Life as It Is: The Neorealist Movement in Italy

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A...

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the v...

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father

This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this v...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

Three friends drive through the mountains looking for a community of Palestinians they've only ever heard about.

An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he dis...

Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that h...

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that s...

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in...

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school po...

A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the on...