Cast: Laura Betti

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Synopsis 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 his relationship will be pushed to its limits due to...

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Jean-Christophe Bouvet · Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Laura Betti

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Leo Genn · Giovanna Ralli · Sergei Bondarchuk · Hannes Messemer

Synopsis In the tumult of Nazi-occupied Rome, a sympathetic bootlegger, already accustomed to living outside the law, opens her home to a trio of escaped Allied prisoners of war--an American, a Russian, and a Briton--jeopardizing her safety and that of her...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Orson Welles · Mario Cipriani · Laura Betti · Edmonda Aldini

Synopsis A lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in order to win a little food.

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Christian Neinisch · Nazzareno Bianconi · Mario Adorf · Harun Farocki

Synopsis Based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, AMERIKA, the story follows the bizarre wanderings of 17-year-old Karl Rossmann, a serious-minded German bourgeois, sent to America by his parents to avoid a family scandal. Already the victim of the authority of...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Totò · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Franco Franchi

Synopsis Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Terence Stamp · Silvana Mangano · Laura Betti · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Fabio Garriba · Carla Tatò · Jacques Herlin

Synopsis We are just a few days before the general elections. The daughter of a well-known professor is found dead. Mr Bizanti editor in chief of newspaper "Il Giornale", in agreement with its owner Mr. Montelli, decides to charge of following...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Yves Beneyton · Renato Scarpa · Aldo Sassi · Lou Castel

Synopsis This is one of the fiercest and most acute attacks on religion, power and authority. Bellochio, one of the uncompromising directors in Italy, provides with In the Name of the Father a caustic examination of the way authoritarian institutions operate...

Direction Francesca Archibugi

Cast Sergio Castellitto · Gigi Reder · Laura Betti · Anna Galiena

Synopsis After many years of medical treatment Valentina, apparently an epileptic girl, has been sent to a psychiatric clinic. Here she finds Arturo, a young psychiatrist, who notwithstanding his problematic personal life and the Italian Public Health Service's overwhelming inefficiencies, is...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Synopsis In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Matthew Barry · Veronica Lazar · Renato Salvatori

Synopsis Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Synopsis June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital. Determined to satisfy his curiosity, he sets...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Jane Birkin · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Philippe Léotard · Farid Chopel

Synopsis Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis Based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. The adaptation covers eight of the 24 tales and contains abundant nudity, sex, and slapstick humor. Many of...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Roberto Rossellini · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ugo Gregoretti

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Bruce Balaban · Maria Pia Schiaffino · Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Remo Girone · Laura Betti · Pamela Villoresi · Giulio Brogi

Synopsis A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character. After the young man in this story suffers the...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Pierre Clémenti · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Alberto Lionello · Ugo Tognazzi

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Paolo Bonacelli · Giorgio Cataldi · Umberto Paolo Quintavalle · Aldo Valletti

Synopsis Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) is a controversial and provocative film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Set in the final days of World War II in the fascist Republic of Salò, the story follows four powerful libertines...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Lea Massari · Mimsy Farmer · Laura Betti

Synopsis A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.