Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo

A lavishly colorful baroque fantasy with Giulietts Masina (in real life Mrs Fellini) as a middle-aged woman haunted by hallucinations from her past an... Read more

La Terra Trema (1948)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti's epic-saga of Sicilian fisherman remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily... Read more

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi

A prostitute has to use all her wits to get a client of long standing to take the plunge and marry her when he announces his forthcoming marriage to a... Read more

Medea (1970)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring: Maria Callas, Guiseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff

Soprano Maria Callas stars in this dramatic, non-musical interpretation of Euripides' tragedy. 'Under Pasolini's direction, Callas becomes a fascinati... Read more

Nelly and Mr Arnaud (1995)

Director: Claude Sautet

Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Michel Serrault, Claire Nadeau

Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's 'A Heart in Winter'. A subtle, beautifully acted story of a 25 year old woman in debt and stuck in a n... Read more

Ossessione (1942)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Massimo Girotti, Clara Calamai, Juan Delanda

A.k.a. 'Obsession'. One of the great revelations of the cinema: Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', abo... Read more

Queen Margot ( La Reine Margot ) (1994)

Director: Patrice Chereau

Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Jean-Hugues Anglade

An intelligent and moving epic based on a Dumas' novel of the events surrounding the notorious St Bartholemew's Day massacre in 16th Century France. T... Read more

Rigoletto (1983)

Director: Jean-pierre Ponnelle

Starring: Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova

Luciano Pavarotti stars in this lavish interpretation of Verdi's classic. The passion, the music, the performances and, of course Pavarotti's masterfu... Read more

Salon Kitty (1976)

Director: Tinto Brass

Starring: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy

Features a crazed Helmut Berger as a powerful SS officer who will do anything to get the dirt on his fellow Nazis and their wives. An erotic and, at t... Read more

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring: Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Jean Marais

19 year old Lucy (Liv Tyler) spends a summer in Tuscany after her mother commits suicide. She stays with her mother's friends and has her picture pai... Read more