Soundtrack: Piero Piccioni

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Paolo Bonacelli · Alain Cuny · Lea Massari

Plot The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Nino Manfredi · Gino Cervi · Michèle Mercier · Gastone Moschin

Plot In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection...

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Rod Steiger · Salvo Randone · Guido Alberti · Marcello Cannavale

Plot Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film...

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Luigi Squarzina · Gianfranco Ombuen · Edda Ferronao

Plot Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival "Palme d'Or" Prize. Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Alberto Sordi · Norma Bengell · Gabriella Conti · Ugo Attanasio

Plot A long-lost comic classic from the Golden Age of Italian cinema, lovingly restored to its original glory. The incomparable Alberto Sordi gives one of his finest performances as Antonio Badalamenti,...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Simone Signoret · Marcello Mastroianni · Gina Rovere · Sandra Milo

Plot Four prostitutes must give up the oldest profession in the world when Italy passes a law banning brothels. Left to explore other employment opportunities they decide to open a restaurant,...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Anthony Franciosa · Claudia Cardinale · Betsy Blair · Philippe Leroy

Plot Set in old Trieste and centers on a middle-aged public official and his unrequited love for a flirtatious but unpossessable girl who blithely betrays him. The melancholy hero is played...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Mangano · Joseph Cotten · Bette Davis

Plot Pepino and Antonia, two Italian proles are waiting every summer, for "the old lady", a wealthy and disabled American in order to fleece her. How? By playing cards with her...

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Agostina Belli · Turi Ferro

Plot Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who loses his job when he votes against the Mafia candidate in what he thinks is a secret ballot. He leaves his wife behind and...

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Mark Frechette · Alain Cuny · Gian Maria Volonté · Giampiero Albertini

Plot On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.

Direction Francesco Rosi

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

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 Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Riccardo Salvino · Isa Danieli

Plot A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but...

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Mario Adorf · Jean-Claude Brialy · Nino Manfredi

Plot A naive countryside girl Adriana, who dreams of a career as a star in Rome, is not an escapist or introvert; on the contrary, she tries her best to socialize...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Pierre Brasseur · Rina Morelli

Plot Women love handsome Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when...

Direction Brunello Rondi

Cast Daliah Lavi · Frank Wolff · Anna María Aveta · Tiziana Casetti

Plot Purif, young peasant of the South Italy, is considered from the people a possessed one and a witch. All of the village is hostile to its activity magical and sorceress....

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Elsa Martinelli · Laurent Terzieff · Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Alberto Sordi · Gianna Maria Canale · Ettore Geri · Elena Nicolai

Plot Giovanni Alberti is an out-of-luck building contractor in times of economic boom. The expensive habits of his wife Silvia have been forcing him to spend beyond his means. After unsuccessfully...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Anna Karina · Georges Wilson · Bernard Blier

Plot Lo Straniero (The Stranger) (1967), Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus's novel "L'Etranger", received mixed press on first release and has rarely been seen since. A man, a pied noir living...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Francesco Ruiu · Alfredo Leggi · Allen Midgette · Gabriella Giorgelli

Plot The brutalized corpse of a Roman prostitute is found along the banks of the Tiber River. The police round up a handful of possible suspects and interrogate them, one by...