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- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAnna MagnaniAldo FabriziMarcello PaglieroDuring 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.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanMario VitaleRenzo CesanaKarin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsLou CastelPaola PitagoraMarino MaséA young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsCarmela SazioGar MooreWilliam TubbsAmerican 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.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsLuchino ViscontiAntonio PietrangeliAntonio ArcidiaconoIn rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsMartin ScorseseWorld-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsVasco PratoliniA 12-year-old girl, Annarella Bracci, was raped and killed in the popular borough of Primavalle, Rome, one of the age-old cross-roads of Italy, at the time it was going through major construction and road development projects.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsPier Maria RossiMita UngaroCarlos de CarvalhoThe story of the life of Jesus Christ.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsTotòVera MolnarNyta DoverA barber compelled by jealousy to commit murder spends 20 years in jail. But when he's released he cannot adapt to a changed world and the hypocrisy of his relatives, so he decides to return to prison.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsGiancarlo GianniniLaura AntonelliRina MorelliTullio 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.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAldo FabriziGianfranco BelliniPeparuoloA series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMaximilian SchellFredric MarchA maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsMarisa AllasioMaurizio ArenaRenato SalvatoriRomolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsLucia BosèCarla Del PoggioMaria Grazia FranciaBased on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951. They crowd and push their way into the old building and fight their way up the stairs to await an interview, only to be told there is not enough time to interview all. A scuffle breaks out and the stairway collapses sending many of them hurtling down in a mass of bodies amid brick and mortar. Among them are the well-born wife of a poor artist;, a streetwalker making an attempt to change her life; an unhappy servant girl; and the desperate wife of an unemployed factory worker. How the event changes or fails to change their lives is told.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanTullio CarminatiGiacinto PrandelliSurreal musical about the time of the execution of Joan of Arc.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsBjörn AndrésenLaura AntonelliTina ApicellaActors who worked with and knew Luchino Visconti are interviewed about his life.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsLeo GennGiovanna RalliSergey BondarchukDuring the Second World War three allied prisoners: a Soviet, an American, and an Englishman, attempt to escape Rome with the help of a young couple who are residents of the city.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAlexander KnoxEttore GianniniA wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsAlberto SordiBelinda LeeRenato SalvatoriMario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenFranca ValeriVittorio De SicaAgnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniAlfredo GuariniRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAnna MagnaniIsa MirandaFive portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia CristianiGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsPietro GermiLuisa Della NoceSylva KoscinaThe railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud of his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former railroad man Ugo. Andrea is married to Sara, and his young son Sandro is very close to him; however, Andrea has issues with his unemployed son Marcello and with his pregnant daughter Giulia, whose boyfriend Renato Borghi was forced to marry her. After a suicide crosses the tracks of his train in a curve, Andrea feels deeply affected by the accident and almost collides with another train. The railroad company investigates the accident and steps Andrea down from his position. The domestic life of Andrea is also affected by his aggressive behavior and Marcello and Giulia leave home. Later Andrea also leaves home and starts to drink until the day Sandro visits him in a bar.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsLuigi TosiBarbara CostanovaGianni RizzoThe city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueRoberto SavareseStarsRossano BrazziCharles VanelClaudine DupuisSaverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results. Luparello's three sons try to scare the Costas out of their farm but they are defended by Don Salvatore, the innkeeper and leader of the local Mafia. The next day, Andrea, the oldest son, indirectly causes the death of Diego and Wanda Costa. Don Salvatore has him eliminated and has Saro Costa, the honest share-farmers' ten-year-old son,sent to America. Fifteen years later, Saro, now a handsome well-built young man, is back...
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsOscar BlandoLiliana ManciniFrancesco GolisanoA story of teenager from Rome during World War II.
- DirectorEduardo De FilippoStarsEduardo De FilippoLeda GloriaDelia ScalaA combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis, then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens are Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo), who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto). The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in: a corpse used to conceal contraband; serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time; a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsAlessandro AngeliniLino CapolicchioGiovanna CauThis is a journey into De Santis' cinema from the viewpoint of the author, a film historian, friend and co-worker of Giuseppe De Santis. The story is a journey, run through with an intimate air never before seen in the works of Lizzani. Using material from the archives and film sequences, it takes us through the testimony of artists, friends, critics, as well as the locations of De Santis' films, guiding us through different passages in his artistic, private and political life.
- DirectorMax NeufeldStarsGino CerviAnna MagnaniLuisa PoselliThe bitter post-war era, between the collapse and the laceration of families. The director of a power plant, returned home after the war, finds everything destroyed: not only the power plant, but also his own family.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsMaria FioreVincenzo MusolinoFilomena RussoA love story between a poor fellow and a daughter of respected workshop owner set in an Italian post-war village.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVittorio GassmanDoris DowlingSilvana ManganoTwo criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsRaf ValloneLucia BosèFolco LulliFrancesco Dominici has just returned from the front, fought for three years and was a prisoner for another three years.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAugusto BassoElena FondiNon professional actors, filmed in a semi documentary style, show the lives of sailors and their officers ,some of whom are transferred to a hospital ship ,during WWII in Italy .
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsAntonella LualdiFranco InterlenghiSergio RaimondiThe film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting.
- DirectorMichal WaszynskiStarsAnna MagnaniVittorio De SicaAurel MillossAmong the numerous refugees arriving in San Marino during the Second World War, one day a stranger arrives who seems to have lost his memory. The stranger attracts the inhabitants' sympathy, especially those of a young prostitute, for his mild and gentle character.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiMassimo GirottiMariella LottiSome Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsYvonne SansonFrank VillardFrançoise RosayWrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
- DirectorAugusto GeninaStarsLia AmandaIsa PolaBruno VecchiWhile recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe.
- DirectorLuigi CapuanoStarsVirna LisiFulvia FrancoFranco RicciAmelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsRaf ValloneElena VarziSaro UrzìThe story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families, and their hardships as they decide to illegally cross the border to France.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsRinaldo SmordoniFranco InterlenghiAnnielo MeleTwo shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanMathias WiemanRenate MannhardtIrene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAnna MagnaniWalter ChiariTina ApicellaA woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsCarlo BattistiMaria Pia CasilioLina GennariAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmma GramaticaFrancesco GolisanoPaolo StoppaAn open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
- DirectorFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsPeppino De FilippoCarla Del PoggioGiulietta MasinaA beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
- DirectorFranco RossiStarsGianni GarkoSpyros FokasDidi PeregoTwo young people trickle and steal and exploit prostitutes.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsAnna Maria FerreroCosetta GrecoAntonella LualdiIn 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets Milena, Campolmi's wife, at the hospital and falls in love with her leaving Bianca. Then Maciste is killed, again by the fascists, Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in ^ÓSignora^Ô's house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Campolmi dies, but Mario and Milena part themselves. Later Mario too is arrested by the police.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsGina LollobrigidaDaniel GélinFranco FabriziDuring the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmilio CigoliLuciano De AmbrosisIsa PolaFour-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
- DirectorAldo VerganoStarsElli ParvoMassimo SeratoLea PadovaniItalian resistance fighters take on the Germans