La Dolce Vita (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960) 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.
Amarcord (1973)
Amarcord 1973 One year in a small northern Italian coastal town in the late 1930s is presented The slightly off kilter cast of characters are affected by time and location, the social mores dictated largely by Catholicism, and the national fervor surrounding Il Duce aka Benito Mussolini and Fascism
The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
The Nights of Cabiria (1957) Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may
Fellinis Casanova (1976)
Fellinis Casanova (1976) Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?
8½ (1963)
8½ (1963) Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moment's 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 st
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Spirits of the Dead (1968) Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate
City of Women (1980)
City of Women (1980) Marcello is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts to fall toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact and follows her when she leaves the compartment. For a few moments she finds him a
Roma (1972)
Roma (1972) A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens. blending autobiography (a reconstruction of Fellini's own arrival in Rome during the Mussolini years; a trip to a brothel and a music-hall) with scenes from present-day Roma
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Fellini Satyricon (1969) In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. We follow Enco
The Secret Diary of Amarcord (1974)
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Boccaccio 70 (1962)
Boccaccio 70 (1962) Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy. Not lon
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
And the Ship Sails On (1983) In July 1914 a luxury cruise ship leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but on the third day the captain has to save a a large
La Strada (1954)
La Strada (1954) Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatev
Fellini racconta Diario di un film (1983)
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The White Sheik (1952)
The White Sheik (1952) Moments after the newlywed couple of the fastidious office employee Ivan and his young and pure wife Wanda arrive at a hotel in Rome for their honeymoon and a formal meeting with Ivan's uncle, the bride decides to sneak out of the room and leave unnoticed. Wanda, obsessed with
Ginger Fred (1986)
Ginger Fred 1986 Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music hall act imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on a TV variety show Its both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in pa
Intervista (1987)
Intervista (1987) Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on his latest film. A young actor portrays Fellini arriving at Cinecitta the first time by trolle
I Vitelloni (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953) Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shop. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with h
Variety Lights (1950)
Variety Lights (1950) When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (
Fellini Narrates: A Discovered SelfPortrait (2000)
A collection of radio and television interviews with director Federico Fellini, recorded from February 1952, up to 1967, as he worked on the never completed film The Journey of Mastorna
Ciao, Federico (1970)
Ciao, Federico 1970 A behind the scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, Satyricon
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
Orchestra Rehearsal 1978 In a Medieval Roman chapel, now an oratorio, an elderly factotum sets up for rehearsal The musicians arrive, joking and teasing A union shop steward explains that a TV crew is there, talking to them is optional, and there will be no extra compensation Musicians talk about th
Il Bidone (1955)
Il Bidone (1955) Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and daughter and wants to paint. Augusto avoids the personal entanglements, spending money at clubs
Fellinopolis (2020)
Fellinopolis 2020 Fellini behind the curtains, observing the great director through the eyes and the lenses of Ferruccio Castronuovo, Fellinis trusted partner, who filmed him between the 76 and 86