Cast: Romolo Valli

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Burt Lancaster · Claudia Cardinale · Alain Delon · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Set in 1860s Sicily, it portrays the decline of an aristocratic family under the crushing weight of political change. The film traces the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Plot Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Shelley Winters · Romolo Valli · Vincenzo Crocitti

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Björn Andrésen · Silvana Mangano · Marisa Berenson

Plot In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Burt Lancaster · Silvana Mangano · Helmut Berger · Claudia Marsani

Plot Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jacques Perrin · Luciana Angiolillo · Gian Maria Volonté

Plot Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and...

Direction Dino Risi · Franco Rossi · Luigi Filippo D'Amico

Cast Nino Manfredi · Ugo Tognazzi · Alberto Sordi · Umberto D'Orsi

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anthony Quinn · Irina Demick · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Dominique Sanda · Lino Capolicchio · Helmut Berger · Romolo Valli

Plot In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a...

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti

Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo

Plot An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast James Coburn · Rod Steiger · Romolo Valli · Maria Monti

Plot An IRA explosives expert on the run in Mexico meets an amoral Mexican bandit; together they get drawn into the Mexican revolution.

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Pietro Germi · Paul Frankeur

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Philippe Leroy · Jean-Claude Brialy · Totò

Plot The passage of time has vitiated "Mandragola," Machiavelli's cynical lampoon of 16th-century Florentine morality and the fabulous fertility attributes of the mandrake root. As presented in the Italian period comedy...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Romy Schneider · Romolo Valli · Lila Kedrova

Plot Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider)...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Vera Miles · Silvana Mangano · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer...

Direction Guy Green

Cast John Mills · Paola Pitagora · Stéphane Audran · Jason Miller

Plot A high ranking RC priest finds out he has terminal cancer. His faith is tested when faced with imminent death. At the same time he is asked to travel to...

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Al Pacino · Marthe Keller · Anny Duperey · Walter McGinn

Plot In this drama based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1961 novel 'Heaven Has No Favorites', Al Pacino stars as jaded racecar driver Bobby Deerfield. While Deerfield's stamina and adroit driving skill...

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Ciccio Ingrassia · Franco Franchi · Virna Lisi · Gino Cervi

Plot Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Noël Coward · Joanna Shimkus

Plot The incredibly rich writer Sissy Goforth lives alone with her servants and nurses on the top of a Mediterranean island, on which she makes her own rules. Her days consist...