Ennio Flaiano

No ano 33 d. C. o grande imperador romano Tiberius está perturbado com estranhos eventos: um terremoto balançou seu reino e o céu escureceu como em um eclipse. Parte da população está aos poucos se rebelando, desobedecendo às leis. Tudo isso por causa de uma lenda que está mexendo com todos: um homem, chamado Jesus de Nazaré, teria ressuscitado. Para desmentir esta notícia, Tiberius convoca seu melhor soldado, Tauro, que acaba de retornar da Germânia.

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.

1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a wonderful young Ethiopian. He also wound her when he shot to a wild animal, and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he gets probably leprosy. Trying to escape from Ethiopia Silvestri will kill again. But surprises aren't still over.

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.

Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.

Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate...

Dois irmãos, Monty e Ted, herdarão US $ 300.000 se conseguirem viver juntos por seis meses.

A Táxi-Girl Charity continua a ter fé na raça humana, apesar das decepções aparentemente intermináveis que vivencia, e a ter esperança de que finalmente ela encontrará o jovem simpático para afastá-la de sua vida desprezível. Talvez, apenas talvez, o belo Oscar seja o único capaz de fazer isso.

An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Para conter o ímpeto destrutivo e agressivo da humanidade, o governo estimula uma caçada humana na qual tanto o caçador pode matar sua vítima, quanto a vítima matar o caçador. Quem sobrevive a dez caçadas passa a ser herói nacional e ganha uma fortuna. Ao mesmo tempo, uma história de amor entre vítima e caçador.

Suspeitando da infidelidade do marido, Giulietta entra numa jornada surreal de autodescoberta, repleta de sonhos selvagens e fantasias encantatórias que envolvem Suzy, a sua vizinha sexualmente emancipada, e seu estilo de vida glamouroso dos anos 1960.

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.

This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

Prestes a rodar sua próxima obra, o cineasta Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) ainda não tem idéia de como será o filme. Mergulhado em uma crise existencial e pressionado pelo produtor, pela mulher, pela amante e pelos amigos, ele se interna em uma estação de águas e passa a misturar o passado com o presente, ficção com realidade.

Prestes a rodar sua próxima obra, o cineasta Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) ainda não tem idéia de como será o filme. Mergulhado em uma crise existencial e pressionado pelo produtor, pela mulher, pela amante e pelos amigos, ele se interna em uma estação de águas e passa a misturar o passado com o presente, ficção com realidade.

Quatro diretores contam histórias de Eros para um Decameron dos anos 1970. 0:00:24 - Renzo e Luciana (Mario Monicelli) Os amantes da classe trabalhadora, Renzo e Luciana (Marisa Solinas), se casam, mas devem esconder isso do empregador. Além disso, eles precisam de um quarto próprio na casa dos pais. 0:44:50 - A Tentação do Dr. Antonio (Federico Fellini) Um cartaz de Anita Ekberg provocadoramente vendendo leite é um golpe na decência pública, mais do que o Dr. Antonio pode suportar. 1:39:37 - O Trabalho (Luchino Visconti) Romy Schneider é a esposa de um conde, cujas escapadas com call girls fazem as manchetes dos jornais, decide trabalhar para provar sua independência. Mas o que ela está qualificada para fazer? 2:34:45 - A Rifa (Vittorio De Sica) Sophia Loren é gerente de Estande de Tiro que deve impostos e se oferece por uma noite numa rifa. Um sacristão ingênuo e um criador de vacas ciumento completam o triângulo. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Após dez anos de casamento, Lídia e Giovani passam uma noite permeada de momentos de angústia e luxúria, numa busca involuntária de respostas para a crise de seu relacionamento. Segundo filme da célebre "trilogia da incomunicabilidade", formada ainda por A Aventura e O Eclipse.

Após dez anos de casamento, Lídia e Giovani passam uma noite permeada de momentos de angústia e luxúria, numa busca involuntária de respostas para a crise de seu relacionamento. Segundo filme da célebre "trilogia da incomunicabilidade", formada ainda por A Aventura e O Eclipse.

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Roma, início dos anos 60. O jornalista Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni em desempenho memorável) vive entre as celebridades, ricos e fotógrafos que lotam a badalada Via Veneto. Neste mundo marcado pelas aparências e por um vazio existencial, frequenta festas, conhece os tipos mais extravagantes e descobre um novo sentido para a vida.

Roma, início dos anos 60. O jornalista Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni em desempenho memorável) vive entre as celebridades, ricos e fotógrafos que lotam a badalada Via Veneto. Neste mundo marcado pelas aparências e por um vazio existencial, frequenta festas, conhece os tipos mais extravagantes e descobre um novo sentido para a vida.

