Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Plot
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Movie | Drama, Western | Italy, USA | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento
Cast
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
Plot
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Movie | Drama, Western | Italy, Spain | English, Italian
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
Plot
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Movie | Drama, History | Italy, France | Italian, Latin
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisi...
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Plot
A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola
Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Plot
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Germany | Neapolitan, Italian
Writer
Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, Roberto Saviano
Cast
Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito
Plot
Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.
Movie | Drama, Thriller | Italy, France | English, Spanish
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer
Mark Peploe, Enrico Sannia, Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Plot
Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
When artist draws a magic line, it takes on a life of its own, becoming a silhouette of a living hot-tempered person. This "Mr. Linea" wants more things drawn so he can enjoy himself, but the artist loves having fun on Mr. Linea's...
Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Titus Livius, Giovanni Pastrone
Cast
Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Plot
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Writer
Dante Alighieri
Cast
Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Plot
1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Vir...
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Italy, USA | English, Latin
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Jean Sacha
Cast
Orson Welles, Michea¡l MacLiammair, Robert Coote
Plot
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy, USA | English, Romanian
Director
Luca Guadagnino
Writer
Justin Kuritzkes
Cast
Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor, Zendaya
Plot
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini
Plot
Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
Movie | Horror, Mystery | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento
Cast
Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo
Plot
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.
Paolo Cognetti, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen
Cast
Lupo Barbiero, Cristiano Sassella, Elena Lietti
Plot
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
Marcello Fondato, Francesco Scardamaglia, Vicente Coello
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Sharp
Plot
After a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories about a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
