Browse by Country - Italy
The Roof ( Il Tetto ) (1956)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi
De Sica once again returns to poor, post-war Italy to tell the small and unpretentious story of a young newly-wed couple. Having no money, they first... Read more
Troll / Troll 2 (1985)
Director: John Carl Buechler, Drago Floyd
Starring: June Lockhart, Michael Moriarty, Noah Hathaway, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, Julia...
"Troll" (1985) is a bizarre comic fantasy/adventure about a San Francisco apartment house that serves as a gateway to a dimension of trolls and demons... Read more
Death in Venice (1971)
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano
Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more
Pinocchio (2008)
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Robbie Kay, Alessandro Gassman, Violante Placido, Margherita Buy, Thomas Sangste...
A mini-series adaptation of Carlo Collodi's beloved children's story about a little wooden toy who became a real boy. Pinocchio is lovingly crafted by... Read more
Son of Samson / Son of Cleopatra (1961)
Director: Carlo Campogalliani
Starring: Mark Forrest, Mark Damon
Heeding an inner voice, the 'Son of Samson,' a loner from an outlying borough scourges the capital, using his high-caliber muscles to break up the Que... Read more
The Golden Coach (1952)
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli
Jean Renoir explores the complex relationship between theatre and life in this highly stylised account of the travels of a commedia dell'arte troupe i... Read more
Germinal (1993)
Director: Claude Berri
Starring: Anny Duperey, Bernard Fresson, Gerard Depardieu, Judith Henry, Laurent Terzieff,...
A sprawling adaptation of the classic 1884 Emile Zola novel, this manages to tell both the epic tale of a bleak rural community and the personal story... Read more
My Brother is an Only Child (2007)
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Starring: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio
Growing up in small-town Italy during the '60s and '70s, brothers Accio and Manrico embody and celebrate opposing political stances, but share an impa... Read more
Melissa P. (2005)
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Maria Valverde
Based on the sensational international best-seller, 'One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed', 'Melissa P.' is a steamy tale of raw emotions and f... Read more
The Stolen Children (1992)
Director: Gianni Amelio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Florence Darel
A wonderful story of the friendship that grows between a young carbiniere and the two abused children he is escorting from Milan to a foster home in P... Read more