Nights of Cabiria (Notti di Cabiria, Le)
(1957) [M]

Cabiria is a poor romantic optimistic young girl who lives off unscrupulous men. On a despairing day, she goes to church to pray, hoping for a miracle to change her life. Shortly afterwards, she meets an earnest young man willing to marry her. At the height of her happiness, she believes she is...  More

Medea
(1969) [M]

Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini interprets the ancient Greek tragedy in his own distinctive style. Maria Callas,in her only film role, plays Medea, the central character in the ancient Greek story of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece, and brings to the role her commanding...  More

Camille 2000
(1969) [M]

A child of the sixties sexual revolution, beautiful, sensuous Marguerite (Daniele Gaubert) is addicted to sex and cannot be faithful. She is kept by a wealthy old man, has a string of young lovers and hosts wild orgies in her luxurious villa. When she falls truly in love with handsome bachelor...  More

A casa nostra (Our Country)
(2006) [MA]

A tough, critical view of Italy from a director born into a fine film making pedigree, the Comencini family. A Casa Nostra uses a series of overlapping narratives to present an entirely different view of Italy than the one that features in the majority of Italian cinema seen internationally over...  More

Hamlet (Zefferelli)
(1990) [PG]

Treachery. Madness. Murder. The story of Hamlet has been told for 400 years...but it's never been told like this! Mel Gibson (the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films) takes on his richest part to date, the title role in a dynamic new version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli...  More

Fellini's 8 1/2
(1962) [M]

Searching for the creativity required to deliver his next movie and hassled by industry figures, his wife and his mistress, a film director (Mastroianni) retreats into a world of memories, dreams and fantasies to escape his tormentors. The result is a dazzling array of themes and images which...  More

The Roman Empire
(2004) [PG]

At its height, the Roman Empire encompassed Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. How did it keep prospering for over 400 years? And why did it come to a rapid end? What can we learn from the Roman Empire and what guiding principles does it offer us today? Part 1 - The Legions Of...  More

Il Conformista (The Conformist)
(1970) [MA]

This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor...  More

The Heart Is Elsewhere
(2003) [PG]

Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in Bolgna and thus produce an heir for the business. Nello stays in a guesthouse run by Arabella, a wise woman...  More

A Heart Elsewhere (Il Cuore altrove)
(2003) [PG]

The shy and reserved Nello Balocchi, (Neri Marcore) a thirty-five year old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father Cesare (Giancarlo Giannini), who owns the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. Cesare hopes that by inviting his son to Bologna he will find a soulmate - thus...  More