Das Boot (1985)

Manon of the Spring (1986)

Summary: A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Release Date: November 19, 1986

Genre: Drama

Director: Claude Berri

Writers: Claude Berri

, Gérard Brach

, Marcel Pagnol

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: DD Productions, Films A2, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Renn Productions

Distributor: Orion Classics, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM World Films, Orion Home Video, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Shout! Factory

Countries: Switzerland, France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 3,940,542

Faithless (2000)

Summary: An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

Release Date: September 15, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Liv Ullmann

Writer: Ingmar Bergman

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Classic, Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, SVT Drama, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Svensk Filmindustri, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Yleisradio (YLE), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Fireworks Pictures, IDP Distribution, Samuel Goldwyn Films, First Look International

Countries: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway

Language: Swedish

Domestic: $ 739,055

International: $ 178,978

The Clowns (1970)

Summary: A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.

Release Date: December 25, 1970

Genres: Comedy, Documentary

Director: Federico Fellini

Writers: Federico Fellini

, Bernardino Zapponi

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Compagnia Leone Cinematografica, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), Bavaria Film

Distributor: Levitt-Pickman, Cinematheque, Xenon, Raro Video

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

Summary: Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.

Release Date: April 03, 1977

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: TV-G

Production: ITC Films, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Countries: United Kingdom, Italy

Language: English

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

Summary: The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Directors: Danièle Huillet

, Jean-Marie Straub

Writers: Danièle Huillet

, Jean-Marie Straub

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Production: Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner, Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), IDI Cinematografica, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Grasshopper Film, Topic

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 17,527

Goya en Burdeos (1999)

Summary: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daught...

Release Date: November 12, 1999

Genres: Drama, Biography, War

Director: Carlos Saura

Writers: Carlos Saura

, Luigi Scattini

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lolafilms, Italian International Film, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Spain, Italy

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 635,361

The Star Maker (1995)

Summary: A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

Release Date: March 08, 1996

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Writers: Giuseppe Tornatore

, Fabio Rinaudo

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributor: Miramax

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 371,674

Intervista (1987)

Summary: Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.

Release Date: November 06, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Federico Fellini

Writers: Federico Fellini

, Gianfranco Angelucci

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Production: Aljosha, Cinecittà, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 138,608

International: $ 43

The Best Intentions (1992)

Summary: In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

Release Date: July 10, 1992

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Bille August

Writer: Ingmar Bergman

Runtime: 3 h 02 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: SVT Drama, Danmarks Radio (DR), Yleisradio (YLE), Channel Four Films, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Ríkisútvarpið-Sjónvarp (RÚV), Focus Features International (FFI)

Distributor: Film Movement

Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Iceland

Language: Swedish

Domestic: $ 1,253,106

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

Summary: In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

Release Date: August 10, 1983

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 1 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bavaria Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: German

TV Series budget: $ 13,000,000

The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)

Summary: The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the ...

Release Date: May 06, 1984

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Runtime: 5 h 10 min

Production: Paramount Television, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Centerpoint Productions

Countries: Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Let Yourself Go (2017)

Summary: A psychoanalyst named Elia goes to the gym and meets a personal trainer who changes his life.

Release Date: April 13, 2017

Genre: Comedy

Director: Francesco Amato

Writers: Francesco Amato

, Francesco Bruni

, Davide Lantieri

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

Production: Cattleya, Rai Cinema, Credit Agricole Vita, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT), RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Regione Lazio

Distributor: Menemsha Films

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 12,189

International: $ 2,128,001

La traviata (1982)

Summary: Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta's bad reputation will affe...

Release Date: February 18, 1983

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Writers: Francesco Maria Piave

, Franco Zeffirelli

, Alexandre Dumas fils

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: G

Production: Accent Films B.V., RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributor: Universal Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Universal Home Video

Countries: Netherlands, Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 3,783,329

Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983)

Summary: A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.

Release Date: August 19, 1983

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Writers: Juan Zanotto

, Ray Collins

, Robert D. Bailey

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Diamant Film, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 2,810,199