Best Italian movies of 1970s

Actors : Marilù Tolo, Charles Southwood, Brett Halsey, Teodoro Corrà,
Directors : Mario Bava,

Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native ...

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Nino Segurini, Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri,
Directors : Silvio Amadio,

A writer's secretary tries to find her missing friend and uncovers a murder plot.

Actors : Giovannella Grifeo, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ...

Actors : Arthur O'Sullivan, Anton Diffring, Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander,
Directors : Riccardo Freda,

In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Claudine Berg, Corinne Marchand, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.

Actors : Luc Merenda, Senta Berger, Anita Strindberg, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An amnesiac man begins to think he may have lived a double life.

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Al Cliver, Elizabeth Turner, John Steiner,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.

Actors : Gianni Garko, Piero Lulli, Nieves Navarro, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giuliano Carnimeo,

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Sylva Koscina, Giovanna Lenzi, Renato De Carmine,
Directors : Sergio Pastore,

A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.

Actors : Cochi Ponzoni, Teo Teocoli, Renato Pozzetto, Lino Toffolo,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

Un manipolo di reclute si prepara ad una guerra di cui nessuno conosce gli scopi nè il motivo. Il comandante del campo è un generale che gioca con un pupazzo di Marx e vive in un palazzo ...

Actors : Damiano Damiani, Riccardo Cucciolla, Franco Nero, Mario Adorf,
Directors : Florestano Vancini,

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Actors : Marina Berti, Massimo Farinelli, Romy Schneider, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Alberto Bevilacqua,

As strikes upset Italy, the Califfa's husband is killed and she becomes a passionate militant of the strikers. She opposes the factory manager Doverdo who used to be himself a worker.

Actors : Monica Vitti, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Luciano Salce,

When facing a request of divorce, Livio accepts, but sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover.

Actors : Geraldine Hooper, Giuliano Esperanti, Francesca Modigliani, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Corrado Farina,

In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.

Actors : Nino Segurini, Bekim Fehmiu, Renato Cestiè, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Raimondo Del Balzo,

A recently divorced couple's son is diagnosed with leukemia.

Actors : Massimo Ranieri, Frank Wolff, Ottavia Piccolo, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th ...

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Michele Gammino,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Starting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past ...

Actors : Stefano Patrizi, Benjamin Lev, Tomas Milian, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

In this riveting Italian exploitation thriller, three young men embark upon a terrifying series of bloody crimes, engaging in robbery, gunplay, and murder. As the entire police force ...

Actors : Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, Giuseppe Maffioli, Jack Palance,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimp and one dream: to save enough money to buy his dream gas station in Detroit. Madeleine Cooper is the lady of mystery...