Italian drama movies

List of the best Italian drama movies selected by visitors to our site: Call Me by Your Name, Malena, Perfect Strangers, Gangs of New York, The Legend of 1900, The Duchess, The Dreamers, Cold Mountain, The Barber of Siberia, Downfall.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
Duration02:09

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:40

On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato grows toward manhood, he watches Malèna suffer and prove her mettle. He sees her loneliness, then grief when Nico is reported dead, the effects of slander on her relationship with her father, her poverty and search for work, and final humiliations. Will Renato learn courage from Malèna and stand up for her?

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration02:08

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever text message or phone call they will receive during the evening - and all hell breaks loose.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy
Duration02:47

It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryItaly
Duration02:00

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
Duration01:45

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
Duration01:56

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, history
CountryRussia, France, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration02:59

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryGermany, Austria, Italy
Duration02:36

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, USA
Duration03:49

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Morocco
Duration01:38

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryItaly

Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. At the end of a working day, Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains so alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling inside a hole in the ground and remains blocked inside there, where no one can neither see nor hear her. This experience will lead her to take an examination of her whole life and to think of her daughter.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly, USA

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryItaly

A Milanese wartime entrepreneur forms a band of misfits and rogues to stage an elaborate heist of a legendary treasure belonging to Benito Mussolini.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, biography
CountryFrance, Italy, United Kingdom, USA

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, France, Japan

Ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, adventure
CountrySpain, Italy

The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryItaly

A teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly

A seemingly happy marriage begins to dissolve when the husband’s faithfulness is called into question, and both spouses become tempted by other desires.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:39

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryCyprus, Greece, Italy

A former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryPoland, Italy

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
CountryPoland, Italy

After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryDenmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France

After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly

A courier carrying Andy Warhol's famous "Pink Marilyn" arrives in New York City. Art and life collide - as John Kaplan tries to juggle the mob and his talent as an art forger with his love for Sarah Flores - and chaos ensues.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Belgium, France, United Kingdom

An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, crime, music, biography
CountryGermany, Italy, Netherlands

Capturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom

In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration01:58

In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are instantly smitten but dismayed to learn that their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet figure out a way to pursue their romance, but Romeo is banished for his part in the slaying of Juliet's cousin, Tybalt.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
Duration01:51

Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly, Germany, France
Duration02:08

Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna Lou. But with the case at the heart of a media storm, the fine line between the police and criminals begins to blur and soon everyone becomes a suspect.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:52

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:19

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryItaly, France

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan. Others bombings soon follow, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryItaly
Duration02:23

A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:49

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryItaly

Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryItaly

Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Romania, France
Duration02:07

A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:50

Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.




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