The Spider's Stratagem
(1970) [PG]

The breakthrough film of Bertolucci is an extremely atmospheric puzzler, based on a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. A young man visits the provincial town where his anti-Fascist father was assassinated 30 years earlier, and is rejected by the populace at every turn.  More

The Three Of Us
(1984) [PG]

Drama based on the life of fourteen year old musician Amadeus Mozart, as he spends his summer holidays studying for an exam at the Bologna Philharmonic Academy.  More

Night Sun
(1990) [M]

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet...  More

A Story Of Boys and Girls
(1989) [PG]

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiance, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an ageing salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son...  More

The Icicle Thief
(1989) [M]

The director Maurizio Nichetti is invited by a TV studio to introduce a screening of his best-known film, the neo-realist classic 'Ladri di saponette'. But Nichetti is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish colour commercials,...  More

I Vitelloni
(1953) [G]

Fausto, the leader of a gang of shiftless young men in a small Italian seaside town, is forced by his father to marry a local girl after it is discovered she is pregnant. Irrespective of his predicament Fausto and his friends persist in their daily slothful rituals. All the while Fausto continues...  More

Don Camillo (The Little World of Don Camillo)
(1952) [G]

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his...  More

Open Doors
(1990) [M]

Set during the Mussolini years, Open Doors stars Gian Maria Volonte as an old-line judge. Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvements" made by the Fascists. His insistence upon justice over dogma results in government reprimands, and ultimately poses a...  More

La Stazione (The Station)
(1952) [M]

The Station is about a peaceful, down-to-earth railroad clerk whose life is thrown into turmoil when a rich woman on the run from the fiancee she has just left arrives at his station. The two take off together, avoiding her fiancee, and eventually falling in love. -Stephen Thomas Erlewine.  More

Intervista
(1987) [M]

Fellini's movie combines the film-within-a-film. A playful recollection of previous works and an eerie conflating of the past and present in this surreal and imaginative distillation of a man's life and work. As Fellini prepares to adapt Kafka's Amerika, his every move and gesture is captured by...  More