# The best Federico Fellini films

The Rimini-born director's films that top the rankings of Movieplayer.it, LongTake and Il Sorpasso, published for his centenary.

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- Jul 9, 2025 · Simona Bianco
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## Top 12

1. **La Dolce Vita** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1960. Mastroianni in Rome's high society; Palme d'Or and an Oscar for costumes.
2. **I Vitelloni** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1953. Five idle young men in a provincial town; Silver Lion in Venice.
3. **8½** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1963. Marcello Mastroianni as a director in crisis; Fellini's most cited, loved and imitated film.
4. **Nights of Cabiria** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1957. Giulietta Masina as a naive prostitute; Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
5. **Fellini Satyricon** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1969. A dreamlike ancient Rome from Petronius' novel.
6. **Roma** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1972. A portrait of the capital between memory and the present.
7. **Fellini's Casanova** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1976. Donald Sutherland as Casanova; Oscar for costumes.
8. **And the Ship Sails On** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1983. An ocean liner in 1914 scattering an opera singer's ashes.
9. **La Strada** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1954. Gelsomina and Zampanò; his first masterpiece, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
10. **Amarcord** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1973. Memories of Rimini; the title entered the Italian language.
11. **City of Women** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1980. Mastroianni in a world of women.
12. **Juliet of the Spirits** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1965. His first colour feature, with Giulietta Masina.
13. **The White Sheik** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — First film directed by Fellini alone (1952), with Alberto Sordi in the role of the hero of the photo novels.
14. **Orchestra rehearsal** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1979 film about an orchestra that rebels against the conductor, a metaphor for the Italy of the time.

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