A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Darker Than Midnight (2014) Sebastiano Riso, Davide Capone, Vincenzo Amato, Lucia Sardo
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Read More »
The Corrupt (1963) Jacques Deray, Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin, José Giovanni
Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes. Read More »
Fortini/Cani (1976) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Read More »
The Prince of Homburg (1997) Marco Bellocchio, Andrea Di Stefano, Barbora Bobulova, Toni Bertorelli
The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. Read More »
Fraulein Doktor (1969) Alberto Lattuada, Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Nigel Green
In WW1,German intelligence sends a team of saboteurs and a female spy to Scotland to kill Lord Kitchener. Read More »
Rossini! Rossini! (1991) Mario Monicelli, Philippe Noiret, Jacqueline Bisset, Sergio Castellitto
Rossini! Rossini! is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Read More »
Galileo (1968) Liliana Cavani, Cyril Cusack, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Nikolay Doychev
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. Read More »
Three Nights of Love (1964) Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini, Catherine Spaak, John Phillip Law, Renato Salvatori
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi Read More »
Scalawag (1973) Kirk Douglas, Zoran Calic, Mark Lester, Neville Brand
A crew of land locked pirates, led by the aptly named Peg Read More »
Shun Li and the Poet (2011) Andrea Segre, Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia Read More »
Scream of the Demon Lover (1970) José Luis Merino, Erna Schurer, Carlos Quiney, Agostina Belli
A beautiful young woman travels to a remote estate to seek employment as a biochemist for Baron Janos Dalmar. Read More »
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Ed Fury, Moira Orfei, Alberto Lupo
The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom, and during the battle Read More »
Ursus (1961) Carlo Campogalliani, Ed Fury, Cristina Gaioni, Moira Orfei
Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious Read More »
Peek-a-boo (1954) Jean Loubignac, Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Raymond Bussières
A small-town policeman is informed that “naked women” are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Read More »