Cast: Leopoldo Trieste

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Al Pacino · Robert De Niro · Diane Keaton · Robert Duvall

Synopsis Continuing saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino business their major income source under the leadership of the increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael, whose reign as the "Don" is juxtaposed against the parallel...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Philippe Noiret · Marco Leonardi · Salvatore Cascio · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis Cinema Paradiso (1988) tells the heartfelt story of Salvatore, a successful filmmaker, who reminisces about his childhood in a small Sicilian village. As a boy, he befriends Alfredo, the projectionist at the local cinema, who introduces him to the magic...

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast Sean Connery · Christian Slater · F. Murray Abraham · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis The Name of the Rose (1986) follows Brother William of Baskerville, a Franciscan monk, and his novice Adso of Melk, as they arrive at a secluded abbey in 14th-century Italy. Tasked with investigating a mysterious death, they uncover a series...

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Synopsis I vitelloni (1953) follows five young men in a small Italian coastal town as they navigate the aimlessness of post-adolescence. Each character grapples with dreams, responsibilities, and the monotony of provincial life. Fausto, the charismatic womanizer, struggles with commitment, while...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Daniela Rocca · Stefania Sandrelli · Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the 1960s,...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Saro Urzi · Aldo Puglisi · Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis Agnese a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister's Matilde fiancé;. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything and after had hit like hell his daughter run to Peppino house and did the same. He also oblige...

Direction Renato Castellani

Cast Ronald Pickup · Carla Fracci · Giampiero Albertini · Omero Antonutti

Synopsis The complete series which cost over 10 million dollars to create, and several years to film. It provides a meticulously accurate portrayal of the life of one of the greatest composers of opera the world has ever known, Giuseppe Verdi....

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Sergio Castellitto · Tiziana Lodato · Franco Scaldati · Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis In a village in Sicily in the 50’s, the cunning Joe Morelli, equiped with his obsolete Ascania camera, swears that he is capable of making any person who wants to become a movie star’s dreams come true.

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Brunella Bovo · Leopoldo Trieste · Giulietta Masina

Synopsis Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Franca Valeri · Giovanna Ralli · Tina Pica

Synopsis Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but...

Direction Mauro Morassi · Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Anouk Aimée · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Cristina Gaioni

Direction José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast Alberto Closas · Folco Lulli · Ferdinand Anton · Lida Baarova

Synopsis After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Alberto Sordi · Sara Franchetti · Ida Galli · Nanda Primavera

Synopsis Story of an ambitious young medical school graduate, Guido Tersilli, who through not always ethical means makes a rapid career.

Direction Nicolas Roeg

Cast Donald Sutherland · Julie Christie · Hilary Mason · Renato Scarpa

Synopsis Architect John Baxter is moments too late to save his daughter Christine as she accidentally drowns in a stream on his English country estate. Afterwards, John takes up a restoration job on a cathedral in Venice so that he and...

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Irene Papas · Gabriele Ferzetti · Salvo Randone

Synopsis A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Direction René Clément

Cast Alain Delon · Barbara Lass · Gino Cervi · Rina Morelli

Synopsis Ulisse (Delon) is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Leopoldo Trieste · Paolo Bonacelli

Synopsis The story begins at a medieval dressing party. A man, dressed as the King Enrico IV, falls from his horse and hits his head. This causes him serious lesions and gets insane, believing he is really the King

Direction Steno

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Silvana Pampanini · Alberto Sordi · Sophia Loren

Synopsis Magistrate Lorusso presides over four cases brough before him during a period of one day. "Adultery in 16mm" focus on Elena who brings her salesman husband to court on charges of abandonment where he springs surprise evidence involving her affair...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Rock Hudson · Jennifer Jones · Vittorio De Sica · Oskar Homolka

Synopsis Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley. In the midst of war and some...

Direction Franco Rossi

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Max von Sydow · Frederic Forrest · Cristina Raines