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

During a fair, a charlatan is able to sell to a group of retired persons a piece of sky that would give them a quiet place to live well after death. The old men buy the story and decide to commit suicide to get to the corner of heaven that belongs to them.

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.

Giulietta Masina interpreta Cabíria, uma prostituta que ganha a vida nas ruas de Roma em meados anos 50. Ingênua, ela sonha com o amor perfeito e acredita na bondade das pessoas. Por isso, sofre constantemente desilusões. Em suas andanças pela noite romana, ela se envolve com um astro de cinema em crise conjugal e, também, com um contador, que parece amá-la de verdade. Será que o destino só guarda desencantos para a pobre Cabíria?

Giulietta Masina interpreta Cabíria, uma prostituta que ganha a vida nas ruas de Roma em meados anos 50. Ingênua, ela sonha com o amor perfeito e acredita na bondade das pessoas. Por isso, sofre constantemente desilusões. Em suas andanças pela noite romana, ela se envolve com um astro de cinema em crise conjugal e, também, com um contador, que parece amá-la de verdade. Será que o destino só guarda desencantos para a pobre Cabíria?

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

Conta a história de um grupo de trapaceiros: Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart) e Roberto (Franco Fabrizi), mostrando seus dramas pessoais, como o complicado relacionamento de Picasso com sua esposa, Iris (Giulietta Masina), ou entre Augusto e sua filha, Patricia (Sue Ellen Blake). Apesar de influenciado pelo gênero policial norte-americano, possui claras influências do neo-realismo, retratando uma Itália destruída pela guerra, sofrendo com a miséria e a fome.

Conta a história de um grupo de trapaceiros: Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart) e Roberto (Franco Fabrizi), mostrando seus dramas pessoais, como o complicado relacionamento de Picasso com sua esposa, Iris (Giulietta Masina), ou entre Augusto e sua filha, Patricia (Sue Ellen Blake). Apesar de influenciado pelo gênero policial norte-americano, possui claras influências do neo-realismo, retratando uma Itália destruída pela guerra, sofrendo com a miséria e a fome.

Three directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

O Signo de Vênus é um filme de comédia italiana de 1955, dirigido por Dino Risi e estrelado por Sophia Loren. Foi inscrito no Festival de Cinema de Cannes de 1955.

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.

Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.

Durante a era fascista na Itália, Adriana (Gina Lollobrigida), uma jovem muito bonita, simples e de boas intenções, se torna uma prostituta depois de um relacionamento amoroso que não deu certo. É a história de uma alma boa que se corrompe, primeiramente, por sua mãe gananciosa, por Gino, seu primeiro amor que a engana e por pessoas que só querem se aproveitar dela. Um dia, Adriana conhece Mino, um jovem antifascista que se apaixona por ela e quer salvá-la. Mas ele tem tendência para o suicídio.

Gelsomina é vendida por sua mãe para Zampanò. Ambos não têm nada em comum: o jeito ingênuo e humilde da jovem é o oposto da rudeza de Zampanò, um artista mambembe. A chegada de um equilibrista que admira especialmente Gelsomina trará acontecimentos inesperados.

The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Salvatore Lojacono sai da prisão após cumprir uma pena de 20 anos. Sem conseguir se adaptar ao novo mundo pós-guerra, ele tenta de tudo para voltar à cadeia.

An Italian drama based on the play by Luigi Pirandello.

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Quatro amigos mimados vivem na farra e em busca de mulheres. Quando Fausto engravida a irmã de Moraldo, o avô da criança o obriga a casar, o que faz o rapaz repensar sua forma de levar a vida.

Quatro amigos mimados vivem na farra e em busca de mulheres. Quando Fausto engravida a irmã de Moraldo, o avô da criança o obriga a casar, o que faz o rapaz repensar sua forma de levar a vida.

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. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.

Um casal recém-casado chega a Roma para a lua-de-mel. O marido, Ivan, tem um tio muito influente na cidade, e conseguiu para os dois uma audiência com o Papa, além de ter vários planos turísticos programados. Porém, sua jovem esposa aproveita um momento de descanso para ir a uma produtora de fotonovelas entregar um presente para seu herói predileto, o Sheik Branco, que então a convida para ir ao set de filmagens, fora da cidade.

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.

A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.

In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief.

A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.

A former Fascist takes his son and escapes across the border into France, where he tries to avoid being recognized and having to pay for his wartime crimes.

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.

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 betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

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 betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese

The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII.