Release Date: 1952-09-27

Overview: In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

Rating: 7.2 (274 votes)

Release Date: 1953-09-17

Overview: Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Rating: 7.648 (700 votes)

Release Date: 1954-09-23

Overview: When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

Rating: 7.911 (1105 votes)

Release Date: 1950-12-06

Overview: In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Rating: 7 (93 votes)

Release Date: 1959-09-01

Overview: Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

Rating: 7.3 (33 votes)

Release Date: 2003-01-17

Overview: Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Rating: 6.6 (60 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-03

Overview: After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.

Rating: 6.4 (51 votes)

Release Date: 2025-03-06

Overview: During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers kidnap a group of young people. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell: the wrong group has been kidnapped.

Rating: 5.68 (25 votes)

Release Date: 2002-02-01

Overview: Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.

Rating: 6.986 (73 votes)

Release Date: 1966-03-04

Overview: It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

Rating: 5.6 (27 votes)

Release Date: 2014-11-02

Overview: Alberto Saporito spent a very eventful night. His friend Aniello Amitrano was brutally killed and his body was hidden by his neighbors, the Cimmarutas. But he can't remember if it was just a dream or if he actually lived it. That's why he shows up early to the police to file a complaint. However, he doesn't know that his gesture will be the fuse that will cause chaos to explode. Just like his uncle Nicola does with his firecrackers. The uncle has in fact decided to stop talking, because the degradation in which humanity finds itself repels him, and is expressed only through his pyrotechnic language.

Rating: 7.9 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1958-06-06

Overview: After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Rating: 6.9 (89 votes)

Release Date: 1967-02-22

Overview: Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife and mother by mushroom poisoning, are dedicated to find her replacement and have no luck until they find a mysterious deaf mute green-haired woman.

Rating: 8.2 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-01

Overview: Two-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.

Rating: 6.783 (30 votes)

Release Date: 2022-03-09

Overview: From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic legendary character, with Nosferatu himself as a guide...

Rating: 4.8 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1983-01-01

Overview: A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.

Rating: 7.3 (3 votes)

Release Date: 2015-01-31

Overview: Documentary about specific phases of the battle for the Donetsk airport and about the hero-fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer corps in Pisky. The film presents the war in extreme focus – adrenaline, humor, pain, anguish, and courage are tightly packed into 82 minutes of screen time. It shows scenes of the battle, evacuation of the wounded, the capture of the new airport terminal, and civilians, who live near the fighting’s epicenter. It features death and frontline humor, and a bit of philosophical discussions as well.

Rating: 9.5 (4 votes)

Release Date: 2000-07-05

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Rating: 8.7 (5 votes)

Release Date: 2016-06-26

Overview: Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.

Rating: 6.3 (15 votes)

Release Date: 1969-09-18

Overview: After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.

Rating: 6.724 (341 votes)