Vittorio Duse

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Elio Petri

Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti

Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Ossessione

Luchino Visconti

Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

The Godfather: Part III

Francis Ford Coppola

Al Pacino, Diane Keaton

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

Enchanted April

Mike Newell

Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence

Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday.

Il sole negli occhi

Antonio Pietrangeli

Gabriele Ferzetti, Irène Galter

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

The Stranger

Luchino Visconti

Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

The Possessed

Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini

Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

Caccia tragica

Giuseppe De Santis

Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

Due lettere anonime

Mario Camerini

Clara Calamai, Andrea Checchi

When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.

Il Sole sorge ancora

Aldo Vergano

Massimo Serato, Vittorio Duse

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

Le mura di Malapaga

René Clément

Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Queen of Hearts

Jon Amiel

Anita Zagaria, Joseph Long

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.

L'arcano incantatore

Pupi Avati

Carlo Cecchi, Stefano Dionisi

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.

The Knock Out Cop

Steno

Bud Spencer, Adalberto Maria Merli

Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.

Altura

Mario Sequi

Massimo Girotti, Roldano Lupi