Cinematography: Luciano Tovoli

Direction Jacques Perrin · Jacques Cluzaud

Cast Jacques Perrin · Lancelot Perrin

Synopsis Oceans (2009) is a breathtaking documentary that explores the vast and mysterious underwater world. Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, the film takes viewers on a mesmerizing journey across the globe, showcasing the beauty, diversity, and fragility of marine...

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Cast Vittorina Pisano · Michele Cossu · Peppeddu Cuccu

Synopsis In the harsh granite mountains of the center of the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, an old people live at the town of Orgòsolo. Between the rocks and the oak woods, shepherds attend their flock of sheep like...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Marlène Jobert · Jean Yanne · Christine Fabréga · Patricia Perangeli

Synopsis The film delves deeply into the last days of an affair between a married man and a young woman who have been together for six years.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Anne Parillaud · Renato Moretti

Synopsis A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Marina Vlady · Paolo Panelli

Synopsis Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) owns a cinema in Italy, named Splendor. Chantal (Marina Vlady) is his wife and cashier. Luigi (Massimo Troisi) is the projectionist. This film is about the cinema and the films that are shown on the screen. But...

Direction Francis Veber

Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Jacques Villeret · Francis Huster · Daniel Prévost

Synopsis The Dinner Game (1998) follows a group of snobbish Parisian intellectuals who host weekly dinners, each inviting a "fool" to mock. Pierre, a publisher, believes he's found the ultimate guest in François, a bumbling civil servant obsessed with matchstick models....

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Jack Nicholson · Maria Schneider · Jenny Runacre · Ambroise Bia

Synopsis David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a frustrated and disillusioned war correspondent and TV journalist who is in Africa to cover a Civil War, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the...

Direction Carlo Verdone

Cast Carlo Verdone · Irina Sanpiter · Elisa Fabrizi · Angelo Infanti

Direction Franco Brusati

Cast Nino Manfredi · Johnny Dorelli · Anna Karina · Paolo Turco

Synopsis Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker.

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Synopsis Andrei Tarkovsky, accompanied by his Italian script-writer, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for "Nostalghia". During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovsky to reflect on his work and on his past as a film-maker and...

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Laura Morante · Roberto Vezzosi · Remo Remotti

Synopsis Michele (Nanni Moretti) is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca (Laura Morante), and a relationship begins...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Synopsis A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Federico Fellini · Vittorio Viviani · Sergio Rubini · Antonella Attili

Synopsis The film is a reminiscence/portrait of Federico Fellini, put together by Ettore Scola on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the director’s death. In addition to the richness of the movies made by a peerless master—now the common heritage...

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Sophie Marceau · Richard Anconina · Pascale Rocard

Synopsis A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Jessica Harper · Stefania Casini · Flavio Bucci · Udo Kier

Synopsis In Suspiria (1977), a young American ballet student, Suzy Bannion, arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Germany. Strange events and unsettling occurrences plague the school, from eerie whispers to gruesome murders. Suzy grows suspicious of the academy's staff and...

Direction Francis Veber

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Gérard Depardieu · Thierry Lhermitte · Michèle Laroque

Synopsis The Closet (2001) follows François Pignon, a timid accountant on the verge of losing his job. To save his career, his eccentric neighbor devises an unconventional plan: spread a rumor that François is gay, hoping the company will keep him...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vincent Pérez · Emmanuelle Béart · Massimo Troisi · Ornella Muti

Synopsis In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad weather. They see a castle and ask the servant Pietro...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Giuliano Gemma · Helmut Griem · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars,...

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Jeremy Irons · Glenn Close · Ron Silver · Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to murder his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close), who lies in a coma. As Dershowitz, aided by his eager law students, scrambles...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Oliver Reed · Carole André · Lionel Stander

Synopsis A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the...