FILM COLLECTION

Love and Anarchy plumb the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple melancholic farm boy who’s sent to kill Mussolini, and finds comrades in a group of prostitutes.

The drama of the Finzi-Contini family, a pillar of the Ferrara aristocracy for generations, during the ongoing anti-Semitic persecution during World War II.

A commissioner turns into a ruthless executioner get rid, in his own way, of criminals who blackmail and prostitute girls. Watch it on Movieitaly+!

Not far from the splendor of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants from villages and countryside, lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world.

A cop becomes a criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1990s Rome.

This award winning film by great Luchino Visconti features an international cast including the American actor Burt Lancaster, the Austrian Helmut Berger and the Italians Silvana Mangano and Claudia Cardinale.

Antonio, a policeman, is ordered to take Rosetta and her brother Luciano from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother was arrested for forcing Rosetta to work as a prostitute.

Awarded with two Nastro d'Argento awards, beautiful italian sex farce on a middle-aged tax inspector is in search of a wealthy wife.

From a story by Carlo Cassola, the film follows the meeting between Pina, employed at the agricultural cooperative of one country along the river Po, and Adolfo, committed in a bookshop in Rome.

A classic Italian comedy featuring Alberto Sordi. An ambitious and unscrupulous young doctor will try to achieve success by numerous subterfuges, exploiting the weaknesses of the Italian health system with his family.

Police commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society.

Four of the prostitutes decide to go into business with the help of a ruthless deal maker. They start to run a little restaurant and slowly realize they love the new employment.

A taxi driver runs into a charming thief and falls in love with her. Attempting to get her and her family on the right track, the young man faces a series of misfortunes.

The comedic motion picture directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Alberto Sordi, depicts early nineteenth-century episodes in the life of a nobleman in Rome, the Marquis of Grillo.

A Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia’s candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home—before finding love with a beautiful radical.

This film is inspired by a true story. Peppino Impastato was an activist in the late seventies, who denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio.

Ugo Piazza is released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia and his girlfriend Nelly Bordon that he wants to clean himself from criminal activites.

Marcello Clerici, a spy for the fascist political police, travels to Paris on his honeymoon. The honeymoon is a cover: unbeknownst to his wife Giulia, the man is to eliminate a former professor of his, now a political dissident.

A disgruntled, disenchanted 20-year-old reluctantly returns to Turin to live with his irascible, blue-collar father and his mother, who is nearly mute due to a heavy nervous breakdown.

An original, spectacular journey through the most sensational exploits of the Italian criminal local underworld.

The body of a young schoolgirl is found in a park, but the killer can't be found..

Building contractor Eduardo Nottola, a Naples city councilman and candidate for alderman, plans grandiose building speculation. The collapse of one of his houses does not stop him: he sacrifices his son, changes parties, and is elected. The archbishop blesses the start of work that will change the face of the city.

Avant-garde piece from Carmelo Bene. A series of vignettes drive a whirl of sounds, images and poetry - is it horror, is it comedy, make your own mind up.

Freely inspired by Sophocles' ancient Greek classic "Antigone", this dystopic film competed in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 23rd Cannes Film Festival. It transposes the myth to modern times, in a fictional country where reality is suspended, where youthful rebellion is brewing and Antigone faces an uncertain future.

Ludovico Massa works in the factory incessantly to support two families. He is loved by the boss and hated by his fellow workers for his excessive servility, but one day his life will be turned upside down.

Anna Ruotolo is a kind and selfless woman but her life is miserable. She is a trapped woman unable to face her real and imaginary demons. But all this is about to change..

Due ladri irrompono improvvisamente in un negozio prendendo Giuliana in ostaggio e ribaltandole l'esistenza.

Milan. Fernando, the son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal lawyer raised by his mother Nelly with the intention of making him a different man from his father. When a scam takes place in town, the main suspect is one of Fernando's own clients.

Michele lives in a chalet in the mountains with his wife Damiana and stepdaughter Fiore. One night, Sergio breaks into their home, taking them hostage. He is there on a special mission: he has to recover the loot of a robbery.

Film directed by Carlo Luglio that stars Pasquale Cardinale (Nando Paone), an aging forestry agent living in a small inland village in Campania, who spends his days between the drunkenness of alcohol and video-poker. Now up to his neck in debt, he agrees to go into "business" with a group of poachers who traffic goldfinches and homing pigeons, mostly making money through the use of the birds for parties such as communions and weddings. But their illegal trade is destined to be short-lived, and Pasquale himself will bear the brunt of it.

