Browse by Country - Italy
The Decameron (1971)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Angela Luce
The first part of Pasolini's great trilogy, based on the ribald tales of Boccaccio, which deal with human sensuality and artistic creation. Pasolini h... Read more
Fellini's Roma (1972)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Peter Gonzales, Britta Barnes, Pia De Doses
In this filmic salute to his beloved city, Fellini juxtaposes scenes of himself as an adult shooting a movie on the streets of Rome, with childhood me... Read more
Fiorile (1993)
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan
U.S. title; 'Wild Flower'. This film of immense elegance set in Tuscany focuses on the Benedetti family who preserve their time-honoured ways, includ... Read more
Fists In The Pocket (1965)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase, Lou Castel
In a rambling villa near a small Italian town, a blind widow lives with her four children - Augusto, Sandro, Leone and Giulia. The burden of supportin... Read more
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier
A.k.a. 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'. One of the goriest cult comedies ever with Udo Kier as the mad baron with a perverse longing for perfect (if unde... Read more
Flight of the Innocent (1993)
Director: Carlo Carlei
Starring: Manuel Colao, Francesca Neri, Jacques Perrin
An exciting fast-paced thriller about a little Sicilian boy (well played by Manuel Colao) who finds himself immersed in Mafia warfare and is forced to... Read more
Germany, Year Zero (1947)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Edmund Moeschke, Werner Pittschau, Barbara Hintz
With a lineup of non-professional actors and made in the neo-realist style, this lyrical view of Germany in the immediate postwar period has some magn... Read more
I Vitelloni (1953)
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
This early Fellini masterpiece, and one of the great works of Neo-Realism, deals with the young, restless men in a small town on the Adriatic who are,... Read more
Red Desert ( Il Deserto Rosso ) (1964)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Rita Renoir
Michelangelo Antonioni's first colour film is an intriguing study of alienation. Against the backdrop of a sterilized, impersonal industrial landscape... Read more
Il Postino ( The Postman ) (1994)
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Linda Moretti
Aka 'The Postman'. Massimo Troisi stars as a humble postman in a small beautiful Italian village, whose life is transformed by the simple powers of po... Read more