Italian Movies

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Rome at the Movies

Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, 1953)
Three Coins in The Fountain (Clifton Webb, Dorothy Macguire, 1954)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas, 1960)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston, 1959)
Quo Vadis? (Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, 1951)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (Victor Mature, 1954)
Roma (by Federico Fellini, 1972)
Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, 1963)
The Robe (Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, 1953)
Cabiria (1914)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Julius Caesar (Marlon Brando, 1953)
Androcles and the Lion (1953)
The Sign of the Cross (Frederic March, Claudette Colbert, 1932)
A Special Day (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1977)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
La Dolce Vita (Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (Marcello Mastroianni, 1963)
Massacre in Rome
City of Women (Marcello Mastroianni, 1981)
Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani)
Tempest (John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Molly Ringwald, Raul Julia, 1982)
Accatone (Franco Citi, 1968)
Open City (Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, 1945)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (Anthony Quinn, 1968)
In the Name of the Pope King (Nino Manfredi, 1977)
Two Women (Sophia Loren, 1960)
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti, 1994)
Rome Adventure (Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, 1962)
When in Rome (Mary Kay and Ashley, 1992)
Ancient Rome: Story of an Empire (documentary, 1998)
Just the Facts: Ancient Rome (documentary, 2001)
Ancient Rome & the Mysterious
The Family (Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli)
Nights of Cabiria (Giulietta Masina, 1957)
Fellini Satyricon (Martin Potter, 1970)
The White Sheik (Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, 1956)
Constantine and the Cross (1962)
The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
Only You (Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey, Jr., 1994)
The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
U-571 (Johnathan Mostow, 2000)
Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1999)
Cliffhanger (Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, 1993)
Contempt (Brigitte Bardot, 1964)
Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis, 1991)
My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, 1991)
Nurse Betty (Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, 2000)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1992)
The Portrait of a Lady (Nicole Kidman, 1996)
The Belly of an Architect (Brian Denehy, 1987)
The Eclipse (Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, 1962)
The Godfather, Part III (Al Pacino, 1990)
The Last Kiss (Gabriele Muccino, 2001)
Titus (Anthony Hopkins, 2000)

Our all-time favorite Rome flicks are:

The Bicycle Thief (Lamberto Maggiorani, 1949)
Ghosts of Rome
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi)
Intervista (Interview) (by Federico Fellini, 1992)
Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti, 1959)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
The Pizza Triangle (Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Monica Vitti, 1970)
Love and Anarchy (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1973)

Emilia-Romagna at the Movies

Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974)
La Strada (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, 1956)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta Masina, 1965)
And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini, 1983)
The Garden of the Finzi Contini (Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, 1971)
The Little World of Don Camillo (Fernandel, Gino Cervi, narr. by Orson Wells, 1951)

Liguria & The Riviera at the Movies

Enchanted April (Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, 1992)

Lombardy & Milan at the Movies

Tree of the Wooden Clogs (by Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
Rocco and His Brothers (Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
Miracle in Milan (Emma Gramatica, 1951)
A Farewell to Arms (Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, 1957)
Bitter Rice (Silvana Mangano, 1948)
A Month by the Lake (Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, 1995)
The Innocent (Giancarlo Giannini, 1979)
Ossessione (Clara Calamai, Massimno Girotti, 1943)
Red Desert (Richard Harris, Monica Vitti, 1965)
1900 (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, 1977)

Naples & The Amalfi Coast at the Movies

Venice & Veneto at the Movies

A Little Romance (Diane Lane, Arthur Hill, & Sir Laurence Olivier, 1979)
Dangerous Beauty (Rufus Sewall and Catherine McCormack, 1998)
The Thief Lord (Aaron Johnson, Jasper Harris, 2005)
Summertime (Katherine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, 1955)
Senso (Alida Valli, Farley Granger, 1968)
Death in Venice (Dirk Bogard, 1971)
Don't Look Now (Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, 1974)
Bread and Tulips (Licia Maglietta, 2000)

Florence & Tuscany at the Movies

Tea with Mussolini (Cher, Judi Dench, 1999)
A Room with a View (Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, 1986)
Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni, 1991)
Inside the Tuscan Hills (PBS documentary, 2004)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Charlton Heston, 1965)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Omero Antonutti, 1982)
St. Michael Had A Rooster (Taviani Brothers, 1971)
Stealing Beauty (Carlo Cecchi, Liv Tyler, 1996)

