Country: Italy

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...

Direction Giulia Amati · Stephen Natanson

Plot Hebron is the largest city in the middle of the occupied West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. Hebron is famous as a holy city, a place of pilgrimage for...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Lamberto Maggiorani · Enzo Staiola · Lianella Carell · Gino Saltamerenda

Plot After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was forced to pawn his...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Philippe Noiret · Marco Leonardi · Salvatore Cascio · Jacques Perrin

Plot A young boy named Salvatore in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist (Philippe Noiret) reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking, beginning his lifelong love...

Direction Stefano Sollima

Cast Francesco Montanari · Vinicio Marchioni · Alessandro Roja · Marco Bocci

Plot TV Series (2008-2010). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A criminal known as Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou

Plot It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani

Plot Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her....

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Ennio Morricone · Quentin Tarantino · Clint Eastwood · Oliver Stone

Plot Ennio is a well-rounded portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Anna Magnani · Marcello Pagliero · Maria Michi

Plot Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a prominent...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Carlo Battisti · Maria Pia Casilio · Lina Gennari · Memmo Carotenuto

Plot Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Unberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · François Périer · Amedeo Nazzari · Aldo Silvani

Plot Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Eli Wallach · Aldo Giuffrè

Plot First we are introduced to the Ugly, Tuco (Eli Wallach), who leaps through a window after killing the men who were out to get him. Then there is the Bad,...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Plot Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion...

Direction Marco Tullio Giordana

Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Alessio Boni · Jasmine Trinca · Adriana Asti

Plot "La Meglio Gioventù" tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. It focuses on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. They share the same...

Direction Zerocalcare

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Zerocalcare

Plot A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Gian Maria Volonté · Mara Krupp

Plot The film establishes episodes for each of the main characters. There is Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), an aging bounty killer, and the Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood), another...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Bruno Zanin · Pupella Maggio · Armando Brescia · Ciccio Ingrassia

Plot It explores the life of a small Italian coastal town in the 1930s, during the Fascist period.

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Anouk Aimée · Sandra Milo

Plot Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a filmmaker who is at a crisis point in his life and his work, struggles to make a new movie. This creative block triggers his memories,...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader

Plot A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The...