Best Italian Films on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Italian Films on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 8221. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 1977, 1h 50m. A young man gets pulled into a complicated love triangle involving a womanizing liar, his rich wife and his alluring sister-in-law.
2. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1997, 1h 56m. A Jewish waiter, his wife and their son are sent to a concentration camp, where the waiter tries to protect his son's innocence by playing a game.
3. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1988, 2h 04m. When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.
4. No Country for Young Men (2017)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 1h 45m. Frustrated with their lack of upward mobility, two Roman men move to Cuba to start a wi-fi café and attempt to build a new life.
5. Sons Of 'Ndrangheta (2018)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 1h 47m. A judge bent on catching the members of the 'Ndrangheta crosses paths with the mob family's young heir, who yearns for a life free of crime.
6. Family's Father (1967)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 1967, 1h 50m. Two architects fall in love and marry, embracing socially progressive ideas, but discover that having kids changes the nature of their relationship.
7. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1964. Clint Eastwood stars as a world-weary gunman who agrees to work for warring gangs, ultimately pitting the two factions against each other.
8. Il Posto (1961)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1961, 1h 37m. A young man named Domenico gives up schooling to support his parents and enters a soulless corporate world after landing a job in Milan.
9. Laura's Wedding (2015)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 1h 35m. When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.
10. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 1978, 2h 57m. In late 19th-century Italy, four peasant families struggle to survive.