Movies

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that...

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is...

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country...

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929...

Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending...

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest...

A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which...