Screenplay: Puccini

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 Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Plot "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a...

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 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 Frédéric Mitterrand

Cast Richard Cowan · Richard Troxell · Ying Huang · Ning Liang

Plot Director Frederic Mitterand's acclaimed cinematic adaptation of Puccini's popular opera is the first filmed version to use both Western and Eastern actors. Presented by Martin Scorcese, this tragic tale of...

Direction Robert Dornhelm

Cast Anna Netrebko · Rolando Villazón · Nicole Cabell · Tiziano Bracci

Plot "La Bohème" is about the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, set in Paris in the year 1830.

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Lucía Bosé · Folco Lulli · Maria Grazia Francia

Plot Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock of sheep have been stolen by the area thuggish big-shot landlord Agostino...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis · Leopoldo Savona

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Marina Vlady · Giulio Cali · Angelina Longobardi

Direction Giuseppe de Santis · Leopoldo Savona

Cast Silvana Mangano · Yves Montand · Pedro Armendáriz · Irene Cefaro

Direction Puccini

Cast Nino Manfredi · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Gianrico Tedeschi

Direction Nanni Loy · Fernando Palacios · Puccini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Aurora Bautista · Luigi Tosi · Alberto de Amicis

Plot Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple.

Direction Puccini

Cast Ray Danton · Gianna Serra · Jacques Herlin · Aldo Berti

Plot "Big Smile", an important gangster, is nursing a deep wound. He is disappointed in his son, Joe. He sees that his boy, already thirty, has never accomplished anything bad. He...

Direction Puccini · Gabriele Palmieri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Giovanna Ralli · Vittorio De Sica · Memmo Carotenuto

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Amedeo Nazzari · Massimo Girotti · Umberto Spadaro

Direction Nanni Loy · Puccini

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Abbe Lane · Nadia Gray · Andrea Checchi

Direction Puccini

Cast Franco Franchi · Ciccio Ingrassia · Rosalba Neri · Franca Polesello

Plot Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

Direction Puccini

Cast Franco Franchi · Ciccio Ingrassia · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Vittorio Caprioli

Direction Puccini

Cast Daniela Rocca · Tomas Milian · Philippe Leroy · Lilla Brignone

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Anna-Maria Ferrero · Massimo Serato · Andrea Checchi · Barbara Shelley

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Massimo Girotti · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Giulietta Masina · Liliana Gerace