5.3 Ready to Wear

Ready to Wear

Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent fashion figure. Features an all-star cast.

R
5.3
1994 Comedy 133 min Play
7.3 Everybody’s Fine

Everybody’s Fine

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

NR
7.3
1990 Drama 118 min Play
8.1 A Special Day

A Special Day

The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Antonietta strikes up a friendship with her neighbor Gabriele. As the day segues into night, Antonietta and Gabriele develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.

NR
8.1
1977 Drama 106 min Play
7.6 One Way or Another

One Way or Another

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

NR
7.6
1976 Drama 125 min Play
6.7 Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the ...

NR
6.7
1976 Comedy 105 min Play
7.1 La Grande Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe

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

NC-17
7.1
1973 Comedy 130 min Play
5.9 What?

What?

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

NR
5.9
1972 Comedy 114 min Play
7.3 A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)

A Drama of Jealousy (And Other Things)

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

NR
7.3
1970 Comedy 105 min Play
7.7 Sunflower

Sunflower

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his ...

NR
7.7
1970 Drama 109 min Play
8.2 La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita

Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

NR
8.2
1960 Comedy 176 min Play