Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child… by his second mistress, Marisa. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (2001) Pedro Costa, Thierry Lounas, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Documentary
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet Read More »
Blue Jeans (1975) Mario Imperoli, Gloria Guida, Paolo Carlini, Annie Carol Edel, Drama, Erotic
Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. Read More »
Gli sfiorati / Drifters (2011) Matteo Rovere, Andrea Bosca, Miriam Giovanelli, Claudio Santamaria, Comedy, Drama
Handsome, good-natured Mete is dealing with the complications of his father’s impending remarriage and the not entirely unwelcome attentions of his half-sister Belinda, pulled out of her Madrid boarding school for bad behaviour. Read More »
Summit (1968) Giorgio Bontempi, Gian Maria Volontè, Mireille Darc, Olga Georges-Picot, Drama
In the late 60s of the twentieth century, a wave of revolutionary sentiments spread across Europe. Read More »
I ladri / The Thieves (1959) Lucio Fulci, Totò, Giovanna Ralli, Armando Calvo, Comedy
An Italo-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds, hidden in jam jars. Read More »
Lettere di una novizia / La novice (1960) Alberto Lattuada, Pascale Petit, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Massimo Girotti, Drama
A young novice is about to take her vows upon entering a convent when her recent past comes back to haunt her. Read More »
Il rossetto / Lipstick (1960) Damiano Damiani, Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Crime, Drama
A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »
L’Ultimo Capodanno / Humanity’s Last New Year’s Eve (1998) Marco Risi, Max Mazzotta, Monica Bellucci, Beppe Fiorello, Comedy, Drama
New year’s eve at “The Islands” condos. An aging countess’s party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo’s town. Read More »
Fuga dal paradiso / Escape from Paradise (1990) Ettore Pasculli, Fabrice Josso, Inés Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe Read More »
Il pirata sono io! / The Pirate’s Dream (1940) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Enzo Biliotti, Comedy
The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack…. and from then on a bad idea gets worse. Read More »
La gondola del diavolo / The Devil’s Gondola (1946) Carlo Campogalliani, Loredana, Carlo Lombardi, Erminio Spalla, Adventure
In Ducal Venice, a series of heinous crimes are mysteriously committed concomitantly to the arrival of a gondola, by the popular fantasy called “the devil’s gondola”. Read More »
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Comedy
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. Read More »
Malinconico Autunno (1958) Raffaello Matarazzo, Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Mercedes Monterrey, Drama, Romance
Lucas is an orphan who lives with his mother Mary, a worker in a factory in Barcelona. One day she meets at school Captain Andres, since he knows the story of boy tries to protect him. Read More »
Divisione Folgore / Folgore Division (1954) Duilio Coletti, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Monica Clay, War
During the Second World War, after a long training, a group of young paratroopers of the Folgore is parachuted into the desert of Libya. Read More »