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The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Ermanno Olmi, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger Read More »
The Profession of Arms (2001) Ermanno Olmi, Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
The Devil in Love (1966) Ettore Scola, Vittorio Gassman, Claudine Auger, Mickey Rooney
This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Read More »
Peccatori di provincia (1977) Tiziano Longo, Renzo Montagnani, Macha Méril, Femi Benussi
A rich man dies and sets the heirs to squabbling, especially when a previously unknown member of the family shows up who might trump all their claims. Read More »
House on the Edge of the Park (1980) Ruggero Deodato, David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo
Alex, a psychopathic mechanic, rapes a woman in the park. Later, a decadent couple pull into his shop needing car repair. Read More »
A Whisper in the Dark (1976) Marcello Aliprandi, John Phillip Law, Nathalie Delon, Olga Bisera
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. Read More »
Responsibility Comes Back (1945) Alessandro Blasetti, Elisa Cegani, Valentina Cortese, María Denis
In 1939, after finishing his studies in a Roman convent boarding Read More »
Revenge of the Gladiators (1964) Michele Lupo, Roger Browne, Scilla Gabel, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. Read More »
Charity and the Strange Smell of Money (1973) Italo Alfaro, Robert Malcolm, Piero Vida, Rosalba Neri
Charity (Malcolm) is in charge of delivering the railroad payroll, but some locals and a Mexican gang have their own plans for the money. Read More »
Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan (1961) Riccardo Freda, Gordon Scott, Yôko Tani, Hélène Chanel
Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors. Read More »
Three Murderesses (1959) Michel Boisrond, Alain Delon, Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit
Julien turns up at one of his former girlfriends’ wedding; she is marrying an “old man”. Read More »
The Mattei Affair (1972) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis Read More »
Paprika (1991) Tinto Brass, Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard
In 1950s Italy, just before the ban of brothels, Mimma, a young and innocent country girl Read More »
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean, William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
This movie deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Read More »