Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) ; Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become known as Darth Vader, is just a 9-year-old boy. When the Trade Federation cuts off all routes to the planet Naboo, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are assigned to settle the matter.- Released: 1999
- Directed by: George Lucas
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The sweeping expanses of the Sahara are the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel. A badly burned man, Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man.- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Anthony Minghella
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosue that their time in the camp is merely a game.- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Roberto Benigni
After successfully robbing five casinos in one night, Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his crew of thieves have big problems. Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history, the members of the gang have already spent much of the money they stole. Casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) demands that Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Europe.- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
In The Talented Mr. Ripley, a psychological thriller, Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a man of modest means, is sent to Italy to bring back the wayward son of a wealthy businessman. Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), the playboy heir, and his girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow) introduce Ripley to a world of elegance and luxury he's never known. As he becomes more entwined in their lavish lifestyle, Ripley resorts to deceit, fraud and even murder to maintain it. Directed by Anthony Minghella, this film earned five Oscar nominations.- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Anthony Minghella
Following the death of Vesper Lynd, James Bond (Daniel Craig) makes his next mission personal. The hunt for those who blackmailed his lover leads him to ruthless businessman Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a key player in the organization which coerced Vesper. Bond learns that Greene is plotting to gain total control of a vital natural resource, and he must navigate a minefield of danger and treachery to foil the plan.- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Marc Forster
Cleopatra, a sweeping historical drama, paints an epic tale of power and betrayal. Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor), the charismatic queen of Egypt, embarks on a tumultuous love affair with Roman general Mark Antony (Richard Burton). As their relationship unfolds amidst political intrigue, they face opposition from Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and the Roman Empire itself. This grand spectacle bagged four Academy Awards, including Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. With its lavish sets and stunning performances, Cleopatra remains a landmark in cinematic history. It's a sprawling saga that explores the intersection of passion, ambition, and destiny.- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
When a British ship is sunk in foreign waters, the world's superpowers begin a feverish race to find its cargo: a nuclear submarine control system. And 007 (Roger Moore) is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures as he rushes to join the search ... and prevent global devastation!- Released: 1981
- Directed by: John Glen
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, internationally released as Cinema Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Salvatore Cascio, and was produced by Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli, while the music score was composed by Ennio Morricone along with his son, Andrea.- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
In a globe-trotting assignment that has him skiing off the edges of cliffs and driving a car deep underwater, British super-spy James Bond (Roger Moore) unites with sexy Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to defeat megalomaniac shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens), who is threatening to destroy New York City with nuclear weapons. Bond's most deadly adversary on the case is Stromberg's henchman, Jaws (Richard Kiel), a seven-foot giant with terrifying steel teeth.- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
In the 14th century, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), a renowned Franciscan monk, and his apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater), travel to an abbey where a suspicious death has occurred. Using his deductive powers, William begins investigating what he believes to be murder. During the course of his investigation, several more monks wind up dead. With fear running through the abbey, the church leaders call forth Bernardo Gui (F. Murray Abraham), William's nemesis, to find the truth.- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
A British crook (Michael Caine) robs gold ingots in Italy by having a computer expert (Benny Hill) cause a traffic jam.- Released: 1969
- Directed by: Peter Collinson
Romeo and Juliet breathes life into William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of star-crossed lovers. Set against the backdrop of Renaissance Verona, the passionate love story of Romeo (Leonard Whiting) and Juliet (Olivia Hussey) unfolds, as their families, the Montagues and Capulets, are embroiled in a bitter feud. Their clandestine romance leads to tragic consequences, showcasing the profound costs of hatred and the transcendent power of love.- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
When a German U-571 submarine with a sophisticated encryption machine onboard is sunk during a World War II battle at sea, the Allies send an American Navy force led by Lieutenant Andrew Tyler (Matthew McConaughey) to retrieve it for study. Boarding the German ship, the Americans' cover as a rescue force is quickly blown. Forced to take the crew hostage, the Americans lay their explosives and prepare to destroy the German vessel before the Nazis can send naval backup.- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
During summer break, Lizzie McGuire (Hilary Duff) and her closest pals head off on a school-sponsored journey to Rome. Before long she makes the acquaintance of Paolo Valisari (Yani Gellman), a local music sensation whose duet partner looks almost exactly like Lizzie. Since Paolo and his collaborator recently feuded, Lizzie agrees to stand in for the girl at a massive concert and pretend to sing while a recording plays. But when things don't go as planned, she must rely on her own vocal chops.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Jim Fall
