In gritty, postwar Rome, a prostitute is robbed and left to drown by her lover. Fellini flexes his mastery of neorealism with an odyssey that follows her heartbreak and rescue — which won him a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

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.

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.