Directed by Vittorrio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, and Luchino Visconti | 205 mins | 1962
An anthology comedy exploring love and the liberated woman in contemporary Italy, Boccaccio ’70 reteams Loren with De Sica in the spicy story of a shy lottery winner who hopes to cash in with ...

Directed by Kathleen Collins | 86 mins | 1982
One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, and a charming, complex tale of personal discovery that follows the marriage between a philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and her painter husband (Bill Gunn), both at a crossroads ...

Directed by Vittorrio di Sica | 102 mins | 1964
One of the most beloved of Loren’s multiple screen pairings with Marcello Mastroianni, De Sica’s unexpectedly moving farce uses a brilliant flashback structure to review the 22-year relationship between Mastroianni’s caddish bourgeois businessman an...

Directed by Vittorrio De Sica | 107 mins | 1970
The final of three collaborations between Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, and director De Sica, Sunflower casts the duo as lovers wed on the eve of his departure for the Russian front. After years pass without a word from her husband, she travels to Mo...

Directed by Julian Roffman | 83 mins | 1961
Investigating the mysterious death of a patient, Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) discovers a strange tribal mask among the personal effects of the deceased—and, when he puts it on, unlocks a gateway to a nightmare world that will threaten his very sanity.

Directed by Bette Gordon | 100 mins | 1983
A young woman lands a job as a cashier at a downtown porno theater, and soon finds herself inexorably drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies. One of the great independent films of the ’80s, featuring a who’s who of t...

Directed by Vittorrio di Sica | 119 mins | 1963
This buoyant boudoir comedy comes as a trio of tales starring Mastroianni and Loren, as an overwhelmed husband and the sex-mad wife who must stay pregnant to avoid prison; a pair of Milanese jet-setters; and a would-be client and the high-priced sex...

Directed by Franco Rosso | 95 mins | 1980
At the outset of the Thatcher years, Black reggae DJ Brinsley Forde fights to make his way in the music business, while beset on all sides by the racism of the police, the National Front, and his neighbors. Rosso’s sound-system drama is hard-nosed, indign...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard | 96 mins | 1967
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, and Anne Wiazemsky co-star in Godard’s rouge-tinted, slogan-splattered political comedy concerning five innocents passing their summer vacation in a shared apartment by discoursing on Mao, performing agitprop theater, a...

Directed by Leontine Sagan | 89 mins | 1931
Actress-turned-director Sagan’s pioneering all-female cast lesbian romance sets its scene at a boarding school for military officer’s daughters where a new student has begun to develop an unusually passionate attachment to one of her teachers—and then f...

Directed by Luchino Visconti | 179 mins | 1960
Set in Visconti’s ancestral home of Milan, his epic devotional tragedy centers on a clan who emigrate north in search of better prospects, only to see their close-knit family unit torn apart when brother Rocco (Alain Delon), rising in the ranks as a ...

Directed by Paulo Rocha | 89 mins | 1963
Rocha’s feature film debut is a piquant and poignant coming-of-age story about Julio, a teenager from the provinces, newly arrived in Lisbon, and Ilda, the brash young housemaid with whom he begins a fragile romance—one soon threatened by the exigencies of...