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Tag Archives: italian
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) Renato Castellani, Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo
Antonio is the sole support of her large family. Carmela wants to marry, but has no money Read More »
In the Highest of Skies (1977) Silvano Agosti, Livio Barbo, Edy Biagetti, Giorgio Bonora
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Read More »
A Pistol Shot (1942) Renato Castellani, Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Read More »
The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) Augusto Genina, Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, María Denis
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. Read More »
We, the Women (1953) Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Isa Miranda
Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars. Read More »
True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980) Bruno Mattei, Zora Kerova, Mario Cutini, Paola Corazzi
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Read More »
Omicron (1963) Ugo Gregoretti, Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Gaetano Quartararo
In this Italian sci-fi comedy the corpse of a laborer is inhabited and revived by an Omicron – an alien being. Read More »
L’alcova Dei Piaceri Proibiti (1994) Luca Damiano, Julia Chanel, Pussycat, Simona Valli
The whole thing is basically a hardcore remake of D’Amato’s very successful period softcore picture “L’Alcova” Read More »
Who Killed Pasolini? (1995) Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
The story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read More »
Liza (1972) Marco Ferreri, Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Corinne Marchand
Withdrawn to a remote and desolate Mediterranean island, Giorgio, a comics’ illustrator Read More »
The Demon (1963) Brunello Rondi, Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff, Anna María Aveta
Purif, young peasant of the South Italy, is considered from the people a possessed one and a witch. Read More »
The Murri Affair (1974) Mauro Bolognini, Catherine Deneuve, Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister’s reactionary Read More »
In un posto bellissimo (2015) Giorgia Cecere, Isabella Ragonese, Alessio Boni, Faysal Abbaoui
A beauteous depiction of a woman’s life and gradual liberation. Read More »
The Devil (1963) Gian Luigi Polidoro, Alberto Sordi, Gunilla Elm-Tornkvist, Anne-Charlotte Sjöberg
Sordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden Read More »