Soundtrack: Giovanni Fusco

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Monica Vitti · Lea Massari · Dominique Blanchar

Plot A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Alain Delon · Monica Vitti · Francisco Rabal · Louis Seigner

Plot In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is...

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Eiji Okada · Bernard Fresson · Stella Dassas

Plot A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Steve Cochran · Alida Valli · Betsy Blair · Gabriella Pallotta

Plot After a seven-year relationship with a refinery mechanic named Aldo (Steve Cochran), Irma (Alida Valli) learns that her husband died in Australia. The news may sound tragic, but Aldo thinks...

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Barbara Laage · Armando Francioli · Eduardo De Filippo · Marcello Giorda

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Simone Signoret · Gabriele Ferzetti · Michel Vitold

Plot Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement....

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Lucía Bosé · Isa Miranda · Jean-Pierre Mocky · Goliarda Sapienza

Plot Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out gamine who falls in love...

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Alain Cuny · Rosanna Schiaffino · Jacques Perrin · Isa Miranda

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Monica Vitti · Richard Harris · Carlo Chionetti · Aldo Grotti

Plot Antonioni's first color film depicts a woman traumatized by an auto accident who finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu.

Direction Francesco Maselli

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

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Gabriele Ferzetti · Franco Fabrizi · Valentina Cortese

Plot An early drama from director Antonioni, LE AMICHE is an allegory about the changing roles of women in society. Clelia (Rossi-Drago) is a beautiful young woman who works in the...

Direction Alain Resnais

Cast Yves Montand · Ingrid Thulin · Geneviève Bujold · Jean Bouise

Plot For some soldiers, the war is never over... Legendary "New Wave" director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) helms this emotionally-charged suspense-drama set in France and on the streets of...

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 Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Massimo Girotti · Ferdinando Sarmi · Franco Fabrizi

Plot Carloni, a middle-aged detective gets a new mission from his boss: to find out as much as he can about the past of a beautiful young woman called Paola. The...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Gino Cervi · Andrea Checchi · Ivan Desny

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Franco Nero · Lee J. Cobb · Tano Cimarosa

Plot Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Pierre Brice · Georgia Moll · Pietro Germi · Bella Darvi

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Gérard Blain · Paola Borboni · Miranda Campa · Andrea Checchi

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Franco Interlenghi · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Eduardo Ciannelli · Evi Maltagliatim

Direction Marco Bellocchio · Bernardo Bertolucci · Jean-Luc Godard · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Tom Baker · Julian Beck · Jim Anderson · Judith Malina

Plot Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger) is a 1969 anthology film that includes five films directed by five Italian directors and one French director. It premiered at the 19th Berlin...