An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. Read More »
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The Story of Tosca AKA Tosca (1941) Carl Koch, Jean Renoir, Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi
Non-musical account of Puccini’s opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love Read More »
The Fifth Cord AKA Giornata nera per l’ariete (1971) Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss
After a high-class party in Rome, there’s an assault. The victim is injured but lives. Read More »
Satan’s Baby Doll AKA La bimba di Satana (1982) Mario Bianchi, Jaqueline Dupré, Marina Hedman, Aldo Sambrell
In the crypt of the remote castle of the Aguilars lies the recently-deceased body of Maria. Read More »
Death Walks at Midnight AKA La morte accarezza a mezzanotte (1972) Luciano Ercoli, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Pietro Martellanza
Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. Read More »
Baby Love (1979) Rino Di Silvestro, Paola Maiolini, Violette Lafont, Oliver Kris
Baby Love is a stepdaughter of an queen of the castle of Balsorano. Read More »
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death AKA Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino (1969) Giuliano Carnimeo, Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni
Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name. Read More »
The Dove Must Not Fly AKA La colomba non deve volare (1970) Sergio Garrone, Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, William Berger
An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location Read More »
Quel fantasma di mio marito (1950) Camillo Mastrocinque, Walter Chiari, Mady Saint-Michel, Medy Saint-Michel
The 26 year old Gianni Alberti is a journalist so lazy that he gets laid off, but Vivia, enterprising wife, makes him rehire by the Editor who Read More »
Voices Through Time AKA Voci nel Tempo (1996) Franco Piavoli, Patrizio Girardi, Emanuela Cobelli, Laura Carnevali
An ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity Read More »
Anthropophagus (1980) Joe D’Amato, Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. Read More »
Fair Game AKA Mamba (1988) Mario Orfini, Trudie Styler, Gregg Henry, Bill Moseley
Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
The Betrayer AKA Vanina Vanini (1961) Roberto Rossellini, Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot Read More »
The Dolls AKA Le bambole (1965) Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. Read More »