The film that launched Giulietta Masina and Fellini into international stardom is a tragicomic fable about the brutish traveling-circus strongman Zampanò, who takes as his performing partner Masina’s sensitive, dreamy Gelsomina, a delicate spirit gradually crushed by his cruelty.

Fellini captures the sophistication, decadence, and extravagance of 1960s Rome in his iconic film that follows a week in the life of a paparazzo journalist. This film provides a glimpse of the darkness that lies behind the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous in a series of sequences breaking up the day-to-night commotion.

Widely considered one of the best and most influential films of all time, Fellini’s surrealist comedy-drama follows a creatively blocked director on a restful retreat — ordered by his doctor. He fantasizes about his past life until his wife, mistress, producer, staff, and actors show up.