Italian Cinema From neo-realist urgency to studied alienation, these are the milestones of a national cinema. Theorem Pasolini’s classic about a handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives at a bourgeois household and seduces an entire family. Drama 1968 98 mins Pier Paolo Pasolini Primavera Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. Drama Historical drama 2025 111 mins Damiano Michieletto There's Still Tomorrow Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut. Drama Period drama 2023 117 mins Paola Cortellesi Suspiria Dario Argento’s phantasmagoric gothic nightmare blends operatic violence, disorienting dream logic and hyper-real visuals to create a horror classic. Horror 1977 101 mins Dario Argento Salon Kitty Before Caligula, Italian provocateur Tinto Brass directed this controversial and transgressive drama, inspired by the true story of a Nazi-run brothel in 30s Berlin. Drama 1976 133 mins Tinto Brass La notte Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece about urban alienation stars Italian film icons Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti. Drama 1961 123 mins Michelangelo Antonioni Rocco and His Brothers Italian maestro Luchino Visconti’s epic drama follows a mother and her five sons who move from a small town to Milan, changing their lives forever. Drama 1960 179 mins Luchino Visconti Journey to Italy Roberto Rossellini's acerbic but finally very moving masterpiece about marital crisis boasts great performances from Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders Drama 1954 86 mins Roberto Rossellini Paisà Roberto Rossellini’s ambitious and enormously moving follow-up to his breakthrough Rome, Open City. War 1946 126 mins Roberto Rossellini The Driver's Seat (Identikit) Elizabeth Taylor stars as a woman in search of the most dangerous liaison, in the most bizarre and misunderstood film of her career. Drama 1974 102 mins Giuseppe Patroni Griffi 8½ Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of writer's block with this magnum opus about a film director experiencing his own creative crisis. Drama 1963 138 mins Federico Fellini Stromboli, Land of God In her first collaboration with Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman stars as a refugee who marries a fisherman and moves to a barren island. Drama 1950 100 mins Roberto Rossellini Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini’s landmark of Italian neorealism often cited as one of the greatest films ever made. War Drama 1945 103 mins Roberto Rossellini The Machine that Kills Bad People Roberto Rossellini's film about a photographer who is given the power to rid the Earth of 'evil-doers'. Comedy Fantasy 1952 84 mins Roberto Rossellini and Luciano Emmer Germany, Year Zero The concluding part of Roberto Rossellini’s celebrated War Trilogy, set amid the war-torn ruins of Berlin. War 1948 73 mins Roberto Rossellini Discover exceptional cinema Subscribe to watch 100s of hand-picked movies. A free trial, then £6.99 per month or £65 per year. Subscribe now Available on multiple devices Help support a UK cultural charity Unique and trusted film picks New movies added weekly
Theorem Pasolini’s classic about a handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives at a bourgeois household and seduces an entire family. Drama 1968 98 mins Pier Paolo Pasolini
Primavera Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. Drama Historical drama 2025 111 mins Damiano Michieletto
There's Still Tomorrow Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut. Drama Period drama 2023 117 mins Paola Cortellesi
Suspiria Dario Argento’s phantasmagoric gothic nightmare blends operatic violence, disorienting dream logic and hyper-real visuals to create a horror classic. Horror 1977 101 mins Dario Argento
Salon Kitty Before Caligula, Italian provocateur Tinto Brass directed this controversial and transgressive drama, inspired by the true story of a Nazi-run brothel in 30s Berlin. Drama 1976 133 mins Tinto Brass
La notte Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece about urban alienation stars Italian film icons Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti. Drama 1961 123 mins Michelangelo Antonioni
Rocco and His Brothers Italian maestro Luchino Visconti’s epic drama follows a mother and her five sons who move from a small town to Milan, changing their lives forever. Drama 1960 179 mins Luchino Visconti
Journey to Italy Roberto Rossellini's acerbic but finally very moving masterpiece about marital crisis boasts great performances from Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders Drama 1954 86 mins Roberto Rossellini
Paisà Roberto Rossellini’s ambitious and enormously moving follow-up to his breakthrough Rome, Open City. War 1946 126 mins Roberto Rossellini
The Driver's Seat (Identikit) Elizabeth Taylor stars as a woman in search of the most dangerous liaison, in the most bizarre and misunderstood film of her career. Drama 1974 102 mins Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
8½ Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of writer's block with this magnum opus about a film director experiencing his own creative crisis. Drama 1963 138 mins Federico Fellini
Stromboli, Land of God In her first collaboration with Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman stars as a refugee who marries a fisherman and moves to a barren island. Drama 1950 100 mins Roberto Rossellini
Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini’s landmark of Italian neorealism often cited as one of the greatest films ever made. War Drama 1945 103 mins Roberto Rossellini
The Machine that Kills Bad People Roberto Rossellini's film about a photographer who is given the power to rid the Earth of 'evil-doers'. Comedy Fantasy 1952 84 mins Roberto Rossellini and Luciano Emmer
Germany, Year Zero The concluding part of Roberto Rossellini’s celebrated War Trilogy, set amid the war-torn ruins of Berlin. War 1948 73 mins Roberto Rossellini
