La Bataille d'Alger (1966)
Gillo Pontecorvo

In 1957, Algeria is a divided country, with an ever-growing fraction of the population wanting to gain independence from France...   [More...]

La Ciociara (1960)
Vittorio De Sica

In the summer of 1943, Rome is under constant bombardment. A young widow named Cesira flees the capital with her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, and returns to her home village in the mountainous Ciociaria region of Italy...   [More...]

Due lettere anonime (1945)
Mario Camerini

Rome, 1943. Returning home on leave after serving on the Russian front, Bruno has made up his mind to marry his girlfriend Gina...   [More...]

Paisà (1946)
Roberto Rossellini

Six tales of ill-fated human contact set during the liberation of Italy by the Allied forces in World War II, between 1943 and 1944...   [More...]

Roma, città aperta (1945)
Roberto Rossellini

Rome, during the Nazi occupation of 1943-44. The Germans have declared Rome an open city but are intent on tracking down resistance leaders...   [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...]

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...]

War and Peace (1956)
King Vidor

Moscow, 1805. Pierre Bezukhov, a pacifist wastrel, is in love with Natasha, the daughter of the wealthy Count Rostov, but knows he cannot marry her since he is of illegitimate birth...   [More...]