Rome at the Movies


Here are some titles where you ca see the modern history of Rome . Also the ancient Rome series that most of foreigners know. Most of neorealist films are shot in Rome.

The Bicycle Thief (Lamberto Maggiorani, 1949)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi)
Intervista (Interview) (by Federico Fellini, 1992)
Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti, 1959)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
The Pizza Triangle (Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Monica Vitti, 1970)  
Love and Anarchy (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1973)
Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, 1953)
Three Coins in The Fountain (Clifton Webb, Dorothy Macguire, 1954)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas, 1960)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
Ben Hur (Charlton Heston, 1959)
Quo Vadis? (Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, 1951)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (Victor Mature, 1954)
Roma (by Federico Fellini, 1972)
Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, 1963)
The Robe (Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, 1953)
Cabiria (1914)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Julius Caesar (Marlon Brando, 1953)
Androcles and the Lion (1953)
The Sign of the Cross (Frederic March, Claudette Colbert, 1932)
A Special Day (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1977)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
La Dolce Vita (Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (Marcello Mastroianni, 1963)
City of Women (Marcello Mastroianni, 1981)
Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani)
Tempest (John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Molly Ringwald, Raul Julia, 1982)
Accatone (Franco Citi, 1968)
Open City (Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, 1945)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (Anthony Quinn, 1968)
In the Name of the Pope King (Nino Manfredi, 1977)
Two Women (Sophia Loren, 1960)
Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti, 1994)
Rome Adventure (Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, 1962)
When in Rome (Mary Kay and Ashley, 1992)
Ancient Rome: Story of an Empire (documentary, 1998)
Just the Facts: Ancient Rome (documentary, 2001)
Ancient Rome & the Mysterious
The Family (Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli)
Nights of Cabiria (Giulietta Masina, 1957)
Fellini Satyricon (Martin Potter, 1970)
The White Sheik (Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, 1956)
Constantine and the Cross (1962)
The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
Only You (Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey, Jr., 1994)

 

Emilia-Romagna Movies

Federico Fellini put this italian region on the attention of world cinema.

In Emilia Romagna cinema is alive and kicking. Recent surveys place Emilia Romagna second in the cinema league for numbers of screenings and cinema attendances at a national level. Interest is not only in commercial films, but also quality cinema which is shown in forty parish-hall cinemas and clubs. Bologna plays host to one of the largest film archives in Italy, the City Council’s Cineteca, which runs The Lumière, and “L’immagine ritrovata”(The image restored), Italy’s leading restoration laboratory.

Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1974)
La Strada (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, 1956)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta Masina, 1965)
And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini, 1983)
The Garden of the Finzi Contini (Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, 1971)
The Little World of Don Camillo (Fernandel, Gino Cervi, narr. by Orson Wells, 1951)

Liguria & The Riviera at the Movies

Enchanted April (Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, 1992)



Lombardy & Milan at the Movies

With this movies you can imagine the lifestyle and landscapes of the Lombardy region:

Tree of the Wooden Clogs (by Ermanno Olmi, 1978)
Rocco and His Brothers (Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
Miracle in Milan (Emma Gramatica, 1951)
A Farewell to Arms (Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, 1957)
Bitter Rice (Silvana Mangano, 1948)
A Month by the Lake (Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, 1995)
The Innocent (Giancarlo Giannini, 1979)
Ossessione (Clara Calamai, Massimno Girotti, 1943)
Red Desert (Richard Harris, Monica Vitti, 1965)
1900 (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, 1977)

Naples & The Amalfi Coast at the Movie

Vittorio De Sica captured the infinite faces of Napoli and his region Campania.

Never go to Naples without first seeing as many of these films as possible.

 

Shoeshine (1946)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Marriage Italian-Style (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Paisan (Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, 1948)
Stromboli (Ingrid Bergman, 1950)

Other Campania films:

The Last Days of Pompeii (Basil Rathbone, 1935)
It Started in Naples (Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, 1960)
Beat The Devil (Humphrey Bogart, 1954)
That Hamilton Woman (Vivien Leigh, 1941)
Ciao Professore (Paolo Villaggio, 1994)


Piedmont at the movies

A memorable love story in this region:

Passione d’Amore (by Ettore Scola, 1981)


Venice & Veneto at the Movies

Do your forget Katherine Hepburn falling into the Canal Grande in Summertime?

Summertime (Katherine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, 1955)
Senso (Alida Valli, Farley Granger, 1968)
Death in Venice (Dirk Bogard, 1971)
Don’t Look Now (Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, 1974)
Bread and Tulips (Licia Maglietta, 2000)

Florence & Tuscany at the Movies

Toscana is this much visited and loved region

Tea with Mussolini (Cher, Judi Dench, 1999)
A Room with a View (Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, 1986)
Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni, 1991)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Charlton Heston, 1965)
Stealing Beauty ( Bernardo Bertolucci, 1996 )
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Omero Antonutti, 1982)
St. Michael Had A Rooster (Taviani Brothers, 1971)

Sicily at the Movies

The Seduction of Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1972)
L’Avventura (Gabriele Ferzetti, 1961)
Seduced and Abandoned (Stefania Sandrelli, 1964)
Divorce, Italian Style (Marcello Mastroianni, 1962)
Cinema Paradiso (Enzo Cannavale, 1990)
Malena (Monica Bellucci, 2000)
The Godfather II (Al Pacino, 1974)
The Godfather III (Al Pacino, 1990)
Il Postino (Massimo Troisi, 1995)
Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1984)
The Sicilian (Christopher Lambert, 1987)
 


