Best Italian movies to watch
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
The highest-rated Italian movies streaming in India right now, ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating. Every pick is on a subscription or free app today.
50 titles across 1 language, average IMDb rating 6.8.
1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Movie · Italian · 1h 56m · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (8.3L votes)
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + big-hearted warmth
2. Io Capitano (2023)
Movie · Italian · 2h 1m · Adventure, Drama · IMDb 7.6 (19K votes)
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
Feels like: big-screen spectacle + dark, gritty edges
3. Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Movie · Italian · 2h 37m · Western · IMDb 7.5 (41K votes)
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a
Feels like: big-screen spectacle + edge-of-seat suspense
4. Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Movie · Italian · 2h 8m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 7.5 (24K votes)
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
5. The Hand of God (2021)
Movie · Italian · 2h 10m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (55K votes)
In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + big-screen spectacle
6. La Chimera (2023)
Movie · Italian · 2h 11m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 7.3 (24K votes)
Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these character
Feels like: mind-bending twists + big-screen spectacle
7. The Children's Train (2024)
Movie · Italian · 1h 46m · U/A 13+ · Drama · IMDb 7.4 (11K votes)
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + family-friendly fun
8. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Movie · Italian · 1h 50m · Drama · IMDb 7.5 (5.8K votes)
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + mind-bending twists
9. La Grazia (2025)
Movie · Italian · 2h 13m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (12K votes)
As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + family-friendly fun
10. On My Skin (2018)
Movie · Italian · 1h 40m · Drama · IMDb 7.3 (11K votes)
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + edge-of-seat suspense
11. Nuovo Olimpo (2023)
Movie · Italian · 1h 52m · Romance, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (7.7K votes)
In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + mind-bending twists
12. Mixed by Erry (2023)
Movie · Italian · 1h 53m · Comedy, History · IMDb 7.1 (6.9K votes)
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
Feels like: sharp humour + dark, gritty edges
13. Last Night of Amore (2023)
Movie · Italian · 2h 4m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 7.1 (6.7K votes)
On the night before retirement, police lieutenant Amore is called to investigate the off-duty death of his longtime partner, who fell prey of an illegal scheme Amore himself was secretly part of.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + dark, gritty edges
14. Rose Island (2020)
Movie · Italian · 2h · Comedy, Adventure · IMDb 7.0 (28K votes)
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
15. Martin Eden (2019)
Movie · Italian · 2h 9m · Romance, Drama · IMDb 7.0 (8.8K votes)
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
Feels like: big-screen spectacle + dark, gritty edges
16. 18 Presents (2020)
Movie · Italian · 1h 50m · Drama, Family · IMDb 6.9 (4.7K votes)
Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + family-friendly fun
17. Four Roads (2021)
Movie · Italian · 8m · Documentary · IMDb 7.0 (1.1K votes)
In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a zoom lens, and a few meters of expired film.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
18. Fit to Be Untied (1975)
Movie · Italian · 2h 15m · Documentary, Drama · IMDb 7.4 (167 votes)
This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + family-friendly fun
19. Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025)
Movie · Italian · 1h 54m · Documentary · IMDb 6.9 (825 votes)
Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + edge-of-seat suspense
20. Dov'è Sisifo?! (2005)
Movie · Italian · 1h 45m · Drama · IMDb 8.0 (10 votes)
Three stories revolving around 3 elements: the painting, the sofa and the comet. The 3 chapters that compose it are also linked together by these elements that give the entire film a circular structure, just like the sad fate of Sisyphus who was condemned to push a huge stone to the top of a hill.
Feels like: mind-bending twists + family-friendly fun
21. Bangarang (2024)
Movie · Italian · 1h 15m · Documentary · IMDb 7.2 (12 votes)
Children can be loud, carefree, playful, unaware, violent. Also in Taranto, an industrial city in Southern Italy which has the largest steel mill factory in Europe since the 1960s. Observing their movements and listening to their emotions, we enter the world of childhood while losing ourselves in the present of this te
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + family-friendly fun
22. Our time (2019)
Movie · Italian · 16m · Drama · IMDb 6.9 (25 votes)
Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playing with her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay at home to help with household chores. The distance between the two seems unbridgeable, but the discovery that Donato is much more fragile than it seems, will lead
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
23. Agon (2025)
Movie · Italian · 1h 40m · Drama · IMDb 6.8 (228 votes)
Three elite athletes train for the Summer Games, Ludoj, 2024. Facing press attention, injury, and exhaustion, they practice their respective disciplines of rifle shooting, fencing, and judo. The women work with coaches to optimize their performance before competing under acute pressure at the Games.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-screen spectacle
24. Futura (2021)
Movie · Italian · 1h 45m · Documentary · IMDb 6.8 (671 votes)
A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
25. The Invisible Thread (2022)
Movie · Italian · 1h 49m · Family, Drama · IMDb 6.8 (2.8K votes)
The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + mind-bending twists
26. Laura Pausini – Pleased to Meet You (2022)
Movie · Italian · 1h 21m · Documentary, Music · IMDb 6.8 (702 votes)
It's the movie that retraces the Laura’s life in a wholly original way. Through never-seen-before footage of her real and fictional life, the artist shows us her essence, giving an honest and bold analysis of her life and how it could have been without that victory at Sanremo that, in 1993, changed her destiny forever.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + mind-bending twists
27. Seventeen (2023)
Movie · Italian · 17m · Animation, Documentary
Food, medicine, weapons and ammunition. During the war, the young Antonietta transported all this at night in a heavy backpack to her partisan group in the mountains at great risk. She breaks her silence about this time because she fears that her memories of the resistance will die with her.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + family-friendly fun
28. Nonostante tutto (2025)
Movie · Italian · 10m
Freely inspired by the play "Caso, Mai - The unpredictable virtue of dignity" by Simone Gurany, Despite Everything recounts the drama experienced by those who, due to an illness or an accident, find themselves prisoners of their own body. Massimiliano and Giuseppe share the same room, one wants to live and the other do
Feels like: family-friendly fun + dark, gritty edges
29. Federico Chiesa - Back on Track (2023)
Movie · Italian · 1h 20m · Documentary · IMDb 6.8 (172 votes)
9 January 2022, Olympic Stadium of Rome. Within the first thirty minutes of the game, Federico Chiesa collapsed on the ground, screaming in pain: he had ruptured the cruciate ligament in his left knee. It was the beginning of a ten-month ordeal, during which Federico had to rediscover himself, both professionally and p
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
30. Making The Leopard (2025)
Movie · Italian · 39m · Documentary
Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew, this special explores the series based on the Italian masterpiece, "The Leopard."
