Le Bossu (1997)
Philippe de Broca

Philippe the Duke of Nevers is in love with Blanche de Caylus, the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, and he is over the moon when he learns that she has given him a child outside wedlock...   [More...]

Il Postino (1994)
Michael Radford

In the 1950s, Mario lives with his father on a small Italian island in the Mediterranean. Not wishing to follow his father's own profession as a fisherman, Mario decides instead to become the island's postman...   [More...]

La Reine Margot (1994)
Patrice Chéreau

Paris, August, 1572 - a troubled time in the history of France, a country scarred by interminable religious wars. To appease the Protestants, the Catholic queen mother Catherine de Medici arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri...   [More...]

Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Franco Zeffirelli

Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon...   [More...]

La Vita è bella (1997)
Roberto Benigni

Italy, 1939. Leaving his home in the country, Guido Orefice moves to a town in Tuscany to get a job as a waiter. There he meets and falls in love with a young schoolteacher, Dora, but she is already betrothed to another man...   [More...]