1900 1976  R, 320 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Novecento
Nineteen Hundred
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Sterling Hayden, Stefania Sandrelli, Romolo Valli, Laura Betti, Alida Valli, Franchesca Bertini, Werner Bruhns, Stefania Casini, Anna Henkel, Ellen Schwiers
The lives of two young men, Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalco (Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu)–both born in 1900–and the stories of their descendants are depicted as they live through the competing forces of socialism, fascism, and capitalism in Italy during the 20th century.
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Alfredo, Alfredo 1972  R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Pietro Germi
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli, Carla Gravina, Clara Colosimo, Daniele Patella, Duilio Del Prete, Luigi Baghetti, Danika La Loggia, Saro Urzi
Alfredo (Dustin Hoffman) is a timid banker who begins a love affair with Carolina Betti (Carla Gravina) and tries to end his marriage to Mariarosa (Stefania Sandrelli). But, because of Italy's strict divorce laws, Alfredo has problems getting the divorce. His lawyers do work to obtain a divorce, and the laws change allowing Alfredo, at long last, to divorce Carolina and to marry Mariarosa.
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 The Conformist 1970  R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jose Quaglio, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati
Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) represses his homosexual tendencies in an attempt to conform to the 1930s' middle-class Italian society. He even marries Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli). But on his way to Paris for their honeymoon, Marcello's fascist bosses give him a gun and orders to assassinate his old teacher, a political dissident. Doubts now begin to plague Marcello, and he is not sure that he is up to the task at hand.
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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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The Last Kiss 2001 R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Marco Cocci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Regina Orioli, Giorgio Pasotti, Daniela Piazza, Claudio Santamaria, Vittorio Amandola, Martina Stella, Luigi Diberti, Piero Natoli, Silvio Muccino
This multi-faceted story involves 30-year-old friends who are not quite sure of how to deal with the fact that they are now at the age when others are settling down and raising families. Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) learns that his girlfriend Giulia (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) is pregnant and is not sure that he wants to marry her. Paolo (Claudio Santamaria) has problems about joining his father in business. Meanwhile, Adriano (Giorgio Pasotti) and his wife Livia (Sabrina Impacciatore) have a new baby, and Adriano is having trouble adjusting to fatherhood. And then there is Alberto (Marco Cocci) whose only ties to women are sexual. They all find their own unique answers to their dilemmas.
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The Nymph 1996  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Lina Wertmuller
Cast: Stefania Sandrelli, Raoul Bova, Lucia Cara, Lorenzo Crespi, Luisa Amatucci, Pepe Da Rosa, Rino Marcelli, Giuditta Del Vecchio, Ennio Coltorti, Isa Danieli
During World War II in the town of Nofi, 19-year-old Miluzza (Lucia Cara) suffers the loss of her nymphomaniac mother (Stefania Sandrelli) when the Allies bomb her town. Miluzza then takes a job at a factory and is seduced by its owner. Now, her reputation is ruined, and she must live amidst the town's gossip.
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Of Love and Shadows 1994  R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Betty Kaplan
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Connelly, Stefania Sandrelli, Diego Wallraff, Camilo Gallardo, Patricio Contreras, Jorge Rivera Lopez, Angela Ragno, Alfredo Martin, Anita Lesa
General Pinochet ruled Chile with an iron fist in the early 1970s while the elite led sheltered lives and turned their eyes from the atrocities. Such is the case with Irene (Jennifer Connelly), a magazine editor who is engaged to an army officer. Things change when she meets Francisco (Antonio Banderas), a photographer and anarchist who fights for the people's rights. Irene falls in love with Francisco and joins in the fight for justice. Adapted from Isabel Allende's book, this film does not begin to do justice to the powerful story.
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 Stealing Beauty 1996 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi, Sinead Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais, Donal McCann, D.W. Moffett, Stefania Sandrelli, Jason Flemyng, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Lucy (Liv Tyler) is a beautiful, sexy young woman who searches in Tuscany for the identity of her father. She visits an artist's (Donal McCann) villa and meets an eclectic group of characters who wander in and out of the villa.
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A Talking Picture 2003 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Cast: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve, Stefania Sandrelli, Irene Papas, Luis Miguel Cintra, Michel Lubrano di Sbaraglione, Francois Da Silva, Ilias Logothetis, Ricardo Trepa
History professor Rosa Maria (Leonor Silveira) and her eight-year-old daughter, Maria Joana (Filipa de Almeida), are enjoying a Mediterranean cruise on their way to Bombay. Rosa Maria enjoys teaching Maria Joana the history and culture of ports the ship visits, and all goes well–until the ship stops in Yemen, and terrorists are smuggled aboard. This film marks 96-year-old Director Manoel de Oliveira's 72nd year behind the camera.
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| 1. 1900 (1976)
aka: Novecento
aka: Nineteen Hundred
2. Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
3. The Conformist (1970)
4. Divorce - Italian Style (1961)
5. The Last Kiss (2001)
6. The Nymph (1996)
7. Of Love and Shadows (1994)
8. Stealing Beauty (1996)
9. A Talking Picture (2003)
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