Mariangela Melato

Experience the town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and inspired surrealist works by Pablo Picasso and Fernando Arrabal.

Directed by Lina Wertmuller, the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, "Swept Away" is her famously controversial film about sex, love, and politics set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean. Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini star as an unlikely duo stranded at sea, leading to an unexpected and contentious love affair.

Giancarlo Giannini shines in this satirical comedy directed by Lina Wertmüller. Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, gets caught between communism, mafia, and his own romantic entanglements. A biting critique of political hypocrisy and masculinity, the film earned Wertmüller acclaim at Cannes and cemented her status as a leading voice in 1970s European cinema.

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller, LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.

An inspector pursues a secret society of former police officers who bring justice to notorious criminals without trial.

Blood proves thicker than Velcro in this screwball comedy, as a young college professor is forced to leave academia for the cutting rooms of Seventh Avenue to save the faltering family dress firm. Along the way, he creates a new craze in designer jeans, succumbs to a sultry Italian soprano and becomes the target of a jealous Mafiosi. But somehow everything will turn out So Fine.