Cinematography: Aldo Tonti

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Synopsis Nights of Cabiria (1957) follows Cabiria, a resilient but naive Roman prostitute, as she navigates a series of hopeful yet heartbreaking encounters in her search for love and redemption. Despite her tough exterior, Cabiria dreams of a better life, trusting...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Alexander Knox · Ettore Giannini · Teresa Pellati

Synopsis An American woman (Ingrid Bergman) relocates to post-war Rome to deal with her misgivings after the death of her son.

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Synopsis "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Jacques Sernas · Carla del Poggio · Leda Gloria · Isabella Riva

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Anna Magnani · Massimo Girotti · Checco Rissone · Dante Maggio

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yoko Tani · Peter O'Toole · Carlo Giustini

Synopsis Nicholas Ray's epic 1959 film about Eskimo life was unfairly victimized on release, censored at the UK cinema, and neglected by both TV and home video for decades. The Savage Innocents continued Ray's fascination with alternative lifestyles — examining the...

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Synopsis An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Roldano Lupi · Yvonne Sanson · Ave Ninchi

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Totò · Franca Faldini · Vera Molnar · Ines Florentini

Synopsis A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Annie Girardot · Ermelinda De Felice · Achille Majeroni

Synopsis A man, Antonio Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi), meets a woman, Maria (Annie Girardot), full of hair on her body. Antonio makes Maria to become a freak to earn a lot of money, and he gets married with her, too.

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Adolfo Celi · Stefania Sandrelli · Beba Loncar

Synopsis Following to "L'Armata Brancaleone (1966). Our medieval hero in his way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, with all the wildest shenanigans thrown in. He is joined by a team of wackos and on the way he meets even...

Direction John Huston

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Marlon Brando · Brian Keith · Julie Harris

Synopsis Peculiar, overheated melodrama about sexual frustration, jealousy and madness on a Southern military base. Pretentious treatment bores some viewers, but hysterical performances, over-the-top scenario should keep Southern Gothic fans entertained.

Direction Duilio Coletti

Cast Silvana Mangano · Amedeo Nazzari · Vittorio Gassman · Jacques Sernas

Synopsis Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide...

Direction Eduardo De Filippo

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Leda Gloria · Delia Scala · Gianni Musy

Synopsis A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Adolfo Celi · Tina Pica · Mario Russo · Luigi Dermasti

Synopsis On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds out how devastated and miserable the city of Naples is....

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Paolo Colombo · Ingrid Thulin · John Saxon · Mario Bartoletti

Direction Eduardo De Filippo

Cast Giulietta Masina · Paul Douglas · Alberto Sordi · Piera Arico

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

Synopsis Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Anna Magnani · Amedeo Nazzari · Carla del Poggio · Carlo Campanini

Synopsis Ernesto ritorna dalla prigionia in Germania, alla fine della Seconda Guerra mondiale. E' solo, la casa distrutta, la mamma morta, la sorella scomparsa. La ritrova in un bordello, durante la colluttazione che nasce con lo sfruttatore la ragazza rimane uccisa...