Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou

Synopsis It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he and his three brothers set out to Milan in...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Bruno Zanin · Pupella Maggio · Armando Brescia · Ciccio Ingrassia

Synopsis It explores the life of a small Italian coastal town in the 1930s, during the Fascist period.

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Folco Lulli

Synopsis The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by, presumably, the Socialists to help them organize...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Burt Lancaster · Claudia Cardinale · Alain Delon · Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis Set in 1860s Sicily, it portrays the decline of an aristocratic family under the crushing weight of political change. The film traces the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Maria Schell · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean Marais · Marcella Rovena

Synopsis Luchino Visconti's utterly gorgeous 1957 picture, adapted from the Dostoyevsky story, is a rich, visually stunning masterpiece from the acclaimed filmmaker. "Le Notti Bianche" stars Marcello Mastroianni (in an early role) as a lonely stranger who comes upon a seemingly...

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Roy Scheider · Jessica Lange · Leland Palmer · Ann Reinking

Synopsis Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film celebrates show business stripped of glitz or giddy illusions. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theatre. But he can feel his...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Freddie Jones · Barbara Jefford · Victor Poletti · Norma West

Synopsis In July 1914 a luxury liner leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Peter Gonzales Falcon · Fiona Florence · Britta Barnes · Pia De Doses

Synopsis A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Lyudmila Savelyeva · Galina Andreyeva

Synopsis An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Direction Anna Maria Tatò

Cast Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis Documentary film about the actor Marcello Mastroianni. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Director Anna Maria Tatò couldn't have chosen a better title for her portrait of Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni,...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Terence Stamp · Salvo Randone · Anne Tonietti · Marina Yaru

Synopsis "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him.

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jacques Perrin · Valeria Ciangottini · Salvo Randone

Synopsis A touching story of brothers raised apart and then brought together under tragic circumstances, this drama by Valerio Zurlini remains true to Vasco Pratolini's novel. Told in a series of flashbacks as Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni) remembers the past, the brothers...

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Eros Pagni · Pina Cei

Synopsis Italy in the 30s. Tonino, a sad faced, freckled peasant, comes to Rome to kill Mussolini. He has anarchist connections, and his contact in Rome is Salome, a lively flapper and popular professional at the bordello where she lives. She...

Direction Roberto Benigni · Massimo Troisi

Cast Massimo Troisi · Roberto Benigni · Iris Peynado · Amanda Sandrelli

Synopsis Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of the 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try...

Direction Jerry London

Cast Gregory Peck · Christopher Plummer · John Gielgud · Raf Vallone

Synopsis Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities...

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

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

Synopsis 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 held in which the prize is to spend the night...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Aldo Giuffrè · Lino Mattera

Synopsis Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Francesco Aluigi · Filippo Trincaia · Balduin Baas · Elizabeth Labi

Synopsis In a Medieval Roman chapel, now an oratorio, an elderly factotum sets up for rehearsal. The musicians arrive, joking and teasing. A union shop steward explains that a TV crew is there, talking to them is optional, and there will...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi

Synopsis Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the...