Direction: Federico Fellini

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Federico Fellini. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


La Strada

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

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....

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8.2

12K votes

8.2

12K votes

Nights of Cabiria

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Plot Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We...

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Amarcord

1973 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

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

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8.0

19K votes

8.0

19K votes

Eight and a Half (8½)

1963 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Anouk Aimée · Sandra Milo

Plot Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a filmmaker who is at a crisis point in his life and his work, struggles to make a new movie. This creative block triggers his memories,...

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8.0

20K votes

8.0

20K votes

La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)

1960 · Movie · 175 min. · Italy

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...

7.8

25K votes

7.8

25K votes

I vitelloni

1953 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

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...

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7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

The Swindlers

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

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...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

And the Ship Sails On

1983 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Plot 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...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Fellini's Roma

1972 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

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

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Toby Dammit

1968 · Movie · 35 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

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

7.2

546 votes

7.2

546 votes

Juliet of the Spirits

1965 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · Sandra Milo · Mario Pisu · Valentina Cortese

Plot Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits...

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7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Ginger and Fred

1985 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · Marcello Mastroianni · Franco Fabrizi · Friedrich von Ledebur

Plot Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Boccaccio '70

1962 · Movie · 210 min. · Italy

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...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Orchesta Rehearsal

1979 · Movie · 70 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

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

Plot 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...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Clowns (TV)

1970 · Documentary · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anita Ekberg · Fanfulla · Riccardo Billi · Tino Scotti

Plot I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 television film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses. It was made for TV, the Italian...

6.9

560 votes

6.9

560 votes

Intervista

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Sergio Rubini · Marcello Mastroianni · Anita Ekberg · Federico Fellini

Plot Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a...

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6.9

628 votes

6.9

628 votes

The White Sheik

1952 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Brunella Bovo · Leopoldo Trieste · Giulietta Masina

Plot Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi),...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Casanova

1976 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Donald Sutherland · Tina Aumont · Cicely Brown · Carme Scarpita

Plot Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Variety Lights

1950 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

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...

Max

6.7

383 votes

6.7

383 votes

Fellini Satyricon

1969 · Movie · 129 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Martin Potter · Hiram Keller · Max Born · Salvo Randone

Plot In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes