Movies: Marcello Mastroianni

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could h...

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The banner of the Cannes Festival shows its three premises: glory, money and politics. If you film the banal, the naive and the superficial of the atmosphere in Cannes at that time, it is for nothing more than to rescue the beauty of the water of its...

In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war an...

Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress....

A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness....

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue....

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII....

This 1980 on-set documentary features an extensive look behind the scenes of the film....

The elderly president of a film production company bitterly prepares to face the board meeting ready to ask for his resignation in the face of recent negative results. To save the position, the president would need to present himself at the meeting w...

A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his wr...

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as...

Sophia puts the spotlight on her life with music. At her Rome villa, Peter Sellers is WWII Axis officer and Jonathan Winters a 16th century sculptor. Sophia sings "Out of Town" to children and animals. Tony voices "Summertime in Rome."...

A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder....

As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fountain from LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET ALGORITHM continues Gregg Biermann's series of films dissecting and repurposing classic film scenes into pulsatin...

An Italian documentary about ancient Egypt....

Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres"....