Silvana Mangano

This drama of 18th-century Russia and the reign of Catherine the Great tells of the romance of a young officer and his commander's daughter.

During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Teorema’s seductive Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Il sorpasso’s Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend, played by the Hollywood star Doris Dowling (The Lost Weekend). Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash for producer extraordinaire Dino De Laurentiis (Blue Velvet) and director Giuseppe De Santis (Days of Love) is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.

Barabbas the thief is spared from crucifixion when Jesus Christ dies in his place, but guilt plagues Barabbas for the remainder of his days.

Pasolini’s classic about a handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives at a bourgeois household and seduces an entire family.

Acting legends Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn star in this adaptation of Homer’s epic, depicting Ulysses’ perilous trek home following years of war.

A wealthy American and a Secret Service agent venture into Alaskan territory to find proof of flying saucers before the Soviets do.

Abroad on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach is reserved and civilized.But when he glimpses someone who inspires him to giveway to a secretpassion, it foreshadows his doom.