Federico Fellini was an Italian movie director and scriptwriter and is considered one of the most influencing and celebrated filmmakers ever. He is known for his distinctive style of filmmaking that mixes elements of fantasy and baroque images in a realistic way. If you are a cinema lover, these are a few of the top movies by Federico Fellini you must watch as a cinema lover.

La Dolce Vita (1960)

La Dolce Vita means The Sweet Life in English and it’s considered one of the greatest and most influential movies by Federico Fellini.

La Dolce Vita is a satirical comedy-drama film directed and co-written and it was released in 1960. It’s touted as one of his most well-known and important movies and it chronicles one week in the life of Marcello played by Marcello Mastroianni, a meandering paparazzo in Rome. It had an ensemble cast and was loved by both critics and audiences alike.

Nights of Cabiria (1957)

Nights of Cabiria is an Academy Award winning movie and it’s a story about Maria, a sex worker played by the famous Italian actress GiuliettaMasina.

Nights of Cabiria is one of Fellini’s great works and it follows the story of a sex worker Maria whose paradoxical blend of vulnerability and insolent strength is shown in various parts of the movie. Nights of Cabiria is famous in India because in the same year when it won an award at the Oscars, the Hindi movie Mother India was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Movie in the Academy Awards and lost to Nights of Cabiria by just one vote.

Roma (1972)

Roma was a semi-autobiographical movie that showcased director Federico Fellini's shift from his native Rimini to Rome when he was young.

Roma is a comedy-drama movie along with being a semi-autobiographical movie by Fellini and it tells about that period in his life when he shifted his base from his native place Rimini to the capital city Rome during his younger days. Italian actor Peter Gonzales was cast as the young Fellini, and the cast members of this movie were newcomers.

8 ½ (1963)

8 ½ was a surrealistic comedy-drama movie and it tells the story of a famous movie director played Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) and his journey while he was trying to make a science fiction movie.

8 ½ was a 1963 surreal comedy-drama movie directed by Federico Fellini which he wrote along with co-writers TullioPinelli, EnnioFlaiano, and Brunello Rondi. In the movie, Marcello Mastroianni played the character of a well-known Italian film director named Guido Anselmi is suffering from writer’s block and subdued creativity while trying to make a science fiction movie. It’s probably the most acclaimed movie of Fellini that won two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Movie along with Best Costume Design.