In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Desiderio (1946) Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini, Massimo Girotti, Carlo Ninchi, Elli Parvo, Drama
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in an attempt to go straight. Read More »
Scandalo / Submission (1976) Salvatore Samperi, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Raymond Pellegrin, Drama, Erotic
1940 France just before the great invasion. Eliane is a pharmacist who is married to her dull husband and has a teenage daughter. Read More »
Quei loro incontri / These Encounters of Theirs (2006) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri, Grazia Orsi, Drama
These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pavese’s abstract, philosophical work.
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Il muro di gomma (1991) Marco Risi, Corso Salani, Angela Finocchiaro, Antonello Fassari, Drama, Thriller
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. Read More »
The Road to Fort Alamo (1964) Mario Bava, Ken Clark, Jany Clair, Michel Lemoine, Western
A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. Read More »
Ringo del Nebraska / Nebraska Jim (1966) Antonio Román, Ken Clark, Yvonne Bastien, Piero Lulli, Action, Western
A laconic drifter, who calls himself Nebraska, is hired as a ranch hand by Marthy Hillman and his wife Kay who are under pressure from a ruthless landowner Read More »
La cena delle beffe / The Jester’s Supper (1942) Alessandro Blasetti, Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti, Clara Calamai, Drama, Romance
In times of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Neri and Giannetto, two young Florentine, maintain a bitter rivalry. Read More »
Tormento (1950) Raffaello Matarazzo, Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Annibale Betrone, Drama
Living with her father and stepmother in Naples, Anna is very unhappy as her stepmother hinders her attempts to live her own life. Read More »
Addio fratello crudele / ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1971) Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias, Fabio Testi, Drama
In an amoral home, where a man lives in sin with a woman, his daughter and his son fall in love, and have incestuous relations even after the young woman marrys. Read More »
Giovanni Falcone (1993) Giuseppe Ferrara, Michele Placido, Anna Bonaiuto, Giancarlo Giannini, Crime, Drama
The story of the first ever “anti-mafia judges pool” established in the ’80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the ’80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. Read More »
Io Ho Paura / I Am Afraid (1977) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who’s already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. Read More »
La prima notte di quiete / Indian Summer (1972) Valerio Zurlini, Alain Delon, Giancarlo Giannini, Sonia Petrovna, Drama
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. Read More »
La morte non conta i dollari / Death at Owell Rock (1967) Riccardo Freda, Mark Damon, Stephen Forsyth, Luciana Gilli, Western
Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father’s murder. Read More »
7 pistole per un massacro / Seven Pistols for a Massacre (1967) Mario Caiano, Craig Hill, Eduardo Fajardo, Piero Lulli, Western
A man is arrested, tried and convicted for a robbery that was actually committed by someone else. After he gets out of prison, he goes in search of the real robbers.
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