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La strada (1954) Federico Fellini, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Read More »
L’assassino AKA The Assassin (1961) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
The antiquarian Alfredo Martelli is brought to a police precinct without any explanation and interviewed by Inspector Palumbo. Read More »
L’uomo in più AKA One Man Up (2001) Paolo Sorrentino, Toni Servillo, Andrea Renzi, Antonino Bruschetta
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Read More »
Corpi nudi (1983) Amasi Damiani, Gianni Dei, Rosy Navarro, Guia Lauri Filzi
Gianni Dei gets over an injury and is in a wheelchair. He spends his time watching porn and having fantasies. Read More »
The Fiances (1963) Ermanno Olmi, Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he’ll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. Read More »
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) Carlo Lizzani, Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi
In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Read More »
Neapolitan Carousel (1954) Ettore Giannini, Léonide Massine, Achille Millo, Agostino Salvietti
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples Read More »
Deguello (1966) Giuseppe Vari, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Dan Vadis, Dana Ghia
Danger City is attacked by Ramon’s bandits searching for rumored treasure. Read More »
Attack of the Normans (1962) Giuseppe Vari, Cameron Mitchell, Geneviève Grad, Ettore Manni
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms. Read More »
Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992) Mario Monicelli, Tommaso Bianco, Renato Cecchetto, Marina Confalone
Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family’s home for the Christmas holidays. Read More »
Adrénaline (1990) Anita Assal, Barthélémy Bompard, Clémentine Célarié, Franck Baruk, Alain Aithnard
“Adrénaline” proposes a string of short surrealist films presenting at various levels Read More »
Mediterraneo (1991) Gabriele Salvatores, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers on a little island Read More »
Man from Deep River (1972) Umberto Lenzi, Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Prasitsak Singhara
A photographer on assignment in the rain forest is ambushed and held slave by a primitive tribe Read More »
Blow to the Heart (1983) Gianni Amelio, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Sonia Gessner
Emilio, the son of Darius, a left-wing professor, is an introverted teenager who feels jealous of the relationship between his father and alumni. Read More »