Film critic Mr.Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) recommends 25 important films to teach Italian language.

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Annamaria, an ex-prostitute, takes her young daughter from convent school with her on a summer vacation. She introduces herself like a widow just to be accepted by people in the Italy of the '50s. She is surrounded by new friends and people show to love her. But some days after their arrival in the Italian Riviera, a former client recognizes her and reveals the hidden secret. People immediately become hostile. None wants her in the hotel. Supposed friends disappear. She's isolated. The people's hypocrisy will explode in entire contradiction later, when Annamaria becomes intimate friend with a rich respectable man.

When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.

An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.

A high-ranking police inspector kills his mistress and deliberately plants clues indicating his responsibility for the crime in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion.

Despite his fiancee's reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Professor Ludovico Bruschi is an elderly Communist whose desire is that of living in an orderly and socially just State. But disorder is just about to break into his life, first of all in the shape of his granddaughter Papere and then in that of Papere's mother Stella, his son's companion. The relationship between Oliviero, Bruschi's son, and Stella has come to an end perhaps because of the extreme youth of the two lovers. Now Professor Bruschi is obliged to come to terms with the gloomy, ignorant, offended Stella whose head is full of false and destructive ideals and who disturbs his way of living out daily life. The professor loses his patience and Stella leaves. He looks for her and finds her in hospital with a broken leg. The two of them begin to grow close and then, without realizing it, they come to love each other immensely. Stella's leg gets better and she goes off to look for new relationships, new experiences, while the Professor goes on waiting for her: and all this in the presence of Papere, too young to understand.

A girl unhappy in a relationship with a much older man decides to try having an affair with a male friend of her best girlfriend.

An investigation of the judges' assassinations reveals a political background.

Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.

A study of bitter relationships between a widower and his two sons.

A man decides to cook for himself, but finds the revolver of John Dillinger hidden in his kitchen instead.

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

When an elderly woman dies--apparently happy but in curious circumstances--her daughter travels home to Naples for the funeral. Staying on, she tries to piece together her mother's recent life. In doing so she starts to confront childhood memories that shaped the family history.

A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.

Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

A dedicated, tightly-knit group of bodyguards take on additional duties while safeguarding an honest judge designated to investigate official corruption in Sicily.

A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?

Widowed and having lost his two children, Guido yearns for the nun Luisa, the woman with whom he had a relationship in "Nobody's Children", the first part of this duology. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who looks just like Luisa.

A man recalls the life of his late younger brother.