Film Index
Italian cinema: Drama
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...
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Federico Fellini
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...
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Roberto Rossellini
Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio (1954)
Riccardo Freda
In the 6th century AD, the Roman Emperor Justinen is making a tour of Byzantium incognito when he encounters a stunning slave girl named Teodora...
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Riccardo Freda
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...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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...
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Luchino Visconti
Tony Arzenta (1973)
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Tre fratelli (1981)
Francesco Rosi
In the early 1980s, three sons of very different temperament are summoned back to the farm where they grew up, in the rural south of Italy, by their ageing father... [More...]
Francesco Rosi
In the early 1980s, three sons of very different temperament are summoned back to the farm where they grew up, in the rural south of Italy, by their ageing father... [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 été brûlant (2011)
Philippe Garrel
Paul met Frédéric, an artist, through a mutual friend. He lives with Angèle, an actress who makes films in Italy... [More...]
Philippe Garrel
Paul met Frédéric, an artist, through a mutual friend. He lives with Angèle, an actress who makes films in Italy... [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...]
Vulcano (1950)
William Dieterle
Once charged with prostitution in Naples, Maddalena is sent by the Italian authorities back to her home village, on the island of Vulcano in southern Italy... [More...]
William Dieterle
Once charged with prostitution in Naples, Maddalena is sent by the Italian authorities back to her home village, on the island of Vulcano in southern Italy... [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 White Ribbon (2009)
Michael Haneke
On the eve of the First World War, all appears to be calm in the small protestant village of Eichwald in northern Germany... [More...]
Michael Haneke
On the eve of the First World War, all appears to be calm in the small protestant village of Eichwald in northern Germany... [More...]