down (1997)
98 min | Comedy
Walter is 20. He hasn't got a job, a girlfriend or any clear convictions. He rejects conventional values, notably his father's submissive acceptance of a life working in a factory as well ... See full summary »
Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Caterina Caselli, Benedetta Mazzini, Gianluca Gobbi
Votes: 952
13. Stealing Beauty (1996)
R | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 30,420 | Gross: $4.57M
14. Il figlio di Bakunin (1997)
89 min | Drama
Director: Gianfranco Cabiddu | Stars: Fausto Siddi, Renato Carpentieri, Laura del Sol, Massimo Bonetti
Votes: 45
15. Once We Were Strangers (1997)
96 min | Comedy, Romance
Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree romantic tryst with a wealthy art dealer. ... See full summary »
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Vincenzo Amato, Jessica Whitney Gould, Anjalee Deshpande, Ajay Naidu
Votes: 281
16. Children of Hannibal (1998)
90 min | Comedy
A bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which rapidly goes from bad to worse are the ingredients to this very funny and unpredictable... See full summary »
Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Silvio Orlando, Valentina Cervi, Flavio Insinna
Votes: 239
17. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Votes: 743,050 | Gross: $57.60M
18. The Way We Laughed (1998)
124 min | Drama
Turin at the end of the fifties: two brothers have emigrated there from Sicily and the older works very hard to let the younger study and free himself from poverty through culture. The boy ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Francesco Giuffrida, Enrico Lo Verso, Fabrizio Gifuni, Calogero Caruana
Votes: 837 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Paletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.
Directors: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco | Stars: Marcello Miranda, Carlo Giordano, Pietro Arciadiacono, Salvatore Gattuso
Votes: 581
20. The Body of the Soul (1999)
105 min | Drama
Director: Salvatore Piscicelli | Stars: Roberto Herlitzka, Raffaella Ponzo, Ennio Fantastichini, Gianluigi Pizzetti
Votes: 130
21. Un amore (1999)
97 min | Romance
Twenty years of the relationship between a man and a woman. We start in the present, as they are both married to other people and are having an adulterous affair with each other. Then we ... See full summary »
Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Stars: Lorenza Indovina, Fabrizio Gifuni, Luciano Federico, Roberta Lena
Votes: 191
22. Nitrato d'argento (1996)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The film celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema. It presents the technical and artistic evolution of the motion pictures. We move from mute to sound, from black-and-white ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: László Balogh, Éric Berger, Marc Berman, Doriana Bianchi
Votes: 145
23. Portami via (1994)
105 min
Director: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Stars: Marco Berry, France Demoulin, Michele Di Mauro, Stefania Orsola Garello
Votes: 19
24. Giovanni Falcone (1993)
124 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Michele Placido, Anna Bonaiuto, Massimo Bonetti, Nello Riviè
Votes: 379
25. Piccoli orrori (1994)
90 min
A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three ... See full summary »
Director: Tonino De Bernardi | Stars: Iaia Forte, Anna Bonaiuto, Galatea Ranzi, Renata Palminiello
Votes: 18
26. Ragazzi fuori (1990)
110 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo, Roberto Mariano, Maurizio Prollo
Votes: 612
27. La bella vita (1994)
97 min | Comedy
The expectations, the desires and the failures of three characters involved in a love triangle, set in Italy's early 90s.
Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Claudio Bigagli, Sabrina Ferilli, Massimo Ghini, Giorgio Algranti
Votes: 350
28. Viaggi di nozze (1995)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Carlo Verdone | Stars: Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Veronica Pivetti, Cinzia Mascoli
Votes: 2,777
29. Uomo d'acqua dolce (1997)
90 min | Comedy
Antonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed.
Director: Antonio Albanese | Stars: Antonio Albanese, Valeria Milillo, Antonio Petrocelli, Sara Anticoli
Votes: 608
30. The Scent of the Night (1998)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in the 1980s Rome.
Director: Claudio Caligari | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Alessia Fugardi
Votes: 1,247
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