 8 1/2 1963  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Madeleine LeBeau, Claudia Cardinale, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Mario Pisu, Neil Robinson, Mino Doro, Caterina Boratto, Guido Alberti
In this excellent film, Director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with a psychological block in his creative abilities that occurs as he is trying to make a movie. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Afirma Pereira 1996  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pereira Declares
According to Pereira
Director: Roberto Faenza
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniel Auteuil, Stefano Dionisi, Nicoletta Braschi, Marthe Keller, Joaquim de Almeida, Teresa Madruga, Nicolau Breyner, Filipe Ferrer, Joao Grosso
Elderly Joe Pereira (Marcello Mastroianni) is a dying man, burying his head in the sand, ignoring Spain's civil war and the Fascist power structure in Portugal–no easy task for the editor of the cultural section of a Lisbon daily newspaper. But when a young Italian subversive, Monteiro Rossi (Stefano Dionisi), comes on board, he forces Pereira to reckon with the political world.
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Big Deal 1958  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rosanna Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Carlo Pisacane, Tiberio Murgia, Gina Rovere, Renato Terra
This film makes use of the neorealistic style and provides good satire of the "bank heist" genre. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the plot involves amateur crooks who try to rob a pawnshop. A 1987 sequel, "Big Deal After 20 Years," picks up the story 20 years later.
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Big Deal After 20 Years 1987  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street: 20 Years Later
Director: Amanzio Todini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberio Murgia, Francesco De Rosa, Giorgio Gobbi, Clelia Rondinella, Gina Rovere, Alessandra Panelli, Alessandro Gassman, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
In this sequel to the 1958 film, Tiberio (Marcello Mastroianni) is now released from prison but is unable to find work, so he reluctantly teams up again with Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) and aids him in a smuggling job.
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Divorce - Italian Style 1961 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Pietro Germi
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Lando Buzzanca, Antonio Acqua, Angela Cardile, Bianca Castagnetta, Margherita Girelli
Divorce was illegal in Italy when Ferninando Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) tired of his wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca), and fell in love with sexy Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). No problem; according to Ferdinando's reasoning, if he murders Rosalia while she is bedding another man, no court would put him away for long. Now, all he must do is find a lover for Rosalia. This film won the Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay.
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Enrico IV 1984  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Henry IV
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Leopoldo Trieste, Paolo Bonacelli, Gianfelice Imparato, Claudio Spadaro, Giuseppe Cederna, Giacomo Bertozzi, Fabrizio Macciantelli, Luciano Bartoli
This adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's popular play stars Marcello Mastroianni as Enrico IV, a wealthy man who, after falling from a horse many years earlier, believes he is 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. He has a grand time playing the role in his castle, but family and friends gather to bring him back to reality. As they play his games, they begin to wonder whether or not he might really be the Emperor.
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A Hundred and One Nights 1995 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
Director: Agnes Varda
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet, Mathieu Demy, Emmanuel Salenger, Anouk Aimee, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Romane Bohringer, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Claude Brialy, Patrick Bruel, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve
A 100-year-old movie buff, Simon Cinema (Michel Piccoli), enjoys the stories of Camille Miralis (Julie Gayet) who spends 101 nights reminiscing with him about the history of filmmaking.
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Intervista 1987 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: Federico Fellini's Intervista
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein, Lara Wendel, Paola Liguori, Nadia Ottaviani, Antonella Ponziani, Antonio Cantafora
A Japanese film crew interviews Federico Fellini at Cinecitta–the studio where Fellini filmed his classics–in this mock documentary about the process of movie making.
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La Grande Bouffe 1973 NC-17, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: The Grande Bouffe
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andrea Ferreol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michele Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez
Four successful men–a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a TV host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret)–enter into a suicide pact. Using the weapon of self-indulgence, the men gather in a walled Parisian villa where they eat themselves to death while enjoying side dishes of sex along with the food.
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La Notte 1961 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Night
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi, Vincenzo Corbella, Gitt Magrini, Guido A. Marsan, Vittorio Bertolini, Ugo Fortunati, Gitt Magrini
A crucial 24-hour period in the lives of successful writer Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) and his frustrated wife, Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), is the subject of this drama. A visit to their dying friend Tommaso Garani (Bernhard Wicki) culminates the following day in the death of their own passionless marriage.
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Macaroni 1985 PG, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ettore Scola
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Santella, Patrizia Sacchi, Bruno Esposito, Orsetta Gregoretti, Marc Berman, Jean-Francois Perrier
Years after his experience as a soldier in Italy during World War II, aerospace executive Bob Traven (Jack Lemmon) returns to Naples and meets Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), the brother of his lover from the past.
