Movies

Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.

The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will...

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain...

BBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction.

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an...

Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly....

Gianni is a poor, young newspaper salesman in Rome. However, during his vacations he poses as Count Max Varaldo, an aristocrat. Once, on a cruise in...

Momi Tamberlan, Bortolo Cioci and Piero Scavezza are the last three old survivors of a club founded at the time of their student life by their...

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by...

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother...

This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES coscreenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, and actor...

Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one...

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy...

An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day...