Visconti

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

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.

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

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

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

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.

A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.