Nino Rota

The Morricone Duel: The Most Dangerous Concert Ever (2018)

The ruthless gangsters of New York and the rough cowboys of the dusty prairie; the magic of cinema and the rich sound of a symphony orchestra. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks, performs masterful pieces by legendary film com ...

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)

A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015). ...

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 (2016)

'The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901-1959' is a chronological edit of the first two Godfather films, as broadcast by HBO in 2016 and later made available on its streaming platforms. With a runtime of 423 minutes, it incorporates many deleted and extended ...

Cinephile (2013)

Red Market (1998)

An evening in 2004 in Montreal. As meat becomes extremely scarce, a trio of smugglers face some conservation problems. ...

The Lion with the White Beard (1995)

An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti. ...

Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite (1988)

In a crowded train, men and women are all over the place. In an era when there were no women-only cars, the men reach for the women's asses! ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality? ...

Hurricane (1979)

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of th ...

Orchestra Rehearsal (1979)

An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out. ...

Death on the Nile (1978)

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect. ...

Contact (1978)

A man walking on the fields encounters an alien visitor from outer space. ...

Las alegres chicas de 'El Molino' (1977)

Barcelona in the seventies. Piper, comedian at the theater El Molino has specialized in effeminate roles, but in reality is a conqueror. His wife, Nita, sets a trap for him. ...

Fellini's Casanova (1976)

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters. ...

Dear Michele (1976)

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift ...

The Song Is Always With Us (1975)

A 1975 Soviet Ukrainian musical film by Viktor Storozhenko, starring Sofia Rotaru and the Ukrainian vocal and instrumental ensemble Chervona Ruta. The film features the ballet group of the Kyiv Music Hall and the Smerechyna dance ensemble. The film feature ...

E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975)

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova. ...

The Godfather Part II (1974)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. ...

The Abdication (1974)

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church. ...

The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord' (1974)

A tongue-in-cheek documentary that goes "behind the scenes" during the production of Federico Fellini's film "Amarcord" (1973). ...

Amarcord (1973)

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the action ...

Sunset Sunrise (1973)

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a "hippie" road movie chronicling the trek that a handful of people take in order to reach Katmandú, the capital of Nepal. ...

Love and Anarchy (1973)

Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini. ...

Roma (1972)

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens. ...

The Godfather (1972)

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would- ...

The Clowns (1970)

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns ...

Waterloo (1970)

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, ...

Satyricon (1969)

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surre ...

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)

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 the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way ...

Toby Dammit (1969)

In Rome, Toby Dammit, a drunken ex-actor, becomes trapped in hellish landscapes like airports, television studios, and mannequin-filled streets, encountering the Devil in the form of a little girl. ...

Spirits of the Dead (1968)

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil. ...

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy. ...

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the ...

Much Ado About Nothing (1967)

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in lov ...

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)

Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a compl ...

Kiss the Other Sheik (1965)

Italian comedy film in three segments ...

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her pai ...

The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. ...

The Leopard (1963)

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. ...

8½ (1963)

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 group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one ...

The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him t ...

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public aff ...

The Temptation of Dr. Antonio (1962)

Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations. ...

The Best of Enemies (1961)

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue. ...

The Brigand (1961)

Inspired by a real-life event that took place in Calabria at the end of World War 2, the film is the story of a young farmer who led peasants to revolt, after being falsely accused of murder. ...

Ghosts of Rome (1961)

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly die ...

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

When a impoverished widow's family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results. ...

Purple Noon (1960)

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. ...

La Dolce Vita (1960)

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who 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 the while searching for a way to become a serious writer. ...

The Great War (1959)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. ...

Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati (1958)

Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi. ...

The Law Is the Law (1958)

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually ...

Piece of the Sky (1958)

As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, ...

The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours. ...

Fortunella (1958)

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince. ...

City at Night (1958)

A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her. ...

Doctor and the Healer (1957)

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer". ...

Le Notti Bianche (1957)

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return. ...

This Angry Age (1957)

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice ...

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentm ...

The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)

Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. ...

Italia piccola (1957)

The House of Intrigue (1956)

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city. ...

War and Peace (1956)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Io piaccio (1955)

Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Robert ...

It Happened in the Penitentiary (1955)

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives. ...

The Swindle (1955)

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto. ...

La bella di Roma (1955)

Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman. ...

A Hero of Our Times (1955)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awa ...

Scampolo 53 (1955)

A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this. ...

Divisione Folgore (1954)

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front. ...

Loves of Three Queens (1954)

At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation. ...

The Two Orphans (1954)

La Strada (1954)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together ...

