Marriage Italian Style(Matrimonio all'italiana)

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)

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• 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

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

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• 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.

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.

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)

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• 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)

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• 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.

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

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1963
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti, Lino Mattera, Tecla Scarano
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy

A playful anthology comedy following the romantic complications faced by three sets of lovers.

The White Sheik
(Lo sceicco bianco)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1952
• Director Federico Fellini
• Cast Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina, Ernesto Almirante, Lilia Landi
• Genre Romance, Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A Very Funny Picture by Federico Fellini

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

The Gold of Naples
(L'oro di Napoli)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy • 1954
• Director Vittorio De Sica
• Cast Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo, Paolo Stoppa, Erno Crisa, Totò
• Genre Drama, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A quartet of Neapolitan tales - four captivating stories - wry, delightful and dramatic with that special humor and temperament and that enduring zest for life that characterizes these volatile people...

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

The Bosses
(Los jefes)

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• Mexico • 2015
• Director Chiva Rodriguez
• Cast Fernando A. Solas, Emilio R. Salazar, Cesar R. Suarez, Eduardo Dávalos de Luna, Octavio Ángelo Lowry, David Ramírez Agüero
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on No streaming locations found.