Soundtrack: Mario Nascimbene

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Eva Vanicek · Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Lucía Bosé

Plot Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy...

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Simone Signoret · Laurence Harvey · Heather Sears · Hermione Baddeley

Plot The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Ernest Borgnine · Janet Leigh

Plot Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Marius Goring

Plot At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jacqueline Sassard · Cathia Caro

Plot Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jacques Perrin · Luciana Angiolillo · Gian Maria Volonté

Plot Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Tomas Milian · Anna Karina · Mario Adorf · Lea Massari

Plot In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ugo Cardea · Anne Pouchie · Claude Berthy · Gabriele Banchero

Plot As profoundly simple as its hero’s famous statement “I think, therefore I am,” Roberto Rossellini’s Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Pierre Arditi · Rita Forzano · Giuseppe Addobbati · Christian De Sica

Plot In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

Direction Shadi Abd al-Salam

Cast Ahmed Marei · Ahmad Hegazi · Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim · Nadia Lutfi

Plot In Cairo, in the late 19th century, French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero notices that the Pharaonic tombs near Thebes have been looted and that the black-market trade in ancient artefacts has...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Jean Sylvère · Anne Caprile · Giuseppe Mannajuolo · Ricardo Palacios

Plot This is one of several biographical films by the famed Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, one of whose better-known films is Stromboli. The script is based on Platonic dialogues and...

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Silvana Mangano · Frank Wolff · Vivi Gioi · Françoise Prévost

Plot This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her...

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Alain Delon · Sonia Petrovna · Giancarlo Giannini · Lea Massari

Direction Jack Cardiff

Cast Trevor Howard · Dean Stockwell · Wendy Hiller · Heather Sears

Plot Set in an English mining town, the film focuses on Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell), the sensitive son of a roughhewn, alcoholic miner (Trevor Howard) and his gentle, repressed wife (Wendy...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Umberto Melnati · Maria Pia Casilio · Roberto Risso · Ludmilla Dudarova

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Rita Josa · Rosanna Carta · Enrico Pelliccia · Donatella Marrosu

Plot A daring new film experience... Made without fear...without taboos!

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Audie Murphy · Michael Redgrave · Claude Dauphin · Georgia Moll

Plot In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit Michael Redgrave....

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Jack Palance

Plot Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the ghost of the prophet for the...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Antonio Cifariello · Livia Venturini · Maresa Gallo · Angela Pierro

Direction Vittorio De Sica · Gianni Franciolini

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Vittorio De Sica · Franca Valeri · Anna-Maria Ferrero

Plot VILLA BORGHESE is a film consisting of six vignettes (cut to five in its U.S. release) that are all set in the Roman park that bears that name. All the...