Most Popular Italian-Language Feature Films ..
1. Marriage Italian Style (1964) Matrimonio all'italiana (original title)
Comedy
Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works For him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena again, this time willingly.
Cast
Sophia Loren ... Filumena Marturano
Marcello Mastroianni ... Domenico Soriano
Aldo Puglisi ... Alfredo
Tecla Scarano ... Rosalia
Marilù Tolo ... Diana (as Marilu' Tolo)
Gianni Ridolfi ... Umberto
Generoso Cortini ... Michele
Vito Moricone ... Riccardo
Rita Piccione ... Teresina, seamstress
Lino Mattera
Alfio Vita ... Una pasticcere
Alberto Castaldi
Anna Santoro
Enza Maggi ... Lucia, maid
Mara Marilli
2. The Girl by the Lake (2007) La ragazza del lago (original title)
Thriller
The body of young girl is found beside an alpine lake in northern Italy. Sanzio, a middle aged police officer, is in charge of investigation. He is almost at retirement age and has an ill wife who does not to recognize him. In this apparently quite town, Sanzio, pursued by his family troubles, will find more than just the truth.
Cast
Toni Servillo ... Commissario Sanzio
Denis Fasolo ... Roberto
Nello Mascia ... Alfredo
Giulia Michelini ... Francesca
Marco Baliani ... Nadal
Fausto Maria Sciarappa ... Ispettore Lorenzo Siboldi
Franco Ravera ... Mario
Sara D'Amario ... Dott.ssa Giani
Heidi Caldart ... Silvia Nadal
Alessia Piovan ... Anna Nadal
Nicole Perrone ... Marta
Anna Bonaiuto ... Moglie di Sanzio
Omero Antonutti ... Padre di Mario
Fabrizio Gifuni ... Corrado Canali
Valeria Golino ... Chiara Canali
3. The Unknown Woman (2006) La sconosciuta (original title)
A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family. Like an intricately constructed jigsaw puzzle, The Unknown Woman reveals piece by piece the enigma of Irena's past.
Cast
Kseniya Rappoport ... Irena (as Ksenia Rappoport)
Michele Placido ... Mold
Claudia Gerini ... Valeria Adacher
Piera Degli Esposti ... Gina
Alessandro Haber ... Porter
Clara Dossena ... Tea Adacher
Ángela Molina ... Lucrezia (as Angela Molina)
Margherita Buy ... Irena's lawyer
Pierfrancesco Favino ... Donato Adacher
Nicola Di Pinto ... Irena's lover
Paolo Elmo ... Nello
Simona Nobili ... Policewoman
Elisa Morucci ... Waitress
Giulia Di Quilio ... Secretary
Pino Calabrese ... Magistrate
4. The Best of Youth (2003) La meglio gioventù (original title)
Drama/Romance
Nicola and Matteo Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. They begin their adventure, helping Giorgia, a young girl confined in an asylum. Then, after the flood of Florence, Nicola meets Giulia a talented piano player with a dangerous sympathy for the BR. Alessio, a rebel spirit entered in the police, will find the optimistic photographer Mirella. These four characters and many others will cross the years of terrorism and Tangentopoli.
Cast
Luigi Lo Cascio ... Nicola Carati
Alessio Boni ... Matteo Carati
Adriana Asti ... Adriana Carati
Sonia Bergamasco ... Giulia Monfalco
Fabrizio Gifuni ... Carlo Tommasi
Maya Sansa ... Mirella Utano
Valentina Carnelutti ... Francesca Carati
Jasmine Trinca ... Giorgia
Andrea Tidona ... Angelo Carati
Lidia Vitale ... Giovanna Carati
Claudio Gioè ... Vitale Micavi
Paolo Bonanni ... Luigino
Mario Schiano ... Medicine Professor
Giovanni Scifoni ... Berto
Michele Melega ... Literature Professor
5. The Last Kiss (2001) L'ultimo bacio (original title)
Comedy
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities.
