Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucionotta. A beautiful woman won't give the local mailman a second glance until a famous poet helps him woo her with words. Troisi's last film. Directed... more
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (8 1/2's... more
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Two lonely residents of an apartment building in Italy form a friendship on the day Hitler arrives to meet Mussollini. Includes digital transfer, 2014 short film... more
Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi. Fascist rulers in WWII Italy brutally rape and torture male and female teenagers. Loosely based on the Marquis de Sade's 18th-century novel. 2 DVDs. In Italian with... more
Italian director Rossellini made a series of TV movies intended to educate and inspire through the study of history, feeling that public education at the time was unfit for the task. Three of these... more
A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated... more
An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist... more
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell. Many critics consider this Oscar-winning classic to be one of the greatest films ever made. Told with non-professional actors, this simple human... more
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late 19th-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right... more
Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale. Trying to bounce back from overwhelming stress, a filmmaker checks into a rehab hospital. But his troubled childhood, difficult producers and his passion for... more
THE MOST SAVAGELY SUBVERSIVE FILM BY THE GREAT ICONOCLAST LUCHINO VISCONTI PORTRAYS NAZISMS POWER TO UTTERLY CORRUPT.:The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur LUCHINO VISCONTI... more
Britta Barner, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence. Director Federico Fellini seamlessly intersperses impressions of his early adulthood in Fascist Rome with footage of the modern city. Be it... more
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon. A brilliant adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel that focuses on Italy just following Risorgimento, the chaotic times when a rebellious... more
Sandro Panzeri, Loredana Detto. Directed by Ermanno Olmi. A bright-eyed young man moves from a small Italian village to the exciting city of Milan—but his bland office job seems destined to erase all... more
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on it's own terms, L'AVVENTURA concerns the enigmatic... more
Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff. An investigative submersion into the truths and myths surrounding Sicilian mobster Salvatore Giuliano, Italy's most wanted criminal and most celebrated hero—until in 1950... more
Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti. Director Pasolini examines modern life, sexuality, religion and hypocrisy through three classic stories brought to life on film: The... more
Carlo Cabrini, Anna Canzi. The tender love story of a young engaged couple from Milan whose love is tested when the man takes a job in Sicily and they are apart. In Italian with English subtitles.... more
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born. Fellini's astonishing dreamland of sight and sound masterfully interweaves the decadence of ancient Rome with the self-indulgence of modern society. In Italian... more
This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni (DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE) and Jeanne Moreau... more
Linda Christian, Miquel Mateo. This film, from director Francesco Rosi, is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero—played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo. Charting his rise... more
Michelangelo Antonioni's RED DESERT is a somber tale about Giuliana, a young wife and mother struggling to understand her crumbling psyche, as she slowly loses her mind in the midst of a... more
Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone. The rawness of social realism is depicted brilliantly by Francesco Rosi's riveting drama in which the collapse of a building causes backroom negotiations between opposing... more