Several star-crossed couples experience both the thrills and the disappointment of romance over the course Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Un giorno nella vita (1946) Alessandro Blasetti, Elisa Cegani, Massimo Girotti, Mariella Lotti
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. Read More »
Let It All Hang Out AKA L’uomo dal pennello d’oro (1969) Franz Marischka, Willi Colombini, Marcella Michelangeli, Edwige Fenech
Edwige Fenech plays the girlfriend of beatnik-hippy artist Archie (Willi Colombini). Read More »
The Crazy Kids of the War AKA La feldmarescialla (1967) Steno, Rita Pavone, Francis Blanche, Terence Hill
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis. Read More »
Samson and the Mighty Challenge AKA Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (1964) Giorgio Capitani, Sergio Ciani, Howard Ross, Nadir Moretti
Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people. Read More »
The Family AKA La famiglia (1987) Ettore Scola, Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli
It is the portrait of a bourgeois Italian family seen through the eyes of Carlo Read More »
The Emperor of Capri AKA L’imperatore di Capri (1949) Luigi Comencini, Totò, Gianni Appelius, Galeazzo Benti
Sonia, a beautiful gold digger, mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel Read More »
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair AKA I banchieri di Dio – Il caso Calvi (2002) Giuseppe Ferrara, Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Giancarlo Giannini
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank Read More »
Heartbeat AKA Batticuore (1939) Mario Camerini, Assia Noris, John Lodge, Rubi Dalma
The sole girl pupil of a school for pickpockets is caught in the act stealing Read More »
Assassination (1967) Emilio Miraglia, Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Ida Galli
In order to assign him to a dangerous mission, a CIA agent is subjected to an intervention Read More »
It’s Forever Springtime AKA È primavera… (1950) Renato Castellani, Mario Angelotti, Elena Varzi, Donato Donati
Beppe Agosti, a Florentine and an orphan boy, is very fond of girls, especially maids. Read More »
An Eel Worth 300 Million AKA Un’anguilla da 300 milioni (1971) Salvatore Samperi, Ottavia Piccolo, Lino Toffolo, Mario Adorf
An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents Read More »
Night of Love AKA Tradita (1954) Mario Bonnard, Brigitte Bardot, Lucia Bosè, Pierre Cressoy
In 1915 Italy, in the Alberti family’s castle live the count’s widow and her slightly-crippled elder son Enrico Read More »
It’s a Free World… (2007) Ken Loach, Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Read More »
Silver Spoon Set AKA I delfini (1960) Francesco Maselli, Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero
The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof Read More »