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
31. Casti whatever it costs (2024)
Movie · Italian · 13m · Comedy
An artist is asked to write by a con artist agent and an improvised historian, a 'performance' to remember Giovanni Battista Casti three hundred years after his birth. A situation and homage that results in a satirical transposition of today.
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
32. The Life Ahead (2020)
Movie · Italian · 1h 34m · Drama · IMDb 6.8 (17K votes)
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + dark, gritty edges
33. Corpo Celeste (2011)
Movie · Italian · 1h 39m · Drama · IMDb 6.8 (2.6K votes)
After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
34. Edoardo Ferrario: Temi Caldi (2019)
Movie · Italian · 1h 5m · TV Movie, Comedy · IMDb 6.6 (157 votes)
Italian comedian Edoardo Ferrario riffs on life at 30 and unpacks the peculiarities of global travel, social media and people who like craft beer.
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
35. An Anthropological Television Myth (2011)
Movie · Italian · 54m · Documentary · IMDb 6.0 (49 votes)
An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's televis
Feels like: mind-bending twists + breakneck pacing
36. Francesco de Carlo: Cose di Questo Mondo (2019)
Movie · Italian · 1h 1m · Comedy · IMDb 6.5 (133 votes)
Taking to the stage in Milan, Francesco de Carlo opens up about bad habits, religion, politics and what he's learned from travelling the world.
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
37. Federica Pellegrini - Underwater (2022)
Movie · Italian · 1h 30m · Documentary · IMDb 6.5 (158 votes)
Documentary that covers Federica Pellegrini's career and her preparation in the last 300 days before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-screen spectacle
38. Saverio Raimondo: Il Satiro Parlante (2019)
Movie · Italian · 53m · Comedy · IMDb 5.9 (59 votes)
Italian comic and satirist Saverio Raimondo regales a Milan crowd with tales of online antics, awkward injuries and white-knuckle flights.
Feels like: sharp humour + breakneck pacing
39. The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino (2021)
Movie · Italian · 8m · Documentary · IMDb 6.3 (162 votes)
Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples, his hometown, and reflects on his youth in an exclusive tour of the locations of “The Hand of God”.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
40. Pino (2020)
Movie · Italian · 1h · Documentary · IMDb 5.9 (116 votes)
Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the story of a work of art returning to its origins told through Pino Musi and Pino Pascali’s photographs.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + dark, gritty edges
41. Lost and Beautiful (2015)
Movie · Italian · 1h 28m · Drama, Fantasy · IMDb 6.6 (783 votes)
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two serv
Feels like: big-screen spectacle + family-friendly fun
42. Michela Giraud: The Truth, I Swear! (2022)
Movie · Italian · 1h · Comedy · IMDb 5.4 (100 votes)
From the stage of Vinile, in Rome, rigorously standing up alone in front of her audience, Michela Giraud tells her own truth through the strong and self-deprecating point of view that has always distinguished her.
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
43. Grillo vs Grillo (2017)
Movie · Italian · 1h 35m · Comedy · IMDb 5.5 (131 votes)
Outspoken comedian Beppe Grillo reminisces about his long career, including the triumphs and controversies that fueled his rise in Italian politics.
Feels like: sharp humour + family-friendly fun
44. Feel My Voice (2026)
Movie · Italian · 1h 45m · Music, Drama · IMDb 6.6 (2K votes)
A teenager, the only hearing member of a deaf family, finds her voice and learns to believe in herself through her passion for singing.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + family-friendly fun
45. The Wonders (2014)
Movie · Italian · 1h 52m · Drama · IMDb 6.7 (6.8K votes)
In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of them—led by the eldest, Gelsomina, who takes on the responsibilities of the family. When a small boy is sent to stay with them for rehabilitation, their routine is disrupted. As
Feels like: family-friendly fun + big-hearted warmth
46. Marilyn's Eyes (2021)
Movie · Italian · 1h 50m · Comedy · IMDb 6.6 (2.1K votes)
Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
Feels like: big-hearted warmth + sharp humour
47. Miss Italia Mustn't Die (2025)
Movie · Italian · 1h 38m · Documentary · IMDb 5.1 (220 votes)
Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now wavering amid scandals and changing beauty standards.
Feels like: family-friendly fun + dark, gritty edges
49. Dog Years (2021)
Movie · Italian · 1h 37m · Romance, Comedy · IMDb 5.6 (393 votes)
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning sixteen, she is a centennial. For this reason, Stella thinks she has not m
Feels like: sharp humour + big-hearted warmth
50. The Turning Point (2021)
Movie · Italian · 1h 30m · Drama · IMDb 6.3 (1.1K votes)
A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
Feels like: dark, gritty edges + edge-of-seat suspense
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