# The best Italian films of the 1970s

From A Special Day and Amarcord to 1900, My Friends, Suspiria and The Working Class Goes to Heaven: the 1970s films in Yanez Magazine's ranking of the best Italian films.

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- May 9, 2022 · M. Fabbri
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## Top 14

1. **A Special Day (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ettore Scola. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni on the day of Hitler's visit to Rome.
2. **Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Luciano Salce. Paolo Villaggio and the 'Battleship Kotiomkin'.
3. **Amarcord (1973)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Federico Fellini. A year in Rimini under Fascism. Oscar winner.
4. **Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Elio Petri. Gian Maria Volonté as a murderous police chief. Oscar winner.
5. **1900 (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bernardo Bertolucci. De Niro and Depardieu as landowner and peasant in 20th-century Emilia.
6. **My Friends (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mario Monicelli. The pranks of five Florentine friends.
7. **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Marquis de Sade transposed to the Republic of Salò.
8. **The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Elio Petri. Volonté as a piecework factory worker. Palme d'Or.
9. **Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Giuliano Montaldo. The two Italian anarchists executed in the United States.
10. **Down and Dirty (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ettore Scola. A shantytown family on the outskirts of Rome. Best director at Cannes.
11. **Suspiria (1977)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dario Argento. A dance academy in Freiburg and a coven of witches.
12. **Todo modo (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Elio Petri. Politicians on a spiritual retreat and a series of murders, from Sciascia.
13. **The Night Porter (1974)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Liliana Cavani. Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling in postwar Vienna.
14. **The House with Laughing Windows (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pupi Avati. A restorer and a cursed fresco in the Po valley.

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