List of films about the Years of Lead (Italy)

Last updated April 06, 2025

Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of the Years of Lead (Italy) . This list does not include documentaries, short films.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

1960s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1969	Italy	His Day of Glory	La sua giornata di gloria	Edoardo Bruno	Drama.
1969	Italy	The Wildcat	Il gatto selvaggio	Andrea Frezza
1969	Italy	Mother's Heart	Cuore di mamma	Salvatore Samperi	Drama.

1970s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1970	Italy	Let's Have a Riot	Contestazione generale	Luigi Zampa	Comedy.
1970	Italy	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Elio Petri	Crime, Drama.
1972	Italy France	Slap the Monster on Page One	Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina	Marco Bellocchio	Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Murder of Milena Sutter
1972	Italy West Germany Monaco	Execution Squad	La polizia ringrazia	Steno	Crime, Drama.
1972	Italy	Chronicle of a Homicide	Imputazione di omicidio per uno studente	Mauro Bolognini	Crime, Drama.
1973	Italy	Life at stake	La vita in gioco	Gianfranco Mingozzi	Drama.
1973	Italy	We Want the Colonels	Vogliamo i colonnelli	Mario Monicelli	Comedy. Piano Solo, Golpe Borghese
1973	Italy France	Dirty Weekend	Mordi e fuggi	Dino Risi	Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller.
1973	Italy	The Great Kidnapping	La polizia sta a guardare	Roberto Infascelli	Action, Crime, Thriller.
1974	Italy	A normal day of violence	Un normale giorno di violenza	Giorgio Francesco Rizzini	Drama. Antonio Annarumma
1974	Italy France	Quick trial	Processo per direttissima	Lucio De Caro	Crime, Drama. Giuseppe Pinelli, Italicus Express bombing
1975	Italy	Killer Cop	La polizia ha le mani legate	Luciano Ercoli	Action, Crime, Drama. Piazza Fontana bombing
1975	Italy	The Left Hand of the Law	La polizia interviene: ordine di uccidere	Giuseppe Rosati	Crime, Drama.
1975	Italy	Silent Action	La polizia accusa: il Servizio Segreto uccide	Sergio Martino	Action, Crime, Drama. Golpe Borghese
1976	Italy France	Illustrious Corpses	Cadaveri eccellenti	Francesco Rosi	Crime, Mystery, Thriller.
1976	Italy	San Babila-8 P.M.	San Babila ore 20: un delitto inutile	Carlo Lizzani	Crime, Drama. Murder of Alberto Brasili
1976	Italy	Caro Michele		Mario Monicelli	Comedy, Drama. Based on a novel Caro Michele.
1977	Italy	An Average Little Man	Un borghese piccolo piccolo	Mario Monicelli	Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel Un borghese piccolo piccolo.
1977	Italy	I Am Afraid	Io ho paura	Damiano Damiani	Crime, Drama, Thriller.
1977	Italy	Could It Happen Here?	Italia: ultimo atto?	Massimo Pirri	Action.
1977	Italy	The... Beautiful Country	Il... Belpaese	Luciano Salce	Comedy, Drama.
1979	Italy France Canada	Dear Father	Caro papà	Dino Risi	Drama.

1980s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1980	Italy	To Love the Damned	Maledetti vi amerò	Marco Tullio Giordana	Drama.
1981	Italy	The lost party	La festa perduta	Pier Giuseppe Murgia	Drama, Romance.
1981	Italy	Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man	La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo	Bernardo Bertolucci	Comedy, Crime, Drama.
1981	Italy France	Three Brothers	Tre fratelli	Francesco Rosi	Drama. Based on a novel Third son.
1981	Italy	The Fall of the Rebel Angels	La caduta degli angeli ribelli	Marco Tullio Giordana	Drama.
1982	Italy France	Blow to the Heart	Colpire al cuore	Gianni Amelio	Drama.
1984	Italy	The boy from Ebalus	Il ragazzo di Ebalus	Giuseppe Schito	Drama.
1985	Italy	Secrets Secrets	Segreti segreti	Giuseppe Bertolucci	Drama.
1986	Italy France	Devil in the Flesh	Il diavolo in corpo	Marco Bellocchio	Drama, Romance. Based on a novel Le Diable au corps.
1986	Italy	The Moro Affair	Il caso Moro	Giuseppe Ferrara	Crime, Drama, History. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
1987	Italy		Il grande Blek	Giuseppe Piccioni	Drama.
1988	Italy	The Invisible Ones	Gli invisibili	Pasquale Squitieri	Drama. Based on a novel Gli invisibili.
1989	Italy		Roma-Paris-Barcelona	Paolo Grassini Italo Spinelli	Drama.
1989	Italy	About That Strange Girl	A proposito di quella strana ragazza	Marco Leto	Drama, Mystery.