Cast
Stefano Accorsi ... Carlo
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ... Giulia
Stefania Sandrelli ... Anna
Claudio Santamaria ... Paolo
Giorgio Pasotti ... Adriano
Marco Cocci ... Alberto
Pierfrancesco Favino ... Marco (also as Pier Francesco Favino)
Sabrina Impacciatore ... Livia
Regina Orioli ... Arianna
Susanna Javicoli ... Luisa
Vittorio Amandola ... Zio Mimmo
Daniela Piazza ... Veronica
Lina Bernardi ... Adele
Ines Nobili ... Gemma
Piero Natoli ... Michele
6. Bread & Tulips (2000) Pane e tulipani (original title)
Comedy/Romance
Life is often just "for sake of" and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young and apart from anything a housewife of Pescara, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and...forgotten in a highway café, decides not to wait for her husband and sons to come back to pick her up but instead decides to find her own way home. She is a little offended that she has been forgotten by her family and has been told by her husband to stay put so, rebelling a little she finds herself hitch-hiking direct for Venice. Her adventure in Venice begins meeting strange but fascinating people. Fermo; an anarchistic florist, Grazia; a masseuse and Fernando; a waiter from Iceland that speaks a his own language of Italian.
Cast
Licia Maglietta ... Rosalba Barletta
Bruno Ganz ... Fernando Girasole
Giuseppe Battiston ... Costantino Caponangeli
Antonio Catania ... Mimmo Barletta
Marina Massironi ... Grazia
Felice Andreasi ... Fermo
Vitalba Andrea ... Ketty
Tatiana Lepore ... Adele
Daniela Piperno ... Woman in Car
Tiziano Cucchiarelli ... Nic
Matteo Febo ... Salvo
Lina Bernardi ... Nancy
Mauro Marino ... Lello
Antonia Miccoli ... Sami
Ludovico Paladin ... Eliseo
7. Life is Beautiful (1997) La vita è bella (original title)
Drama/Romance
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
Cast
Roberto Benigni ... Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi ... Dora
Giorgio Cantarini ... Giosué Orefice
Giustino Durano ... Eliseo Orefice
Sergio Bini Bustric ... Ferruccio Papini (as Sergio Bustric)
Marisa Paredes ... Madre di Dora
Horst Buchholz ... Doctor Lessing (as Horst Bucholz)
Lidia Alfonsi ... Guicciardini
Giuliana Lojodice ... School Principal
Amerigo Fontani ... Rodolfo
Pietro De Silva ... Bartolomeo
Francesco Guzzo ... Vittorino
Raffaella Lebboroni ... Elena
Claudio Alfonsi ... Amico Rodolfo
Gil Baroni ... Prefect
8. Lamerica (1994)
Drama
Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change
Cast
Enrico Lo Verso ... Gino
Michele Placido ... Fiore
Piro Milkani ... Selimi
Carmelo Di Mazzarelli ... Spiro (alias Michele Talarico)
Elida Janushi ... Selimi's Cousin
Sefer Pema ... Prison Governor
Idajet Sejdia ... Dr. Kruja
Marieta Ljarja ... Factory's manager
Elina Ndreu ... Singer in night club
Ilir Ara ... Orphanage's guard
Liliana Subashi ... Hospital's doctor
Artan Marina ... Ismail
Vassjan Lammi ... Cop at cafe
Nikolin Elezi ... Man dying
Fatmir Gjyla ... Innkeeper
9. Il Postino: The Postman (1994) Il postino (original title)
Drama/Comedy
Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.
Cast
Philippe Noiret ... Pablo Neruda
Massimo Troisi ... Mario Ruoppolo
Maria Grazia Cucinotta ... Beatrice Russo
Renato Scarpa ... Telegrapher
Linda Moretti ... Donna Rosa
Sergio Solli
Carlo Di Maio
Nando Neri
Vincenzo Di Sauro
Orazio Stracuzzi
Alfredo Cozzolino
Mariano Rigillo ... Di Cosimo
Anna Bonaiuto ... Matilde
10. Mediterraneo (1991)
Comedy
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. Actually, the island isn't deserted and when the Greeks understand that those Italians are harmless, they came out of their hiding places in the mountains and continue their peaceful lives. Soon the soldiers discover that being left behind in a God-forgotten Greek island isn't such a bad thing.
