Pinocchio (2002)

Director: Roberto Benigni

Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi

Aka "The Adventures of Pinocchio". "Life Is Beautiful" creator Roberto Benigni's masterful take on the beloved classic features the comic in a tour-de... Read more

Heaven (2001)

Director: Tom Tykwer

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Mattia Sbragia, Alberto Di Stasio,...

Working from a script by late filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski ("Three Colours" trilogy), director Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") directs Cate Blanchett as... Read more

The Canterbury Tales (1972)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring: Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Josephine Chapl...

The second part of Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life' (beginning with 'The Decameron' and ending with 'Arabian Nights') is based on the 14th century stories... Read more

Arabian Nights (1974)

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

The final part of Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life' series, following 'The Decameron' and 'The Canterbury Tales', was two years in the making. The location... Read more

The Son's Room (2001)

Director: Nanni Moretti

Starring: Laura Morante, Nanni Moretti

This critically acclaimed family drama from director Nanni Moretti ('Caro Diario') won the Palme d'Or (Best Film) at Cannes. The film looks at how a c... Read more

Malena (2000)

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro

From Giuseppe Tornatore ("Cinema Paradiso") comes this sexy and sensitive coming-of-age saga set in 1940s Sicily, where 13 year old Renalto (Giuseppe... Read more

Bread and Tulips (2001)

Director: Silvio Soldini

Starring: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Antonio Catania, Giuseppe Battiston

Aka "Pane e Tulipani". After being left behind by her tour bus a bored housewife decides to hitchhike home, and after a few rides finds herself in Ven... Read more

God's Gun ( A Bullet From God ) (1976)

Director: Frank Kramer

Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Leif Garrett

Aka "A Bullet From God". Lee Van Cleef stars in a dual role as twin brothers. One of the brothers, a priest, is gunned down by the ruthless Sam Clayto... Read more

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Starring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoll, Antonio Ferrari

Ermanno Olmi's heartfelt look at peasant life in Lombardy, Italy at the turn of the century won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. The story involves th... Read more

The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

Director: Radley Metzger

Starring: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco

Filmed in the breathtaking Castle of Balsorano in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, 'The Lickerish Quartet' finds three people obsessed with an erotic film -... Read more