Cast: Franco Fabrizi

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · François Périer · Amedeo Nazzari · Aldo Silvani

Synopsis Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We follow her nights (and days): a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Franco Fabrizi · Franco Interlenghi · Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters of the likeable boys, one of whom depends on his...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Valentina Cortese · Franco Fabrizi · Juan Calvo

Synopsis A renown atomic scientist escapes from his world of formulas and destruction and finds a respite in a Spanish seaside village.

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Lea Massari · Franco Fabrizi · Lina Volonghi

Synopsis The existence of a minority of Italians unable to adapt to "bourgeois" civilian life after spending too many years soldiering during the 2nd world war.

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Broderick Crawford · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and daughter and wants to paint. Augusto avoids the personal...

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

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

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · Marcello Mastroianni · Franco Fabrizi · Friedrich von Ledebur

Synopsis Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Claudia Cardinale · Franco Fabrizi · Eleonora Rossi Drago

Synopsis A masked bandit steals valuables from Commendatore Anzaloni's apartment and flees, leaving Anzaloni unharmed. Inspector Ingravallo is called in. The robbery is suspicious; the thief found the jewellery too quickly. The neighbour, Liliana Banducci, employs a servant girl, Assuntina. Her...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Virna Lisi · Gastone Moschin · Nora Ricci · Alberto Lionello

Synopsis A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country": a pseudo Don Giovanni confesses his impotence to the doctor in confidence but he becomes betrayed by him - the medic speaks about his patient...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Gabriele Ferzetti · Franco Fabrizi · Valentina Cortese

Synopsis An early drama from director Antonioni, LE AMICHE is an allegory about the changing roles of women in society. Clelia (Rossi-Drago) is a beautiful young woman who works in the fashion industry, where she discovers a world of shallow people...

Direction Luciano Emmer

Cast Luciana Angiolillo · Gabriele Ferzetti · Iréne Tunc · Gina Busin

Direction Edouard Molinaro

Cast Lino Ventura · Sandra Milo · Franco Fabrizi · Jacques Berthier

Synopsis Excellent, very entertaining cat-and-mouse thriller, as an avenging husband (the incomparable Lino Ventura) tries to kill a witness to a murder. In its spare monochrome Decae photography, cool jazz soundtrack, nocturnal settings, focus on elaborate plot mechanics, and privileging of...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Mario Adorf · Jean-Claude Brialy · Nino Manfredi

Synopsis A naive countryside girl Adriana, who dreams of a career as a star in Rome, is not an escapist or introvert; on the contrary, she tries her best to socialize and befriend people, but the results are most disappointing and...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Massimo Girotti · Ferdinando Sarmi · Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis Carloni, a middle-aged detective gets a new mission from his boss: to find out as much as he can about the past of a beautiful young woman called Paola. The orderer is her husband, a wealthy upper-class managing director who...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Walter Matthau · Nicoletta Braschi · John Lurie

Synopsis Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone...

Direction Steno

Cast Enrico Maria Salerno · Mariangela Melato · Mario Adorf · Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis It tells the gripping story of an organized vigilante group that kills criminals who couldn't be convicted by the police. Enrico Maria Salerno is the police officer who tries to discover the big ones behind the vigilante group.

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Totò · Franca Valeri · Peppino De Filippo · Gino Cervi

Direction Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Marcello Mastroianni · Camillo Pilotto · Franco Fabrizi

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Daniel Gélin · Franco Fabrizi · Raymond Pellegrin

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Franca Valeri · Franco Fabrizi