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Italian cinema: All genres
Paisà (1946)
Roberto Rossellini
Six tales of ill-fated human contact set during the liberation of Italy by the Allied forces in World War II, between 1943 and 1944...
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Roberto Rossellini
Le Petit monde de Don Camillo (1952)
Julien Duvivier
The peace and tranquillity of a rural Italian village is disrupted by the on-going hostility between a Catholic parish priest, Don Camillo, and the newly elected Communist Mayor, Peppone...
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Julien Duvivier
Plein soleil (1960)
René Clément
An impoverished young American, Tom Ripley, is offered a handsome reward by a wealthy businessman to bring his son, Philippe Greenleaf, back home to take over the family business...
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René Clément
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...
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Michael Radford
Quelle joie de vivre (1960)
René Clément
Rome, 1921. After completing his military service, an idealistic young man named Ulisse decides to enlist in the Fascist Party, believing this offers the best future for his country after WWI...
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René Clément
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...]
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...]
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960)
Luchino Visconti
After the death of her husband, Rosaria Parondi makes up her mind to leave her home in the poverty-stricken south of Italy and move to Milan in the north with her four sons... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
After the death of her husband, Rosaria Parondi makes up her mind to leave her home in the poverty-stricken south of Italy and move to Milan in the north with her four sons... [More...]
Roma, città aperta (1945)
Roberto Rossellini
Rome, during the Nazi occupation of 1943-44. The Germans have declared Rome an open city but are intent on tracking down resistance leaders... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
Rome, during the Nazi occupation of 1943-44. The Germans have declared Rome an open city but are intent on tracking down resistance leaders... [More...]
Saint Francis, God's Jester (1950)
Roberto Rossellini
Early in the 13th Century, a group of monks led by Saint Francis roam the Italian countryside, preaching their simple message to those who will hear and lending acts of kindness whenever they encounter those in need... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
Early in the 13th Century, a group of monks led by Saint Francis roam the Italian countryside, preaching their simple message to those who will hear and lending acts of kindness whenever they encounter those in need... [More...]
Le Salaire de la peur (1953)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Henri-Georges Clouzot
In a dusty, hot South American mining town, European immigrants eke out a meagre existence, struggling to find work in an area of high unemployment... [More...]
Sciuscià (1946)
Vittorio De Sica
In Rome shortly after the end of World War II, two boys, Pasquale and Giuseppe, earn money by polishing the shoes of American soldiers... [More...]
Vittorio De Sica
In Rome shortly after the end of World War II, two boys, Pasquale and Giuseppe, earn money by polishing the shoes of American soldiers... [More...]
La Signora senza camelie (1953)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Stardom comes too quickly for Clara Manni. Leaving her parents' drapers shop in Milan, she becomes a film star overnight, thanks to a small role in a film... [More...]
Michelangelo Antonioni
Stardom comes too quickly for Clara Manni. Leaving her parents' drapers shop in Milan, she becomes a film star overnight, thanks to a small role in a film... [More...]
La Stanza del figlio (2001)
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni is a psychoanalyst whose life is up-ended one day when his son, Andrea, is killed in a scuba diving accident. As the family struggles to comes to term with their loss, they receive an unexpected visit from a young girl whom Andrea met on ... [More...]
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni is a psychoanalyst whose life is up-ended one day when his son, Andrea, is killed in a scuba diving accident. As the family struggles to comes to term with their loss, they receive an unexpected visit from a young girl whom Andrea met on ... [More...]
La Strada (1954)
Federico Fellini
Learning of her sister's death, a young peasant woman Gelsomina allows herself to be sold as her replacement - mistress and assistant to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman... [More...]
Federico Fellini
Learning of her sister's death, a young peasant woman Gelsomina allows herself to be sold as her replacement - mistress and assistant to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman... [More...]
Stromboli (1950)
Roberto Rossellini
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a young Lithuanian refugee, Karin, meets an Italian fisherman, Antonio, in a camp for displaced persons... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a young Lithuanian refugee, Karin, meets an Italian fisherman, Antonio, in a camp for displaced persons... [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...]
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...]
Teorema (1968)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
A comfortable middle class family is visited by an enigmatic dark-haired young man. One by one, the members of their family - the husband, the wife, their daughter, their son, and their maid - succumb to the seductive charms of the stranger as he unleashes their innermost desires... [More...]
Pier Paolo Pasolini
A comfortable middle class family is visited by an enigmatic dark-haired young man. One by one, the members of their family - the husband, the wife, their daughter, their son, and their maid - succumb to the seductive charms of the stranger as he unleashes their innermost desires... [More...]
La Terra trema (1948)
Luchino Visconti
For generations, the Valastros have worked as fishermen in the small Sicilian fishing village of Aci Trezza. It is a hard and dangerous life, and the wholesalers they work for give them just enough money to avoid starvation... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
For generations, the Valastros have worked as fishermen in the small Sicilian fishing village of Aci Trezza. It is a hard and dangerous life, and the wholesalers they work for give them just enough money to avoid starvation... [More...]
Umberto D. (1952)
Vittorio De Sica
Umberto Domenico Ferrari is a retired civil servant living in a rented room in Rome. Having no family or friends, his only companion is his small dog, Flike... [More...]
Vittorio De Sica
Umberto Domenico Ferrari is a retired civil servant living in a rented room in Rome. Having no family or friends, his only companion is his small dog, Flike... [More...]
Un bellissimo novembre (1969)
Mauro Bolognini
After the death of his father, 17-year-old Nino is finding adolescence a traumatic and lonely ordeal. One autumn, during a holiday on the slopes of Mount Etna, he finds he is strongly attracted towards his young aunt, Cettina... [More...]
Mauro Bolognini
After the death of his father, 17-year-old Nino is finding adolescence a traumatic and lonely ordeal. One autumn, during a holiday on the slopes of Mount Etna, he finds he is strongly attracted towards his young aunt, Cettina... [More...]
Un garibaldino al convento (1942)
Vittorio De Sica
Returning to her childhood home, an old woman recalls happier times when she was a young boarder at a convent in Italy in the 1840s... [More...]
Vittorio De Sica
Returning to her childhood home, an old woman recalls happier times when she was a young boarder at a convent in Italy in the 1840s... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Around two thousand years ago, an impoverished itinerant preacher from Nazareth roams Palestine, claiming that he is the Son of God and is on a mission to redeem Mankind... [More...]
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Around two thousand years ago, an impoverished itinerant preacher from Nazareth roams Palestine, claiming that he is the Son of God and is on a mission to redeem Mankind... [More...]
Verdi - The King Of Melody (1953)
Raffaello Matarazzo
In January 1901, the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi lies on his deathbed and looks back on his eventful life and career... [More...]
Raffaello Matarazzo
In January 1901, the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi lies on his deathbed and looks back on his eventful life and career... [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...]
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...]
La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
War and Peace (1956)
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
King Vidor
Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth... [More...]
The Whip and the Body (1963)
Mario Bava
It has been many years since Kurt Menliff has been disowned by his father, Count Vladimir, after driving a servant girl to suicide... [More...]
Mario Bava
It has been many years since Kurt Menliff has been disowned by his father, Count Vladimir, after driving a servant girl to suicide... [More...]