Gianni Di Venanzo

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.

A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.

Italian comedy film in three segments

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.

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

Italian episode movie

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Eduardo Nottola é um personagem sem escrúpulos que desempenha um duplo papel: ele é ao mesmo tempo construtor e vereador da cidade em questão, e leva adiante seu plano de especulação imobiliária que mudará para sempre a face da cidade. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Em uma pequena aldeia assolada pela pobreza no sul da Itália vivem Antonio, Francesco e Sergio: três jovens desempregados que levam vidas monótonas. Eles passam o tempo andando pelas ruas atrás de garotas, sempre fazendo planos hesitantes e aprisionados pela própria letargia.

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.

O escritor Tyvian Jones parece ter tudo (um best-seller internacional, um apartamento em Roma, uma bela noiva), mas é amargo mesmo assim. Ele encontra sua cara-metade na sedutora Eve. Uma tirana emocional, sua manipulação casual força Tyvian a confrontar seu passado e suas fraquezas.

Após brigar com o namorado, Vittoria se apaixona por Piero, um sedutor e materialista corretor da Bolsa de Valores. Apesar do real interesse de Vittoria, Piero não deseja um relacionamento sólido, por conta da sua personalidade volúvel.

Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.

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.

Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. Teo seems to be tempted by the offer...

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.

Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.

Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...

During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives with his two daughters. The two opposing armies soon forget about war and concentrate on winning the girls' hearts.

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.

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.

Peppe, um ex-boxeador, organiza o arrombamento de uma casa de penhores. Tiberio, um fotógrafo desempregado, Mario, um receptor, o siciliano Michele e Capannelle, um ex-jockey, são os outros membros da quadrilha. Embora eles sejam aconselhados por Dante, um ladrão aposentado, a tarefa não é tão fácil...

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince of Wales. He is also hounded by Anna Damby, who wants to become an actress to escape a marriage to Lord Mewill.

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

Two young men try to make it big as musicians.

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

Vencedor do Leão de Prata no Festival de Veneza. Conta as aventuras e desilusões amorosas de cinco amigas que vivem em Turim.

A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.

Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all.

In 1925, young Florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girlfriend Bianca. Here befriends Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. After a resident is beaten by the fascists, Mario meets her wife Milena at the hospital, falling in love with her and leaving Bianca. Maciste is killed, again by fascists, while Ugo is wounded and he seeks shelter in a nearby house. Here he falls in love with Gesuina and the two marry. Milena's husband dies, but she and Mario part ways. Later, Mario is arrested by the police.

A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.

Six separate episodes exploring themes of love, sex and romance in the Italian capital. "Paid Love" offers a glimpse into prostitution; "Attempted Suicide" features would-be suicides discussing their despair; "Paradise for Three Hours" depicts an evening at a provincial dance hall; "Marriage Agency" follows an investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be; "Story of Caterina" tells the story of a young unwed mother forced to abandon her child; and "Italians Stare" catalogues the girl-watching techniques of Italian men.

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.

During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.

Era uma vez uma velha que descobre um bebê em seu canteiro de repolhos. Ela acolhe a criança e, quando ela morre, o menino, Totó, vai para um orfanato. Totó deixa o orfanato um jovem feliz, e procura por trabalho em Milão da pós-guerra. Ele acaba com os sem-teto e os organiza para construir uma favela em um terreno baldio. Os invasores descobrem petróleo na terra e Totó tem uma visão da antiga mulher que lhe dá uma pomba mágica que irá conceder-lhe qualquer coisa que ele quiser.

Pescadores são explorados pelos comerciantes locais. Uma das famílias tenta escapar da situação fundando seu próprio comércio, mas não consegue ajuda.

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.

An Italian WWII documentary by a group of neorealists.

Gino, um vagabundo, começa um caso com a dona da pousada Giovanna, que planeja se livrar do seu marido.

Carlo Lizzani's short film for the anthology film Love in the City