A Fistful Of Dollars
(1964) [R]

The first of the 'spaghetti westerns', a Fistful of Dollars was an instant cult hit. It also launched the film careers of Italian Writer-Director Sergio Leone, and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean, cold-eyed corbra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the...  More

For A Few Dollars More
(1965) [M]

This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal...  More

Mediterraneo
(1991) [M]

Set during World War II, the story follows eight Italian soldiers sent to guard a small Greek island. After their ship is sunk and their radio breaks down, it seems as if they no longer exist. Eventually a small Italo/Greek community is formed and the locals forget why they came. The soldiers'...  More

The White Sheik
(1952) [PG]

When a provincial couple go to Rome for their honeymoon, the bride sneaks off to the movie set where her idol, the White Sheik, is making a film. "Perhaps the freshest and the most tender and naturalistic of Fellini's films" (Pauline Kael).  More

Open City
(1945) [M]

Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, film...  More

Johnny Stecchino
(1991) [M]

Comedian Roberto Benigni wrote and directed this Italian farce, in which he stars as Dante, a bus driver who is the exact double of the infamous gangster Johnny Toothpick (Benigni again). After Dante meets Johnny's girlfriend Maria (Nicoletta Braschi), he travels to her Palermo villa, where it...  More

L'Eclisse
(1962)

The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on modern malaise, which began with L’avventura, L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon).

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La Strada
(1954) [M]

There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a brutal...  More

Brother Sun Sister Moon
(1973) [PG]

Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi, who sought communion with the natural world by renouncing his family's riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions. Francis was, in a sense, history's first "drop-out", he left a...  More

Fellini's Roma
(1972) [M]

Italian maestro Federico Fellini delivers a thrilling personal memoir with this monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome - The Eternal City. This lavish autobiography, full of lush fantasy sequences and monumental pageantry, begins with Fellini as a youngster living in the Italian...  More