Upon breaking out of a dungeon, youthful thief Phillipe Gaston (Matthew Broderick) befriends Capt. Navarre (Rutger Hauer), a man with a strange secret. Navarre and his lover Lady Isabeau d'Anjou (Michelle Pfeiffer) were cursed by the wicked Bishop of Aquila (John Wood), who desires Lady Isabeau for himself. His dark magic prevents the pair from ever being in each other's presence except at twilight, so they enlist Gaston in a dangerous plot to overthrow the Bishop and break his evil enchantment.- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Richard Donner
World War II story about Allied prisoners who stage a mass breakout from an Italian POW camp, commandeer a train and head towards the Swiss border. As the Italian war effort collapses, the escapees are aided by their captors, but when the Germans catch on, they set out to halt the escape with an armored train and aerial attack.- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Mark Robson
Something is causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies, and cemetery custodian Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) grows tired of killing them all for the second time. However, the town politicians won't listen to him, so Francesco is on his own. One day, he falls for a beautiful woman (Anna Falchi) whose husband has recently died -- but their affair is tragically interrupted by zombies, sending Francesco into a tailspin of madness and woe.- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Michele Soavi
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John (Alec Baldwin) encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry (Woody Allen) discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple (Alessandro Tiberi, Alessandra Mastronardi) have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man (Roberto Benigni).- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Woody Allen
Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano in 1930s Fascist Italy. The film's title is a Romagnol neologism for "I remember." Titta's sentimental education is emblematic of Italy's "lapse of conscience." Fellini skewers Mussolini's ludicrous posturings and those of a Catholic Church that "imprisoned Italians in a perpetual adolescence" by mocking himself and his fellow villagers in comic scenes that underline their incapacity to adopt genuine moral responsibility or outgrow foolish sexual fantasies. The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Director and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Federico Fellini
The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. Jackson). Over the years between, the violin travels through four different countries, where it has a profound impact on all those who own it.- Released: 1998
- Directed by: François Girard
The magnificent Giulietta Masina (Fellini's wife) plays an eternally optimistic Rome streetwalker with a heart of gold and a head of cotton candy in her husband's Oscar-winning masterpiece. This funny, poignant classic inspired the musical "Sweet Charity" and is a must-see for Fellini fans.- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Federico Fellini
While visiting Verona, Italy, with her busy fiance, a young woman named Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) visits a wall where the heartbroken leave notes to Shakespeare's tragic heroine, Juliet Capulet. Finding one such letter from 1957, Sophie decides to write to its now elderly author, Claire (Vanessa Redgrave). Inspired by Sophie's actions, Claire sets out to find her long-lost lover, accompanied by her disapproving grandson (Christopher Egan) and Sophie.- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Gary Winick
Mo (Brendan Fraser) and his daughter, Meggie, have the ability to bring storybook characters to life just by reading aloud. That gift backfires when he accidentally summons Capricorn, the evil villain of the novel "Inkheart." Mo and Meggie must find a way to send him back to his literary realm, but the task will not be easy, for the malefactor likes his new world and will not leave it voluntarily.- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Iain Softley
Il Postino: The Postman is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the US as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title. However, since the release of Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic film of the same name, the film has gone by the title Il Postino: The Postman. The film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a relationship with a simple postman who learns to love poetry. It stars Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. The screenplay was adapted by Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, and Massimo Troisi from the novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta. In 1983, Skármeta himself wrote and directed the film "Ardiente paciencia", which he later adapted to the novel of the same name in 1985. Writer/star Massimo Troisi postponed heart surgery so that he could complete the film. The day after filming was completed, he suffered a fatal heart attack.- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Michael Radford
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) that her true love is a guy named Damon Bradley, but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she may be able to finally encounter the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets the charming Peter Wright (Robert Downey Jr.). But can they fall in love if she still believes that she is intended to be with someone else?- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Norman Jewison
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot (Miranda Richardson) and Lottie Wilkins (Josie Lawrence) decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester (Polly Walker), a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher (Joan Plowright), an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.- Released: 1991
- Directed by: Mike Newell
When she was 15, pretty but callow Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) visited the Tuscan town where her mother once enchanted the local male population. Four years later, in the wake of her mother's suicide, Lucy returns to the village. She plans to write some poetry, learn more about her family history and reunite with a boy she once kissed. Surveying an expansive field of suitors, Lucy finds herself taken with unattainable Alex (Jeremy Irons), as her journey imparts some unexpected lessons about love.- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Captain America is a 1990 direct-to-video American-Yugoslavian superhero film directed by Albert Pyun. The film is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. While the film takes several liberties with the comic's storyline, it features Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during WWII to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States from a family that dislikes his environmentalist policies.- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Albert Pyun
