Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Italy, France • Language: Italian
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer
Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli
Cast
Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Italy • Language: Italian, German
Director
Roberto Benigni
Writer
Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Cast
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: Italy, USA • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Italy, USA • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: Italy, Spain • Language: English, Italian
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA, Italy • Language: English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes
Cast
Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody
Plot
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, Arabic
Director
Jacques Audiard
Writer
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Plot
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss, but his gradual rise through the organization's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Italy, UK • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, Spanish
Director
Luis Buñuel
Writer
Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, English
Director
Claude Berri
Writer
Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gérard Brach
Cast
Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
Plot
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he l...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Italy, France • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Italy • Language: Italian, English
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Italy • Language: Italian, English
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Italy, France • Language: Italian, Japanese
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Writer
Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Cast
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè
Plot
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, English
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Mystery • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, Persian
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Writer
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
Plot
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
Category: Movie • Genre: Horror, Thriller • Country: USA, Italy • Language: English, Spanish
Director
George A. Romero
Writer
George A. Romero
Cast
David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
Plot
During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Italy • Language: Italian
Director
Elio Petri
Writer
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Cast
Gian Maria Volontè, 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.
Category: TV • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: UK, Italy • Language: English, Syriac
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier
Plot
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Italy • Language: Sicilian, Italian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Western • Country: Italy, France • Language: Italian
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, Turkish
Director
Max Ophüls
Writer
Louise de Vilmorin, Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls
Cast
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...
Category: TV • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Germany, Italy • Language: German
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla
Plot
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.
Category: TV • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Italy, Germany • Language: Neapolitan, Italian
Director
na
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.
Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Plot
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: Italy, France • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French
Director
Jacques Becker
Writer
Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe
Cast
Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll
Plot
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, English
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Alberto Moravia, Jean-Luc Godard
Cast
Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli
Plot
A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Italy • Language: None, Italian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bruno Bozzetto
Plot
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...
As the Clone Wars nears its end, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot for galactic domination.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Italy • Language: English, Italian
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast
Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, English
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Rémo Forlani, Jean-Luc Godard, Lionel White
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Plot
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: France, Italy • Language: French, English
Director
Luc Besson
Writer
Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin
Cast
Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette
Plot
The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Italy • Language: Italian
Director
Giovanni Pastrone
Writer
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.