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Marriage Italian Style 1964 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilu Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi, Generoso Cortini, Pia Lindstrom, Alfio Vita, Vito Moricone
Neopolitan businessman Domenico Soriano's (Marcello Mastroianni) long-time mistress, Filumena (Sophia Loren), tricks him into marriage by pretending to be on her deathbed. Great chemistry between Mastroianni and Loren. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Actress and Foreign Language Film.
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Massacre in Rome 1973 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Robert Harris, Anthony Steel, Peter Vaughan, Renzo Montagnani, Delia Boccardo, Renzo Palmer, Giancarlo Prete, Duilio Del Prete
Based on a true incident of World War II, when 33 members of the S.S. brigade were assaulted and killed in Nazi-occupied Rome, Nazi Lt. Col. Kappler (Richard Burton) orders the execution of 333 Roman citizens. A local priest, Father Pietro Antonelli (Marcello Mastroianni), chooses death over acting as a liaison between the Romans and Germans and fights to save them.
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Pret-a-Porter 1994  R, 132 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Ready to Wear
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Kim Basinger, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Sally Kellerman, Linda Hunt, Tracey Ullman, Stephen Rea, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Danny Aiello
The week-long unveiling of Paris designs is an "event" captured by this film. If you like fashion excess and shallow (but good-looking) people hopping into bed, this is the film for you. Actually, when subplots are deleted, this film is, in itself, one big satire on the fashion industry.
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A Slightly Pregnant Man 1973 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Claude Melki, Marisa Pavan, Mireille Mathieu, Andre Falcon, Maurice Biraud, Alice Sapritch, Raymond Gerome, Madeleine Barbulee, Tonie Marshall
Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) visits his girlfriend's (Catherine Deneuve) doctor (Micheline Presle) and is told that he is four months pregnant. A media frenzy ensues, and Marco is hired to model maternity clothes–until he finds out that the diagnosis was for his girlfriend.
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A Special Day 1977 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ettore Scola
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Francoise Berd, Nicole Magny, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Paolantonio, Antonio Garibaldi, Vittorio Guerrieri, Alessandra Mussolini
This film was nominated for Best Foreign Film, and Marcello Mastroianni was nominated as Best Actor for his role of Gabriele, a depressed homosexual. Gabriele meets an oppressed housewife (Sophia Loren) and, for a few hours, finds human companionship and love.
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Stay as You Are 1978 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal, Monica Randall, Giuliana Calandra, Barbara DeRossi, Pascale Vignal, Ania Pieroni, Jose Maria Caffarel, Maria Pia Raimondo
Incest is the theme of this comedy in which Marcello Mastroianni plays a father smitten by the beauty of his daughter (Nastassja Kinski).
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The Stranger 1967 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Bruno Cremer, Georges Wilson, Pierre Bertin, Georges Geret, Jean-Pierre Zola, Vittorio Duse, Jacques Herlin
Existentialist Meursault (Marcello Mastroianni) murders an Arab in cold blood for no reason other than that he feels he should. Meursault is a man who does not become involved in others' lives, and takes responsibility only for his own actions in this world. He believes that life has no meaning other than being true to oneself. This excellent film examines the consequences of such a philosophy.
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The Sunday Woman 1976 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Luigi Comencini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Aldo Reggiani, Pino Caruso, Claudio Gora, Omero Antonutti, Lina Volonghi, Franco Nebbia, Maria Teresa Albani
Set in Turin, Italy, this murder mystery focuses on the police commissioner Santamaria (Marcello Mastroianni) who trails an architect's killer. The path leads to the idle rich–among whom is the beautiful Anna Carla Dosio (Jaqueline Bisset).
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Sunflower 1970 G, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreyeva, Anna Carena, Germano Longo, Nadya Serednichenko, Glauco Onorato, Silvano Tranquilli, Marisa Traversi, Gunars Cilinskis, Carlo Ponti Jr., Pippo Starnazza
Just days before the beginning of World War II, Giovanna (Sophia Loren) and Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) marry in Italy. When Italy enters the war, Antonio is sent to the Russian front where, after the pressures of war, he meets and marries a Russian, Mascia (Lyudmila Savelyev). Years pass, the war ends, and Giovanna tries to find Antonio by going to Russia and searching through records to find what became of him. She does find him with Mascia and then leaves to begin a new life back in Italy where she marries Ettore (Germano Longo), and they have a son. More time passes, and then Antonio appears in Italy to discuss reconciliation with Giovanna. But they both realize that they must live separate lives, and Antonio leaves for Russia with no plans to return.