Having scorned every member of the New York upper class, the seductive Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) travels to Amalfi, Italy, hoping to win over a married aristocrat, Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers). When news of their flirting becomes a scandal, Windermere's innocent wife, Meg (Scarlett Johansson), plots an elaborate revenge, despite her own attraction to the young Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore). At Meg's 20th birthday party, all illicit desires come to the surface.- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Mike Barker
Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In its English subtitled release it was named, Open City. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. The film won several awards at various film festivals, including the most prestigious Cannes' Grand Prize, and was also nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards.- Released: 1945
- Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
The Sign of Venus is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Sophia Loren. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Dino Risi
In this film adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, Grumio (Cyril Cusack) and Hortensio (Victor Spinetti) both long to wed the same beautiful young woman. Unfortunately, her wealthy father (Michael Hordern) will not let his daughter marry unless her hot-tempered sister, Katherina (Elizabeth Taylor), also has a suitor. Luckily, the slovenly Petruchio (Richard Burton) is looking for an affluent woman to marry, so Grumio and Hortensio pay him to try to woo the extremely volatile Katherina.- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
This expansive period drama follows two childhood friends in northern Italy during the early 20th century. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) and Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu) grow up as close companions despite their class differences. However, they drift apart as adults, Alfredo embracing his landowning heritage and Olmo championing workers' rights. As the years go by, they see the rise of fascism in their country, and eventually their values find them directly in conflict.- Released: 1976
- Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
The third book in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series, "Ripley's Ball" is set in present day Italy, where art connoisseur, harpsichord aficionado, master of soufflés and genius of improvisational murder, Ripley (John Malkovich) finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a local party. While any ordinary sociopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler, and infinitely more sinister.- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Liliana Cavani
Paisan
Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots JohnsonRoberto Rossellini's film, made in the aftermath of WWII, consists of six distinct chapters, showing various relationships between the American occupiers and the newly liberated Italians. Two of the outstanding episodes see black military policeman Dotts Johnson robbed of his shoes by a cheeky street urchin while the film ends with a reminder that the war was still not won, as German troops prefer to fight a battle to the death.- Released: 1946
- Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Stromboli
Ingrid Bergman, Renzo Cesana, Mario VitaleStromboli is a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism.- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Poveri ma belli is a successful 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. There are two sequels, all directed by Dino Risi and starred by Renato Salvatori and Maurizio Arena: Belle ma povere Poveri milionari- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Dino Risi
Shoeshine
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo MeleThough orphan Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) and his best friend, Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni), squirrel away the money they earn shining shoes in Rome, their dream of buying a horse seems out of reach until Giuseppe's older brother ropes them into a scheme to con money from a local fortune teller. The boys are able to purchase the horse, but end up in a juvenile detention center where they are slowly driven apart by police determined to make one of them talk.- Released: 1946
- Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Un amore perfetto
Martina Stella, Maria Mazza, Cesare CremoniniUn amore perfetto is a 2002 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Valerio Andrei. It stars Cesare Cremonini, who at the time of the film's release was the lead singer of the popular Italian music group Lùnapop; Martina Stella, then an emerging star following her debut performance in the 2001 film L'ultimo bacio; and Denis Fasolo.- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Valerio Andrei
Three Strangers in Rome
Claudia Cardinale, Nando Bruno, Turi PandolfiniTre straniere a Roma, also known as Three Strangers in Rome, is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Claudio Gora starring Claudia Cardinale. The film was one of the very first movies with Claudia Cardinale in a leading role.- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Claudio Gora
Swept Away is a 1974 Italian adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film is about a wealthy woman whose yachting vacation with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are separated from the others and they become stranded on a deserted island. The woman's capitalist beliefs and the man's communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive their situation, their social roles are reversed. Swept Away received the 1975 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Top Foreign Film. The original English title of the film was a translation of the original Italian title: Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August. The English title was later truncated to Swept Away in subsequent releases.- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
In 1918, 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) signs up for service in World War I. After a bomb goes off on the front line, filling his leg with shrapnel, Hemingway is transported to a hospital, where he begs Dr. Domenico Caracciolo (Emilio Bonucci) not to amputate. Under the care of 26-year-old Austrian nurse Agnes von Kuroswky (Sandra Bullock), Hemingway slowly recovers. The two begin an affair, but Agnes is torn between the immature young man and the more stable Caracciolo.- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Ex-CIA agent John Creasy (Scott Glenn) is looking for work, but he's burnt out on combat following his stint in the Vietnam War. Reluctantly, he takes a job as private bodyguard for a wealthy family in Italy, guarding their 12-year-old daughter Sam (Jade Malle) against the threat of a Mafia kidnapping. Initially, John is bored and annoyed with watching the child, but soon he begins to genuinely care for Sam, and the job gets much more exciting when the parents' fears prove to be well-founded.- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Élie Chouraqui
