11 best movies about Rome

1. Rome, Open City

Roma, città aperta

• Italy, 1945.
• War film drama.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 8,1.

Events unfold in Rome, the end of World War II. The city needed to spend only a few months under the German occupation. Gestapo leads the hunt for the head of the anti-fascist resistance Giorgio Manfredi, who is assisted by friends - fellow Francesco with his fiancée Pina and the priest Don Pietro.

Legendary film director Roberto Rossellini laid the foundations of one of the most important trends in the history of cinema - Italian neorealism. The representatives of this genre saw their main task - to depict the authentic Italian invoice. Therefore, in their paintings the audience sees Italy as it is, without embellishment. The films are shown and people from different walks of life, and the difficult war and post-war realities.

2. Bicycle Thieves

Ladri di biciclette

• Italy, 1948.
• Drama.
• Duration: 93 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

The protagonist of Antonio Ricci long and unsuccessfully looking for a job, but in the impoverished post-war Italy is not so simple. Finally he smiles luck - take it billsticker. To work it needs a bike that Richie had recently handed over to the pawnshop. The latest money hero buys it back, but the bike almost immediately

kidnapped. Together with his young son Antonio goes in search of the robbers.

The film is another bright representative of Italian neorealism, Vittorio de Sica also filmed in Rome. Today, at the intersection of Skarpanto and Gran Paradiso you can even see the plaque dedicated to the sets of tapes.

3. Rome 11 hours

Roma ore 11

• Italy, 1952.
• Drama.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

The film is based on a real incident that happened in Rome in 1951. In post-war Italy, unemployment reigns. About two hundred women, each - with its sad history, came to the interview. They all need the position of a typist. Waiting in line on the steps of a small house transformed into a tragedy: the ladder collapses together with the women standing on it.

As well as "Bicycle Thieves" by Vittorio de Sica, a drama directed by Giuseppe De Santis talks about the unfortunate and disadvantaged people who are victims of social and political system of the time.

4. Roman holiday

roman Holiday

• United States, 1953.
• Comedy, Romance.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

The young Princess Anne, tired of the tedious royal duties in a diplomatic tour and escapes to walk around Rome. Fast asleep heroine finds a local reporter Joe Bradley. He was initially not happy fell down on his head unknown girl. But as soon as Bradley sees a photo of Anna in the newspaper, he immediately knows who is in front of him. Now in his hands a real sensation.

"Roman Holiday" made famous small town street Via Margutta. After the film is not settled her celebrity: director Federico Fellini, actress Giulietta Masina and Anna Magnani, writer Gianni Rodari, and many others.

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5. Sweet life

La Dolce Vita

• France, Italy, 1960.
• Satirical tragicomedy.
• Duration: 174 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,1.

The journalist Marcello - a welcome guest at all the fashionable parties. He lives carefree and luxurious, but it sometimes feels as if it something is missing.

The cult film Federico Fellini Rome appears a kind of sin city. It is inhabited by the rich and famous, but spiritually empty and lonely people who spend their lives meaningless.

6. Accattone

Accattone

• Italy, 1961.
• Drama.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

The game's story - the life of a slacker and faulty pimp Vittorio Accattone. After only worked for him for a Woman imprisoned, Vittorio slipping into poverty. The protagonist does not want and can not honestly earn, so finding a new victim - a young trusting Stella.

Action directorial debut Pier Paolo Pasolini is set in the slums of Rome. This pessimistic reflection on the life of baby boomers desperate, lost forever the old landmarks, and yet not found a replacement.

7. Eclipse

L'Eclisse

• Italy, France, 1962.
• Drama.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

Young attractive woman Vittoria away from her fiance Riccardo, who convinces her to stay. Despite this, they are still separate. At the main character has a new love interest - a stockbroker Piero.

The main motive of the plot of the drama of Michelangelo Antonioni - this alienation of heroes from the world and from each other. Acute sense of loneliness that permeates the entire film, even more emphasized by the beautiful shots, but half-empty Rome.

8. Rome

Roma

• Italy, France, 1972.
• Comedy, drama, parable.
• Duration: 128 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,4.

This half documentary Fellini has a more optimistic view of Rome than the "sweet life". Deeply personal picture tells a love directed to the capital of Italy.

The action takes place even before the Second World War. As such, the plot in the film is not. The young man, where you can learn the most Fellini meets the Eternal City through the colorful kaleidoscope of images of people and events.

9. The best years of his youth

La meglio gioventù

• Italy, 2003.
• Romance, Drama.
• Duration: 400 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

A touching drama of Italian director Marco Tullio Jordans unfolds against the backdrop historical panorama Italy, sung with love and warmth.

The plot is centered around the lives of two brothers, Nicola and Matteo carats from 1966 to 2003. The main characters - totally different people of opposite characters. And yet they are united not only the family, but also a spiritual kinship.

10. To Rome with Love

To Rome with Love

• USA, Italy, Spain, 2012.
• Comedy, Romance.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

In the romantic comedy Woody Allen Four scenarios are intertwined lines: about nostalgic for his youth, the famous American architect, a simple clerk, suddenly awakened celebrity of the amusing adventures of the newlyweds and vociferous employee undertaker whose talent opera singer appears only in soul.

In the view of Allen Rome - this is not just a city, and a magical place where any remarkable event, or even the real miracle can happen.

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11. great beauty

La grande bellezza

• Italy, France, 2013.
• Satirical tragicomedy.
• Duration: 142 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

Satirical picture director Paolo Sorrentino He tells the story of an elderly talented writer Dzhepu Gambardella. The life of the protagonist goes to parties and entertainment. But once he finds out that his first and only love died. It turns out that the woman loved all his life and was waiting only Dzhepa. After that, the hero reflects on the meaning of their existence and irrevocably past years.

Rome in this picture the majestic and mysterious. In the film you can see many popular tourist attractions. They are all shown directed from an unusual angle or in an unexpected time.

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