Death in Venice 1971  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Romolo Valli, Nora Ricci, Carole Andre, Leslie French, Franco Fabrizi, Sergio Garfagnoli, Luigi Battaglia
Aging German composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to the Venetian seashore for a rest. But rest doesn't come due to a young blond boy, Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), who is traveling with his family. Aschenbach obsesses over Tadzio because Tadzio represents youth and physical perfection. Aschenbach knows he can never attain that perfection and quietly dies on the beach. Adapted from the Thomas Mann novel.
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Le Amiche 1955 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Girlfriends
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Maria Gambarelli, Luciano Volpato
This is one of Antonioni's better, early films as he brings out the problems that confront a woman who moves to Turin, Italy from Rome to work in a boutique. Her doomed relationships eventually result in losing her job and heading back to Rome.
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Madigan's Millions 1968  G, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Prager
Cast: Cesar Romero, Elsa Martinelli, Dustin Hoffman, Franco Fabrizi, Fernando Hilbeck, Gustavo Rojo, Riccardo Garrone, Gerard Tichy, Daniele Vargas, Umberto Raho
Dustin Hoffman takes on the role of an I.R.S. agent who flies to Rome to investigate a gangster, Mike Madigan (Cesar Romero), and retrieve U.S. Treasury funds.
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The Nights of Cabiria 1957  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Franca Marzi, Amedeo Nazzari, Dorian Gray, Francois Perier, Aldo Silvani, Ennio Girolami, Mario Passante, Christian Tassou, Franco Fabrizi, Loretta Capitoli, Leo Cattozzo, Dominique Delouche, Giovanna Gattinoni, Pina Gualandri
A young prostitute, Cabiria (Giulietta Masina), lives and works in a working-class area in Rome but dreams of a better life. She suffers many humiliations–among them are being taken advantage of by movie star Alberto Lazzati (Amedeo Nazzari) and then again by an accountant, Oscar (Francois Perier). But, despite her situation in life, Cabiria remains optimistic about the future. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign film.
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The Pagans 1953  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Barbarians
Director: Ferrucio Cerio
Cast: Pierre Cressoy, Helene Remy, Vittorio Sanipoli, Luigi Tosi, Annamaria Bugliari, Alfredo Varelli, Franco Fabrizi, Mario Ferrari, Maurizio Di Nardo
Spain invaded Rome in 1527. Against this background, two families of nobility are rivals, and matters heat up when a "Romeo and Juliet" situation arises.
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Vitelloni 1953  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Young and the Passionate
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi, Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo, Lida Baarova, Arlette Sauvage, Jean Brochard, Paola Borboni
This is an excellent Federico Fellini film, perhaps his best, and is taken from his own childhood. Five young men in a small town on the Adriatic Sea have trouble growing up and assuming responsibility.
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| 1. Aurora (1984)
2. Death in Venice (1971)
3. Ginger and Fred (1986)
4. Le Amiche (1955)
aka: The Girlfriends
5. Madigan's Millions (1968)
6. The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
7. The Pagans (1953)
aka: The Barbarians
8. Vitelloni (1953)
aka: The Young and the Passionate
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