Watch Rome, Open City

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

A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle he needs to keep his job.

A pensioner and his dog on the edge of eviction in Rome; De Sica's bleakest neorealism.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Yossarian wants out of the war but only the sane ask, and asking proves you are sane; Heller's loop.

A Roman socialite turns 65 and looks past the parties; Sorrentino's La Dolce Vita.

Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.

Fellini films a crew filming Fellini at Cinecitta, with Mastroianni as Mandrake.