1990s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1990	Italy	A cold May morning	Una fredda mattina di maggio	Vittorio Sindoni	Drama.
1991	United States	Year of the Gun		John Frankenheimer	Action, Romance, Thriller. Based on a novel Year of the Gun. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
1992	Italy France	The End Is Known	La fine è nota La fin est connue	Cristina Comencini	Thriller. Based on a novel The End Is Known.
1993	Italy	The time of return	Il tempo del ritorno	Lucio Lunerti	Drama, Thriller.
1995	Italy France	Who Killed Pasolini?	Pasolini, an Italian Crime	Marco Tullio Giordana	Crime, Drama. Pier Paolo Pasolini
1995	Italy France	The Second Time	La seconda volta	Mimmo Calopresti	Drama. Based on an autobiography Colpo alla nuca.
1996	Italy	My Generation	La mia generazione	Wilma Labate	Drama.
1997	Italy	The Grey Zone	Le mani forti	Franco Bernini	Drama. Piazza della Loggia bombing

2000s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2001	Italy	Reconciled	Riconciliati	Rosalía Polizzi	Drama.
2002	Italy	The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair	I banchieri di Dio	Giuseppe Ferrara	Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller. Clearstream affair
2003	Italy Spain United Kingdom	I'm Not Scared	Io non ho paura	Gabriele Salvatores	Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Based on a novel I'm Not Scared.
2003	Italy	The Fugitive	Il fuggiasco	Andrea Manni	Drama. Based on an autobiography Il fuggiasco. Massimo Carlotto
2003	Italy	The Best of Youth	La meglio gioventù	Marco Tullio Giordana	Drama, Romance.
2003	Italy United Kingdom Germany	Five Moons Square	Piazza delle Cinque Lune	Renzo Martinelli	Drama, Thriller. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
2003	Italy	Good Morning, Night	Buongiorno, notte	Marco Bellocchio	Drama. Based on the book Il prigioniero. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
2004	Italy	If it is light it will be beautiful	Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo	Aurelio Grimaldi	Drama. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
2004	Italy France	Working Slowly (Radio Alice)	Lavorare con lentezza	Guido Chiesa	Drama. Radio Alice
2005	Italy	Contributory negligence	Concorso di colpa	Claudio Fragasso	Thriller.
2005	Italy France United Kingdom	Criminal Novel	Romanzo Criminale	Michele Placido	Crime, Drama.
2006	Italy France	The Goodbye Kiss	Arrivederci amore, ciao	Michele Soavi	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel Arrivederci amore, ciao.
2007	Italy	Guido who challenged the Red Brigades	Guido che sfidò le Brigate Rosse	Giuseppe Ferrara	Crime, Drama. Guido Rossa
2007	Italy France	My Brother Is an Only Child	Mio fratello è figlio unico	Daniele Luchetti	Comedy, Crime, Drama, History. Based on a novel Il fasciocomunista.
2008	Italy France	Il divo		Paolo Sorrentino	Biography, Drama. Giulio Andreotti
2009	Italy Belgium United Kingdom France	The Front Line	La prima linea	Renato De Maria	Biography, Crime, Drama. Based on the book Miccia corta. Sergio Segio

2010s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2012	Italy France	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy	Romanzo di una strage	Marco Tullio Giordana	Crime, Drama, Mystery. Based on the book Il segreto di piazza Fontana. Piazza Fontana bombing
2014	Italy	Bologna 2 August... The days of anger	Bologna 2 agosto... I giorni della collera	Giorgio Molteni Daniele Santamaria Maurizio	Drama. Bologna massacre
2015	Italy	The yellow line	La linea gialla	Francesco Conversano Nene Grignaffini	Drama. Bologna massacre
2017	France Italy	After the War	Après la guerre	Annarita Zambrano	Crime, Drama. Marco Biagi

