Cinematography: Giuseppe Lanci

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Oleg Yankovskiy · Erland Josephson · Domiziana Giordano · Patrizia Terreno

Plot It tells the story of a Russian poet, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) who travels to Italy to conduct research for an opera libretto he is writing. Andrei is apparently oblivious...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Margarita Lozano · Claudio Bigagli · Omero Antonutti · Franco Franchi

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Laura Morante · Jasmine Trinca · Giuseppe Sanfelice

Plot This film explores the question of whether even the most well-adjusted and happy family can deal effectively with the sudden death of one of the children of the family. Giovanni,...

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Renato Carpentieri · Antonio Neiwiller · Jennifer Beals

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Silvio Orlando · Mariella Valentini · Asia Argento

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Silvio Orlando · Silvia Nono · Pietro Moretti

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Claudio Bigagli · Galatea Ranzi · Michael Vartan · Lino Capolicchio

Plot While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Turi Ferro · Antonio Albanese · Lello Arena · Sabrina Ferilli

Plot Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Lou Castel · Ángela Molina · Emmanuelle Riva · Michel Piccoli

Plot Aging actor Giovanni returns home for the funeral of his twin brother Pippo. The family tells him that Pippo has committed suicide leaving behind a short note explaining his motives....

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Claire Nebout · Grazyna Szapolowska · Claudio Emeri

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Paolo Bonacelli · Franco Volpi

Plot An accident-prone bus driver (Roberto Benigni), who happens to be an exact lookalike for a Sicilian mob boss marked for death, is set up for assassination by the capo's wife...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Vincent Spano · Joaquim de Almeida · Greta Scacchi · Désirée Nosbusch

Plot After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing...

Direction Paolo Franchi

Cast Barbora Bobulova · Andrea Renzi · Brigitte Catillon · Chiara Picchi

Plot Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

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

Plot 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...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Andrea Di Stefano · Barbora Bobulova · Toni Bertorelli · Anita Laurenzi

Plot One night, in the palace's garden, the Prince of Homburg - Commander of the German cavalry during the Thirty Year War against the Swedes - braids a crown of laurel;...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Maya Sansa · Jacqueline Lustig

Plot Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Béatrice Dalle · Daniel Ezralow · Corinne Touzet · Jacques Weber

Plot The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Julian Sands · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Nastassja Kinski · Massimo Bonetti

Plot Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Michel Piccoli · Anouk Aimée · Michele Placido · Gisella Burinato

Plot Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies....

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Fanny Ardant · Greta Scacchi · Valeria Golino · Sergio Castellitto