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8 1/2 (1988)
Otto e mezzo
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni
Fellini tells his story of losing his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Amarcord (1973)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin
Fellini reminiscences about love, sex, politics, and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930s.
[DVD]

      
Bicycle thief (1948)
Ladri di Biciclette
Director: Vitorrio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggorani, Enzo Staiola
A desperately poor man and his son search for a stolen bicycle that is vital for his job.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Big deal on Madonna St. (1958)
I soliti ignoti
Director: Mario Monicelli
Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni
Five bumbling men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe.
[DVD]

      
Caro diario (1993)
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Renato Carpentieri, Nanni Moretti
Moretti travels on his motor-scooter, cruises around remote islands, and consults doctors to cure his annoying rash.
[VHS ]

      
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Director: Giuseppi Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, falling in love with the movies at his village's theater and forming a deep friendship with the projectionist.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Divorce Italian style (1961)
Divorzio all' italiana
Director: Pietro Germi
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin, but with divorce illegal, he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
[DVD]

      
Don't tell (2005)
La bestia nel cuore
Director: Cristina Comencini
Starring: Alessio Boni, Giovanna Mezzogiorno
When Sabina's father dies, she is left haunted by a terrible dream that becomes a living nightmare.
[DVD]

      
Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda
In 1938 Italy, the aristocratic Finzi-Continis have to acknowledge Fascism and anti-Semitism.
[VHS ]

      
Ginger and Fred (1986)
Ginger e Fred
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni
A dance team that earned its living imitating the routines of Rogers and Astaire reunites 30 years later to do a TV show.
[VHS ]

      
Golden door (2006)
Nuovomondo
Director: Emanuele Crialese
Starring: Vincenzo Amato, Charlotte Gainsbourg
A poor Sicilian farmer marries a British lady he meets on the boat to Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th Century.
[DVD]

      
Juliet of the spirits (1965)
Giulietta degli spiriti
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo
Visions, memories, and mysticism help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
La dolce vita (1960)
The sweet life
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Anita Ekberg, Marcello Mastroianni
A journalist mixes in high society and is both attracted and repelled by what he sees.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
La notte (1961)
Director: Michaelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau
An emotionally estranged couple faces heartache, desperation, and personal loss in the course of one night.
[DVD]

      
La strada (1954)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Giulleta Masina, Anthony Quinn
A carefree girl is sold to a traveling entertainer who physically and emotionally torments her.
[DVD]

      
L'Avventura (1960)
Director: Michaelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gabrielle Ferzetti, Monica Vitti
A woman disappears during a boating trip, and during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Life is beautiful (1999)
La vita è bella
Director: Roberto Benigni
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
A Jewish man must use his humour to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Mafioso (1962)
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Starring: Norma Bengell, Alberto Sordi
Nino takes his modern Milanese family back to his roots in rural Sicily and reconnects with the more unsavory elements of his past.
[DVD]

      
My brother is an only child (2007)
Mio fratello è figlio unico
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Starring: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio
The violent political unrest of 1960s Italy brings two feuding brothers to the boiling point.
[DVD]

      
My mother's smile (2002)
L'ora di religione (il sorriso di mia madre)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
[DVD]



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