Stefania Sandrelli

A young history professor and her seven-year-old daughter embark on a cruise through the Mediterranean Sea and befriend three famous women of different nationalities. (Kino International)

This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there: to look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power.

After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (imdb)

Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela... (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life. (imdb)

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor... (imdb)

Agnese a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister's Matilde fiancé;. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything and after had hit like hell his daughter run to Peppino house and did the same... (imdb)

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. As suspects keep dying, Inspector directs his attention to a spa all the victims had a connection with. (imdb)

The film starts where L'armata Brancaleone has ended. Brancaleone da Norcia (again played by Vittorio Gassman) is a poor but proud Middle Ages knight leading his bizarre and ragtag army of underdogs. However, he loses in a battle all his "warriors" and therefore meets the Death's incarnation... (Wikipedia)

Dieudonné Ferchaux is a Parisian banker, an imminent investigation of his corrupt dealings has him taking off for the U.S., accompanied by a newly hired secretary, an ex-boxer. (Wordpress)

Strange passions and personalities collide at a holiday resort hotel in Tunisia. Vestar the stage magician, a clairvoyant, meets the wealthy but rather sinister Edouard. On their way to the hotel, Vestar claims that he has had a vision of a woman being murdered in the desert. Edouard, a member of the idle rich, decides to use his influence to make the prediction come true. Also arriving at the hotel are Sadry, returning home to visit his dying mother, and his irritating wife Sylvia. (imdb)

The story revolves on a handsome man stumbling into the former love of his life, but she doesn't seem to recognise him. The girl, Sandra, suffers from a bad case of amnesia and her overly vain mother protects her from the outside world. Oscar doesn't give up and, with the help of a befriended doctor; he learns that Sandra's condition got caused by the traumatic witnessing of her young son standing next to his father's dead body with a pistol in his hands. (imdb)

The naive countryside girl Adriana, who dreams of a career as a star in Rome, is not an escapist or introvert; on the contrary, she tries her best to socialize and befriend people but the results are most disappointing and frustrating. People just ignore her, use her, make fun of her, exploit her body and her good intentions. Nobody is taking her seriously.

A husband and wife lock their diaries in a drawer and also know that they read each other's entries, a device which takes them from one sexual encounter to another. (imdb)

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.

1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. (imdb)

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)

A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania Sandrelli). Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay (Francois Perier), who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese (Simone Signoret), who is handicapped. (allmovie.com)

Irene (Jennifer Connelly), a magazine editor who's lived a sheltered existence under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1973 Chile, gradually awakens to the political tumult when handsome photographer Francisco (Antonio Banderas) enters her life and opens her eyes to the brutal atrocities being committed by the state. Based on Isabel Allende's novel, this drama also stars Patricia Contreras and Stefania Sandrelli.

Barcelona 1917-1923. Riots between anarchist workers and Savolta's weapon factory owners get worse when these try to stop it using mercenaries, trying to hide illegal business with Germans. (FILMAFFINITY)

On a terrace in Rome, a group of Italian communist politicians and intellectuals have a party. (en.wikipedia.org)

It is WW2 on the outskirts of Naples. Miluzza, a naive 15 year-old girl subjected to repeated abuse by the men around her is unable to escape the confines of her small village. (Koch Lorber Films)

An eccentric billionaire hires a new swimming instructor

A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.

Rosa lives in Buenos Aires and she wants to meet Javier, who lives in Milan, because she thinks he's her brother. So she goes to Italy, and she tells Javier that her mother was a political prisoner in Argentina during the 1970s, when thousands of opponents of the nation's military government simply "disappeared." Javier will go to Barcellona to make the DNA test and to reflect about past and present of his family and his motherland.

"The passion" tells the story of a group of assorted people, bound together by the most unlikely (and, in some cases, unfortunate) circumstances, who find themselves busy staging the tale of the passion of Christ on a Good Friday in a Tuscan village, an old tradition that is still alive all over Italy. (imdb)

The misadventures of three soccer fans, all played by Abatantuono. (imdb)

The film tells the story of two very different brothers, Leonardo and Giorgio. The former is reliable and sensitive and the latter erratic and womanizer. Yet the two have always been united. At least until the day Leonardo discovers that Giorgio's new girlfriend is none other than Sara with whom he had one of his turbulent affairs. It is up to the mother Alba to restore order in the family not without surprises and twists that will cause a big commotion.