Flesh and Blood is a 1985 dramatic adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson. The script was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman. The story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the passing of the Late Middle Ages to the Early modern period, and follows two warring groups of mercenaries and their convoluted and longstanding quarrels. The script is partly based on unused material for the Dutch TV series Floris, which was the début for Verhoeven, Soeteman and Hauer. The film, originally titled God's Own Butchers, was also known as The Rose and the Sword on early VHS releases.- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Senso
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo GirottiSenso is a 1954 melodrama film, an adaptation of Camillo Boito's Italian novella Senso by the Italian director Luchino Visconti, with Alida Valli as Livia Serpieri and Farley Granger as Lieutenant Franz Mahler. Originally, Visconti had hoped to cast Ingrid Bergman and Marlon Brando in the lead roles, but Bergman was not interested in the part, and Brando was nixed by the producers who considered Granger a bigger star, at the time. Both Franco Zeffirelli and Francesco Rosi, later accomplished film and theater directors in their own right, worked as Visconti's assistants on the picture.- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Facing Windows is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Ferzan Özpetek. Tagline: Desire knows no bounds.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Ferzan Özpetek
An Average Little Man is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Vincenzo Cerami. The first hour is a fine example of commedia all'italiana but the second part is a psychological drama and a tragedy. The film was an entrant in the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Mario Monicelli
The Best of Youth, is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a four-part mini-series, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard award. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy in two three-hour parts in which 40 minutes were edited out. The complete version was aired in Italy from December 7 to 15, 2003 on Rai Uno in four parts. In the U. S., the film was screened in several cities in two three-hour parts. The two-disc DVD of the film is similarly divided. Giordana, who directed a film about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, again paid tribute to the director in this film, as its title comes from a Pasolini poem. The film falls within the tradition of several Italian films that cover expansive times of Italian history through the story of one family, such as Rocco and His Brothers and The Leopard.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Marco Tullio Giordana
While touring Tuscany, Italy, promoting his new book, English author James (William Shimell) meets French store owner Elle (Juliette Binoche), and the two hit it off, deciding to spend a free day together. They travel to a nearby town, get coffee, visit a museum and pretend to be recently married in what turns out to be a popular wedding destination. As these two strangers get to know each other, however, it becomes clear there's more to their new relationship than meets the eye.- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Based on the Mozart opera, "Don Giovanni" follows the titular womanizer (Ruggero Raimondi) as he seduces women, especially brides-to-be before their wedding day. Eventually his reputation becomes a liability, however, and his libertine trysts catch up to him. A father attempts to save his daughter's honor, a jealous fiancé is out to exact revenge, and a former lover (Kiri Te Kanawa) is willing to do whatever it takes to save other women from her fate.- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Joseph Losey
In a small town in Italy in 1978, 9-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) finds Fillipo (Mattia Di Perro), seemingly dead in a deep hole in the ground, while on a bike ride with friends. Terrified of what he has seen, Michele decides not to tell his father. After returning to the scene, Michele discovers that Fillipo is still alive and bound by a chain. Michele continues to keep his secret as he makes several visits to Fillipo, who has no memory of the events leading up to his captivity.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Gabriele Salvatores
An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.- Released: 1970
- Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Italian archer Dardo Bartoli (Burt Lancaster) is waging a war against the Hessians. His grudge against their leader, Count "The Hawk" Ulrich (Frank Allenby), is more than simply political. Long ago, he took away Dardo's beautiful wife, Francesca. Then, under his former spouse's orders, Ulrich returned to steal the couple's son, Rudi. Incensed, Dardo kidnaps Ulrich's comely niece, Anne (Virginia Mayo), and slowly emerges as a rebel leader who may be able to drive out the Hessians for good.- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
When In Rome is a 2002 film starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Steve Purcell
When handsome, successful Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) first meets the sexy young waif Filomena (Sophia Loren) in Naples during World War II, he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the postwar years, and the two meet again, sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades. But when Filomena -- who has now become Domenico's kept woman and has secretly borne his children -- learns that her lover is planning to wed another, she stops at nothing to hook him into marrying her instead.- Released: 1964
- Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path. Silvana Mangano's real sister, Patrizia Mangano, acts as Anna's sister in the film. Sophia Loren has a small uncredited role as a nightclub assistant. Future film directors Franco Brusati and Dino Risi cowrote the script. The film features the songs Non Dimenticar and El Negro Zumbón, a samba popularised in the West as "Anna", and recorded most recently by Pink Martini.- Released: 1951
- Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
Gidget Goes to Rome is a 1963 Columbia Pictures Eastmancolor feature film starring Cindy Carol as the archetypal high school teen surfer girl originally created by Sandra Dee in the 1959 film Gidget. The film is the third of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos and expands upon Gidget's romance with boyfriend Moondoggie. The screenplay was written by Ruth Brooks Flippen based on characters created by Frederick Kohner. Veterans of previous Gidget films making appearances include James Darren as "Moondoggie", Joby Baker, and Jean "Jeff" Donnell as Gidget's mom, Mrs. Lawrence. The film has been released to VHS and DVD.- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Paul Wendkos
