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Italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini shows that, even in his mid-sixties, he had lost none of his power to shock, entertain and amaze with And The Ship Sails On, his haunting and majestic ...

With her husband Saro running a shop acting as a front for a drugs operation, Angela is literally married to the mob. Participating in her husband's business by delivering drugs disguised in...

Two female lovers, Lenni and Stella, receive an unexpected visitor in the form of Lenni's mum. Their lives are set to change when they discover that she has a bag full of money...

This often incisive, intelligently-observed portrait of a family in emotional turmoil works as an ensemble drama in the same way as such successes as The Last Kiss and Le Fate Ignoranti . It also...

Finally available on DVD, Vittorio De Sica's drama of desperation and survival in Italy's post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power.

Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore...

50-year-old Titta lives an almost invisible life, staying in a hotel room in Switzerland with seemingly no purpose other than to sit in the hotel bar and smoke cigarettes. He apparently has a...

One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

Based on the shocking true story of the former Soviet Union’s most notorious serial killer, this riveting, haunting film explores the mind of a true monster; a man who mutilated and devoured...

1943, Italy: In the darkest days of the war, a young baker's apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets, frantically searching for someone or...

Step in to the bawdy, erotic and titillating world of Rome during the days of Emperor Nero, where two competing teachers play tricks on each other while vying for their young male lover's charms.

Casanova in his waning days travels from bubonic-plagued Venice to syphilitic London via tubercular Germany. Along the way he has a variety of amorous and political adventures.

Fellini brilliantly demonstrates why he is the last of the great epic filmmakers, delivering an outlandish autobiographical tribute to his beloved Rome.

Fellini celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinema's greatest dance duo.

Fellini's first full length colour feature is also a homage to his wife, Giulietta Masina. She plays the title role of a repressed bourgeois housewife liberated by a pervasive and sensual spirit...

'Good Morning, Night' is based on the dramatic true story of the kidnapping of Italy's former PM Aldo Moro in 1978, a crime which stunned the nation. Maya Sansa is superb as Chiara, a young...

Internationally hailed by critics as his masterpiece, Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According To St Matthew is a visually stunning, emotionally stirring interpretation of the life of Christ,...

Fellini's second solo directorial effort is a compassionate semi-autobiographical film detailing the lives of a group of young bloods (the 'young calves' of the title) drifting aimlessly and...

No one can be trusted and everyone's a suspect when a shocking secret is revealed in this hypnotic film from the acclaimed director of the Academy Award-winning Mediterraneo (Best Foreign...

Beautifully crafted by acclaimed director Gianni Amelio, The Keys to the House is a compassionate exploration of fatherhood and the often surprising nature of disability. The story follows...

Marcello Mastroianni plays a cynical columnist casting his eyes over Rome's decadent upper-crust society all the while trying not to be swept along with them.

Antonia's perfect fifteen-year marriage comes to an abrupt end when her husband is killed in an accident. Stricken with grief, she secludes herself from the world outside, until she unearths the...

Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, The Leopard, is now available on DVD for the first time. Featuring the complete and uncut version of the film, with fully restored picture and sound, this stunning...

The head chef at swish Hamburg restaraunt The Lido, Martha Klein's perfectionism and obsession with good cooking leaves little free time for romantic entanglements. However, when her sister...

A woman thinks back to her childhood, to a time spent living in the forest escaping the invading German soldiers. Italian dialogue with subtitles

Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist, Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in...

From Luchino Visconti - the master director of such classics as La Terra Trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard - comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La Dolce...

Irene is a workaholic property developer who takes on a restoration project that will force her to explore her past; the last person to live there was her mother, whom she barely remembers. After...

Banned, censored and reviled the world over since its release, Pasolinis final and most controversial masterpiece is presented here fully uncut and uncensored in a brand new restoration. The...

Salò tells of a group of four upper class fascists (including a bishop and a duke) who round up a large group of adolescents from the local town to stage a depraved orgy of sex and murder in a...

Understated, yet very moving account of a psychiatrist who finds it difficult to devote himself to his patients following his teenage son’s accidental death. However, hope appears in the form...