Dark Eyes
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
Everybody’s Fine
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a…
The Beekeeper
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets…
Blood Feud
In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country’s politics ultimately take all…
Stay As You Are
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He…
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young child. After a series of dizzy spells, he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is…
Hail the Artist
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this,…
Sunflower
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There’s a…
A Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the…
The Stranger
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
Divorce Italian Style
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick…
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Best friends Peppe and Mario 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…
Ginger and Fred
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
The Divine Nymph
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
A Place for Lovers
Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who’s harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into…
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It’s an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man “of a certain age”…
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to…
Massacre in Rome
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…
One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies…
The Terrace
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know…
The Sunday Woman
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino’s high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the…
La Grande Bouffe
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
What?
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
The 10th Victim
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of…
8½
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry…
The Organizer
Professor 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…
Marriage Italian Style
Domenico keeps 17-year-old Filumena as his mistress. Filumena later becomes a prostitute, but remains Domenico’s mistress. Filumena tricks Domenico into marrying her.
La Dolce Vita
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all…
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal…
Used People
At her husband’s funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had…
The Priest’s Wife
After discovering her boyfriend for the past four years is married, a distraught and depressed young woman turns to a Catholic priest for counseling — and finds mutual attraction. Now…
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
La Notte
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Intervista
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Federico Fellini’s Autobiography
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not…
A Special Day
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off…
Prêt-à-Porter
Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent…
Paris Is Always Paris
A gentle cultural clash between a band of Italian sports fans and the citizenry of Paris. DeAngelis has heard so much about “naughty Paree” that he’s determined to experience that…