FR #56 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | Italian, German
Director
Roberto Benigni
Writer
Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Cast
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Plot
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
FR #68 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento
Cast
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn
Plot
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon.
Guido seeks peace after his success but faces pressure from past collaborators. As he struggles with creativity, he reflects on his life and past romances.
FR #154 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, Spain | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
Plot
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to take down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
FR #329 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, French
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth Mcgovern
Plot
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
FR #361 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson
Plot
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
FR #405 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Italy, Germany | German, Italian
Director
Michael Haneke
Writer
Michael Haneke
Cast
Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch
Plot
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
FR #410 | Movie | Drama | Italy, France | English, Italian
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Writer
Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Cast
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Plot
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisi...
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he l...
FR #668 | Movie | Horror | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Thomas De Quincey
Cast
Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Plot
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
FR #900 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
FR #913 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, Japan | Italian, Japanese
Director
Elio Petri
Writer
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Cast
Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Plot
A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
FR #1411 | Movie | Comedy, Western | Italy, India | Italian, Hindi
Director
Enzo Barboni
Writer
Enzo Barboni, Gene Luotto
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Plot
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
FR #1455 | Movie | Drama | Italy | Italian, Sicilian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
FR #1882 | TV | Animation, Comedy | Italy | Italian
Writer
Zerocalcare
Cast
Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, Adam Rhys Dee
Plot
A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.
FR #1903 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, USA | Latin, English
Director
Orson Welles
Writer
William Shakespeare, Orson Welles, Jean Sacha
Cast
Orson Welles, Micheal Macliammoir, Robert Coote
Plot
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
FR #2174 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast
Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
FR #2384 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Ettore Scola
Writer
Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola
Cast
Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini
Plot
Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
FR #2395 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, German
Cast
Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Roja, Marco Bocci
Plot
This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
FR #2601 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Michael Hordern
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
FR #2886 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, France | French, English
Director
Joseph Losey
Writer
Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Costa-Gavras
Cast
Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge
Plot
In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear ...
FR #2904 | TV | Crime, Action | Italy, Austria | Italian
Writer
Lucio Battistrada, Massimo De Rita
Cast
Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido
Plot
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
FR #2917 | Movie | Drama | Italy, USA | English, Italian
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari
Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Plot
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
FR #2977 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy, Germany | German
Director
Harald Reinl
Writer
Karl May, Harald G. Petersson
Cast
Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Mario Adorf
Plot
When violent conflict breaks out between greedy railroaders and a tribe of Mescalero Apaches, only two men, destined to be blood brothers, can prevent all-out war: chief's son Winnetou and German engineer Old Shatterhand.
FR #3000 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, Neapolitan
Writer
Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, Roberto Saviano
Cast
Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito
Plot
Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.
FR #3097 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, France | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola
Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Plot
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
FR #3273 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy | English, Italian
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast
Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
Plot
Virgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
FR #3374 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Egypt | Italian, Sicilian
Cast
Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo
Plot
Commissioner Montalbano works in Vigata, Montelusa province with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, in each episode Montalbano solves complicated cases with his characteristic cunning in a rural Sicily ruled by the m...
FR #3376 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, English
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Fredric Brown
Cast
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf
Plot
An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
FR #3405 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Italy, USA | Russian, French
Director
King Vidor
Writer
Lev Tolstoy, Bridget Boland, Robert Westerby
Cast
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Plot
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
FR #3437 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Giovanni Pastrone
Writer
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Titus Livius, Giovanni Pastrone
Cast
Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Plot
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
FR #3438 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro
Writer
Dante Alighieri
Cast
Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe De Liguoro
Plot
1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Vir...
FR #3580 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Italy, Spain | Spanish, Italian
Director
Lex De La Iglesia
Writer
Jorge Guerricaechevarria, Lex De La Iglesia
Cast
Lex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura
Plot
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there st...
FR #3582 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Italy, France | English, Italian
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Writer
Alice Rohrwacher, Carmela Covino, Marco Pettenello
Cast
Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato
Plot
Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices - a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they di...
Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo
Plot
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
FR #3621 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Italy, France | Italian, Latin
Director
Mario Monicelli
Writer
Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Cast
Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Plot
A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
FR #3833 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, France | Italian
Director
Matteo Garrone
Writer
Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
Cast
Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano
Plot
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
FR #3860 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, UK | Italian, English
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Writer
Daphne Du Maurier, Allan Scott, Chris Bryant
Cast
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Plot
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
FR #3880 | Movie | Crime, Horror | Italy | Italian, German
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Cast
Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
Plot
A young opera singer on the cusp of stardom is hounded by a psychopath with a connection to her past, who forces her to watch as he brutally murders her friends and colleagues.
FR #4012 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Italy, USA | English, Romanian
Director
Luca Guadagnino
Writer
Justin Kuritzkes
Cast
Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor, Zendaya
Plot
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, transformed her husband into a champion. But to overcome a recent losing streak and redeem himself, he'll need to face off against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
