Release Date: 1959-10-07

Overview: The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Rating: 7.448 (135 votes)

Release Date: 1952-12-04

Overview: A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.

Rating: 7.391 (142 votes)

Release Date: 1956-07-24

Overview: A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.

Rating: 6.8 (114 votes)

Release Date: 1958-12-11

Overview: All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.

Rating: 6.7 (76 votes)

Release Date: 1953-10-27

Overview: Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

Rating: 6 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1960-02-17

Overview: A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.

Rating: 5.7 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1981-10-25

Overview: When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Rating: 5.8 (32 votes)

Release Date: 2006-05-18

Overview: Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

Rating: 7.4 (102 votes)

Release Date: 1988-09-10

Overview: Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

Rating: 7.658 (203 votes)

Release Date: 2006-08-30

Overview: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

Rating: 6.1 (288 votes)

Release Date: 1954-09-07

Overview: This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.

Rating: 7.306 (304 votes)

Release Date: 2021-01-10

Overview: A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.

Rating: 7.9 (133 votes)

Release Date: 1962-09-22

Overview: After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Rating: 7.875 (416 votes)

Release Date: 2021-09-15

Overview: Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Rating: 6.113 (386 votes)

Release Date: 1950-05-17

Overview: A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Rating: 7.6 (611 votes)

Release Date: 1958-09-10

Overview: A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Rating: 6.2 (627 votes)

Release Date: 1945-10-08

Overview: In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Rating: 8.021 (919 votes)

Release Date: 1939-03-02

Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Rating: 7.6 (1160 votes)

Release Date: 1963-03-27

Overview: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Rating: 7.748 (874 votes)

Release Date: 1984-03-26

Overview: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Rating: 7.238 (1493 votes)