My Five Favorite Italian Movies...so far

I finally got around to watching Cinema Paradiso last night and wonder why I didn't watch it before.
I really like how cheesy Italian movies can be while being completely heart wrenching and funny at the same time.

After watching it I remembered a few other Italian movies I love as much - I pasted the movie synapsises from IMBD - click on the image to watch a trailer:

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

The movie synapsis for this movie ruins it!  Don't read it - just watch the trailer.

A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

A year in the life of a small Italian coastal town in the nineteen-thirties, as is recalled by a director with a superstar's access to the resources of the Italian film industry and a piper's command over our imaginations. Federico Fellini's film combines the free form and make-believe splendor with the comic, bittersweet feeling for character and narrative we remember from some of his best films of the 1950s. The town in the film is based on Rimini, where Mr. Fellini grew up. Yet there is now something magical, larger-than-life about the town, its citizens and many of the things that happen to them.

A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys.