Tullio Pinelli

Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampano, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road (La Strada)

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies (imdb)

Marcello is a young playboy journalist who spends his days between celebrities and rich people, seeking for ephemeral joy in parties and sex... (imdb)

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finding only heartbreak. (imdb)

Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. (imdb)

Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray... (imdb)

A sensitive character study of five young men trapped in a small town on the Adriatic. (imdb)

The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon... (imdb)

When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (imdb)

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery. (imdb)

The bordellos of Rome are closing down, and four working girls decide to plough their hard-earned cash into an out-of-town trattoria. They need the support of a shifty but powerful ex-client to get them started. The business takes off and they begin to believe they have a chance of a new kind of life, without having to sell their bodies. However, the shadow of their pasts is ever-present. (Channel4.com)

Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the people they meet, or just wandering around Tuscany. (imdb)

Seven top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City). (AllMovie)

Two-part anthology film, each segment starring Anna Magnani as different women who confront heartache in an unconventional manner.

Disciples of Italian filmmaker Pietro Germi have noted the stylistic influence of Hollywood's John Ford in Germi's neorealist Il Camino Della Speranza. The story concerns the plight of illegal immigration, as experienced by a pair of Sicilian miners. Unable to find work in their own country, the protagonists embark on a long and arduous journey to the French border, with immigration officials nipping at their heels every step of the way... (Hal Erickson)

Elena lives on a Tuscan farm, separated from her ineffectual husband Leonardo, who is more concerned with his mistress Lolli than his wife or two daughters, Franca and Malvina. This collection of female figures inhabiting a world virtually without men is completed by Elena's sister Claudia and Elena's housekeeper Fosca. The only male in the house is a senile old uncle who spends most of his time knitting. This unusual stable female environment is suddenly shaken by several crises. (imdb)

The plot is based on an actual postwar dilemma: in Northern Italy, dozens of black American GIs chose to go AWOL rather than return to a racially divided United States. John Kitzmiller plays an occupation soldier named Jerry, who decides to remain in Italy when he falls in love with a blonde, Caucasian local girl named Angela (Carla Del Poggio). (allmovie.com)

As a soccer match is in progress, a group of four criminals robs the stadium office. Before they can make their getaway, a chase begins, and they must split up before they can divide the money. The police have little to go on, since it appears that none of the robbers were experienced criminals. Meanwhile, the thieves have to arrange for dividing the money while trying to avoid being captured. (imdb)

Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character. The movie depicts some episodes of the life of a noble in the Rome of the early 19th century. Loosely based on folklore accounts about the real Onofrio del Grillo (who actually lived in the 18th century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. (karagarga.net)

A delegation of Italian movie makers go to Argentina to attend to a film festival.

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. (imdb)

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected. (imdb)

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests. (imdb)

A look at Galileo Galilei's discovery that the Earth revolves around the sun, with a focus on the clergy of the Catholic Church and on Galileo's heresy trial. (anonymous)

The movie tells the development of a slave - master relationship becoming estabilished, consciously, between a born-well lady, agoraphobic and essentially devoid of interests and propulsions other than sadomasochistic imagination accompanying her days, and a famous actress, who hires her as a lady's companion.

Based on Italo Svevo's great novel so admired by James Joyce, this atmospherically photographed film is set in old Trieste and centers on a middle-aged public official and his unrequited love for a flirtatious but unpossessable girl who blithely betrays him. (SurrealMoviez)

Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child... by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic except to drive Giulia, his legitimate wife, along with his legitimate kids to the station as they leave for a vacation at the seaside. No sooner does the train pull out of the station than he rushes to a telephone booth to call to see how is Adele, his other mistress. (imdb)

A bank officer sets off for his provincial home town to see his dying father, and takes along a casual aquaintance, an American girl. (bfi)

A man who believes himself to be a liberal and understanding husband discovers tha he can't cope when his wife says she is attracted to another man. (bfi)

"The Screen Test," functions as a prolog to the other two. Directed by Antonioni, it presents a view of Soraya on the night of her screen test for this picture. "Famous Lovers" casts Soraya as a married woman having an affair with a struggling writer, Harris. The final episode has her playing an executive on a trip to Rome who is entertained by Sordi, a gigolo hired by her travel agency. (KG)

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom. (imdb)

Luigi is a television director, and a cynical and unrepentant womanizer. One day he meets Carla, an architecture student, and is immediately attracted to her. But Carla isn't like the other women that Luigi deals with - she's a Catholic who believes in the old and simple values that modern society deems unfashionable. Both try to convince the other of the rightness of their philosophy, and their basic disagreements put their love in jeopardy. (imdb)

The life of Saint Francis of Assisi retold from the sixties political radical point of view (imdb)

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and his wife meet his new chief.