Release Date: 1970-03-14

Overview: After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Rating: 7.5 (170 votes)

Release Date: 1963-10-25

Overview: In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.

Rating: 7.5 (123 votes)

Release Date: 1964-12-18

Overview: During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

Rating: 7.703 (531 votes)

Release Date: 1963-12-21

Overview: Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

Rating: 7.4 (453 votes)

Release Date: 1983-05-18

Overview: A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Rating: 7 (276 votes)

Release Date: 2008-08-07

Overview: Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

Rating: 7.3 (58 votes)

Release Date: 2015-11-19

Overview: Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.

Rating: 7.1 (48 votes)

Release Date: 2004-10-12

Overview: Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Rating: 6.988 (109 votes)

Release Date: 1984-12-01

Overview: Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Rating: 6.3 (133 votes)

Release Date: 1929-03-24

Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

Rating: 6.7 (58 votes)

Release Date: 1961-11-02

Overview: To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian political prisoners, one of whom is a famous pre-war football star.

Rating: 7.7 (22 votes)

Release Date: 2003-01-24

Overview: Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

Rating: 6.4 (53 votes)

Release Date: 1960-12-08

Overview: In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

Rating: 6.744 (56 votes)

Release Date: 1955-11-18

Overview: Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

Rating: 6.69 (87 votes)

Release Date: 1959-08-02

Overview: On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Rating: 6.847 (72 votes)

Release Date: 1968-12-19

Overview: Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.

Rating: 4.9 (25 votes)

Release Date: 2018-12-07

Overview: The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

Rating: 7.2 (39 votes)

Release Date: 1966-11-11

Overview: A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

Rating: 7.2 (34 votes)

Release Date: 2013-09-12

Overview: When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means.

Rating: 4.7 (12 votes)

Release Date: 1931-04-01

Overview: The Duke Marco visits to his country side estate after many years absence. His farmers wants him to stay and run the place while his lover wants him to sell it. All while a farmers daughter also enters his life.

Rating: 5 (2 votes)