Modern Virgin (1954)

The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose. ...

Mambo (1954)

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count. ...

Passionately (1954)

"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea". Gradually she falls in love with him, but he never reciprocates. Things become further complicated when a letter from her first love "Carlo" is discovere ...

Submarine Attack (1954)

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore. ...

100 Years of Love (1954)

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history. ...

The Stranger's Hand (1954)

Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him. ...

Star of India (1954)

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help ...

The Hunt (1953)

A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves. ...

Lo scocciatore (1953)

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics! ...

The Ship of Condemned Women (1953)

After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo. Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva, Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners. ...

Easy Years (1953)

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption. ...

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1953)

I Vitelloni (1953)

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an asp ...

Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice (1953)

Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell. Released after a partial pardon, he feels indebted to the two men an ...

The Wild Oat (1953)

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker re ...

Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1953)

Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her. ...

Good Folk's Sunday (1953)

In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine. ...

Hell Raiders of the Deep (1953)

A crack team of Italian naval divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal navy warships anchored in Gibraltar harbour. ...

Immortal Melodies (1952)

Noi due soli (1952)

A man and his girlfriend struggle to find some time for themselves. ...

Ragazze da marito (1952)

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly. ...

The Queen of Sheba (1952)

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else. ...

I tre corsari (1952)

The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have reven ...

Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952)

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination. ...

Venetian Bird (1952)

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the ...

The White Sheik (1952)

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The W ...

Something Money Can't Buy (1952)

A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals. ...

Marito e Moglie (1952)

Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. ...

Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino (1952)

A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman. ...

Un ladro in paradiso (1952)

After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take. ...

Anna (1951)

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing. ...

It's Him!... Yes! Yes! (1951)

Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose. ...

Filumena Marturano (1951)

Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead. ...

Valley of the Eagles (1951)

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up w ...

Honeymoon Deferred (1951)

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets. ...

Napoleone (1951)

A historical farce about Napoleon. ...

White Corridors (1951)

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of c ...

Il monello della strada (1950)

The Knight is Here (1950)

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation. ...

The King's Guerrillas (1950)

Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child. ...

Twelve Hours to Live (1950)

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeed ...

A Dog’s Life (1950)

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists. ...

Side Street Story (1950)

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among t ...

Her Favourite Husband (1950)

While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy. ...

It's Forever Springtime (1950)

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di Roma and just before Two Cents Worth of Hope). Leading man Mario Angelotti, loving not wisely but too well ...

The Pirates of Capri (1949)

A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to e ...

Children of Chance (1949)

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children. ...

Campane a martello (1949)

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her ...

Obsession (1949)

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover. ...

Come scopersi l'America (1949)

Toto Tours Italy (1948)

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl. ...

Woman Trouble (1948)

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend. ...

Under the Sun of Rome (1948)

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII. ...

Without Pity (1948)

A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy. ...

L'eroe della strada (1948)

Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble. ...

Arrivederci, papà! (1948)

Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and mar ...

Guaglio (1948)

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He crea ...

Escape to France (1948)

A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes. ...

Lovers Without Love (1948)

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy. ...

How I Lost the War (1947)

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave. ...

When Love Calls (1947)

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy. ...

Daniele Cortis (1947)

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician. ...

To Live in Peace (1947)

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hi ...

Rome: Free City (1946)

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his w ...

Professor, My Son (1946)

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles. ...

Un americano in vacanza (1946)

Albergo Luna, camera 34 (1946)

A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a m ...

The Misery of Mr. Travet (1945)

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief. ...

Lo sbaglio di essere vivo (1945)

Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal. ...

La freccia nel fianco (1945)

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past. ...

Woman of the Mountains (1944)

An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he'd had such happy days with his ...

Zazà (1944)

A glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned ...

Daddy's Little Devil (1943)

Nicoletta is a young rebel, cherished by his forgiving father, until an old relative joins the family after the wedding of her sister, and insists that the impetuous girl is sent to college. Nicoletta becomes a true tornado for educators trying in vain to ...

Giorno di nozze (1942)

A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were. ...

Tourist Train (1933)

The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota. ...

La visita meravigliosa: Viaggio in Italia sulle tracce di Nino Rota (2011)

The Magic of Fellini (2002)

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies. ...

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994)

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Vi ...

Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert (1993)

A look at the life and work of composer Nino Rota. ...

The Secret Diary of 'Amarcord' (1974)

A tongue-in-cheek documentary that goes "behind the scenes" during the production of Federico Fellini's film "Amarcord" (1973). ...

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook (1969)

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 the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way ...