Soundtrack: Armando Trovajoli

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · John Vernon · Françoise Berd

Synopsis Set during one of the massive rallies which marked the visit of Adolf Hitler to Mussolini’s Rome in May 1938. The story revolves around Antonietta and Gabriele, neighbors in the same apartment complex but strangers until they meet accidentally. They...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Stefano Satta Flores

Synopsis Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is the story of the life of these three idealists and how they...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

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

Synopsis 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 travel to the village where Cesira was born, where Cesira...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis "The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Francesco Anniballi · Maria Bosco · Franco Merli

Synopsis Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive...

Direction Anna Maria Tatò

Cast Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis Documentary film about the actor Marcello Mastroianni. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Director Anna Maria Tatò couldn't have chosen a better title for her portrait of Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni,...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Agostina Belli · Alessandro Momo · Moira Orfei

Synopsis An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Cuccio ("Babyfat"), and spends the next...

Direction Dino Risi · Franco Rossi · Luigi Filippo D'Amico

Cast Nino Manfredi · Ugo Tognazzi · Alberto Sordi · Umberto D'Orsi

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Anne Parillaud · Renato Moretti

Synopsis A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

Direction Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Sandra Milo · François Périer · Mario Adorf · Gastone Moschin

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Marina Vlady · Paolo Panelli

Synopsis Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) owns a cinema in Italy, named Splendor. Chantal (Marina Vlady) is his wife and cashier. Luigi (Massimo Troisi) is the projectionist. This film is about the cinema and the films that are shown on the screen. But...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Diego Abatantuono · Sergio Castellitto · Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Claude Brialy

Direction Luigi Magni

Cast Nino Manfredi · Danilo Mattei · Carme Scarpita · Giovannella Grifeo

Synopsis In 1867 three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Monsignor Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Gianni Ridolfi · Marilú Toló

Synopsis MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE presents director Vittorio De Sica's fourth collaboration with actress Sophia Loren, and the film exploits the busty Amazon for all she's worth. In the role of Filomena Marturano, a lusty prostitute, Loren's costumes range from tiny to...

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Synopsis An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Lando Buzzanca · Marino Masé

Synopsis The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti

Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

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

Synopsis 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 avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Several years and...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Claudio Fiori Cencioni · Francesco Cencioni

Synopsis A child tries to escape the Nazis by taking refuge in a cinema.

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Synopsis June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital. Determined to satisfy his curiosity, he sets...