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My Favorite Italian Films - Great Italian Movies that I Like

Enjoy these movies from Italy and improve your Italian. Watching movies is great for your listening comprehension and vocabulary building. You can watch more than once, and each time understand more.
You will hear accents from different parts of Italy.

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Italian Movies

Cinema Paradiso (Paid link)

Ennio Morricone
This is my favorite Italian film! The descriptions are true, but don't do justice to this masterpiece of cinema.
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Bread and Tulips (Paid link)

Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz
A bored Italian housewife (Licia Maglietta) takes off for Venice where she rediscovers her smile and joy for life.
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Ginger & Cinnamon (Paid link)

A repressed 30 year old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperon to her precocious 14 year old niece, Meggy, who plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over.
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Ciao, Professore! (Paid link)

Paolo Villaggio, Isa Danieli
A teacher is sent to a town near Naples where he finds poverty and crime.
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Il Postino (Paid link)

Director: Michael Radford
Mario is a bumbling mailman who's madly in love with the most beautiful woman in town ... and who's too shy to tell her how he feels. Truly a great and enjoyable movie.
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The Bicycle Thief. Ladri di biciclette (Paid link)

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Bicycle thieves. Ladri di biciclette. DVD. A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job. A drama of desperation and survival in Italy's devastating post-war depression.
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La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition) (Paid link)

By Director: Federico Fellini
DVD. Decadence, inanity, shallowness, self-absorption and sophisticated immorality. (I didn't like it)
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La Scorta (1994) (Paid link)

Claudio Amendola, Carlo Cecchi
Police against Mafia in Sicily. La Scorta means escort. The police are asked to protect a Justice department official from the Mafia. This is based on a true story.
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Facing Windows (2004) (Paid link)

Giovanna Mezzogiorno
"La Finestra di fronte" is about a love affair by a woman is fascinated with the handsome man who lives across the courtyard.
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The Way We Laughed (Paid link)

Francesco Giuffrida
An illiterate Sicilian and his brother seek a new life in Torino. Their path to success meets a few obstacles along the way.
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