Arco Film Popular Movie

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosanna Schiaffino

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Mangano

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franco Citti

This biblical drama from the Catholic Marxist director focuses on the teachings of Jesus, including the parables that reflect their revolutionary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Enrique Irazoqui

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Magnani

God casts Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because Eve decided to have a fling with a visiting Cro-Magnon named Bearkiller. The disgraced...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mark Gregory

Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pier Paolo Pasolini

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tina Aumont

The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gérard Barray

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marie-José Nat

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosanna Schiaffino

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alain Cuny

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Richard Johnson

A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gérard Barray

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stefania Sandrelli

A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haydée Politoff