The Italian film industry has produced a range of great movies throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. The country's cinematic output began to gain worldwide attention with the Italian Neorealism Movement in the 1940s, and then found further international recognition with Federico Fellini's 1950s/1960s output, the rise of the Spaghetti Western in the 1960s, and the explosion in popularity of Giallo movies in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.

There are so many critically acclaimed Italian movies that it's surprising how some classics miss out on being in the top 10, when ranking them by the scores from IMDb users. No Fellini movie makes the cut, and Giallo movies are entirely absent from the list, too.