Sicily at the Movies

The Seduction of Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1972)
L'Avventura (Gabriele Ferzetti, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Stefania Sandrelli, 1964)
Divorce, Italian Style (Marcello Mastroianni, 1962)
Cinema Paradiso (Enzo Cannavale, 1990)
The Starmaker
Malena (Monica Bellucci, 2000)
The Leopard
La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles)(1957)
The Godfather II (Al Pacino, 1974)
The Godfather III (Al Pacino, 1990)
Il Postino (Massimo Troisi, 1995)
Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1984)
The Sicilian (Christopher Lambert, 1987)
Hands on the City (Pietro Germi)

Italian Thrillers

Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Demons 2 (1986)
Tenebre (1987)
Sleepless (2001)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Two Evil Eyes (1991)
Inferno (1980)
Trauma (1993)
Phenomena (1985)
Opera (1987)
Phantom of the Opera (1999)
Terror at the Opera
Creepers (1985)
Today It's Me Tomorrow You (1971)
Cat O' Nine Tails (1971)

Federico Fellini

Roma (1972)
Nights of Cabiria (Giulietta Masina, 1957)
Fellini Satyricon (Martin Potter, 1970)
The White Sheik (Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, 1956)
Intervista (Interview) (1992)
Amarcord (1974)
La Strada (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, 1956)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta Masina, 1965)
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
La Dolce Vita (Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (Marcello Mastroianni, 1963)
City of Women (Marcello Mastroianni, 1981)
Ginger and Fred (Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, 1986)
Spirits of the Dead (Terence Stamp, 1969)
The Clowns (1971)
Il Bidone (Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, 1955)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1979)
Ciao Federcio! Fellini Directs Satyricon (1969)
Variety Lights (Giulietta Masina, 1951)

Marcello Mastroianni

A Special Day (with Sophia Loren, 1977)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (with Sophia Loren, 1964)
La Dolce Vita (with Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (1963)
Massacre in Rome
City of Women (1981)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (with Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
Marriage Italian-Style (with Sophia Loren, 1964)
Divorce, Italian Style (1962)
Allonsanfan (Taviani Brothers, 1974)
La Notte (with Jeanne Moreau, 1961)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997)
One Hundred and One Nights (by Agnes Varda, 1995)
Dark Eyes (with Marthe Keller, 1987)
Il Bell'Antonio (with Claudia Cardinale, 1962)
La Grande Bouffe (by Marco Ferrari, 1973)
Ginger and Fred (by Federico Fellini, 1986)
Stay as You Are
What A Woman! (with Sophia Loren, 1956)
Everybody's Fine (by Giuseppe Tornatore, 1995)
Oltre La Porta (with Tom Berenger, 1982)
La Nuit de Varennes (with Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel)
The Pizza Triangle (with Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, 1970)

Sophia Loren

Two Women (1960)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Marriage Italian-Style (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
It Started in Naples (with Clark Gable, 1960)
What A Woman! (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1956)
Houseboat (with Cary Grant, 1958)
Madame

Roberto Benigni

Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Life is Beautiful (1998)
Son of the Pink Panther (by Blake Edwards, 1993)
Down By Law (by Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
Seeking Asylum (by Marco Ferreri, 1979)
Night on Earth (by Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
The Monster (Roberto Benigni - Dir., 1996)

Sergio Leone

Sodom and Gomorrah (Pier Angeli, Stewart Granger, 1963)
A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, 1967)
For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, 1967)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, 1967)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, 1968)
A Fistful of Dynamite (James Coburn, Rod Steiger, 1972)
My Name Is Nobody (Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, 1974)
Once Upon a Time in America (Robert De Niro, James Woods, 1984)

The Taviani Brothers

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Omero Antonutti, 1982)
St. Michael Had A Rooster (1971)
Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1984)
Allonsanfan (Marcello Mastroianni, 1974)
You Laugh - Tu Ridi (Antonio Albanese, Sabrina Ferilli, Luca Zingaretti, 1998)

Lucchino Visconti

The Innocent (Giancarlo Giannini, 1979)
Ossessione (Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, 1943)
Rocco and His Brothers (Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles)(1957)
Senso (Alida Valli, Farley Granger, 1968)
Death in Venice (Dirk Bogard, 1971)
The Leopard (Kirk Douglas)
Ludwig (Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, 1973)
The Damned (Dirk Bogard, Ingrid Thulin, 1969)

Vittorio De Sica

The Bicycle Thief (Lamberto Maggiorani, 1949)
Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti, 1959)
Two Women (Sophia Loren, 1960)
The Garden of the Finzi Contini (Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, 1971)
Miracle in Milan (Emma Gramatica, 1951)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Marriage Italian-Style (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
It Started in Naples (Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, 1960)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (Anthony Quinn, 1968)

Lina Wertmuller

Love and Anarchy (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1973)
Ciao Professore (Paolo Villaggio, 1994)
The Seduction of Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1972)
Swept Away (Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, 1975)