Italo Calvino Movies

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city;...

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited...

The philosophical tale revolves around an elderly monkey prince who wakes up injured and disoriented in an environment he does not recognise. He...

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A...

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he...

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord.

In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding...

Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist. Inside his empty armor is an echoing...

A young man sets out on a journey to the Ogre's lair, in search of a feather with the power to save a dying king.

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino.

Filmed in French Polynesia with a Hawaiian cast, the story revolves around the adventures and romances of a young Polynesian boy as he grows up. As a...

Revolves around a young baron who scales a tree after a dispute with his father and remains there for the rest of his life.