When a rich widow, Lilia (Helen Mirren), visits Tuscany with her friend Caroline (Helena Bonham Carter), she falls in love with Gino (Giovanni Guidelli), a poor man. Lilia's former mother-in-law, Irma (Judy Davis), doesn't think the marriage is a suitable one, but she can't convince Lilia to return to England. When Lilia dies in childbirth, Irma sends her son, Philip (Rupert Graves), to bring the child back, but he encounters multiple obstacles, including his newfound infatuation with Italy.- Released: 1991
- Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Escape by Night
Sergei Bondarchuk, Peter Baldwin, Leo GennEra notte a Roma is a 1960 Italian war film epic directed by Roberto Rossellini. In France the film is known as Les Évadés de la nuit, and in the USA Escape by Night. It is also known internationally as Blackout in Rome.- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Roberto Rossellini
Astrologist Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre) works as a personal assistant to the eccentric and mostly paralyzed pianist, Francis Ingram (Victor Francen). A nurse, Julie Holden (Andrea King) also lives at the Italian villa to help care for Ingram, who plays the piano with only his undamaged left hand. Following a visit from a scam artist (Robert Alda), Ingram crashes down the stairs to his death -- and a plague of bizarre events ensues that are attributed to the musician's disembodied left hand.- Released: 1946
- Directed by: Robert Florey
Story of a Love Affair
Massimo Girotti, Franco Fabrizi, Lucia BosèStory of a Love Affair is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Massimo Girotti and Lucia Bosè. Despite some neorealist background, the film was not fully compliant with the contemporary Italian neorealist style both in its story and image, featuring upper-class characters portrayed by professional actors. Ferdinando Sarmi was, however, a fashion designer rather than a professional actor. In the film, the camera pans the same street corner in Ferrara, the director's native city, that appears in his film Par-delà les nuages forty-five years later. In 1951 the film won the Nastro d'Argento Silver Ribbon Award for Best Original Score and the Special Silver Ribbon for human and stylistic values. Story of a Love Affair was Antonioni's first full length feature film.- Released: 1950
- Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Scandal in Sorrento
Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Tina PicaScandal in Sorrento or Pane, amore e... is an Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. This is the third film of the trilogy, formed by Bread, Love and Dreams in 1953, Bread, Love and Jealousy in 1954. Innovations include the use of color rather than black and white, as well the location of Sorrento instead of the small village of the previous films of the series. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honorable Mention award.- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Dino Risi
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 is a 2001, biblically based film. It portrays, in part, the backstory of Stone Alexander from the movie The Omega Code. However, apocalyptic events portrayed in Megiddo are inconsistent with those in the previous film, making it more of alternate retelling of the The Omega Code’s story than a true prequel; in fact, the titular bible code is not even mentioned in Megiddo. Michael York detailed the entire film in a journal which he then published in book form, titled Dispatches From Armageddon.- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Brian Trenchard-Smith
David (Ben Tibber) is a 12 year old on his own in an Eastern European prison camp. His best friend, Johannes (James Caviezel), protects and looks after him. One day, David is able to escape, and he embarks on a mission to deliver a sealed envelope to Denmark. Along the way, he saves a young girl (Viola Carinci) from a fire, befriends an elderly Swiss woman (Joan Plowright) and learns the value of trusting others. But what David discovers in Denmark truly changes his life forever.- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Paul Feig
The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions. The worker in question, Lulu, is described in the first part of the film as a Stakhanovite.- Released: 1971
- Directed by: Elio Petri
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, math teacher Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp) finds himself in an extraordinary situation when an alluring stranger, Elise (Angelina Jolie), places herself in his path. Their seemingly innocent flirtation turns into a dangerous game of cat and mouse while various people, who all think that Frank is Elise's thieving paramour, Alexander Pearce, try to capture the pair.- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Biggest Bundle of Them All is a 1968 American crime film set in Naples, Italy. The story is about a mobster and a novice gang of crooks who team up to steal $5 million worth of platinum ingots from a train. The film stars Robert Wagner and Raquel Welch and was directed by Ken Annakin.- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Ken Annakin
Le Petit Monde de don Camillo, or Don Camillo in Italian, is a 1952 French-Italian film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. It was the first film in the "Don Camillo" series, which made Fernandel an international star. The film was based on the novel Don Camillo by author Giovannino Guareschi. It was followed in 1953 by The Return of Don Camillo, also directed by Duvivier.- Released: 1952
- Directed by: Julien Duvivier
History records that when the great Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo he lost his power, his country and his freedom. Exiled to the island of St. Helena, he purportedly died a broken man. Yet history has been known to be wrong. Now comes a decidedly different version of events, an original tale about Napoleon's last great adventure -- and the adventures of the lowly imposter who assumed his identity in a grand conspiracy to outwit the world.- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Alan Taylor
Purple Noon is a 1960 film directed by René Clément, based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Alain Delon in his first major film, along with then famous Maurice Ronet and Marie Laforêt; Romy Schneider appears briefly in an uncredited role as Freddie Miles' companion, and Billy Kearns plays Greenleaf's friend Freddy Miles. The film, principally in French, contains brief sequences in Italian. The film's source novel was adapted again in 1999, under the original title, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow.- Released: 1960
- Directed by: René Clément
Saturn in Opposition
Ambra Angiolini, Margherita Buy, Isabella FerrariSaturn in Opposition is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. The Turkish title is Bir ömür yetmez. It had its United States premiere at Frameline in San Francisco on 20 June 2008.- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Ferzan Özpetek
