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Italian cinema: Comedy/Drama
Amarcord (1973)
Federico Fellini
Italy in the 1930s. In an ordinary seaside town, the locals are celebrating the end of winter and the arrival of spring. The rise of Mussolini's fascist party is welcomed as a sign of rebirth and the townsfolk happily prostrate themselves before the image of Il Duce...
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Federico Fellini
Bellissima (1951)
Luchino Visconti
Maddalena Cecconi is a nurse who lives in a slum district of Rome. Her husband Spartaco barely earns enough to pay the rent and the couple face eviction from their cramped lodgings...
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Luchino Visconti
Les Bonnes femmes (1960)
Claude Chabrol
Four attractive young women who work together in an electrical appliance shop do all they can to escape from the tedious monotony of their uneventful lives...
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Claude Chabrol
Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
Jean Renoir
In the 18th Century, a travelling band of actors arrive in a Spanish colony in South America. When they are invited to perform before the royal court, the Viceroy, Ferdinand, instantly falls in love with the leading performer, Camilla...
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Jean Renoir
La Dolce vita (1960)
Federico Fellini
Marcello Rubini is an Italian gossip columnist who loves to bask in the reflected glory of the rich and famous, his only chance of enjoying the sweet life of Rome's upper set...
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Federico Fellini
Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
Michel Blanc
After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together... [More...]
I Vitelloni (1953)
Federico Fellini
In the seaside town of Rimini, five young men spend their days amusing themselves, living off their parents, and doing everything possible to avoid adult responsibility... [More...]
Federico Fellini
In the seaside town of Rimini, five young men spend their days amusing themselves, living off their parents, and doing everything possible to avoid adult responsibility... [More...]
La Notte brava (1959)
Mauro Bolognini
Scintillone and Ruggeretto, two young drifters from the poor suburbs of Rome, hope to make a tidy sum by selling the car they have stolen with its valuable cargo of weaponry... [More...]
Mauro Bolognini
Scintillone and Ruggeretto, two young drifters from the poor suburbs of Rome, hope to make a tidy sum by selling the car they have stolen with its valuable cargo of weaponry... [More...]
Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
Federico Fellini
In a poor district on the outskirts of Rome, a middle-aged woman, Cabiria, earns a living as a prostitute. She has fared better than most: she has her own house (a modest stone-walled shack) and a good income... [More...]
Federico Fellini
In a poor district on the outskirts of Rome, a middle-aged woman, Cabiria, earns a living as a prostitute. She has fared better than most: she has her own house (a modest stone-walled shack) and a good income... [More...]
La Nuit de Varennes (1982)
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Ettore Scola
June 1791. When the controversial writer and printer Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette's lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital... [More...]
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
Giuseppe Tornatore
A successful film maker, Salvatore, receives a telephone call from his estranged mother, informing him that his childhood friend, Alfredo, has just died... [More...]
Giuseppe Tornatore
A successful film maker, Salvatore, receives a telephone call from his estranged mother, informing him that his childhood friend, Alfredo, has just died... [More...]
Le Petit monde de Don Camillo (1952)
Julien Duvivier
The peace and tranquillity of a rural Italian village is disrupted by the on-going hostility between a Catholic parish priest, Don Camillo, and the newly elected Communist Mayor, Peppone... [More...]
Julien Duvivier
The peace and tranquillity of a rural Italian village is disrupted by the on-going hostility between a Catholic parish priest, Don Camillo, and the newly elected Communist Mayor, Peppone... [More...]
Il Postino (1994)
Michael Radford
In the 1950s, Mario lives with his father on a small Italian island in the Mediterranean. Not wishing to follow his father's own profession as a fisherman, Mario decides instead to become the island's postman... [More...]
Michael Radford
In the 1950s, Mario lives with his father on a small Italian island in the Mediterranean. Not wishing to follow his father's own profession as a fisherman, Mario decides instead to become the island's postman... [More...]
La Stanza del figlio (2001)
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni is a psychoanalyst whose life is up-ended one day when his son, Andrea, is killed in a scuba diving accident. As the family struggles to comes to term with their loss, they receive an unexpected visit from a young girl whom Andrea met on ... [More...]
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni is a psychoanalyst whose life is up-ended one day when his son, Andrea, is killed in a scuba diving accident. As the family struggles to comes to term with their loss, they receive an unexpected visit from a young girl whom Andrea met on ... [More...]
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Franco Zeffirelli
Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon... [More...]
Franco Zeffirelli
Florence, Italy, 1935. A group of harmless old English ladies, known by the locals as the Scorpioni, live in happy exile, meeting up to take tea together every afternoon... [More...]
Un garibaldino al convento (1942)
Vittorio De Sica
Returning to her childhood home, an old woman recalls happier times when she was a young boarder at a convent in Italy in the 1840s... [More...]
Vittorio De Sica
Returning to her childhood home, an old woman recalls happier times when she was a young boarder at a convent in Italy in the 1840s... [More...]
Va savoir (2001)
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
Jacques Rivette
Camille returns to Paris, after three years in Italy, as the leading actress in a production of Pirandello's play Come tu me vuoi... [More...]
La Vita è bella (1997)
Roberto Benigni
Italy, 1939. Leaving his home in the country, Guido Orefice moves to a town in Tuscany to get a job as a waiter. There he meets and falls in love with a young schoolteacher, Dora, but she is already betrothed to another man... [More...]
Roberto Benigni
Italy, 1939. Leaving his home in the country, Guido Orefice moves to a town in Tuscany to get a job as a waiter. There he meets and falls in love with a young schoolteacher, Dora, but she is already betrothed to another man... [More...]
La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Two tramps, Pierre and his younger friend Jean, undertake a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, to visit the sacred tomb of Saint James... [More...]