Great Films and their Great Images

Italy

La Femme Nikita

"There are two things that are infinite:
femininity and means to take advantage of it."
- Amande
01 (27)Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Thierry Arbogast
Year: 1990
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | Italian 
| English
Genre: Action | Crime 
| Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Fellini Satyricon

"Ascilto... what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be
your last, so fill it up until you vomit... or something such?"
- Encolpio
01 (39)
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno
Year: 1969
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Latin
Genre: Drama | Family | History
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Dogville

"There's a family with kids. Do the kids and
make the mother watch. Tell her you'll stop if
she can hold back her tears. I *owe* her that."
- Grace
01 (43)Dir: Lars von Trier
DoP: Anthony Dod Mantle
Year: 2003
Country: Denmark | Sweden | UK 
| France | Germany | Netherlands 
| Norway | Finland | Italy
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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I Am Love

"Happy is a word that makes one sad."
- Elisabetta Recchi
01 (16)Dir: Luca Guadagnino

DoP: Yorick Le Saux

Year: 2009

Country: Italy

Language: Italian | Russian 
| English
Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Perceval le Gallions

"By my faith, I won't hide it longer, Sire. My name is Perceval of Wales."
- Perceval
01 (11)

Dir: Éric Rohmer

DoP: Néstor Almendros

Year: 1978

Country: France | Italy | West Germany

Language: French

Genre: Drama | Music | Romance | War

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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La Strada

"The Fool is hurt."
- Gelsomina
01 (5)

Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Otello Martelli (uncredited: Carlo Carlini)

Year: 1954

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Genre: Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Blow-Up

"Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out."
- Thomas
01 (7)
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni

DoP: Carlo Di Palma
Year: 1966

Country: UK | Italy | USA

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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A Fistful of Dollars

"Get three coffins ready."
- Joe
01 (13)Dir: Sergio Leone
DoP: Massimo Dallamano 
& Federico G. Larraya
Year: 1964
Country: Italy | Spain 
| West Germany
Language: Italian | Spanish 
| English
Genre: Action | Drama | Western
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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The Earrings of Madame De…

"Unhappiness is our own invention. At times I'm sad that I lack the imagination for it."
- Général André de...
01 (37)

Dir: Max Ophüls

DoP: Christian Matras

Year: 1953

Country: France | Italy

Language: French

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Before the Revolution

"Remember, Fabrizio: one can't live without Rossellini."
- A friend
01 (10)Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci

DoP: Aldo Scavarda

Year: 1964

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Fellini’s Casanova

"A man who never speaks ill of women does not love them. For to
understand them and to love them one must suffer at their hands. Then
and only then can you find happiness at the lips of your beloved."
- Giacomo Casanova
01 (3)Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno

Year: 1976

Country: Italy | USA

Language: Italian | French 
| German
Genre: Biography | Drama 
| History | Romance
Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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Journey to Italy

"This is the first time that we've been really alone ever since we married."
- Katherine Joyce
"Yes, I suppose it is."
- Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
01 (60)

Dir: Roberto Rossellini

DoP: Enzo Serafin

Year: 1954

Country: Italy | France

Language: English | Italian

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1


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The Big Blue

"What's it feel like when you dive?"
- Johanna
01 (22)Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Carlo Varini
Year: 1988
Country: France | USA | Italy
Language: English | French 
| Italian
Genre: Action | Adventure 
| Drama | Romance | Sport
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Othello

"Oh beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed
monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
- Iago
01 (51)
Dir: Orson Welles

DoP: G.R. Aldo

Year: 1953

Country: USA | Italy 
| Morocco | France

Language: English

Genre: Drama | Romance

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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City of Women

""A house without a woman", they say in my parts, "is 
like the Sea without a Siren". Don't you agree with me?"
- Old Lady
01 (11)Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno

Year: 1980

Country: Italy | France

Language: Italian

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Milky Way

"Faith doesn't come to us through reason but through the heart"
- Rodolphe
01 (9)
Dir: Luis Buñuel

DoP: Christian Matras

Year: 1969

Country: France | Italy

Language: French | Italian 
| Latin

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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The New York Ripper

"But you won't understand me, you'll never understand
me! You're too stupid! Quack! Quack! Quack!"
- The Ripper
01 (18)
Dir: Lucio Fulci
DoP: Luigi Kuveiller
Year: 1982
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Spanish
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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Le Cercle Rouge

"All men are guilty. They're born innocent, but it doesn't last."
- La chef de la police
01 (8)Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville

DoP: Henri Decaë

Year: 1970

Country: France | Italy

Language: French

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Senso

"It's too late! It's over! I'm not your romantic hero!"
- Lieutenant Franz Mahler
01 (7)

Dir: Luchino Visconti

DoP: G.R. Aldo & Robert Krasker

Year: 1954

Country: Italy

Language: Italian | German

Genre: Drama | History | Romance | War

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Day for Night

"I'm sure Ferrand is wrong. Life is more important than films."
- Alphonse
01 (19)Dir: François Truffaut

DoP: Pierre-William Glenn

Year: 1973

Country: France | Italy

Language: French | English

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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Danger: Diabolik

"If you didn't see him... he's there."
- Diabolik
01 (16)Dir: Mario Bava

DoP: Antonio Rinaldi

Year: 1968

Country: Italy | France

Language: Italian

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

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The Man Who Lies

"My name is Robin. Jan Robin. I'm going to tell
you my story. ...or at least, I'm going to try."
- Jan Robin
01 (56)

Dir: Alain Robbe-Grillet

DoP: Igor Luther

Year: 1968

Country: France | Italy | Czechoslovakia

Language: French

Genre: Drama | War

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Il Bidone

"If you shake his hand, make sure to count your
fingers. There might be a couple missing."
- Augusto
01 (42)

Dir: Federico Fellini

DoP: Otello Martelli

Year: 1955

Country: Italy | France

Language: Italian

Genre: Comedy | Drama

Color: Black & White

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1

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Cinema Paradiso

"Progress always comes late."
- Alfredo
01 (14)
Dir: Giuseepe Tornatore

DoP: Blasco Giurato

Year: 1988

Country: Italy | France

Language: Italian | English 
| Portuguese
Genre: Drama

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

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