American officers Lt. Christian (James Coburn) and Capt. Cash (Dick Shawn) are among the soldiers ordered to take over a small town in Sicily during World War II. Remarkably, the townsfolk have no problem being occupied by the American troops -- they just want to ensure that their annual festival goes on as planned. With wine flowing freely, Christian, Cash and their peers soon get in over their heads, leading to lots of confusion on the part of both Allied and Axis forces.- Released: 1966
- Directed by: Blake Edwards
Opiate '67
Michèle Mercier, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio GassmanI mostri is a 1963 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Dino Risi. It was coproduced with France. The film was a huge success in Italy. It was censored in Spain. In 1977 an Academy Award nominee sequel was filmed, entitled I nuovi mostri.- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Dino Risi
Dear Diary
Jennifer Beals, Nanni Moretti, Marco PaoliniCaro diario is an Italian language, semi-autobiographical film in the style of a documentary directed by Nanni Moretti in 1993. Moretti also played the central character.- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Nanni Moretti
The Little Devil is a 1988 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, also starring Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli, Nicoletta Braschi and John Lurie. In some European countries and in Australia, an English version of the film, with local subtitles, has been screened and circulated in VHS. In the English version, the voices of the main actors are dubbed by themselves; some scenes may have been filmed in both languages.- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Ash, Pikachu and Lizabeth agree to help Jackie, a Pokémon Ranger, complete his secret mission to deliver a rare Manaphy egg to the Sea Temple on the ocean floor.- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Kunihiko Yuyama
Le Amiche
Valentina Cortese, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco FabriziLe Amiche is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese. Adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novel Tra donne sole, the film is about a young woman who returns to her native Turin to set up a new fashion salon and becomes involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy women friends. The film was shot on location in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Le Amiche received the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award in 1955, and the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon Award for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress.- Released: 1955
- Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cops and Robbers is a 1951 Italian cult comedy film directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli. It stars the famous comedian Totò, and the cinematographer was the future film director Mario Bava. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. Its style is close to Italian neorealism. Released in Italian cinemas in November 1951 and shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, earned the award for Piero Tellini the script and Totò the Nastro d'Argento. It had trouble with the censor because it portrayed clumsy police and smart thieves, but it was a great success. The film was a huge success and an unexpected liking by critics. Cops and robbers represented a real turning point in the career of Totò, so that for the first time his film was exclusively positive reviews, and its interpretation is considered one of the best of his career. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.- Released: 1951
- Directed by: Mario Monicelli, Steno
Il Grido
Alida Valli, Steve Cochran, Betsy BlairA compelling romance bound in tragedy, IL GRIDO is a fascinating missing link in the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, marking his transition from the neorealist impulses expressed in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955) and I Vinti (The Vanquished, 1952), toward the more subjectively stylized approach of such classic works as L'Avventura (1959), La Notte (1961) and Red Desert (1964).Shot in Antonioni's native Po Valley region near Bologna, IL GRIDO focuses on individuals of the common classes rather than the bourgeoisie of his later films. From this humble and unpretentious subject matter, Antonioni fashions a spellbinding motion picture that keenly demonstrates his profound cinematic talents. His hypnotic compositions of bleak industrial landscapes enshrouded in grey fog provide the perfect tableaux for characters haunted by emotional detachment and psychological torment.The narrative follows Aldo, a young refinery mechanic who, when faced with the sudden end of a seven-year affair with a married woman, abandons his past and embarks on an aimless quest with their young daughter in tow. His travels take him to the home of an old flame, to a filling station owned by a lonely widow and into the arms of a prostitute in an impoverished fishing community. But he can find no relief from his undying love for Irma and must return to her village, for a denouement that is unexpectedly shocking, but inevitable.- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
La terrazza
Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ugo TognazziLa terrazza is a 1980 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is starred by the best of Italian Cinema on those days: Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Reggiani, Stefano Satta Flores, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Ombretta Colli, Milena Vukotic. The film director Ettore Scola and the screen writer Agenore Incrocci act in the film.- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Ettore Scola
Villa Amalia
Isabelle Huppert, Xavier Beauvois, Jean-Hugues Anglade"'Enigmatic' is an epithet often applied to Isabelle Huppert's acting, but in Villa Amalia – her fifth collaboration with veteran director Benoît Jacquot – she plays one of her most tantalisingly elusive characters to date. Discovering that her partner Thomas (Xavier Beauvois) is unfaithful, concert pianist and composer Anne – or Eliane, as she once was – decides to sever all connections with her present life. Everything has to go – flat, career, bank account, all except Georges (Jean-Hugues Anglade), an old acquaintance she runs into by chance. Anne's journey takes her halfway across Europe, but is she out to find herself, or to lose herself? To cut herself off from the past, or to discover it again? Based on a novel by Pascal Quignard (whose baroque music story Tous les matins du monde was filmed by Alain Corneau), this existential drama par excellence is a detached but affecting study of solitude, self-determination and the nature of identity. Villa Amalia is directed with mesmerizing sensitivity and precision by Jacquot, with Luc Barnier's elliptical editing and Caroline Champetier's luminous photography attuned to every nuance of Huppert's reticent but superbly expressive playing. For both Huppert and Jacquot, Villa Amalia is one of their very best." Quoting Jonathan Romney- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Benoît Jacquot
What Time Is It?
