Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow(Ieri, oggi, domani)

La Strada
(La strada)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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.

La Dolce Vita
(La dolce vita)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1960
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on FilmBox+

A paprazzo's search for love and happiness through booze and sex.

Umberto D.

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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?

Sunflower
(I girasoli)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France, Soviet Union • 1970
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreyeva, Anna Carena, Germano Longo
• Genre Drama, War
• Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1972
• Director Luis Buñuel
• Cast Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel
• Genre Comedy
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube

An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Bicycle Thieves
(Ladri di biciclette)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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.

Amarcord

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1973
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, HBO Max

In an Italian seaside town, Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various eccentrics as they engage in absurd behavior.

La Grande Bouffe

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1973
• Director Marco Ferreri
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, ARROW, Alamo on Demand, Tubi TV, YouTube

Four middle aged men retire to a villa for a weekend of culinary and sexual excess.

I Vitelloni
(I vitelloni)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1953
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, HBO Max

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village.

Divorce Italian Style
(Divorzio all'italiana)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1961
• Director Pietro Germi
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli
• Genre Comedy
• Available on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, HBO Max

How do you end a marriage when divorce is illegal? It's easier than you think.

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, FilmBox+, Kanopy, Plex, 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!

Big Deal on Madonna Street
(I soliti ignoti)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1958
• Director Mario Monicelli
• Cast Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossana Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale
• Genre Comedy, Crime
• Available on Criterion Channel, Freevee Amazon Channel

Inept criminals gather a team together to try and dig a tunnel into a pawnshop and rob a safe.

La Notte
(La notte)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1961
• Director Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.

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.

We All Loved Each Other So Much
(C'eravamo tanto amati)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1974
• Director Ettore Scola
• Cast Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli, Aldo Fabrizi
• Genre Drama, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A many splendored thing.

Shoeshine
(Sciuscià)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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

Marriage Italian Style
(Matrimonio all'italiana)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1964
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy, Tubi TV

A businessman's mistress of 20 years learns he plans to marry a young woman and schemes to protect her family's interests.

Scandal in Sorrento
(Pane, amore e...)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1955
• Director Dino Risi
• Cast Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Tina Pica, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello, Mario Carotenuto
• Genre Romance, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Poverty and Nobility
(Miseria e nobiltà)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1954
• Director Mario Mattoli
• Cast Totò, Sophia Loren, Enzo Turco, Dolores Palumbo, Gianni Cavalieri, Franca Faldini
• Genre Comedy
• Available on Amazon Video

A Place for Lovers
(Amanti)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1968
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Faye Dunaway, Enrico Simonetti, Karin Eugh, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Caroline Mortimer
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube