Cast: Maria Michi

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Anna Magnani · Marcello Pagliero · Maria Michi

Synopsis Rome, Open City (1945) is a gripping neorealist drama set during the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944. The film follows a group of resistance fighters, including a courageous priest and a determined engineer, as they struggle against German forces...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Maria Michi · Gar Moore · Carmela Sazio · Harriet Medin

Synopsis Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Roberto Rossellini's episodic, neorealist tale of life in Italy during World War II focuses largely on the efforts of Allied soldiers and nurses,...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Renée Faure · Gérard Philipe · Lucien Coëdel · Louis Salou

Synopsis Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Marlon Brando · Maria Schneider · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis Last Tango in Paris (1972) follows the story of Paul, a grieving American widower, and Jeanne, a young Parisian woman, who meet by chance in an empty apartment. They begin a passionate, anonymous affair, agreeing to share no personal details....

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Françoise Fabian · Marthe Keller · Barbara Bouchet

Synopsis A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness.

Direction Tinto Brass

Cast Helmut Berger · Ingrid Thulin · Teresa Ann Savoy · Bekim Fehmiu

Synopsis Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself....

Direction Silvio Narizzano

Cast Franco Nero · Telly Savalas · Mark Lester · Justine Gall

Direction Peter Del Monte

Cast Alain Cuny · Olimpia Carlisi · Sibilla Sedat · Maria Michi

Direction Romolo Marcellini

Cast Sergio Amidei · Giorgio de Chirico · Renato Guttuso · Maria Michi

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Maria Michi · Massimo Girotti · Gaetano Chiurazzi

Direction Giovanni Paolucci

Cast Massimo Girotti · Marina Berti · Vittorio Gassman · Claudio Gora

Synopsis After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco's other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she...

Direction Luigi Bazzoni

Cast Jack Palance · Antonio Falsi · Guido Mannari · Tina Aumont

Synopsis A group of young desperados is hunted for several years by a determined bank guard (Jack Palance). Both the gang's actions, and their demise in a climactic finale (à la "Bonnie and Clyde") are very graphic and violent.

Direction Eriprando Visconti

Cast Anne Heywood · Hardy Krüger · Antonio Sabato · Anna Maria Alegiani

Direction Bruno Paolinelli

Cast Mel Ferrer · Magali Noël · Peter van Eyck · Jean Desailly

Direction Jean Valère

Cast Jacques Brel · Carole André · Françoise Prévost · Catherine Rouvel