Marcello Mastroianni, Anne Parillaud, Lou CastelWhat time is it? is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It was co-produced with France.- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Ettore Scola
The Last Kiss is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Gabriele Muccino. It was remade into The Last Kiss in 2006 by Tony Goldwyn starring Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson. A sequel to the film was released in Italy in February 2010.- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
The Unknown Woman
Claudia Gerini, Margherita Buy, Pierfrancesco FavinoThe Unknown Woman is a 2006 Italian psychological thriller mystery film, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore that depicts a woman alone in a foreign country, haunted by a horrible past, and in search of a lost daughter.- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel, this World War I drama follows American soldier Lt. Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson) and his romance with a nurse, Catherine Barkley (Jennifer Jones). While fighting alongside the Italian army, Frederick is separated from Catherine, who is pregnant with his child. After helping locals escape to freedom, Frederick searches for Catherine while enemy forces hunt him across Italy. But Catherine's poor health may prevent Frederick from reaching her in time.- Released: 1957
- Directed by: Charles Vidor
Coins in the Fountain is a television film which was released on September 28, 1990. The film is based on the novel Coins in the Fountain by John H. Secondari, which was previously filmed in 1954 as Three Coins in the Fountain. It was directed by Tony Wharmby and written by Lindsay Harrison. Filming took place in Rome and other parts of Italy during the summer of 1990.- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Tony Wharmby
The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships.- Released: 1925
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Allonsanfàn
Marcello Mastroianni, Laura Betti, Lea MassariAllonsanfàn is an Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani with the score written by Ennio Morricone. The film is set in early 19th-century Italy and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Fulvio Imbriani, an Italian middle-aged aristocrat-turned-revolutionary, losing his commitment to a secret revolutionary society. The title of the film is the name of a young member of the society playing fatal role in Fulvio's life, which is derived from the first words of La Marseillaise.- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Weekend, Italian Style
Daniela Bianchi, Sandra Milo, Leopoldo TriesteL'ombrellone or Weekend, Italian Style is a 1966 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was co-produced with Spain and France. The soundtrack is full of Italian Pop songs from the 1960s.- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Dino Risi
Everyone Else
Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Carina Wiese"One of the most accomplished unraveling-couple films of recent years, writer-director Maren Ade’s second feature brilliantly captures the growing disconnect between mismatched young lovers Chris (Lars Eidinger) and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr), whose moments of tender intimacy are often immediately followed by cruel passive-aggressive behavior. On vacation with Gitti at his parents’ villa in Sardinia, architect Chris feels his artistic greatness has been unrecognized; his sulking is sometimes indulged by his far more sanguine girlfriend. After spending time with an older, more successful friend and his pregnant wife, the fault lines in Chris and Gitti’s relationship grow even wider. For all the film’s emotionally volatile scenes, Everyone Else never devolves into histrionics, its precise examination of the hazards of coupledom always ringing honest, true, and instantly recognizable." Quoting the synopsis on the 2009 New York Film Festival site.- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Maren Ade
During World War II, an Italian villager (Gina Lollobrigida) befriends three American soldiers. Later, when unsure which of them fathered the daughter she has, she invents a dead captain named Campbell, declares herself his widow and accepts support checks from all three soldiers. Twenty years later, a reunion unexpectedly brings the three veterans -- and their wives and children -- back to Italy. Mrs. Campbell panics as she endeavors to keep her lively past from her daughter.- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Melvin Frank
- An apparently normal small community on the outskirts of Rome hides the sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the desperation of the children.
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo
Estate violenta is a 1959 Italian award-winning black-and-white drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini, depicting a love affair between a prominent Fascist's young draft-dodging son, portrayed by Jean Louis Trintignant, and a naval officer's widow, older than he, portrayed by Eleonora Rossi Drago. It is set in the Italian seaside resort of Riccione in July 1943, around the time of the dismissal of Benito Mussolini, during the Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II. Estate violenta is Zurlini's second feature film, with which he made his name as a director.- Released: 1959
- Directed by: Valerio Zurlini
The Ignorant Fairies
Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Luca CalvaniThe Ignorant Fairies is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Turkish-Italian film director Ferzan Özpetek. The story follows a woman who discovers that her recently deceased husband had been having an affair.- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Ferzan Özpetek
Flame and the Flesh
Lana Turner, Pier Angeli, Carlos ThompsonFlame and the Flesh is a 1954 drama film made by MGM that stars Lana Turner. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Joe Pasternak from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch based on the novel by Auguste Bailly. The music score was by Nicholas Brodszky and the cinematography by Christopher Challis. The film also features Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson and Bonar Colleano.- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Richard Brooks
The Great War is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Its crew also included Danilo Donati and Mario Garbuglia. It was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film. In 1999 the critics of Ciak magazine chose it as one of the 100 most important films in history. It won huge success outside Italy, especially in France.- Released: 1959
- Directed by: Mario Monicelli
The Organizer
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella GiorgelliProfessor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Mario Monicelli
An Italian (Vittorio Gassman) deals with the joys and sorrows that befall his family from 1906 to 1986.- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Ettore Scola
The Mouth of the Wolf
