Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. Read More »
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Scarred AKA Assunta Spina (1948) Mario Mattoli, Anna Magnani, Antonio Centa, Maria Donini
Carnal passion, tender feelings, devotion, murder, blood, broken hearts, vicious gambling Read More »
Battle in Outer Space AKA Uchû sai sensô (1959) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Minoru Takada
Munchkin-like aliens invade Earth full force with their flying saucers and laser weapons, rendering cities helpless. Read More »
Jitterbugs (1943) Malcolm St. Clair, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for “gasolene pills” in wartime oil-short America. Read More »
Brick and Mirror AKA Khesht va Ayeneh (1965) Ebrahim Golestan, Taji Ahmadi, Zackaria Hashemi, Goli Bozorgmehr
Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat Read More »
The Mill on the Po AKA Il mulino del Po (1949) Alberto Lattuada, Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Mario Besesti
Berta Scarceni is betrothed to Orbino Verginesi and the engagement is celebrated on the floating mill of the Scarceni. Read More »
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults Read More »
The Unfaithfuls AKA Le infedeli (1953) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy
An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
The Girl with a Pistol AKA La ragazza con la pistola (1968) Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave
A Sicilian woman, “dishonored” by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him. Read More »
Bells from the Deep AKA Glocken aus der Tiefe – Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (1993) Werner Herzog, Anna Hitch, Vissarion
What is faith and religion to Russians after the fall of communism? Read More »
The Virgin’s Bed AKA Le lit de la vierge (1969) Philippe Garrel, Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (1943) John Ford, Eddie Foster, Martin Garralaga
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines Read More »
To Want to Fly AKA Volere volare (1991) Guido Manuli, Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Mariella Valentini
Martina is a professional lady whose clients are harmless if eccentric; she sees herself as a social worker. Read More »