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Three Lives and Only One Death 1996 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Feodor Atkine, Jean-Yves Gautier, Jacques Pieiller, Pierre Bellemare
In a series of stories Marcello Mastroianni plays an ex-husband, a professor-turned-beggar, a killer, and a wealthy industrialist. The stories seem to come together (or do they?) at the end when the industrialist discovers members of the family that he has invented for himself are coming for a visit.
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Towards Evening 1991 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
Director: Francesca Archibugi
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire, Zoe Incrocci, Giorgio Tirabassi, Victor Cavallo, Veronica Lazar, Lara Pranzoni, Paolo Panelli, Giovanna Ralli, Gisella Burinato, Pupo De Luca, Dante Biagioni
Widowed Professor Bruschi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Communist living an orderly life. But chaos enters the professor's quiet world when his four-year-old granddaughter (Lara Pranzoni) is dropped off on his doorstep. Not only must the professor deal with the toddler, his son's (Giorgio Tirabassi) ex- lover, Stella (Sandrine Bonnaire), joins the household, and with her arrival comes a destructive influence. For a short time the professor's life changes, but nothing lasts forever.
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Used People 1992 PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Beeban Kidron
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden, Jessica Tandy, Sylvia Sidney, Bob Dishy, Asia Vieira, Louis Guss, Irving Metzman, David Gow
Pearl (Shirley MacLaine) is a Jewish woman grieving for her newly deceased husband. An Italian rogue (Marcello Mastroianni) invites her for a cup of coffee, moves into her life, and brings happiness to her entire family.
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A Very Private Affair 1961  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicolas Bataille, Jacqueline Doyen, Eleonore Hirt, Ursula Kubler, Gregor von Rezzori, Dirk Sanders, Paul Soreze, Antoine Roblot
Being a big star has its shortcomings, and Jill (Brigitte Bardot) reacts to not having privacy. She heads to her Swiss retreat with Fabio (Marcello Mastroianni), the estranged husband of a friend, but still gets depressed by the press attention. Far from the best film for Director Malle or the two stars.
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World 1997 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Doria, Isabel de Castro, Manoel de Oliveira, Cecile Sanz de Alba, Jose Pinto, Adelaide Teixeira, Isabel Ruth
While tracking down the biographical story of actor Afonso (Jean-Yves Gautier), film director Manoel (Marcello Mastroianni) relives experiences of his own life.
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White Nights 1957 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai, Romano Barbieri, Alberto Carloni, Renato Terra, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli
In this drama based on a Dostoyevsky story, Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a shy man who is in love with Natalia (Maria Schell). However, she awaits the return of her lover.
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1964 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Guiffre, Agostino Salvietti, Tina Pica, Gianni Ridolfi, Armando Trovajoli, Lino Mattera, Tecla Scarano, Silvia Monelli, Carlo Croccolo, Pasquale Cennamo, Tonino Cianci, Gennaro Di Gregorio
Sophia Loren plays the lead in three separate stories in this movie that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. In "Adelina," Loren plays a pregnant woman who is caught selling contraband cigarettes. Her husband (Marcello Mastroianni) finds a legal loophole that will spare her until six months after her baby is born–and they plot to produce one baby after another. The story "Anna" involves lonely Anna (Loren) who finds excitement in her extra-marital affair with her lover (Mastroianni)–until he wrecks her car. Finally, in "Mara," Loren plays prostitute Mara who attracts Umberto (Gianni Ridolfi), a young man studying to be a priest. When she tries to get Umberto back on track to study for the priesthood, she takes a vow of chastity that drives her best client (Mastroianni) crazy with desire for her.
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| 1. 8 1/2 (1963)
2. Afirma Pereira (1996)
aka: Pereira Declares
aka: According to Pereira
3. Big Deal (1958)
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street
4. Big Deal After 20 Years (1987)
aka: Big Deal on Madonna Street: 20 Years Later
5. City of Women (1980)
6. Divorce - Italian Style (1961)
7. Enrico IV (1984)
aka: Henry IV
8. Ginger and Fred (1986)
9. A Hundred and One Nights (1995)
aka: A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
10. Intervista (1987)
aka: Federico Fellini's Intervista
11. La Dolce Vita (1960)
12. La Grande Bouffe (1973)
aka: The Grande Bouffe
13. La Notte (1961)
aka: The Night
14. Macaroni (1985)
15. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
16. Massacre in Rome (1973)
17. Pret-a-Porter (1994)
aka: Ready to Wear
18. A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973)
19. A Special Day (1977)
20. Stay as You Are (1978)
21. The Stranger (1967)
22. The Sunday Woman (1976)
23. Sunflower (1970)
24. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
25. Towards Evening (1991)
26. Used People (1992)
27. A Very Private Affair (1961)
28. Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)
29. White Nights (1957)
30. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
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