Franco Leo"If we never tire of seeing love stories in the cinema, it must be to do with the unfathomable secret of how different times and places play a role in how scripts are written. The love story between the transsexual Mary and Enzo, a Sicilian with a moustache and a heart of gold, started in prison and takes its course in Genoaʼs harbor district, a world that is close to disappearing. Pietro Marcello also sets a parallel plot in the same district, which documents and reconstructs the lives of Mary and Enzo in a simultaneously truthful and fictitious manner. Combining scenes from today and images from the past that Marcello found in various public and private treasure chests, "La bocca del lupo" uncovers a city both melancholy and audacious, where the women at the bars speak in voices nearly as deep of those of the men with whom they drink and where those stranded there have never been able to escape the unreal, forgotten places of the harbor. Itʼs as if Genoaʼs harbor district actually invented the love story between Mary and Enzo. Pietro Marcello has reconstructed this love story in the form of a script for a documentary, which uses distinctive music, memories and archive material to bring a barely visible past back to life." Quoting the program notes from the 2010 Berlin Film Festival site.- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Pietro Marcello
Il Sorpasso
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Vittorio GassmanIl Sorpasso is a 1962 Italian cult movie directed by Dino Risi. It is considered Risi's masterpiece and one of the most famous examples of Commedia all'italiana film genre.- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Dino Risi
After surviving a gruesome terrorist attack on an Italian train line, romance novelist Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) opens up her home and solitary life to a trio of stranded survivors. She soon forms friendships with each, but develops a special attachment to the young orphan Aimee (Emmy Clarke). So when Aimee's distant uncle (Chris Cooper) arrives to retrieve the girl, Emily strives to convince the cold, mourning man that Umbria is Aimee's rightful home.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Buongiorno, notte is an Italian film released in 2003 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The title of the feature film, Good Morning, Night, is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson.- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Madigan's Millions, is a 1968 Italian-Spanish movie directed by Stanley Prager and produced by Sidney W. Pink. The movie was actually shot in 1966 but was not released for two years. It stars Dustin Hoffman, in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster. The film is in the lowbrow comedy genre, with comic stop-action chase scenes, as well as many scenes involving spaghetti western-style gunplay on the streets of Rome. Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly naive and mild-mannered bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies. The interiors of the film were shot largely in Spain, with exteriors in Rome.- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Giorgio Gentili
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, TotòBest friends Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) and Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Mario Monicelli
The Cardboard Village
Rutger Hauer, Michael Lonsdale, Alessandro HaberThe Cardboard Village is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Ermanno Olmi.- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Ermanno Olmi
Without Pity is a 1948 Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada from a script by the director himself, Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, from an original story by Ettore Margadonna.- Released: 1948
- Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
I ragazzi di via Panisperna
Virna Lisi, Laura Morante, Mario AdorfI ragazzi di via Panisperna is an Italian movie by director Gianni Amelio, telling the enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the life of a well-known group of young men fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys. The movie derives from a 3-hour long TV movie, which was produced and broadcast in two parts by RAI in 1990.- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Gianni Amelio
To Live in Peace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.- Released: 1947
- Directed by: Luigi Zampa
The Last Judgement is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Vittorio De Sica
The Bandit is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari and Carla Del Poggio. Amedeo Nazzari won the Nastro d'Argento as Best Actor. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.- Released: 1946
- Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
The Arcane Enchanter
Massimo Sarchielli, Carlo Cecchi, Stefano DionisiThe Arcane Enchanter is a 1996 horror film written and directed by Pupi Avati.- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Pupi Avati
Tragic Hunt
Massimo Girotti, Folco Lulli, Andrea ChecchiCaccia tragica or Tragic Hunt is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Future filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni and Carlo Lizzani co-wrote the script.- Released: 1947
- Directed by: Giuseppe De Santis
The Lady Without Camelias
Ivan Desny, Alain Cuny, Andrea ChecchiThe Lady Without Camelias is a 1953 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, and Andrea Checchi. Based on a story by Antonioni, the film is about a new starlet who is discovered and her experiences in Italian films. The film has been called "Antonioni's most unjustly neglected fiction feature." Filmed on location in Rome and Venice, The Lady Without Camelias was released on 25 February 1953 in Italy.- Released: 1953
- Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Facts of Murder
Claudia Cardinale, Pietro Germi, Claudio GoraUn maledetto imbroglio also known as The Facts of Murder is a 1959 Italian crime film mystery directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale. The film is based on the novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana. The film was restored and re-released in 1999 both in Italy and the USA.- Released: 1959
- Directed by: Pietro Germi
Fortunella is a 1958 Italian film directed by Eduardo De Filippo, with script by Federico Fellini.- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Eduardo De Filippo
A staunch fascist soldier, Primo Arcovazzi (Ugo Tognazzi) is charged with escorting captured dissident professor Erminio Bonafe (Georges Wilson) from the Italian countryside back to Rome. Their journey, however, does not go as planned, particularly when a mischievous girl named Lisa (Stefania Sandrelli) causes Arcovazzi's motorcycle to crash. As their situation goes from bad to worse, Arcovazzi and Bonafe develop a sense of mutual respect, despite their vast ideological differences.- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Pilantra
The Manual of Love
Anita Caprioli, Margherita Buy, Jasmine TrincaManual of Love is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale d'amore 2 – Capitoli successivi in 2007, and Manuale d'amore 3 in 2011.- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Giovanni Veronesi
Qualunquemente
Sergio Rubini, Antonio Albanese, Luigi Maria BurruanoQualunquemente is a 2011 Italian satirical comedy film starring comedian Antonio Albanese as his famous character Cetto La Qualunque, a sleazy Southern Italy politician. The title means "whichever-ly". It was released in Italy on 600 copies on January 21, 2011 and was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Giulio Manfredonia
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