Best new Italian Movies in 2019 & 2018 (Netflix, Prime, Hulu & Cinema List)
List of the latest Italian movies in 2019 and the best Italian movies of 2018 & the 2010's. Top Italian movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.
New Italian movies in 2019 in Cinema & on VOD
Top movies up for release in 2019 in cinema and on VOD
DIRECTOR: Abel Ferrara CAST: Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac & Anna Ferrara A beautiful portrait of a troubled American film director and former drug addict (Willem Dafoe) who tries to get his act together by moving to Italy. Based on director Abel Ferrara's own life. Read more Watch the trailer of Tommaso Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Alice Rohrwacher CAST: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luca Chikovani, Alba Rohrwacher In the vein of the best Italian neorealist movies, 'Happy as Lazzaro' tells the tale of a isolated, rural community living perfectly lives. After an unfaithful event, the villagers see themselves confronted with modern life... A poetic little gem by one of Italy's most interesting filmmakers. Read more Watch the trailer of Happy as Lazzaro Stream Happy as Lazzaro via: Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Matteo Garrone CAST: Roberto Benigni, & Whether this project sees the light of day in 2019 remains to be seen, but there a plenty of reasons to be excited. A life-action Pinocchio adaptation directed by Matteo Garrone ('Gomorra') starring Roberto Benigni ('La Vita e Bella'). Read more Watch the trailer of Pinocchio Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Paolo Sorrentino CAST: Riccardo Scamarcio, Toni Servillo, Chiara IezziOne almost starts to wonder why Italian director Paolo Sorrentino didn't make this movie earlier; a biopic about controversial president Silvio Berlusconi. Starring his frequent collaborator Toni Servillo, this movie is the most important event in 2018 Italian cinema. Read more Watch the trailer of Loro RATING: 92/100 Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Sergio Castellitto CAST: Stefano Accorsi
Emanuela Aurizi
Alessandro Borghi Fortunata (Lucky) is Sergio Castellitto's (Non ti muovere, 2004) gripping new drama film about a recently divorced mother's struggles with life. She dreams of opening her own barbershop, but this proves to be difficult. When she falls in love with her daughter's psychologist, things seems to change for the better. Read more Watch the trailer of Fortunata RATING: 76/100 RELEASE DATE: May 20th, 2017 Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Luca Guadagnino CAST: Elena Bucci
Vanda Capriolo
Amira Casar After 'A Bigger Splash', director Luca Guadagnino returns with another English language film set in his native Italy. And what a stunner it is. 'Call Me By Your Name', which is based on a 2007 novel, tells the story of an American adolescent living on the North Italian countryside in the 1980's. When an American student, who is slightly older, stays for the summer, a passionate love blossoms. 'Call Me By Your Name' is one of those rare movies that truly captures the magic of being in love for the first time. Read more Watch the trailer of Call Me by Your Name RATING: 93/100 RELEASE DATE: November 27th, 2017 Stream Call Me by Your Name via: Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Marco Bellocchio CAST: Bérénice Bejo
Valerio Mastandrea
Fabrizio Gifuni Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his childhood wounds. Read more Watch the trailer of Fai bei sogni (Sweet Dreams) RATING: 75/100 RELEASE DATE: February 24th, 2017 Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Giuseppe Tornatore CAST: Geoffrey Rush
Jim Sturges
Sylvia Hoeks Director Giuseppe Tornatore is back with his first film in English, after the disappointing Baarìa, a sentimental vehicle which can best be viewed as a two and a half hour olive oil commercial. La Migliore Offerta (The Best Offer in English) is a thrilling romantic drama about an eccentric art collector and auctioneer, Virgil Goodman, who falls in love with a girl who hires him to auction her deceased parents’ art collection. She doesn’t dare to show herself however, as she is suffering from a severe form of agoraphobia, and communicates exclusively behind a wall in her luxurious villa which is stuffed with art. Within time however, Virgil gains her trust and a passionate romance seems to commence… Read more Watch the trailer of La Migliore Offerta RATING: 78/100 RELEASE DATE: January 1st, 2014 Stream La Migliore Offerta via: ' Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Paolo Genovese CAST: Giuseppe Battiston
Anna Foglietta
Marco Giallini A group of friends get together for what's supposed to be a nice dinner. As they set out, they invent a game: everyone has to share every text, whatsapp message or phone call they receive. They're all friends, so what do they have to hide for each other? A sly comedy about our times where everyone is connected all the time. Brilliant! Read more Watch the trailer of Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) RATING: 77/100 RELEASE DATE: February 11th, 2016 Stream Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) via: Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Paolo Sorrentino CAST: Toni Servillo
