What is the best Italian movie of all time?

Roberto Rossellini's 1945 Neorealist landmark filmed in the streets of liberated Rome, depicting the real brutality of Nazi occupation — a founding document of world cinema.

Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Neorealist heartbreaker about a poor Roman worker and his son searching the city for the stolen bicycle he needs to keep his job — a film of unbearable humanity.

Francesco Rosi's 1962 elliptical political docudrama reconstructing the life and death of the Sicilian bandit Giuliano through fragmented testimonies and official corruption.

Fellini's 1960 kaleidoscopic odyssey through Rome's jet-set demimonde with Marcello Mastroianni as a gossip journalist, giving the world the Trevi Fountain scene and the word 'paparazzi'.

Fellini's affectionate yet barbed 1973 memory-collage of life in a small Adriatic town under Fascism, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Vittorio De Sica's 1952 Neorealist tearjerker following an elderly pensioner and his dog struggling to survive on the streets of Rome on a meagre government pension.

Sergio Leone's 1966 epic Spaghetti Western pitting three gunslingers against each other in a deadly hunt for buried Confederate gold, with Ennio Morricone's iconic score.

Leone's operatic 1984 gangster elegy tracing the rise and tragic betrayal of Jewish New York gangsters across five decades, Morricone's most devastating score accompanying every frame.

Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 nostalgic love letter to cinema and to childhood, following the friendship between a boy and the local projectionist in a Sicilian village.

Luchino Visconti's magnificent 1963 adaptation of Lampedusa's novel about an aristocratic Sicilian family navigating Italy's Risorgimento unification, a sumptuous meditation on decline.

Dino Risi's 1962 road-movie satire following a blowhard extrovert and a shy law student tearing down the sun-drenched Via Aurelia, a bittersweet study of Italian postwar euphoria.

Elio Petri's 1970 Kafkaesque thriller about a powerful police chief who murders his mistress and dares the law to catch him, a razor-sharp indictment of authoritarian impunity.