Germany Year Zero
(1948) [PG]

Following Rome, Open City and Paisa, Germany, Year Zero was the third panel of Rossellini's great war triptych, and remains the least well known. However, it is every bit the equal of its more famous predecessors, and the long, final sequence of Edmund wandering amongst the ruins of the...  More

Pavarotti In Verdi's Requiem Mass
(1990) [G]

Pavarotti performs Verdi's 'Messa Di Requiem'. 3000 vocalists feature in a unique performance from Arena di Verona, 1990, with the World Festival Choir and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.  More

Flight Of The Innocent
(1993) [R]

The ten-year-old son of a brutal kidnapper witnesses his entire family's murder at the hands of a rival gang. He escapes only to find himself being hunted by both these relentless killers and the police. The boy's desperate struggle for survival becomes a path to redemption for the crimes of his...  More

L'Eclisse
(1962)

The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise, which began with L’avventura, L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon).

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La Scorta
(1993) [M]

Set in the the Mafia stronghold of Trapani, Sicily, La Scorta is a very sophisticated thriller which tells the story of four men assigned to protect an investigating magistrate. Told from the perspective of the bodyguards, this tense, fast-paced film focuses on the magistrate's relentless drive...  More

La Strada
(1954) [M]

There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a brutal...  More

Ciao Federico!
(1971) [M]

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."  More

Especially On Sunday
(1991) [M]

Especially on Sunday is a collection of three loosely-connected shorts that occur in a dreamy Italian village. All three were written by Tonino Guerra, so there are common themes, especially in the first and third stories, which deal with familiarity and loss. Each of these tales is wrapped in...  More

Brother Sun Sister Moon
(1973) [PG]

Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi, who sought communion with the natural world by renouncing his family's riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions. Francis was, in a sense, history's first "drop-out", he left a...  More

Love In The City (1953)
(1953) [PG]

One of the best omnibus films, which brought together the best Italian filmmakers of the '50s. The episodes are: The Spectator, by Dino Risi; When Love Fails, by Antonioni; Love Cheerfully Arranged (also known as The Matrimonial Agency), by Fellini; Paid Love, by Carlo Lizzani; The Love of a...  More