Bicycle Thieves ( aka The Bicycle Thief ) (1948)

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Lianella Carell, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

Aka 'The Bicycle Thief.' Vittorio De Sica's remarkable 1948 drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Oscar fo... Read more

Between Strangers (2002)

Director: Edoardo Ponti

Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Gerard Depardieu, Sophia Loren, Malcolm McDowell, Pete Po...

Olivia (Sophia Loren) has been secretly sketching for years, but recently there is an urgency to her drawings. Recurring dreams pull her toward the da... Read more

Besieged (1998)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis

This erotic and emotional love story is set in a lush Roman villa and focuses on a reclusive British musician (David Thewlis) who is irresistably draw... Read more

Bellissima (1951)

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Gastone Renzelli

A working class mother blinded by pride hatches unrealistic plans for her daughter's show business career when a famous director comes to town and sta... Read more

Bel Ami (2012)

Director: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod

Starring: Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney, Kristin Scott Thomas, Uma Thurman, Robert Pattinso...

Robert Pattinson stars in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant which sees a young man seducing his way up the... Read more

Battle Beyond The Sun ( Nebo Zovyot ) (1959) / Star Pilot ( 2+5: Missione Hydra ) (1966) (1959)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Pietro Francisci, Mikhail Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr

An americanised version of Nebo Zovyot was the product of Roger Corman's acquiring the rights to the Russian film and exploiting it for all the specia... Read more

Bartali (2006)

Director: Alberto Negrin

Based on a true-story, this made-for-television feature follows the career of Italian cycling star Gino Bartali known as the Iron Man. When his brothe... Read more

Bad Man's River (1971)

Director: Eugenio Martin

Starring: Lee Van Cleef, James Mason, Gina Lollobrigida

This spaghetti Western has Lee Van Cleef and his cronies offered $1 million to blow up an arsenal by a Mexican revolutionary. The arsenal gets blasted... Read more

Augustus (2003)

Director: Roger Young

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Gottfried John

Aka 'Imperium: Augustus'. Caesar has been assassinated. As the Roman Empire struggles to regain itself, a young Emperor steps forward, prepared to cla... Read more

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)

Director: Frederic Forestier, Thomas Langmann

Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Vanessa Hess...

While out hunting, Asterix and Obelix run across a local Roman sports champion named Gluteus Maximus who is about to participate in the Olympic Games.... Read more