Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Robert De Niro · James Woods · Elizabeth McGovern · Tuesday Weld

Plot Ex-gangster David Aaronson (Robert DeNiro) is drawn back to New York City after years of being in hiding, despite his vow to never return after the deaths of his friends...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast José Isbert · Nino Manfredi · Emma Penella · José Luis López Vázquez

Plot An undertaker's assistant marries an executioner's daughter, and the new groom takes on his father-in-law's job but grows real squeamish when the time comes to execute someone. UK TimeOut movie...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Eli Wallach · Aldo Giuffrè

Plot First we are introduced to the Ugly, Tuco (Eli Wallach), who leaps through a window after killing the men who were out to get him. Then there is the Bad,...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Plot Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Anna Magnani · Franco Citti · Ettore Garofolo · Silvana Corsini

Plot In Pier Paolo Pasolini's beautiful drama, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is an ex-prostitute who tries to leave behind her past and make a life for her and her son but...

Direction Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

Plot Based on the best-selling book by Italian author Umberto Eco. In the 14th Century, during a meeting of the papacy in a remote italian Abbey, a brilliant English monk, William...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Enrique Irazoqui · Margherite Caruso · Marcello Morante · Luigi Barbini

Plot Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Silvana Corsini · Franca Pasut · Paola Guidi

Plot Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living...

Direction Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Yvonne Sanson · Enrica Dyrell · Alberto Farnese

Plot Guido Carani, an engineer of noble descent, has just lost his son born to him by a chorus dancer, who, desperate, has become a nun. After a while he also...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Ben Kingsley · Stuart Wilson · Karen Strassman

Plot Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Plot Director Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed people on the streets of Italy about their feelings and experiences with love and sex. Writer Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti provide commentary on...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Tomas Milian · Anna Karina · Mario Adorf · Lea Massari

Plot In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Fernando Rey · Shirley Stoler · Elena Fiore

Plot Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Louis Malle

Cast Pierre Blaise · Aurore Clément · Thérèse Giehse · Holger Lowenadler

Plot A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Peter Coyote · Emmanuelle Seigner · Hugh Grant · Kristin Scott Thomas

Plot On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a...

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Sergio Rubini · Marcello Mastroianni · Anita Ekberg · Federico Fellini

Plot Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Ninetto Davoli · Totò · Femi Benussi · Rossana Di Rocco

Plot On an empty road, an old man is walking with his son. They meet a crow that can speak. They are changed into monks and Saint Francois sent them to...