Cast
Diego Abatantuono ... Nicola Lorusso
Claudio Bigagli ... Raffaele Montini
Giuseppe Cederna ... Antonio Farina
Claudio Bisio ... Corrado Noventa
Gigio Alberti ... Eliseo Strazzabosco (as Luigi Alberti)
Ugo Conti ... Luciano Colasanti
Memo Dini ... Libero Munaron
Vasco Mirandola ... Felice Munaron
Vanna Barba ... Vassilissa
Luigi Montini ... Pope
Irene Grazioli ... Pastorella
Antonio Catania ... Carmelo LaRosa
11. Cinema Paradiso (1988) Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (original title)
Comedy/Darama
A famous film director returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years. He reminisces about his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He is also reminded of his lost teenage love, Elena, who he had to leave before he left for Rome.
Cast
Antonella Attili ... Maria Di Vita - Younger
Enzo Cannavale ... Spaccafico
Isa Danieli ... Anna
Leo Gullotta ... Usher
Marco Leonardi ... Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita - Teenager
Pupella Maggio ... Maria Di Vita - Older
Agnese Nano ... Elena Mendola
Leopoldo Trieste ... Father Adelfio
Salvatore Cascio ... Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita - Child
Tano Cimarosa ... Blacksmith
Nicola Di Pinto ... Village Idiot
Roberta Lena ... Lia
Nino Terzo ... Peppino's Father
Jacques Perrin ... Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita - Adult
Philippe Noiret ... Alfredo
12. Dark Eyes (1987) Oci ciornie (original title)
Comedy
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's opulent home to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman whose marriage is a horror. He pursues her into the Russian heartland and returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. His amazed and appreciative Russian listener then narrates a shorter story.
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni ... Romano
Marthe Keller ... Tina, Romano's Mistress
Yelena Safonova ... Anna Sergeyevna, Governor's Wife (as Elena Sofonova)
Pina Cei ... Elisa's Mother
Vsevolod Larionov ... Pavel (Russian Ship Passenger)
Innokenti Smoktunovsky ... Il Governarore di Sisoiev (as Innochentij Smoktunovskj)
Roberto Herlitzka ... L'Avvocato
Paolo Baroni ... Manlio
Oleg Tabakov ... Sua Grazia
Yuri Bogatyryov ... Il Maresciallo (as Jury Bogatiriov)
Dmitri Zolotukhin ... Konstantin (as Dimitri Zolothuchin)
Silvana Mangano ... Elisa (Romano's Wife)
Jean-Pierre Bardos ... Ospite sdraiato (as J. Pierre Bardos)
Nino Bignamini ... L'acquirente
Maria Grazia Bon ... Sua moglie
13. The Last Emperor (1987)
Drama
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Cast
John Lone ... Pu Yi - Adult
Joan Chen ... Wan Jung
Peter O'Toole ... Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston
Ruocheng Ying ... The Governor (as Ying Ruocheng)
Victor Wong ... Chen Pao Shen
Dennis Dun ... Big Li
Ryûichi Sakamoto ... Amakasu
Maggie Han ... Eastern Jewel
Ric Young ... Interrogator
Vivian Wu ... Wen Hsiu (as Wu Jun Mei)
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ... Chang (as Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa)
Jade Go ... Ar Mo
Fumihiko Ikeda ... Yoshioka
Richard Vuu ... Pu Yi - 3 Years
Tsou Tijger ... Pu Yi - 8 Years (as Tijger Tsou)
14. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Drama
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
Cast
Robert De Niro ... David 'Noodles' Aaronson
James Woods ... Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz
Elizabeth McGovern ... Deborah Gelly
Joe Pesci ... Frankie Manoldi
Burt Young ... Joe
Tuesday Weld ... Carol
Treat Williams ... James Conway O'Donnell
Danny Aiello ... Police Chief Vincent Aiello
Richard Bright ... Chicken Joe
James Hayden ... Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg
William Forsythe ... Philip 'Cockeye' Stein
Darlanne Fluegel ... Eve (as Darlanne Fleugel)
Larry Rapp ... 'Fat' Moe Gelly
Richard Foronjy ... Officer 'Fartface' Whitey (as Richard Foronji)
Robert Harper ... Sharkey
15. La traviata (1982)
Drama
The film opens in the Paris home of courtesan Violetta Valery, where sheets cover the furniture in dimly lit rooms. Creditors, appraisers, and movers are removing much of the artwork and ornate furnishings. One of them curiously wanders through the rooms, until he comes upon Violetta, bedridden and looking pallid and weak, and he stares at her with undisguised awe. She is startled to see him and follows him to see what he is doing. As she gazes down the long hallway, her delirious mind drifts back to a happier time, and via flashback we are transported to a lavish party she is hosting to celebrate her recovery from an illness. One of her guests, Count Gastone, has brought with him his friend, the young nobleman Alfredo Germont, who has long adored Violetta from afar. She becomes dizzy and retires to her bedroom to recover; he follows her and declares his love. At first Violetta rejects him, telling him love means nothing to her, but she is touched by his concern and offers him a camellia, telling him to return it when it has wilted. He promises to see her the
next day.
