Shirley

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Marco Vicario

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Laura Antonelli, William Berger

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

Cast

Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Hal Ashby

Cast

David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Federico Fellini

Cast

Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Joan Micklin Silver

Cast

Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard