Gianfranco Bellini

Francesco, giullare di Dio

Roberto Rossellini

Aldo Fabrizi, Gianfranco Bellini

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

West and Soda

Bruno Bozzetto

Nando Gazzolo, Carlo Romano

West and soda is a 1965 traditionally-animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.

Via Margutta

Mario Camerini

Antonella Lualdi, Gérard Blain

Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.

L'eroe dei due mondi

Guido Manuli

Gianni Musy, Simone Crisari

A little boy meets the old hero Garibaldi who tells him the story of his adventures.

Heidi geht nach Frankfurt

Isao Takahata

Gianfranco Bellini, Clelia Bernacchi

Il nano e la strega

Giorgio Terzi

Rosetta Calavetta, Germana Dominici

Little Dick, the well-endowed dwarf servant of Master Limpcock is being pursued by Nymphomania, an ugly witch who must have 69 orgasms to turn herself beautiful again.