A Special Day / Una giornata particolare (1977)
Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio
Director: Ettore Scola
We All Loved Each Other So Much / C'eravamo tanto amati (1974)
Comedy | Drama
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
Starring: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini
Director: Ettore Scola
The Night / La Notte / La notte (1961)
Drama
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
La Dolce Vita / La dolce vita / The Sweet Life (1960)
Comedy | Drama
Marcello's beat is Rome's international jet-set, an exotic world indelibly brought to life. In pursuit of the next big scandal, Marcello is continually seduced and repulsed by the hedonistic lifestyle of the rich, amoral and bored to whom nothing is sacred. Marcello's unforgettable encounters with an American sexpot, his wealthy lover, his suicidal girlfriend, his cultured mentor, and his estranged father lay bare the emptiness behind the glitz of "the sweet life.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Alain Cuny
Director: Federico Fellini
Che? / What? (1972)
Comedy
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Her visit becomes an absurd, decadent, oversexed version of "Alice in Wonderland", with Marcello Mastroianni as the maddest of mad hatters and Roman Polanski a kinky March hare.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome, Roman Polanski
Director: Roman Polanski
The Organizer / I compagni (1963)
Drama
At the turn of the century, suffering Italian factory workers, with the help of a poverty-stricken professor, form a labor union to fight for better conditions.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Mario Pisu
Director: Mario Monicelli
Divorce Italian Style / Divorzio all'italiana (1961)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro
Director: Pietro Germi
Stay as You Are / Così come sei (1978)
Drama | Romance
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure. He's happy to be a kid, so he tries to find out who her father is; his wife knows something is up; his daughter, who's Francesca's age and is pregnant, encourages the affair. Should he tell Francesca his fears that it might be incest? If he tells her and she doesn't care, what next? And what of his wife, who still wants to be married? Francesca takes control.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal, Mónica Randall, Ania Pieroni, Barbara De Rossi
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Ieri, oggi, domani / Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Comedy | Romance
Three separate tales in which Sophia Loren and Mastroianni appear as different characters paired up in each segment with a connecting theme of comedy of the sexes.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Tecla Scarano, Armando Trovajoli, Tina Pica
Director: Vittorio De Sica
I girasoli / Sunflower (1970)
Drama
A desperate woman searches for her missing husband who never returned from the Russian front during World War II.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Anna Carena, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Di Grazia
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Matrimonio all'italiana / Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A woman who's had an ongoing affair with her lover for twenty years, feigns a serious illness to get him to marry her after finding out that he's fallen for a younger woman.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Ready to Wear / Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Comedy | Drama
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Anouk Aimée, Lili Taylor, Rupert Everett, Forest Whitaker, Michel Blanc
Director: Robert Altman
Splendor (1989)
Drama
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan, who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi and ushurette Chantale. However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio, which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time, he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady
Director: Ettore Scola
City of Women / La città delle donne (1980)
Comedy | Drama
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Donatella Damiani, Bernice Stegers, Silvana Fusacchia, Hélène Calzarelli
Director: Federico Fellini
The Tenth Victim / La decima vittima (1965)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized – members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato
Director: Elio Petri
