A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Read More »
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Death Falls Lightly AKA La morte scende leggera (1972) Leopoldo Savona, Stelio Candelli, Patrizia Viotti, Veronika Korosec
A drug trafficker discovers his wife dead with her throat cut. He has no alibi so he takes his mistress to an abandoned hotel. Read More »
Dead of Summer AKA Ondata di calore (1970) Nelo Risi, Jean Seberg, Luigi Pistilli, Lilia Nguyen
Joyce is the bored wife of an Italian architect in Morocco. They live there in a luxurious apartment but today she’s all alone, since he’s away on business. Read More »
All the Souls… Except the Dead AKA Tutti defunti… tranne i morti (1977) Pupi Avati, Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Carlo Delle Piane
Dante must sell books on the legends related to the noble families of Emilia-Romagna to the descendants of the families themselves. Read More »
Desert Commandos AKA Attentato ai tre grandi (1967) Umberto Lenzi, Ken Clark, Horst Frank, Jeanne Valérie
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert Read More »
The Girl from Parma AKA La parmigiana (1963) Antonio Pietrangeli, Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair Read More »
Who Works Is Lost AKA Chi lavora è perduto (In capo al mondo) (1963) Tinto Brass, Sady Rebbot, Pascale Audret, Tino Buazzelli
Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. Read More »
Obscene Desire AKA L’osceno desiderio (1978) Giulio Petroni, Marisa Mell, Chris Avram, Lou Castel
Amanda, a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi, a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion. Read More »
Love at Twenty AKA L’amour à vingt ans (1962) Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay
“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives Read More »
The New Monsters AKA I nuovi mostri (1977) Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi
Several episodes depicting Italian’s life in short humoristic stories. Read More »
Rebels of Arizona AKA Los rebeldes de Arizona (1970) José María Zabalza, Carlos Quiney, Claudia Gravy, Miguel de la Riva
Zabalza directs this western with newlyweds Allan and Peggy getting in the way of landgrabbers Read More »
Don’t Torture a Duckling AKA Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) Lucio Fulci, Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
In the backward village of Accendura, the boy Bruno Lo Casio goes missing and the police inspector Read More »
Casanova ’70 (1965) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell
Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, a U.N. official and modern-day Casanova, cannot get aroused unless there’s danger in sex Read More »
The Bishop’s Bedroom AKA La stanza del vescovo (1977) Dino Risi, Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere
Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere) Read More »
Break-Up AKA L’uomo dei cinque palloni (1968) Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Ugo Tognazzi
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting. Read More »