Cast
Teresa Stratas ... Violetta Valéry
Plácido Domingo ... Alfredo Germont
Cornell MacNeil ... Giorgio Germont
Allan Monk ... Barone Douphol
Axelle Gall ... Flora
Pina Cei ... Annina
Maurizio Barbacini ... Gastone de Letorières
Robert Sommer ... Dottor Grenvil
Richard Oneto ... Marchese D'Obigny
Renato Cestiè ... Giovane Facchino
Dominique Journet ... Sorella d'Alfredo
Luciano Brizi ... Giuseppe
Tony Ammirati ... Guardiano
Ariel Bybee ... (voice)
Geraldine Decker ... (voice)
16. Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979)
Drama/War
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté ... Carlo Levi
Paolo Bonacelli ... Don Luigi Magalone
Alain Cuny ... Barone Nicola Rotunno
Lea Massari ... Luisa Levi
Irene Papas ... Giulia Venere
François Simon ... Don Traiella
Luigi Infantino
Francesco Callari
Antonio Allocca ... Don Cosimino
Enzo Vitale ... Dottore Milillo (as Vincenzo Vitale)
Maria Antonia Capotorto
Pietro Peragine
Vito Caraccia
Antonio Di Leva
Accursio Di Leo ... Joiner
17. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) L'albero degli zoccoli (original title)
Drama
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other.
Cast
Luigi Ornaghi ... Batistì
Francesca Moriggi ... Batistina
Omar Brignoli ... Minec
Antonio Ferrari ... Tuni
Teresa Brescianini ... Widow Runk
Giuseppe Brignoli ... Anselmo
Carlo Rota ... Peppino
Pasqualina Brolis ... Teresina
Massimo Fratus ... Pierino
Francesca Villa ... Annetta
Maria Grazia Caroli ... Bettina
Battista Trevaini ... Il Finard
Giuseppina Langalelli ... La Moglie Finarda
Lorenzo Pedroni ... Il nonno Finard
Felice Cervi ... Uslì
18. A Special Day (1977) Una giornata particolare (original title)
Drama/War
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.
Cast
Sophia Loren ... Antonietta
Marcello Mastroianni ... Gabriele
John Vernon ... Emanuele, the husband of Antonietta
Françoise Berd ... Caretaker
Patrizia Basso ... Romana
Tiziano De Persio ... Arnaldo
Maurizio Di Paolantonio ... Fabio
Antonio Garibaldi ... Littorio
Vittorio Guerrieri ... Umberto
Alessandra Mussolini ... Maria Luisa
Nicole Magny ... Officer's Daughter
20. Suspiria (1977)
Horror
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.
