Screenplay: Franco Solinas

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader

Synopsis The Battle of Algiers (1966) is a gripping historical drama set during the Algerian War of Independence. The film depicts the brutal conflict between the National Liberation Front (FLN) and French colonial forces in the 1950s. Through a realistic, documentary-style...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Renato Salvatori · Jacques Weber · O.E. Hasse

Synopsis Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Marlon Brando · Evaristo Márquez · Renato Salvatori · Norman Hill

Synopsis The man who sells war. The bloodier the battle - the higher the price. He's going to make a fortune on this one.

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Susan Strasberg · Laurent Terzieff · Emmanuelle Riva · Didi Perego

Synopsis A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yoko Tani · Peter O'Toole · Carlo Giustini

Synopsis Nicholas Ray's epic 1959 film about Eskimo life was unfairly victimized on release, censored at the UK cinema, and neglected by both TV and home video for decades. The Savage Innocents continued Ray's fascination with alternative lifestyles — examining the...

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Frank Wolff · Salvo Randone · Federico Zardi · Pietro Cammarata

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Yves Montand · Alida Valli · Francisco Rabal · Peter Carsten

Synopsis The nearly forgotten first feature by director Gillo Pontecorvo is an engaging artifact that whips up some strong suspense, in which a poor Italian fisherman named Squarcio (Yves Montand) supports his growing family (including Alida Valli as his wife) through...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Alain Delon · Jeanne Moreau · Francine Bergé · Juliet Berto

Synopsis Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their treasures to unscrupulous people like Klein. Then, one day, Klein...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Jean Yanne · Gabriel Byrne · Mohammed Bakri

Synopsis An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Jack Palance · Tony Musante · Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw...

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Annie Girardot · Renato Salvatori · Gabriele Lavia

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Sandra Milo · Laurent Terzieff · Martine Carol · Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Klaus Kinski · Martine Beswick · Lou Castel

Synopsis El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the...

Direction Giulio Petroni

Cast Tomas Milian · Orson Welles · John Steiner · Luciano Casamonica

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Sophia Loren · Robert Hossein · Julien Bertheau · Renaud Mary

Synopsis Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that after the war the grateful Emperor bestows on the now...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Vittorio Gassman · Robert Alda · Anne Vernon

Direction Romolo Marcellini

Cast Rik Battaglia · Sylva Koscina · Margit Nünke · Gustavo Rojo

Direction Luigi Comencini

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

Direction Paolo Heusch · Brunello Rondi

Cast Franco Citti · Serena Vergano · Enrico Maria Salerno · Angelo Maria Santiamantini

Synopsis Based on a novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini,it chronicles the life and death of Tommaso, a street kid who is equally comfortable running with the Fascists, the Communists and just plain thieves. Tommaso's milieu is the filthy slums outside Rome;...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Armida Gianassi · Carla Pozzi

Synopsis This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the factory's dismissal plan, by occupying the factory...