Movies

Italian version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she...

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929...

In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New...

Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of...

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new...

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening....

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of...

An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various...

Former prostitute Maddalena, exiled to the island of her birth by the police, suffers ostracism by the locals, as she tries to defend her younger...

A homeless girl is taken in by an engineer. They fall in love.

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number,...

Mark Shiel is the author of “Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.” In this 2009 video essay, he discusses Roberto...

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.