- One of the characters, Paparazzo, is the inspiration for the popular metonym "paparazzi", a word for intrusive photojournalists.[24]
- Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita is a 1961 Italian film parodying Fellini's and shot on the same sets.[67]
- In Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961), Daniela Rocca chooses to flee the little town with her lover Leopoldo Trieste the night her husband, Marcello Mastroianni, their relatives and neighbors are all at the opening screening of La dolce vita. In a packed cinema hall, an ecstatic audience watches Anita Ekberg performing her famous rock'n'roll dance.
- Tributes to Fellini in the "Director's Cut" of Cinema Paradiso (1988) include a helicopter suspending a statue of Jesus over the city and scenes in which the Trevi Fountain is used as a backdrop while Toto, the main character, grows up to be a famous film director.
- Steve Martin’s 1991 film L.A. Story opens with an homage to the helicopter scene. In this version, the helicopter carries a giant hot dog over Los Angeles.
- The German film Good bye Lenin (2003) also includes a reference to the scene of Jesus suspended over the city of Rome, replacing it with a statue of Lenin being carried over East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin wall.[68]
- The 1964 Bob Dylan song "Motorpsycho Nightmare" contains a reference to the film with the lyrics, "Then in comes his daughter whose name was Rita, she looked like she stepped out of La dolce vita."
- In Ettore Scola's movie We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), the accidental meeting between former lovers Stefania Sandrelli and Nino Manfredi takes place during the filming of the Fontana di Trevi scene with Fellini and Mastroianni acting as themselves.
- In Sofia Coppola's film Lost in Translation (2003), Kelly's interview for LIT resembles Sylvia's interview scenes in La dolce vita. Charlotte and Bob later meet in the middle of the night and watch the famous Trevi Fountain sequence while drinking sake.[26] Coppola said, "I saw that movie on TV when I was in Japan. It's not plot-driven, it's about them wandering around. And there was something with the Japanese subtitles and them speaking Italian—it had a truly enchanting quality".[26]
- The Italian film The Great Beauty (2013) features a former writer who wanders through the parties of the Roman high society trying to decide what to do with his life.[69][70]
- The song "Froot" by Welsh singer Marina and the Diamonds mentions the line "living la dolce vita" as a reference to the film.[71]
- The 2019 Ferrari Roma uses the slogan "la nuova Dolce Vita" as a reference to the film.[72]
- The 2003 film Under the Tuscan Sun has a female character wading into the Trevi Fountain to reenact the scene from La dolce vita with the landlord of an Italian villa.
- In The Sopranos 2004 episode titled, “Marco Polo", Bobby enters Junior’s room to find him watching La dolce vita. Junior references the opening scene, in which the statue of Jesus is flown across Rome by helicopter, with the comment: "You could tell it was a dummy!"
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