Movies - Italian

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.

Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

A nun falls in love with her patient, who happens to be a communist.

Rome, 1800. Rugantino is a fool in love that rages eternal, though he is very unlucky in love stories and fruitful occasions.

In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.

During the 1920s France, con-men Philip and Felice escape prison and join forces to swindle Philip's rich ex-wife Belle.

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who spends all of his time fulfilling his bosses' wishes and desires.

A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case.

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

In Weimar Germany, twin brothers Hermann and Gustav find themselves on opposite extremes: Hermann is a loyal sympathizer of the emerging Nazi party and Gustav is an anarchist who prints and spreads anti-Nazi propaganda.