By the 1980s, the 'revolution' of the 1970s had been absorbed: parental relationships remained firm, but marital relationships were fragile or non-existent.

The film combines nine clips of various genres that represent the vision of a distorted and perverse world.

Maria Sarti, a young Roman girl dreams of becoming a real prose actress. After some unhappy experiences, she is forced to improvise as a singer in a cabaret in Naples but soon suffers a trial for obscenity.

Italy 1940. Grotesque and pathetic odyssey of Teresa Numa, born in Anzio to a poor, large family, who changes ten trades in seven years, steals, has a child, and goes from prison to asylum.

From John Ford's tragedy Too bad she's a tramp. Giovanni loves his sister Annabella (this is Renaissance Italy). The incestuous relationship is interrupted by Annabella's marriage to the nobleman Soranzo. The latter discovers his wife's history and claims revenge.

A paddy field master recognizes one of his mondina as his illegitimate daughter and protects her without revealing the truth.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

Giovanni Pontano, a successful Milanese writer, goes through a period of marital crisis: all possibility of dialogue with his wife seems lost. The two, shaken by a visit to a dying friend and after a literary party for the presentation of Giovanni's latest book, wander through the city completely drained. In the evening, they find themselves at a party in the sumptuous country villa of a major industrialist and both throw themselves into sentimental adventures, from which they emerge even more disappointed than before.

In Risorgimento Rome, two Carbonari carry out an assassination attempt, but are caught by gendarmes and sentenced to death. A group of commoners, tired of the clergy's overwhelming power over the city, devise a plan to save them.

Luisa is a schoolteacher who is unjustly convicted of a crime of passion, which she never actually committed. Set free for good behaviour, she decides to take her revenge. She is ready to do anything to obtain justice.

The young Alina, married to an older, sick man, lives by smuggling with France, where she meets George. The two end up falling in love.

Evelyne, the young wife of a Swiss lawyer falls in love with Remy, a charming Parisian she met during a holiday in Italy. She joins her lover in the French capital, where she experiences moments of intense passion with him. Determined to confess her adultery, Evelyne returns to her husband but fate has a tragic ending in store for her.

In her desperate search for her ideal man, Doris naively goes from one relationship to the next, often being disappointed and changing jobs and cities several times. Eventually she convinces herself that she has found her soul mate in a draughtsman abandoned by his wife....

Four friends pool their little money to live the life of ladies in a big hotel, hoping to find a husband.

The villain Ibrahim, taking advantage of the trust he has earned from his cousin, an Egyptian heiress, cuts down the honest Bedouins. However, a mysterious knight is ready to save the day.

The Sicilian police hunt down seven killers in order to trace the mafia bosses through them. They send the killers out on a ship, but only two of them reach it: one dies when shot by an agent, the other barely escapes with his life and takes revenge on the bigwigs who pushed him into the trap.

In Paris, four gangsters live amid robberies and shootings. When the brother of one of them joins the group, harmony breaks down to a tragic end.

On a small island in the Mediterranean, the young Carmela fell in love with the officer commanding the garrison, who, after promising to marry her, left without giving any news of himself. The pain of the abandonment caused a very serious crisis in the girl, which left her mind distraught. After a long time, a new officer comes to the island and she believes in her madness, that he is her fiancé who has returned to her. The young man takes pity on the girl and tries to humour her so as not to provoke a new crisis, and his pity will turn into sincere affection that will slowly bring Carmela to her senses.

In 1943, during the Second World War, a Bosnian partisan blows up a German ammunition train, killing three soldiers. The Germans threaten to execute 30 innocent men if the perpetrator does not turn himself in to the authorities.

During her husband's imprisonment, a woman has to prostitute herself to save her seriously ill son. At the end of the war, the woman must confess everything to her husband, but her old lover blackmails her and she kills him.

While Napoleon's armies pass through Europe, two Italian boys are recruited in France for hard work in a glass factory. The younger one dies of hardship, the older one finds himself in Bonaparte's ranks.

Natalia, thanks to her marriage to the rich and elderly Marco, enters a family of aristocrats undermined by hereditary tares. But the love potion that should have consolidated the precarious marriage between the woman and the old man, she consummates by mistake, with the young Patrizio. A great passion torments them to death.