Rome, Open City(Roma città aperta)

The 400 Blows
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)

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• France • 1959
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay, Robert Beauvais
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, HBO Max

The story of a misunderstood adolescent boy growing up in Paris.

Breathless
(À bout de souffle)

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• France • 1960
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
• Genre Crime, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, HBO Max

When you discover the dirty truth about the person you love...

La Strada
(La strada)

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• Italy • 1954
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Lidia Venturini
• Genre Drama
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Kanopy, HBO Max

Gelsoma, a circus performer, endures her husbands coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.

8½

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• Italy, France • 1963
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele
• Genre Drama, Fantasy
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, HBO Max

With 8½ Frederico Fellini weaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix.

Umberto D.

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• Italy • 1952
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto, Ileana Simova
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

What will you do when you can't afford to live?

Journey to Italy
(Viaggio in Italia)

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• Italy, France • 1954
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Jackie Frost, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Leslie Daniels
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Freevee Amazon Channel, HBO Max

A bored English couple must face the cracks in their marriage on a trip to Italy.

Stromboli
(Stromboli (Terra di Dio))

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• Italy, United States • 1950
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo, Gaetano Famularo, Angelo Molino
• Genre Drama
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Amazon Video, Freevee Amazon Channel, HBO Max

Raging Island... Raging Passions!

Ossessione

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• Italy • 1944
• Director Luchino Visconti
• Cast Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo, Vittorio Duse, Michele Riccardini
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on FilmBox+, Amazon Video

Bicycle Thieves
(Ladri di biciclette)

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• Italy • 1948
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, HBO Max

Antonio and his son walk the streets of Rome in search of Antonio’s stolen bicycle, vital for keeping his job.

Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)

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• Italy, France, Germany • 1948
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
• Genre War, Drama, History
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, HBO Max

The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.

Paisan
(Paisà)

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• Italy • 1946
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell, Harold Wagner, Albert Heinze
• Genre Drama, History, War
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, HBO Max

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Nights of Cabiria
(Le notti di Cabiria)

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• Italy, France • 1957
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Amedeo Nazzari, Dorian Gray, Aldo Silvani
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

The story of a betrayed but unquenchable little Roman street-walker.

Equinox Flower
(彼岸花)

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• Japan • 1958
• Director Yasujirō Ozu
• Cast Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, HBO Max

A young woman disappoints her father by declining arranged marriage and choosing her spouse.

Bellissima

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• Italy • 1951
• Director Luchino Visconti
• Cast Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli, Tecla Scarano
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Microsoft Store, FilmBox+, Amazon Video

How far will one mother go?

Shoeshine
(Sciuscià)

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• Italy • 1946
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi, Emilio Cigoli
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu, VUDU Free

Mamma Roma

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• Italy • 1962
• Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Cast Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel

A former sex worker attempts to make a new life for herself, despite the looming threats of her past.

Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Boudu sauvé des eaux)

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• France • 1932
• Director Jean Renoir
• Cast Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret, Max Dalban, Jean Dasté
• Genre Comedy
• Available on Criterion Channel

A Recently Rediscovered Renoir ... Discover It For Yourself!

Burnt by the Sun
(Утомлённые солнцем)

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• Russia, France • 1994
• Director Nikita Mikhalkov
• Cast Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, André Oumansky
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.

Women Reply
(Réponse de femmes : Notre corps, notre sexe)

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• France • 1975
• Director Agnès Varda
• Cast Agnès Varda, Maryline Even
• Genre Documentary
• Available on DocAlliance Films, Criterion Channel

Woman of all different ages and backgrounds are asked questions about womanhood.

Song of Tibet
(益西卓玛)

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• China • 2000
• Director Xie Fei
• Cast Danzengzhuoga, Laqiong, Dawangdui, Dunzhu Renqing, Dazhen
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.