Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet 1954

5.10

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

1954

Two Cents Worth of Hope

Two Cents Worth of Hope 1952

6.20

Once a young woman gets a man to fall in love with her, he must prove himself financially stable and meet her dowry requirements.

1952

Under the Sun of Rome

Under the Sun of Rome 1948

7.10

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.

1948

Death of a Friend

Death of a Friend 1960

6.00

Two young people trickle, steal and exploit prostitutes.

1960

Il cappello da prete

Il cappello da prete 1944

5.40

The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.

1944

It's Forever Springtime

It's Forever Springtime 1950

6.00

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di Roma and just before Two Cents Worth of Hope). Leading man Mario Angelotti, loving not wisely but too well, quickly discovers that the penalty for bigamy is two wives. Between his tempestuous Sicilian bride, played by Elena Varzi and his sedate Milanese missus (Irene Gemma), the poor man barely has time to take a breath.

1950