Cast
Jessica Harper ... Suzy Bannion
Stefania Casini ... Sara
Flavio Bucci ... Daniel
Miguel Bosé ... Mark
Barbara Magnolfi ... Olga
Susanna Javicoli ... Sonia
Eva Axén ... Pat Hingle
Rudolf Schündler ... Prof. Milius
Udo Kier ... Dr. Frank Mandel
Alida Valli ... Miss Tanner
Joan Bennett ... Madame Blanc
Margherita Horowitz ... Teacher
Jacopo Mariani ... Albert
Fulvio Mingozzi ... Taxi Driver
Franca Scagnetti ... Cook
21. Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976) Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (original title)
Comedy
Four generations of a family live crowded together in a cardboard shantytown shack in the squalor of inner-city Rome. They plan to murder each other with poisoned dinners, arson, etc. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
Cast
Nino Manfredi ... Giacinto Mazzatella
Maria Luisa Santella ... Iside
Francesco Anniballi ... Domizio
Maria Bosco ... Gaetana
Giselda Castrini ... Lisetta
Alfredo D'Ippolito ... Plinio
Giancarlo Fanelli ... Paride
Marina Fasoli ... Maria Libera
Ettore Garofolo ... Camillo
Marco Marsili ... Marce
Franco Merli ... Fernando
Linda Moretti ... Matilde
Luciano Pagliuca ... Romolo
Giuseppe Paravati ... Tato
Silvana Priori ... Paride's Wife
22. The Consequences of Love (2004) Le conseguenze dell'amore (original title)
Drama
Titta di Girolamo apparently has a regular and tedious life with nothing strange a part from his own name (as he uses to say). He lives in a Hotel in Lugano (Switzerland) since almost ten years, spending his days waiting for something we don't know. His life is too rigid, too detached following a flat routine. Titta ignore everyone and probably he has no emotions at all. Basically there is no story. But one day he decided, breaking all his personal rules, to exchange some words with Sofia, the hotel's barmaid. Incredibly all the situation change, emotions, love, mafia, death come back violently into Titta's life.
Cast
Toni Servillo ... Titta di Girolamo
Olivia Magnani ... Sofia
Adriano Giannini ... Valerio
Antonio Ballerio ... Bank manager
Gianna Paola Scaffidi ... Giulia
Nino D'Agata ... Mafioso
Vincenzo Vitagliano ... Pippo D'Antò (as Enzo Vitagliano)
Diego Ribon ... Director
Gilberto Idonea ... Hired assassin
Giselda Volodi ... Waitress
Giovanni Vettorazzo ... Letizia
Gaetano Bruno ... Hired Assassin
Ana Valeria Dini ... Reader
Vittorio Di Prima ... Nitto Lo Riccio
Angela Goodwin ... Isabella
23. Il caso Mattei (1972)
Drama
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté ... Enrico Mattei
Luigi Squarzina ... Journalist
Gianfranco Ombuen ... Ing. Ferrari
Edda Ferronao ... Mrs. Mattei
Accursio Di Leo ... Sicilian important man #1
Giuseppe Lo Presti ... Sicilian important man #2
Aldo Barberito ... Official
Dario Michaelis ... Carabinieri official
Peter Baldwin ... McHale (journalist)
Franco Graziosi ... Minister
Elio Jotta ... Head of commission
Luciano Colitti ... Bertuzzi
Terenzio Cordova ... Police official
Camillo Milli ... Change teller
Jean Rougeul ... American official
24. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (original title)
Crime/Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Cast
Gian Maria Volonté ... Il Dottore - former head of homicide squad
Florinda Bolkan ... Augusta Terzi
Gianni Santuccio ... Questore
Orazio Orlando ... Brigadiere Biglia
Sergio Tramonti ... Antonio Pace
Arturo Dominici ... Mangani
Aldo Rendine ... Nicola Panunzio
Massimo Foschi ... Terzi - Augusta's Husband
Aleka Paizi ... Inspector's Maid
Vittorio Duse ... Canes
Pino Patti ... Head of wire-tapping office
Salvo Randone ... Plumber
Giuseppe Licastro
Filippo De Gara ... Police Official
Fulvio Grimaldi ... Patanè - 'Paese Sera' journalist
25. 8½ (1963)
Drama/fantasy
Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moments peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making.
