Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?

The Beekeeper

1986

Greek

7.2

♡ 13

Theodoros Angelopoulos Director

Karyofyllia Karabeti as

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos as (as Kostas Konstadopoulos)

Serge Reggiani as Sick Man

Marcello Mastroianni as Spyros

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

Sunflower

1970

Italian

7.3

♡ 5

88%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Antonio

Sophia Loren as Giovanna

Anna Carena as La madre di Antonio

Pippo Starnazza as Man of Enquiry Office

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Marriage Italian Style

1964

Italian

7.4

♡ 19

86%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Mara Marilli as

Alberto Castaldi as Doctor

Marcello Mastroianni as Domenico Soriano

Sophia Loren as Filumena Marturano

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

NBC Experiment in Television Fellini: A Director's Notebook

1969

Italian

6.6

♡ 2

Federico Fellini Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Self

Federico Fellini as Self

Giulietta Masina as Self

Alvaro Vitali as Self

Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way, to a slaughterhouse, and on a visit to Marcello Mastroianni's house. Fellini also is seen in his own office interviewing a series of unusual characters seeking work or his help.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963

Italian

7.2

♡ 19

78%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sophia Loren as Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara

Carlo Croccolo as Auctioneer

Marcello Mastroianni as Carmine Sbaratti / Renzo / Augusto Rusconi

Aldo Giuffrè as Pasquale Nardella

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

The Big Feast

1973

French

7.0

♡ 19

60%

Marco Ferreri Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello

Michel Piccoli as Michel

Philippe Noiret as Philippe

James Campbell as Zack

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Divorce Italian Style

1961

Italian

7.9

♡ 9

Pietro Germi Director

Stefania Sandrelli as Angela

Maria Grazia Spadaro as Bit part

Marcello Mastroianni as Il barone Ferdinando Cefalù

Lando Buzzanca as Rosario Mulè

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

The Sunday Woman

1975

Italian

6.5

♡ 6

Action

based on novel or book

Luigi Comencini Director

Jacqueline Bisset as Anna Carla Dosio

Marcello Mastroianni as Commissioner Salvatore Santamaria

Lina Volonghi as Ines Tabusso

Antonino Faà di Bruno as Paolo Campi

Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...

What?

1972

Italian

5.5

♡ 60

Roman Polanski Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Alex

Alvaro Vitali as Cross-Eyed Painter

Roman Polanski as Mosquito

Carlo Delle Piane as Young Oaf #1 in Car

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

A Special Day

1977

Italian

8.1

♡ 27

100%

Ettore Scola Director

Sophia Loren as Antonietta Taberi

Françoise Berd as Concierge

John Vernon as Emanuele Taberi

Marcello Mastroianni as Gabriele

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.

La Notte

1961

Italian

7.9

♡ 20

84%

Michelangelo Antonioni Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Giovanni Pontano

Jeanne Moreau as Lidia Pontano

Giansiro Ferrata as (uncredited)

Monica Vitti as Valentina Gherardini

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

Marcello Mio

2024

French

5.8

♡ 2

50%

Christophe Honoré Director

Catherine Deneuve as Catherine Deneuve

Hugh Skinner as Colin Thirlwell

Melvil Poupaud as Melvil Poupaud

Marcello Mastroianni as Self

White Nights

1957

Italian

7.7

♡ 12

89%

88%

dance

Drama

foreign language adaptation

italy

love

older man younger woman relationship

Romance

unrequited love

Luchino Visconti Director

Enzo Doria as Il marinaio che balla

Giorgio Albertazzi as L'inquilino / Narratore

Marcello Mastroianni as Mario

Maria Schell as Natalia

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Too Bad She's Bad

1954

Italian

6.8

♡ 2

Comedy

criminal

father daughter relationship

Romance

taxi driver

thief

Alessandro Blasetti Director

Sophia Loren as Lina Stroppiani

Piero Pastore as L'infermiere

Marcello Mastroianni as Paolo

Vittorio De Sica as Vittorio Stroppiani

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

8½

1963

Italian

8.0

♡ 17

Federico Fellini Director

Claudia Cardinale as Claudia

Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi

Eddra Gale as La Saraghina

Sonia Gessner as La seconda ragazza provinata

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

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The Pizza Triangle

The Beekeeper

Sunflower

Marriage Italian Style

NBC Experiment in Television Fellini: A Director's Notebook

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The Big Feast

Divorce Italian Style

The Sunday Woman

What?

A Special Day

La Notte

Marcello Mio

White Nights

Too Bad She's Bad

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