List of the best Federico Fellini movies: Nights of Cabiria(1957), La dolce vita(1960), Amarcord(1973), Juliet of the Spirits(1965), And the Ship Sails On(1983), Ginger and Fred(1986), Orchestra Rehearsal(1979), City of Women(1980), Satyricon(1969), Fellini: A Director's Notebook(1969), Love in the City(1953), Variety Lights(1950) ... ...
Drama
Italy|France
1957
110 Minutes
Director
Giulietta Masina François Périer Amedeo Nazzari Franca Marzi Dorian Gray Aldo Silvani Enio Girolami Mario Passante Christian Tassou Riccardo Fellini Amedeo Girardi
prostitute accountant movie star charming endearing powerful tender italy rome unrequited love redemption prostitution religion quest 1950s
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Drama
Italy|France
1960
175 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Anita Ekberg Yvonne Furneaux Anouk Aimée Magali Noël Alain Cuny Annibale Ninchi Walter Santesso Lex Barker Jacques Sernas Nadia Gray
reporter girlfriend heiress actress friend engaging hedonistic italy rome party beach romance meaning of life love triangle infidelity hedonism show business love discovery 1960s
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1973
125 Minutes
Director
Magali Noël Bruno Zanin Pupella Maggio Armando Brancia Ciccio Ingrassia Nando Orfei Luigi Rossi Gianfilippo Carcano Josiane Tanzilli
son father mother amusing cheeky dreamy spirited italy small town waterfront fascism family sex small-town life growing up transformation 1930s
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Fantasy
Italy|France
1965
148 Minutes
Director
Giulietta Masina Sandra Milo Sylva Koscina Mario Pisu Alba Cancellieri Caterina Boratto Luisa Della Noce Sabrina Gigli Rosella De Sepio Lou Gilbert Valentina Cortesa
wife cheater husband mystic mistress dreamy dark offbeat tense france seance villa infidelity spiritual visions breakup marriage escape transformation discovery 1960s
Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
Comedy
Italy|France
1983
128 Minutes
Director
Freddie Jones Barbara Jefford Victor Poletti Janet Suzman Peter Cellier Elisa Mainardi Norma West Sarah-Jane Varley
journalist singer refugee sailor sea captain aristocrat offbeat unrestrained bleak amusing lighthearted striking cruise ship italy lifeboat surrealism battleship funeral opera destruction
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Comedy
Italy|France|West Germany
1986
126 Minutes
Director
Giulietta Masina Marcello Mastroianni Franco Fabrizi Friedrich Ledebur Martin Blau Toto Mignone Augusto Poderosi Salvatore Billa
impersonator dancer old man old woman dwarf celebrity cheeky amusing tender spectacular italy television studio hotel street stage celebrity television dance impersonation partnership
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
Musical, Documentary
Italy|West Germany
1979
72 Minutes
Director
Balduin Baas Clara Colosimo Elizabeth Lubi Ronoldo Bonacchi Ferdinando Villella
An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1980
140 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Anna Prucnal Bernice Stegers Jole Silvani Donatella Damiani Ettore Manni Stéphane Emilfork Sylvie Matton
man beautiful woman doctor police officer ex-wife sultry outlandish italy wilderness hotel feminism sex strange happenings on the run escape underdog pursuit temptation 1980s
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Italy|France
1969
128 Minutes
Director
Martin Potter Hiram Keller Max Born Salvo Randone Mario Romagnoli Magali Noël Capucine Alain Cuny Fanfulla Danica La Loggia Giuseppe Sanvitale
boy poet slave gladiator prostitute disturbing unrestrained hedonistic rome pirate ship arena abandonment satire sex homosexuality love quest discovery roman empire
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Documentary
Italy|France
1969
54 Minutes
Director
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Documentary
Italy
1953
90 Minutes
Ugo Tognazzi Carlo Lizzani Federico Fellini Francesco Maselli Maresa Gallo Silvio Lillo
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Drama
1950
93 Minutes
Director
Giulietta Masina Peppino De Filippo Carla Del Poggio
manager dancer femme fatale mistress performer charming melodramatic tender italy small town theater train station stage fame performance love triangle ambition jealousy betrayal rise
The manager (Peppino De Filippo) of a theater troupe leaves his mistress (Giulietta Masina) for a younger woman (Carla Del Poggio).
Fantasy
1963
135 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Claudia Cardinale Anouk Aimée Sandra Milo Madeleine LeBeau Mario Pisu Barbara Steele Neil Robinson Mino Doro Mario Tarchetti Eugene Walter
director wife mistress actress dreamy passionate creative italy movie set love infidelity movie making love quest 1960s
An Italian film director (Marcello Mastroianni) seeking the meaning of life retreats from his wife (Anouk Aimée), mistress and flatterers.
Drama
1955
100 Minutes
Director
Broderick Crawford Richard Basehart Franco Fabrizi Giulietta Masina Sue Ellen Blake Irene Cefaro Alberto De Amicis Lorella De Luca
victim daughter con man emotional nightclub men money aging pursuit
Tired of impersonating priests, three small-time swindlers (Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi) go their separate ways.
Comedy, Drama
1987
108 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Anita Ekberg Sergio Rubini Antonella Ponziani Maurizio Mein Paola Liguori Lara Wendel Michael Coby Nadia Ottiaviani
Fellini takes a Japanese film crew on a trip down memory lane as he prepares his next project in this mock-documentary.
Fantasy
1990
121 Minutes
Director
Roberto Benigni Paolo Villaggio Nadia Ottaviani Angelo Orlando Marisa Tomasi Syusy Blady
italian mental patient engaging moon well modern life news purity transformation
Adventure, Comedy
1952
83 Minutes
Director
Alberto Sordi Brunella Bovo Leopoldo Trieste Enzo Maggio Giulietta Masina Lilia Landi Ernesto Almirante Gina Mascetti Fanny Marchiò
newlywed wife husband actor prostitute charming playful witty rome boat street honeymoon unhappy marriage idolization suicide prostitution travel quest love temptation
On her honeymoon, a woman leaves her husband to chase the man of her dreams, the star of a photo series in a romance magazine.
Horror
1968
117 Minutes
Jane Fonda Federico Fellini Brigitte Bardot Terence Stamp Alain Delon Peter Fonda James Robertson Justice
countess religious person actor young girl horse owner priest creepy eerie dark germany italy car stable church revenge infatuation murder alcoholism forbidden love wretched excess
Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini collaborated on this trio of tales based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Comedy
1962
165 Minutes
Sophia Loren Federico Fellini Luchino Visconti Anita Ekberg Romy Schneider Marisa Solinas Germano Gilioli Tomas Milian Luigi Giuliani
Tales of women (Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider) by Italy's leading filmmakers. Stories include "The Raffle," "The Job" and "The Temptation of Dr. Antonio."
Comedy, Drama
1970
109 Minutes
Donald Sutherland Ellen Burstyn Federico Fellini Glenna Sergent