Stromboli(Stromboli (Terra di Dio))

Rome, Open City
(Roma città aperta)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1945
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Francesco Grandjacquet, Harry Feist, Maria Michi
• Genre Drama, History
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, HBO Max, YouTube

A powerful portrayal of dignity and courage.

The Leopard
(Il gattopardo)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1963
• Director Luchino Visconti
• Cast Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, Terence Hill, Pierre Clémenti
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube

Luchino Visconti's enduring romantic adventure, set amidst the social changes of Italian unification.

Blow-Up

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• United Kingdom, Italy, United States • 1966
• Director Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cast David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Jane Birkin
• Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, HBO Max, YouTube

Michelangelo Antonioni's first British film

Journey to Italy
(Viaggio in Italia)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max, Freevee Amazon Channel

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

Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)

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

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

Paisan
(Paisà)

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

Accattone

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1961
• Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Cast Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Luciano Conti
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, Hoopla

The poor man's "La Dolce Vita".

Autumn Sonata
(Höstsonaten)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• West Germany, United Kingdom • 1978
• Director Ingmar Bergman
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Vudu, HBO Max, YouTube

Time can't heal all wounds.

The Eel
(うなぎ)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1997
• Director Shōhei Imamura
• Cast Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Sho Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Two Women
(La ciociara)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1960
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi
• Genre Drama, War
• Available on Apple iTunes, Fandor, FilmBox+, Fandor Amazon Channel, Freevee Amazon Channel

Suddenly, love becomes lust and innocence becomes shame, as two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!

Europe '51
(Europa '51)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1952
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Teresa Pellati, Giulietta Masina, Marcella Rovena
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Ginger and Fred
(Ginger e Fred)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France, West Germany • 1986
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Fabrizi, Friedrich von Ledebur, Augusto Poderosi, Martin Maria Blau
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

After thirty years apart, two impersonators of iconic dance duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair reunite in this homage to 1930’s Hollywood.

A Special Day
(Una giornata particolare)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, Canada • 1977
• Director Ettore Scola
• Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

When Hitler visits Rome, everyone flocks to the square except two neighbors who become fascinated with each other.

General Della Rovere
(Il generale Della Rovere)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1959
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini, Herbert Fischer
• Genre War, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

He's only pretending to be a hero... right?

Mamma Roma

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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.

Boy Meets Girl

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1984
• Director Leos Carax
• Cast Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Maïté Nahyr, Elie Poicard, Christian Cloarec
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Kanopy, YouTube

Stranger by the Lake
(L'Inconnu du Lac)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 2013
• Director Alain Guiraudie
• Cast Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch, Gilbert Traina
• Genre Drama, Thriller
• Available on Amazon Video, Kanopy

Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man.