Carlo Verdone
Sabrina Ferilli don´t really have something to add to the ever expanding euphoric discourse around this film. La Grande Bellezza is the ´Great Beauty´ indeed. A deeply melancholy picture about a once great writer, contemplating about his past life and ´beauty´ in the broadest sense of the word. A Felliniesque visual trip through modern day Rome with its artsy fartsy extravaganza, stuffed with beautifully composed scenes, tracking shots and impressive long takes, Sorrentino has proven himself as one the most gifted directors on earth. As you could have guessed, also our best Italian film of 2013. Read more Watch the trailer of Le Grande Bellezza RATING: 77/100 RELEASE DATE: March 14th, 2014 Stream Le Grande Bellezza via: ' Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Paolo Virzì CAST: Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Matilde Gioli
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi A wealthy family about to fall apart has been the recipe for quite some decent drama films. With Human Capital, an adaptation of the eponymous American novel, director Paolo Virzi manages to add a fresh touch to the subgenre by telling the story of the destinies two families tied together by an unfortunate accident through the eyes of three family members. It’s impressive how Virzi puts the pieces of the puzzle together in the emotional climax which is both wry and satisfying. Read more Watch the trailer of Il Capitale Umano RATING: 73/100 RELEASE DATE: April 18th, 2014 Stream Il Capitale Umano via: ' Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Gianfranco Rosi CAST: Samuele Pucillo,
Giuseppe Fragapane,
Pietro Bartolo One of the most poignant and heartbreaking documentaries you will see this year. Fuoccoammare is a poetic account of the troubles the small Italian island Lampedusa (and Europe in general) is facing, as thousands after thousands desperate North African immigrants wash ashore.Read more Watch the trailer of Fuocoammare (Fire at sea) RATING: 69/100 RELEASE DATE: February 13th, 2016 Stream Fuocoammare (Fire at sea) via: ' Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Valeria Golino CAST: Jasmine Trinca
Carlo Cecchi
Libero De Rienzo Miele. It’s a thought provoking film and a promising debut, even though it has its flaws. Miele is a young woman who devotes her life to helping terminally ill people out who see no other way than committing suicide. When a new, physically healthy but deeply depressed ‘client’ asks for Miele’s help, she sees herself confronted with some moral difficulties. A touching film, backed by a great soundtrack (Caribou, Talking Heads, Shearwater and Duran Duran among others), which ultimately tends a little bit too much to sentimentalism. Read more Watch the trailer of Miele RATING: 68/100 RELEASE DATE: October 15th, 2013 Stream Miele via: ' Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
DIRECTOR: Alicia Scherson CAST: Manuela Martelli
Luigi Ciardo
Rutger Hauer Il Futuro, which is based on Roberto Bolaño’s novel Una novelita lumpen, is a film that is hard to pigeonhole without using impossible and ultimately empty labels like ‘magical-realist coming-of-age crime romance’. Anyway, the story evolves around Bianca and Tomas, who’ve just become orphans after their parents died in a car crash. The girl, who’s slightly older and thus has a stronger sense of responsibility, tries to cope with the situation the best she can, while she sees her brothers’ situation worsening as he befriends the wrong people. These ‘friends’, persuasive as they are, ask Bianca to help them rob an old, blind former actor (Rutger Hauer!) who lives alone in an isolated villa. Reluctant at first, Bianca is getting more and more attached to the old man and eventually unwilling to follow through with the initial plan Read more Watch the trailer of Il Futuro RATING: 58/100 RELEASE DATE: September 16th, 2013 Stream Il Futuro via: Netflix | Amazon | All Release dates
Like France and Germany, Italy is among the European countries with a long and very rich film history. Indeed, it is practically impossible to name just 10 great Italian movies, but we did it anyway. So at the 2014’s Academy Awards we finally saw a great new Italian film winning the Oscar for best foreign film again. About time, since the last Italian director who did so was Roberto Benigni with his sentimental but highly enjoyable La Vita é Bella in 1998. La Grande Belezza was truly a masterpiece, but I will elaborate more on that later. Hopefully Paolo Sorrentino put Italy back on the map as one of Europe’s (or the World’s) heavyweights in cinema, since we haven’t seen that many Fellini’s, Antonioni’s and Scola’s recently. Italy more or less dominated the best foreign film discourse from the 50’s up to the 80’s: between ’56 (the year the award was given for the first time) and ’81 an Italian film wasn’t nominated only four times. Besides, they still hold the record for receiving the biggest amount of foreign film Oscars: fourteen. Just to give you an idea. Those golden days may be over, but of course the Oscars can hardly be considered a great quality indicator of a nation’s film industry. It is way more interesting to take a look yourself at what Italy produced in recent years.
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