Films with: Mastroianni, Marcello

8 1/2

Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.

DVD 1601

Adua e le compagne Adua and her friends /

A wonderful example of Italian realism, this film tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. They pool their savings to open a trattoria, but find they cannot get a license. A prominent fixer with connections obtains the license for them, on the condition that they conduct their old business upstairs and pay him an exorbitant monthly fee.

DVD 9101

Bye bye monkey Ciao maschio /

Symbolic film exploring the question of whether mankind is doomed and history is destined to repeat itself, or whether people can discover a way to avoid the mistakes of the past and be rewarded by fresh hope with the next generation.

DVD 831

City of women

DVD 1279

Compagni The Organizer/

In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.

DVD 8899

Divorzio all'italiana Divorce Italian style /

A married man who has fallen in love with a younger woman hatches an elaborate scheme to kill his wife.

DVD 2202

Enrico IV Henry IV /

After a modern aristocrat falls off his horse, he believes that he is Henry IV, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. For years, everyone around him adapts to this fantasy, dressing and acting accordingly. Then one day, some friends try to cure "Henry."

DVD 4219

Federico Fellini's La dolce vita

A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.

DVD 3372

Giornata particolare A special day /

On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.

DVD 13189

Grande bouffe

Four world-weary middle-aged men decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food, call girls, and a hefty, lusty schoolteacher.

DVD 887

Loi The law /

A beautiful young woman in a sleepy Italian village is desired by the son of a mobster, but she only has eyes for a handsome young engineer. Unfortunately, he is as poor as she is so Marietta decides to steal a dowry from their love nest. In so doing she exposes the town's biggest lies.

DVD 1006

Marcello Mastroianni I remember /

With an abundance of charm, wit and thoughtful introspection, Marcello Mastroianni looks back and reminisces about his life and work.

DVD 5899

Notte

An emotionally estranged couple faces heartache, desperation, and personal loss all in the course of one night.

DVD 2162

Par-dela les nuages

Four stories of love and illusion are told from the perspective of a wandering film director. First two beautiful young lovers are unable to consummate their passion because the young man prefers impossible perfection. In the second story a women tells her stalker that she murdered her father. In the third story an effort is made to appease a wife and a mistress. The last story tells of a young man infatuated with a woman who is soon to enter a convent.

DVD 2061

Prêt-à-porter

A series of interconnecting stories that expose what goes on at the Paris fashion shows. When a fashion industry hot-shot is found dead, the police comb the fashion industry for clues. While the dead man's mistress mourns him as she is putting together a showing of her couture house's line, the man's widow could care less and attends the season's shows without a care, not knowing that her ex-husband is following her. Three magazine editors are trying to sign on a nonchalant photographer. A man and a woman are forced to share a hotel room when no other accommodations are available. Various love affairs are brewing amongst designers, models and others. All this is being broadcast live on a television show hosted by an American named Kitty Porter.

DVD 1510

Soliti ignoti Mario Monicelli's Big deal on Madonna Street /

Five men conspire to burglarize a small-time jeweler's safe. When the time comes to carry out the scheme, the men become hopelessly clumsy and have to eventually give up and go home.

DVD 1573

Touche pas à la femme blanche Don't touch the white woman /

Presents a unique and anachronistic pastiche on the American western and a subversive swipe at the treatment of Native Americans. As the cavalry fights the Indians, coward General Custer is trying to fight off the advances of both Sitting Bull and Marie-Hélène while modern day Parisian life goes on around them.

DVD 898