Italian Cinema

Fellini, Pasolini, Rossellini, De Sica, Argento – the melodic names that conjure up the best of Italian 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

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

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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

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

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

A Special Day

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their careers in this understated masterpiece from director Ettore Scola.

Drama
1977
106 mins
Ettore Scola

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

Marriage Italian Style

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are irrepressible as a long-married couple in this exquisite and timeless comedy of our all-too-human foibles.

Comedy
1964
97 mins
Vittorio De Sica

Two Women

Sophia Loren won an Oscar® for her performance as a mother trying to protect her daughter in wartime Italy, in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic.

War
1960
100 mins
Vittorio De Sica

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

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