Movies

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and...

Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a...

Mark Shiel is the author of “Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.” In this 2009 video essay, he discusses Roberto...

A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.

Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

Biography of the famous saint of Portuguese origin recalled from the readings of a young boy who one day goes to church with his mother to pray for...

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.

Four comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want...

After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian...

Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.

Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the...

Anthology comedy/romance film

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it...

An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and...

A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.

Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of...

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the...