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The Great War
(La grande guerra)
- ✭
- Italy, France • 1959
- Director Mario Monicelli
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Romolo Valli
- Genre Drama, Comedy, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Phantom of Liberty
(Le Fantôme de la liberté)
Luis Bunuel's kinkiest comedy.
- France, Italy • 1974
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Adriana Asti, Milena Vukotić, Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Jean Rochefort, Michel Piccoli
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Red Desert
(Il deserto rosso)
Her tenuous grip on reality is starting to slip... can a new man save her or will it only get worse?
- Italy, France • 1964
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir, Lili Rheims
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Le Trou
Inmates hatch a plan to dig their way out of jail.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1960
- Director Jacques Becker
- Cast Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel, Jean-Paul Coquelin
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
Bicycle Thieves
(Ladri di biciclette)
Antonio and his son walk the streets of Rome in search of Antonio’s stolen bicycle, vital for keeping his job.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1948
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Il Sorpasso
(Il sorpasso)
Two very different men take a road trip around Italy and learn more about each other's lives and perspectives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1962
- Director Dino Risi
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Jean de Florette
When Jean de Florette inherits land in Provence, he decides to take up farming. But his scheming neighbors have other plans…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Switzerland, Italy • 1986
- Director Claude Berri
- Cast Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Nights of Cabiria
(Le notti di Cabiria)
The story of a betrayed but unquenchable little Roman street-walker.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1957
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Amedeo Nazzari, Dorian Gray, Aldo Silvani
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video
Time of the Gypsies
(Dom za vešanje)
A teenager's sense of morality is challenged after he is forced to join a gypsy gang.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Yugoslavia, Italy, United Kingdom • 1988
- Director Emir Kusturica
- Cast Davor Dujmović, Borivoje Todorović, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic, Sinolička Trpkova, Zabit Memedov
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
A Special Day
(Una giornata particolare)
When Hitler visits Rome, everyone flocks to the square except two neighbors who become fascinated with each other.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Canada • 1977
- Director Ettore Scola
- Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Rome, Open City
(Roma città aperta)
A powerful portrayal of dignity and courage.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1945
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Francesco Grandjacquet, Harry Feist, Maria Michi
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
La Strada
(La strada)
Gelsoma, a circus performer, endures her husbands coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1954
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Lidia Venturini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Vudu, Kanopy
Le Samouraï
His only friend was his gun!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1967
- Director Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Catherine Jourdan, Jacques Leroy
- Genre Crime, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Day for Night
(La Nuit américaine)
A movie for people who love movies
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1973
- Director François Truffaut
- Cast Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Dani
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Divorce Italian Style
(Divorzio all'italiana)
How do you end a marriage when divorce is illegal? It's easier than you think.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1961
- Director Pietro Germi
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
La Notte
(La notte)
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1961
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Shoeshine
(Sciuscià)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1946
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Vudu, Plex
The Organizer
(I compagni)
Drama...Comedy...Power...Wit...Impact...A Remarkable Film!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Yugoslavia • 1963
- Director Mario Monicelli
- Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Raffaella Carrà
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Executioner
(El verdugo)
A digger of graves takes to filling them when he takes over as executioner for his retired father-in-law.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, Italy • 1963
- Director Luis García Berlanga
- Cast Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez, Ángel Álvarez, Guido Alberti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on BritBox, Criterion Channel, Britbox Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Big Deal on Madonna Street
(I soliti ignoti)
Inept criminals gather a team together to try and dig a tunnel into a pawnshop and rob a safe.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1958
- Director Mario Monicelli
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossana Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale
- Genre Comedy, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Earrings of Madame de...