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)

Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally explores his relationships with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a young man (imdb)

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. (allmovie.com)

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she now is married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to light the flame another time. (imdb)

In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.

Paolo Villaggio introduces himself as the "Italian Superman", a well-endowed attraction at an erotic bar who struggles to keep his job a secret from his wife. "The Swedish Horse" stars Nino Manfredi as a strict patriarch who is tempted into infidelity by a nubile houseguest. Finally, Alberto Sordi and Stefania Sandrelli get stuck in "The Elevator" for a whole afternoon and this experience changes both of them. (quartetrecords)

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)

Film recounts the story of the life of Pontius Pilate. (imdb)

Autobiographical fantasy about a mediocre writer under analysis, obsessed by a life-long love-hate relationship with his father, and an unsatisfying marriage to a girl many years his junior. (bfi)

Comedy, about the cases which come up before a young magistrate, who is indulgent towards those he has to judge. (imdb)

After Argentina's 1999 economic crisis, the lives of two men intersect in Buenos Aires. Santamaría is a disgraced banker, now homeless, who survives by finding and returning other people's stolen wallets. Ariel, a Jewish videographer, has recently lost his mother and finds a job in television. Each man grapples with the shocks in their lives and encounters unexpected, unlikely romance.

As the eldest birth daughter of the Dragon King, Desideria is due to inherit his ring, the highest symbol of power in the kingdom. To do so, she must first get married. Unfortunately, the man that finally catches her attention is Prince Victor, a rebel prince who has fought against her father and now is sentenced to death. Besides, there's Selvaggia, her adopted sister is a magician and is constantly playing tricks to get Desideria in trouble.

Gramigna and his father are robbed of their field by Baron Nardò. The Baron let the field to Assunta and Gemma that is secretly beloved of Gramigna. (imdb)

Film based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, about the morbid passion of a woman who is prepared to sacrifice the innocence of her daughter to preserve her relationship with her husband. (bfi)

A couple meet during the Carnival in Ivrea (a little town in northern Italy), feel drawn to each other and have a torrid affair destined not to last long. (imdb)

The story of five girls that lose their virginity. (imdb)

The Nativity of Mary, from Joseph point of view. (imdb)

Maria and Carmela are two married women, but their husbands have emigrated to Germany for many years in the hope of finding a fortune. Many are the men who left the country, but unlike the others, both Mary's and Carmela's husband no longer give news of them; also gossips have led to the hypothesis that Mary's husband has created another family in the place where he is.

A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over. (imdb)

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. (imdb)

Lo zio indegno (internationally released as The Sleazy Uncle) is a 1989 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Brusati. Vittorio Gassman was awarded a Nastro d'Argento Best Actor for his portrayal of Uncle Luca. (imdb)

A trashy sum of all the low level comedy christmas movies that came out in the last 25 years (imdb)

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

Jean Delvaux, nicknamed don Juan, is found dead. Was he murdered or did he kill himself? The investigation is assigned to Det. Montijoux, a disillusioned man. It leads him to the beautiful Emeline Silvani, who's suspected to be the dead man's lover.

Days flow calmly in the senior center "La Serenissima". Suddenly a news upsets the peaceful atmosphere that usually surrounds the entire center. Edda, a beautiful lady around 73, is in the hospital because of a huge stress caused by the loss of her savings in an illegal bet. (imdb)

A French teenage girl is forced to move in with her less well off Italian relatives. (imdb)

Astolfo, a retired professor evicted from his apartment, decides to move into an old noble but decrepit palace, the last remnant of his family patrimony in a remote village of Abruzzo, where he hasn't been for decades. Soon enough, as a newcomer, he befriends a vagabond, a retired chef and a young handyman. A group of four live harmoniously at his place when he comes across Stefania, a charming and generous woman of his age. Astolfo falls in love and struggles with feelings he thought belonged t

Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her "Marcello".

Parthenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth? (imdb)