2020s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2020	Italy	The Mattarella crime	Il delitto Mattarella	Aurelio Grimaldi	Crime, Drama, History. Piersanti Mattarella
2020	Italy	Our father	Padrenostro	Claudio Noce	Drama. Prisco Palumbo
2022	Italy	I was at war but I didn't know it	Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo	Fabio Resinaro	Drama. Based on the book Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo. Murder of Pierluigi Torregiani

Television films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1978	Italy	West	Occidente	Dante Guardamagna	Drama. Based on a novel Occidente.
1991	Italy Germany	Women in Arms	Donne armate	Sergio Corbucci	Crime, Thriller.
1993	Italy	The Dozier case	Il caso Dozier	Carlo Lizzani	Thriller. Kidnapping of James Dozier
2010	Italy	The draw	Il sorteggio	Giacomo Campiotti	Drama. Red Brigades

TV Series

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1982	Italy	Words and blood	Parole e sangue	Damiano Damiani	Crime.
1984	Italy France		Nucleo zero	Carlo Lizzani	Drama, Thriller.
2008	Italy	Aldo Moro - The president	Aldo Moro - Il presidente	Gianluca Maria Tavarelli	Biography, Drama. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
2008-10	Italy	Criminal Novel – The Series	Romanzo criminale – La serie	Stefano Sollima	Crime, Drama, Thriller.
2014	Italy	The broken years	Gli anni spezzati	Graziano Diana	Drama. Luigi Calabresi, Mario Sossi
2022	Italy France	Exterior Night	Esterno notte	Marco Bellocchio	Crime, Drama, History. Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro

References

↑ Uva, Christian (2007). Schermi di piombo. Il terrorismo nel cinema italiano[Lead screens. Terrorism in Italian cinema] (in Italian). Rubbettino. ISBN 978-8849816891.
↑ Musolino, Santina (7 October 2019). "Verso una memoria autocritica: ripensare i racconti e i ricordi degli "anni di piombo"" [Towards a self-critical memory: rethinking the stories and memories of the "years of lead"](PDF). Democrazia e Sicurezza (in Italian). VIII, n. 4, 2018: 103–143. ISSN 2239-804X.
↑ Hjelde, Bjarne (2018). "Gli anni di piombo, visti attraverso i film. L'effetto della lotta armata e della polarizzazione sul cinema italiano" (PDF). DUO. UNIVERSITETET I OSLO.
↑ "L'Italia degli anni di piombo e della partecipazione come cinema, letteratura e arte hanno raccontato questo decennio" (PDF). Liceo Artistico Pistoia P.Petrocchi.
↑ Hajek, Andrea (24 October 2013). "Lo stragismo sul grande schermo: terrorismo, didattica e le strategie dell'oblio in Italia". Fondazione Bologna University Press.
↑ Olla, Gianni (25 September 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Prima parte)". CineCriticaWeb.
↑ Olla, Gianni (2 October 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Seconda parte)". CineCriticaWeb.
↑ Olla, Gianni (10 October 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Terza parte)". CineCriticaWeb.

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[1] Uva, Christian (2007). Schermi di piombo. Il terrorismo nel cinema italiano[Lead screens. Terrorism in Italian cinema] (in Italian). Rubbettino. ISBN 978-8849816891.

[2] Musolino, Santina (7 October 2019). "Verso una memoria autocritica: ripensare i racconti e i ricordi degli "anni di piombo"" [Towards a self-critical memory: rethinking the stories and memories of the "years of lead"](PDF). Democrazia e Sicurezza (in Italian). VIII, n. 4, 2018: 103–143. ISSN 2239-804X.

[3] Hjelde, Bjarne (2018). "Gli anni di piombo, visti attraverso i film. L'effetto della lotta armata e della polarizzazione sul cinema italiano" (PDF). DUO. UNIVERSITETET I OSLO.

[4] "L'Italia degli anni di piombo e della partecipazione come cinema, letteratura e arte hanno raccontato questo decennio" (PDF). Liceo Artistico Pistoia P.Petrocchi.

[5] Hajek, Andrea (24 October 2013). "Lo stragismo sul grande schermo: terrorismo, didattica e le strategie dell'oblio in Italia". Fondazione Bologna University Press.

[6] Olla, Gianni (25 September 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Prima parte)". CineCriticaWeb.

[7] Olla, Gianni (2 October 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Seconda parte)". CineCriticaWeb.

[8] Olla, Gianni (10 October 2022). "Cinema e terrorismo: un repertorio storico, a futura memoria (Terza parte)". CineCriticaWeb.

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