Watch Life Is Beautiful

Tornatore's tender love letter to cinema and a Sicilian boyhood — keep tissues nearby for the final reel

Fellini's waif and strongman on the road; Giulietta Masina's face does the rest.

A director with nothing to say makes a film about that; Fellini's masterpiece.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.

A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.

A Jewish aristocratic family in Ferrara plays tennis while the racial laws close in.

A year in Fellini's Rimini under Mussolini: peacocks in snow, the ocean liner at night.