Italian Thrillers

Dario Argento

Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Tenebre (1987)
Sleepless (2001)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Two Evil Eyes (1991)
Inferno (1980)
Trauma (1993)
Phenomena (1985)
Opera (1987)
Phantom of the Opera (1999)
Terror at the Opera
Creepers (1985)
Today It’s Me Tomorrow You (1971)
Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971)

Federico Fellini

 

Roma (1972)
Nights of Cabiria (Giulietta Masina, 1957)
Fellini Satyricon (Martin Potter, 1970)
The White Sheik (Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, 1956)
Intervista (Interview) (1992)
Amarcord (1974)
La Strada (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, 1956)
Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta Masina, 1965)
And the Ship Sails On (1983)
La Dolce Vita (Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (Marcello Mastroianni, 1963)
City of Women (Marcello Mastroianni, 1981)
Ginger and Fred (Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, 1986)
Spirits of the Dead (Terence Stamp, 1969)
The Clowns (1971)
Il Bidone (Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, 1955)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1979)
Ciao Federcio! Fellini Directs Satyricon (1969)
Variety Lights (Giulietta Masina, 1951)

Marcello Mastroianni

A Special Day (with Sophia Loren, 1977)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (with Sophia Loren, 1964)
La Dolce Vita (with Anita Ekberg, 1961)
8 1/2 (1963)
Massacre in Rome  
City of Women (1981)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (with Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
Marriage Italian-Style (with Sophia Loren, 1964)
Divorce, Italian Style (1962)
Allonsanfan (Taviani Brothers, 1974)
La Notte (with Jeanne Moreau, 1961)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997)
One Hundred and One Nights (by Agnes Varda, 1995)
Dark Eyes (with Marthe Keller, 1987)
Il Bell’Antonio (with Claudia Cardinale, 1962)
La Grande Bouffe (by Marco Ferrari, 1973)
Ginger and Fred (by Federico Fellini, 1986)
Stay as You Are
What A Woman! (with Sophia Loren, 1956)
Everybody’s Fine (by Giuseppe Tornatore, 1995)
Oltre La Porta (with Tom Berenger, 1982)
La Nuit de Varennes (with Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel)
The Pizza Triangle (with Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, 1970)  

Sophia Loren

Two Women (1960)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Marriage Italian-Style (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
It Started in Naples (with Clark Gable, 1960)
What A Woman! (with Marcello Mastroianni, 1956)
Houseboat (with Cary Grant, 1958)
Madame

 

Roberto Benigni

Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Life is Beautiful (1998)
Son of the Pink Panther (by Blake Edwards, 1993)
Down By Law (by Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
Seeking Asylum (by Marco Ferreri, 1979)
Night on Earth (by Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
The Monster (Roberto Benigni – Dir., 1996)

 



Sergio Leone

Sodom and Gomorrah (Pier Angeli, Stewart Granger, 1963)
A Fistful of Dollars (Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonté, 1967)
For A Few Dollars More (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, 1967)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, 1967)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, 1968)
A Fistful of Dynamite (James Coburn, Rod Steiger, 1972)
My Name Is Nobody (Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, 1974)
Once Upon a Time in America (Robert De Niro, James Woods, 1984)

 

The Taviani Brothers

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Omero Antonutti, 1982)
St. Michael Had A Rooster (1971)
Kaos (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1984)
Allonsanfan (Marcello Mastroianni, 1974)
You Laugh – Tu Ridi (Antonio Albanese, Sabrina Ferilli, Luca Zingaretti, 1998)

 


Luchino Visconti

The Innocent (Giancarlo Giannini, 1979)
Ossessione (Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, 1943)
Rocco and His Brothers (Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, 1960)
Senso (Alida Valli, Farley Granger, 1968)
Death in Venice (Dirk Bogard, 1971)
Ludwig (Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, 1973)
The Damned (Dirk Bogard, Ingrid Thulin, 1969)

Vittorio De Sica

The Bicycle Thief (Lamberto Maggiorani, 1949)
Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti, 1959)
Two Women (Sophia Loren, 1960)
The Garden of the Finzi Contini (Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, 1971)
Miracle in Milan (Emma Gramatica, 1951)
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
Marriage Italian-Style (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1964)
It Started in Naples (Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, 1960)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (Anthony Quinn, 1968)

Lina Wertmuller

Love and Anarchy (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1973)
Ciao Professore (Paolo Villaggio, 1994)
The Seduction of Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, 1972)
Swept Away (Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, 1975)
Seven Beauties (Giancarlo Giannini, 1976)
Sotto… Sotto(Enrico Montesano, 1985)

 

Ettore Scola

A Special Day (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, 1977)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi)
Passione d’Amore (by Ettore Scola, 1981)
La Nuit de Varennes (Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel)
Down and Dirty (Nino Manfredi, 1976)

Michelangelo Antonioni

L’Avventura (Gabriele Ferzetti, 1961)
Red Desert (Richard Harris, Monica Vitti, 1965)

Giuseppe Tornatore

 
 
Cinema Paradiso (Enzo Cannavale, 1990)
Malena (Monica Bellucci, 2000)
Everybody’s Fine (Marcello Mastroianni, 1995)
The Legend of 1900 (Tim Roth, 1998)
A Pure Formality (Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, 1995)


Other Films
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, 1999)
My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
Voyage in Italy (Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, 1953)
The Conformist (Jean Louis Tritignant, Stefania Sandrelli)
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1967)
Mediterraneo (by Gabriele Salvatores, 1991)
Bread and Chocolate (Nino Manfredi, 1973)
Nudo di Donna (Nino Manfredi, 1983)
The Tiger and the Pussycat (Ann-Margaret, 1967)
Ayn Rand – We The Living (Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi, Fosco Giacchetti)
Rogopag (Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti, 1962)
Sacco & Vanzetti (Giuliano Montaldo, 1971)
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
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