Italian Cinema: Films and Important Events

By ZachG2023

  • The Unification of Italy

    Consolidated the different states of Italy into one political entity

  • The Beginning of Cinema

    The Lumiere brothers showed the first motion picture to a paying audience

  • The Liberation of Italy

    The fall of Mussolini's Regime

  • Rome, Open City

    A movie about the Italian Resistance in Rome while controlled under German Force

  • Seduced and Abandoned

    A film in the filone, Comedy Italian Style, about a the Sicilian culture and marriage.

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    A Spaghetti Western with Clint Eastwood

  • The Battle of Algiers

    A film about the FLN, a resistance group in Algeria, fighting against colonial France.

  • Love and Anarchy

    A movie about an attempted assassination on Benito Mussolini

  • The Night Porter

    A film about an ex-Nazi solider and a concentration camp survivor returning to their way of life during WWII

  • We Want Roses Too

    A film recapping women's fight for equality in Italy using different modes of found footage

  • Gomorra: La Serie

    Film about the Italian Commora: the mafia in Naples