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni ... Guido Anselmi
Claudia Cardinale ... Claudia
Anouk Aimée ... Luisa Anselmi (as Anouk Aimee)
Sandra Milo ... Carla
Rossella Falk ... Rossella
Barbara Steele ... Gloria Morin
Madeleine Lebeau ... Madeleine, l'attrice francese
Caterina Boratto ... La signora misteriosa
Eddra Gale ... La Saraghina (as Edra Gale)
Guido Alberti ... Pace, il produttore
Mario Conocchia ... Conocchia, il direttore di produzione
Bruno Agostini ... Bruno - il secundo segretario di produzione
Cesarino Miceli Picardi ... Cesarino, l'ispettore di produzione
Jean Rougeul ... Carini, il critico cinematografico
Mario Pisu ... Mario Mezzabotta
26. La Dolce Vita (1960) La dolce vita (original title)
Comedy
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni ... Marcello Rubini
Anita Ekberg ... Sylvia
Anouk Aimée ... Maddalena (as Anouk Aimee)
Yvonne Furneaux ... Emma
Magali Noël ... Fanny (as Magali Noel)
Alain Cuny ... Steiner
Annibale Ninchi ... Marcello's father
Walter Santesso ... Paparazzo
Valeria Ciangottini ... Paola
Riccardo Garrone ... Riccardo
Ida Galli ... Debuttante of the Year
Audrey McDonald ... Jane (as Audey McDonald)
Polidor ... Clown
Alain Dijon ... Frankie Stout
Enzo Cerusico ... Newspaper photographer
27. Nights of Cabiria (1957) Le notti di Cabiria (original title)
Drama
Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We follow her nights (and days): a boyfriend steals 40,000 lire from her and nearly drowns her, a movie star on the Via Veneto takes her home with him, at a local shrine she seeks the Madonna's intercession, then she meets an accountant who's seen her, hypnotized on a vaudeville stage, acting out her heart's longings. He courts her. Is it fate that led to their meeting? Is this finally a man who appreciates her for who she is?
Cast
Giulietta Masina ... Maria 'Cabiria' Ceccarelli
François Périer ... Oscar D'Onofrio (as François Perier)
Franca Marzi ... Wanda
Dorian Gray ... Jessy
Aldo Silvani ... The wizard
Ennio Girolami ... Amleto, 'il magnaccia'
Mario Passante ... Uncle of Amleto
Christian Tassou
Amedeo Nazzari ... Alberto Lazzari
28. The First Beautiful Thing (2010) La prima cosa bella (original title)
Comedy
A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
Cast
Valerio Mastandrea ... Bruno Michelucci - 2009
Micaela Ramazzotti ... Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci - 1971-1981
Stefania Sandrelli ... Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci - 2009
Claudia Pandolfi ... Valeria Michelucci - 2009
Marco Messeri ... Il Nesi
Fabrizia Sacchi ... Sandra
Aurora Frasca ... Valeria Michelucci - anni '70
Giacomo Bibbiani ... Bruno Michelucci - bambino
Giulia Burgalassi ... Valeria Michelucci - adolescente
Francesco Rapalino ... Bruno - adolescente
Sergio Albelli ... Mario Michelucci
Isabella Cecchi ... Zia Leda Nigiotti
Emanuele Barresi ... Roberto Lenzi
Dario Ballantini ... Avvocato Cenerini
Paolo Ruffini ... Cristiano Cenerini
29. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Ladri di biciclette (original title)
Drama
A poor young father in postwar-ravaged Rome who finally finds work putting up Rita Hayworth posters around town, only have his precious bicycle stolen the first day on the job. In a light moment as the father and his young son chase after the thief, the boy attempts to relieve himself against a wall, and his father lets him know they don't have time for that. In another scene, the father tracks the thief into the kitchen of a brothel.
Cast
Lamberto Maggiorani ... Antonio Ricci
Enzo Staiola ... Bruno Ricci
Lianella Carell ... Maria Ricci
Gino Saltamerenda ... Baiocco
Vittorio Antonucci ... The Thief
Giulio Chiari ... The Beggar
Elena Altieri ... The Charitable Lady
Carlo Jachino ... A Beggar
Michele Sakara ... Secretary of the Charity Organization
Emma Druetti
Fausto Guerzoni ... Amateur Actor
30. The Leopard (1963) Il gattopardo (original title)
Drama
In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or to help build a new Sicily but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
Cast
Burt Lancaster ... Prince Don Fabrizio Salina
Claudia Cardinale ... Angelica Sedara / Bertiana
Alain Delon ... Tancredi Falconeri
Paolo Stoppa ... Don Calogero Sedara
Rina Morelli ... Princess Maria Stella Salina
Romolo Valli ... Father Pirrone
Terence Hill ... Count Cavriaghi (as Mario Girotti)
Pierre Clémenti ... Francesco Paolo
Lucilla Morlacchi ... Concetta
Giuliano Gemma ... Garibaldi's General
Ida Galli ... Carolina
Ottavia Piccolo ... Caterina
Carlo Valenzano ... Paolo
Brook Fuller ... Little Prince
Anna Maria Bottini ... Mademoiselle Dombreuil, the Governess