100 Italian films to be saved

 The list of the “100 Italian films to be saved” is an Italian project created by Venice Days ("Giornate degli Autori") at the Venice Film Festival. Its goal is to highlight the "100 films that changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978," and it was supported by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

Surely, like any exhaustive list, it must have left out some other films, but it remains a clear recognition of those that made the cut and are mentioned on the list.

Link to the list of “100 Italian films to be saved”: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_film_italiani_da_salvare http://www.repubblica.it/popup/servizi/2008/lista_film/lista.html

Another list—this time more specific—focuses on a particular period and has a clear, specific motivation in its movie selection. Still, it serves as a helpful tool to choose which films to watch and to know that in these movies, there is something that resonates, and that those who selected them recognized their significance in Italian cinema.