Taddeu, a Sardinian outlaw, organizes fake kidnappings for the tourists who go for strong emotions. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Drama
Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. Read More »
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama
It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Svegliati e Uccidi / Wake Up and Die (1966) Carlo Lizzani, Robert Hoffmann, Gian Maria Volontè, Claudio Camaso, Crime, Drama
Robert Hoffman is Luciano Lutring, a small time jewelry thief who, despite his hot temper, can’t seem to get caught. Read More »
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Drama, History
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. Read More »
Roma l’altra faccia della violenza / Rome: The Other Side of Violence (1976) Marino Girolami, Marcel Bozzuffi, Anthony Steffen, Ennio Girolami, Action, Crime
The story concerns a special undercover squad attached to the Rome police force and commanded by Inspector Betti. Read More »
Master Stroke (1967) Michele Lupo, Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee, Crime, Drama
In Madrid, actor Lang is hired by Monsieur Bernard to impersonate a certain Owen for a time. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »
The Drivers Seat (1974) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Drama
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman travels toward a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange Read More »
Dillinger is dead (1969) Marco Ferreri, Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Gino Lavagetto, Crime, Drama
Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache. Read More »
I giorni contati / His Days Are Numbered (1962) Elio Petri, Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi, Drama
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work. Read More »
Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Drama
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job – for which he needs a bike – hanging up posters. Read More »
5 bambole per la luna d’agosto / 5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970) Mario Bava, William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Mystery, Thriller
George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island Read More »
La cieca di Sorrento / The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934) Nunzio Malasomma, Dria Paola, Corrado Racca, Dino Di Luca, Drama
1834. After murdering a Marquesa, a robber fled with the loot, unaware that has been seen by the victim’s daughter. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »