ChannelHopper.org > Italian black-and-white films
Italian black-and-white films
The White Ribbon
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The White Ribbon
Bellissima
Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Bellissima
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, whe...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Paisan
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Paisan
Bitter Rice
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvan...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Bitter Rice
Miracle in Milan
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and lo...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Miracle in Milan
Hands over the City
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Hands over the City
The Trial
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusatio...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Trial
Il Grido
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Il Grido
The Roof
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Roof