Lidia Venturini

Love in the City (1953)

Six separate episodes exploring themes of love, sex and romance in the Italian capital. "Paid Love" offers a glimpse into prostitution; "Attempted Suicide" features would-be suicides discussing their despair; "Paradise for Three Hours" depicts an evening at a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini  •  Michelangelo Antonioni  •  Alberto Lattuada  •  Francesco Maselli  •  Carlo Lizzani  •  Dino Risi
CAST:  Rita Josa  •  Rosanna Carta  •  Enrico Pelliccia  •  Donatella Marrosu

Six separate episodes exploring themes of love, sex and romance in the Italian capital. "Paid Love" offers a glimpse into prostitution; "Attempted Suicide" features would-be suicides discussing their despair; "Paradise for Three Hours" depicts an evening at a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini  •  Michelangelo Antonioni  •  Alberto Lattuada  •  Francesco Maselli  •  Carlo Lizzani  •  Dino Risi
CAST:  Rita Josa  •  Rosanna Carta  •  Enrico Pelliccia  •  Donatella Marrosu

La Strada (1954)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini
CAST:  Anthony Quinn  •  Giulietta Masina  •  Richard Basehart  •  Aldo Silvani

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini
CAST:  Anthony Quinn  •  Giulietta Masina  •  Richard Basehart  •  Aldo Silvani

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mauro Bolognini
CAST:  Alberto Sordi  •  Peppino De Filippo  •  Aldo Fabrizi  •  Gino Cervi

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mauro Bolognini
CAST:  Alberto Sordi  •  Peppino De Filippo  •  Aldo Fabrizi  •  Gino Cervi

Ritorno a casa Gori (1996)

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Benvenuti
CAST:  Alessandro Benvenuti  •  Sabrina Ferilli  •  Massimo Ceccherini  •  Athina Cenci

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alessandro Benvenuti
CAST:  Alessandro Benvenuti  •  Sabrina Ferilli  •  Massimo Ceccherini  •  Athina Cenci

Faust and the Devil (1949)

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carmine Gallone
CAST:  Italo Tajo  •  Nelly Corradi  •  Gino Mattera  •  Onelia Fineschi

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carmine Gallone
CAST:  Italo Tajo  •  Nelly Corradi  •  Gino Mattera  •  Onelia Fineschi

I Vicerè (2007)

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Faenza
CAST:  Alessandro Preziosi  •  Lando Buzzanca  •  Cristiana Capotondi  •  Guido Caprino

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Faenza
CAST:  Alessandro Preziosi  •  Lando Buzzanca  •  Cristiana Capotondi  •  Guido Caprino

Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Benigni  •  Massimo Troisi
CAST:  Massimo Troisi  •  Roberto Benigni  •  Amanda Sandrelli  •  Paolo Bonacelli

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Benigni  •  Massimo Troisi
CAST:  Massimo Troisi  •  Roberto Benigni  •  Amanda Sandrelli  •  Paolo Bonacelli

Infelici e contenti (1992)

Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Neri Parenti
CAST:  Renato Pozzetto  •  Ezio Greggio  •  Marina Suma  •  Roberto Bisacco

Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Neri Parenti
CAST:  Renato Pozzetto  •  Ezio Greggio  •  Marina Suma  •  Roberto Bisacco

Mortacci (1989)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Citti
CAST:  Vittorio Gassman  •  Carol Alt  •  Malcolm McDowell  •  Galeazzo Benti

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Citti
CAST:  Vittorio Gassman  •  Carol Alt  •  Malcolm McDowell  •  Galeazzo Benti

Stray Days (1988)

Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Filippo Ottoni
CAST:  Sergio Rubini  •  Margherita Buy  •  Eros Pagni  •  Elettra Bisetti

Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Filippo Ottoni
CAST:  Sergio Rubini  •  Margherita Buy  •  Eros Pagni  •  Elettra Bisetti

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DIRECTION:  Alessandro Valori
CAST:  Valerio Mastandrea  •  Raffaele Vannoli  •  Sandra Milo  •  Anna Longhi