 | Open City
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.78 Probably the first great postwar Italian film. Knockout performance by the great Anna Magnani
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 | The Bicycle Thief
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $13.20 Incredibly moving early DeSica masterpiece.
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 | La Strada - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $20.90 Fellini's first of a long string of international successes for Federico Fellini with Iconic performance by Giulietta Massini
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 | Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $44.49 Another great collaboration of Mr. and Mrs. Fellini-- a comedy that will break your heart
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 | La Dolce Vita (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $30.50 It's long, but every second is worthwhile. One iconic scene follows another starting with Jesus flying over Rome and ending with that strange creature washed up on the beach. A must!
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 | Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $21.38 Breakthrough Italian comedy that won a best screenplay Oscar. Grotesque but hilarious.
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 | 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $14.29 Another iconic film by Fellini, another splendid performance by Marcello Mastroianni and lots of fabulous women. Extremely influential.
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 | Juliet Of The Spirits - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.95 Fellini's first full-length color film. Garish and over-the-top. Some say the beginning of his decline. Starring a magnificent Giulietta Massini (and an equally fabulous Sandra Milo), Fellini called it his female 8 1/2.
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 | Two Women
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.97 Mid-career De Sica directs Sophia's breakthrough performance (and her Oscar). Based on fine novel by Alberto Moravia. Warning: harrowing rape scene.
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 | Marriage Italian Style
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $12.44 I consider this Sophia's greatest performance as she ages from teenager to middle-aged woman. Based on great Neopolitan playwright Eduardo di Fillippo's comedy FILUMENA MARTURANO.
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 | Seven Beauties (Digitally Remastered Edition)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $11.97 Magnificent and profound. The best film ever directed by a female director (Lina Wertmuller, who was once Fellini's assistant). Brilliant performances by Giancarlo Giannini and Shirley Stoller.
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 | A Brief Vacation
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.99 De Sica's final film and a late-career masterpiece, with great performance by Florinda Bolkan as an unappreciated woman who finds happiness in a hospital after she is stricken with TB
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 | 1900 (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.29 Another long one, but it's worth it. Extremely disturbing, but a very important film with fine international cast including Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster. Not an easy film to watch, but absolutely unforgettable.
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 | Padre Padrone
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $11.83 Domineering father vs. sensitive son. Powerful and moving film with some exhilarating moments. Father drags the son out of school and forces him to be a shepherd. The boy's ambition for an education finally triumphs, but not without leaving emotional scars. Based on a true story. The brothers Taviani's breakthrough film.
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 | The Best of Youth
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $10.65 Very important epic story of Italy's first postwar generation as it follows them from their college years in the 60s into the 21st Century. Extremely moving and brilliantly acted. (The film's four lead actresses shared the Venice Film Festival's Best Actress Award.) It's another long one, but I've seen it three times and cried every time.
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