Cinéma italien

1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Virgil.

Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.

A story of the Italian troops in Africa.

The girls of a college suspect one of them, Maria, of having an affair with Marini, a handsome chemistry teacher. Anna, another student and a snobbish socialite, is under Marini's spell and finds a rival in Maria. Things are tense for a while until the truth is unveiled: the man Maria gave a kiss to was her father, not the chemistry teacher. When Maria has an accident, her jealous co-ed repentantly helps her. She can now marry the man she loves.

During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel and drops to the ocean floor. The crew have thirty hours worth of air to get it back to the surface.

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.

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

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

Francesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

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

An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.

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

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

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

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.

Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.

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 man recalls the life of his late younger brother.

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.