(Madame de…)
It was her vanity that destroyed her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1953
- Director Max Ophüls
- Cast Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Il Posto
(Il posto)
A coming-of-age film about a young man beginning his career at a large, bureaucratic company.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1961
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri, Tullio Kezich, Mara Revel, Guido Spadea, Corrado Aprile
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Landscape in the Mist
(Τοπίο στην ομίχλη)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Greece, France, Italy • 1988
- Director Theo Angelopoulos
- Cast Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Ilias Logothetis
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cléo from 5 to 7
(Cléo de cinq à sept)
A young singer awaiting life-changing medical results embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1962
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand, José Luis de Vilallonga
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
Amarcord
In an Italian seaside town, Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various eccentrics as they engage in absurd behavior.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1973
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)
The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Germany • 1948
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
(L'albero degli zoccoli)
When the family of man was still--- a family.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1978
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Le Notti Bianche
(Le notti bianche)
A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl begin a tentative romance.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1957
- Director Luchino Visconti
- Cast Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, Elena Fancera
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Mamma Roma
A former sex worker attempts to make a new life for herself, despite the looming threats of her past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1962
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Confession
(L'Aveu)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1970
- Director Costa-Gavras
- Cast Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise, Michel Beaune
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Mon Oncle
(Mon oncle)
Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1958
- Director Jacques Tati
- Cast Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Last Year at Marienbad
(L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
The mysterious story of a man and woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1961
- Director Alain Resnais
- Cast Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Hoopla, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kanopy
L'Avventura
(L'avventura)
A new adventure in filmmaking...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1960
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams
- Genre Drama, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Marquis of Grillo
(Il marchese del Grillo)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1981
- Director Mario Monicelli
- Cast Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg, Riccardo Billi, Flavio Bucci, Camillo Milli
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Amazon Video
Purple Noon
(Plein soleil)
Passion at ten. Envy at eleven. Murder at noon.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1960
- Director René Clément
- Cast Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Ave Ninchi
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Christ Stopped at Eboli
(Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1979
- Director Francesco Rosi
- Cast Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas, François Simon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Le Doulos
A burglar betraying other criminals prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1962
- Director Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre, Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe March
- Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Kanopy, Plex
L'Eclisse
(L'eclisse)
… the ache and ecstasy of love…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1962
- Director Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory, Louis Seigner
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Seven Beauties
(Pasqualino Settebellezze)
To survive, an Italian thief submits to the female commandant of a Nazi prison camp.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1975
- Director Lina Wertmüller
- Cast Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Roberto Herlitzka, Piero Di Iorio
- Genre Comedy, Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Metrograph, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
General Della Rovere
(Il generale Della Rovere)
He's only pretending to be a hero... right?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1959
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini, Herbert Fischer
- Genre War, Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kanopy
Le Bal
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, Algeria • 1983
- Director Ettore Scola
- Cast Marc Berman, Christophe Allwright, Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault Lecarpentier
- Genre Music, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Children Are Watching Us
(I bambini ci guardano)
A pulsating drama of childhood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1944
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Emilio Cigoli, Isa Pola, Luciano De Ambrosis, Ernesto Calindri, Giovanna Cigoli, Tecla Scarano
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Death of a Cyclist
(Muerte de un ciclista)
After hitting and killing a cyclist with their car, two upper-crusters engaged in an extramarital affair coverup their crime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, Italy • 1955
- Director Juan Antonio Bardem
- Cast Lucía Bosé, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corrà, Carlos Casaravilla, Otello Toso, Alicia Romay
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
State of Siege
(État de siège)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, West Germany • 1972
- Director Costa-Gavras
- Cast Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Belle de Jour
(Belle de jour)
Luis Bunuel's erotic masterpiece.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1967
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Paisan
(Paisà)
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1946
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell, Harold Wagner, Albert Heinze
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel
Lacombe, Lucien
(Lacombe Lucien)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, West Germany • 1974
- Director Louis Malle
- Cast Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler, Therese Giehse, Stéphane Bouy, Loumi Iacobesco
- Genre Drama, War, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
(Signore e signori)
An anthology comedy-satire that takes aim at Italian attitudes towards marriage, divorce, chastity and love.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1966
- Director Pietro Germi
- Cast Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Nora Ricci, Alberto Lionello, Olga Villi, Beba Lončar
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ulysses' Gaze
(Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Greece, France, Italy • 1995
- Director Theo Angelopoulos
- Cast Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos, Dora Volanaki
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Fiancés
(I fidanzati)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1963
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Gospel According to Matthew
(Il vangelo secondo Matteo)
A retelling of the story of Christ.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1965
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimio Di Porto
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Xumo Play, Kanopy, Plex
Bitter Rice
(Riso amaro)
An earthy drama of human passions among women rice workers in the Po Valley.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1949
- Director Giuseppe De Santis
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
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