ChannelHopper.org > Italian black-and-white films
Italian black-and-white films
The Beauty of the Devil
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Beauty of the Devil
The Flowers of St. Francis
In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and s...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Flowers of St. Francis
The Thursday
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a stor...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Thursday
Mister Max
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Mister Max
I'll Give a Million
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent I'll Give a Million
Abandoned
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristoc...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Abandoned
Sicily!
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passenge...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Sicily!
Before the Revolution
The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Before the Revolution
The Machine That Kills Bad People
In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous ability.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Machine That Kills Bad People
Assunta Spina
Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Assunta Spina