Tonino Guerra

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · With Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · With Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Isabelle Renauld

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · With Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, while the characters remain trapped in an unending search for a homeland.

Dir. Theo Angelopoulos · With Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.

Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti

Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.

Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volonté

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Marcello Mastroianni, Valéria Cavalli, Michèle Morgan

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani · With Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.

Dir. Elio Petri · With Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli

Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.

Dir. Paul Morrissey · With Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai · With Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng