Suso Cecchi d'Amico Movies

Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is...

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having...

Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds...

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been...

A short documentary about The Leopard.

Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica,...

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he...

Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina's Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film's American title was Heaven...

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity...

drama from italy

Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job....

A look at the life and work of composer Nino Rota.