Screenplay: Alberto Moravia

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Raf Vallone · Eleonora Brown

Plot Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Stefania Sandrelli · Dominique Sanda · Gastone Moschin

Plot This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more...

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Gérard Blain · Betsy Blair · Anna-Maria Ferrero

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Totò · Ben Gazzara · Fred Clark

Plot On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Jean Sorel · Lea Massari · Jeanne Valérie · Rik Battaglia

Plot Handsome, from rundown suburbs, Roman, aged twenty, unemployed with a child of 20 days and the mother of the latter to support, Davide spends a day looking for work, finds...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

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

Plot 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...

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Rod Steiger · Shelley Winters · Tomas Milian

Plot A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Paolo Colombo · Ingrid Thulin · John Saxon · Mario Bartoletti

Direction Mario Soldati

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Gabriele Ferzetti · Franco Interlenghi · Nanda Primavera

Plot Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Horst Buchholz · Catherine Spaak · Bette Davis · Isa Miranda

Plot The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Daniel Gélin · Franco Fabrizi · Raymond Pellegrin

Direction Mario Soldati

Cast Sophia Loren · Gérard Oury · Lise Bourdin · Rik Battaglia

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Sophia Loren · Robert Loggia · Leonardo Ferrantini · Dario Ghirardi

Direction Roberto de Ribón

Cast Germaine Montero · Rafael Rivelles · Juan de Landa · Pastora Peña

Direction Cédric Kahn

Cast Charles Berling · Sophie Guillemin · Arielle Dombasle · Robert Kramer

Direction Doris Dörrie

Cast Griffin Dunne · Ellen Greene · Steve Marcus · Craig T. Nelson

Plot A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

Direction Tinto Brass

Cast Katarina Vasilissa · Francesco Casale · Cristina Garavaglia · Raffaella Offidani

Plot At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Julian Sands · Joanna Pacula · Tchéky Karyo · Lara Wendel

Plot Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the...

Direction María Rodríguez

Cast Carlos Chavez · Luisa Huertas

Plot A working class couple with a lot of children try to give their youngest child away to the Holy Virgin. They go from one church to another, and get mixed...