Cinematography: Otello Martelli

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani

Plot Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her....

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Anita Ekberg · Anouk Aimée · Yvonne Furneaux

Plot On assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for a Roman newspaper, Marcello (Mastroianni) floats from one fabulous party to the...

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Plot Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Eva Vanicek · Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Lucía Bosé

Plot Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Mario Vitale · Renzo Cesana · Mario Sponzo

Plot Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Broderick Crawford · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Franco Fabrizi

Plot Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Mangano · Vittorio Gassman · Doris Dowling · Raf Vallone

Plot Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Nazario Gerardi · Aldo Fabrizi · Aribella Lomaitre · Roberto Sorrentino

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Plot In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and...

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti

Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo

Plot An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is...

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Fosco Giachetti · Emma Penella · José Nieto

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Alberto Sordi · Claire Bloom · Anna Carena · Gustavo D'Arpe

Direction Luciano Emmer

Cast Lino Ventura · Magali Noël · Marina Vlady · Bernard Fresson

Direction Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Carla del Poggio · Giulietta Masina · John Kitzmiller

Plot Variety Lights is a bittersweet drama about a group of second-rate theatrical performers on tour. The actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make money from town to town, playing to...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Assia Noris · Luigi Almirante · Mario Gallina

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Bertina Acevedo · Enrique Fong · Miriam Gómez · Francisco Lago

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Pierre Brasseur · Marcello Mastroianni · Raf Mattioli

Plot Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot...

Direction Alfredo Guarini · Gianni Franciolini · Roberto Rossellini · Luigi Zampa

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anna Magnani · Isa Miranda · Alida Valli

Plot Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. The first episode (of Alfredo Guarini) is the chronicle of a contest for aspirant actresses:...