Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) (1961)

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In a humorous bit of stunt casting, Divorce, Italian Style sees Marcello Mastroianni as an aristocratic married man, trapped by circumstance and general inertia in a life of dwindling wealth and sexual satisfaction, who longs to divorce his wife and shack up with the nubile young sexpot-next-door. None of this seems terribly strange for a Mastroianni character, but it’s the way that the film pur... read more

Baron Ferdinando Cefalu (MArcello Mastoianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fauous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). Since divorce is illegal, he will devise a sceneario wherin he can catch his spouse in the arms of another and murder her to save his honor - a lesser offense.