Laura Betti

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a...

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an...

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends...

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an...

A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He...

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his...

Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with...

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing...

Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes brutal...

An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out...

On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who...

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Mario and Maria Boschi, a 30-year-old couple with small children, are hit by a crisis: husband and wife cannot agree on a party name. A colleague,...

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian...

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she...

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the...

Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She...

The tragic and self-destructive sexual battle between a man and his wife. A drama for the desperate struggle of those who are different against the...

The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser...

Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there...

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used...

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from...

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World...

Ferruccio, who knows everything about camels, and Camillo, who acts as his manager, go to Milan to take part in a telequiz.

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is...

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by creating provocative and polemical works. The...

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated...

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family...

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo...

1979. Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli is appointed liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, the empire of mighty financier Michele Sindona. Teaming up with...

An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

Young protesters live together in a commune in Milano. One has a ventriloquist ability and is signed by national TV becoming a superstar in...

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend...

Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has...

A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his...

Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the...

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.

A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out...

A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of...

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with...

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the...

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that...

In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl...

In Rome, a sadistic serial killer begins stalking and murdering sex workers, leaving the community terrified and the authorities struggling to stop...

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and...

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is...

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity...

Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid...

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...

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol...

Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.

James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get...

The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is...

Period mystery about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the...

Duke Philippe marries Cristina, the daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that they would be cut from the family inheritance set to go...

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous,...

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones —...

Franco Maresco celebrates the heritage of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 99th anniversary of his birth through a series of exchanges with renowned...

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was...

The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the...

Based on Emmanuel Roblès' book of the same name

On the Apennines of Emilia in 1944 three fascists stop and seize a battered bus carrying several women, two men and a poor student named Athos, as...

Pier Paolo Pasolini's contribution to the omnibus film "RO.GO.PA.G" casts Orson Welles as a director attempting to make a film of the crucifixion of...