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Tag Archives: Italy
The Relentless Four (1965) Primo Zeglio, Adam West, Claudio Undari, Howard Ross
Four outlaws are on the run from a Texas Ranger (Adam West). Unable to stop his pursuit, they frame him for a crime he never committed. Read More »
A Fine Pair (1969) Francesco Maselli, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian
Married NYPD Captain Mike Harmon receives a visit from Esmeralda Marini, who he has not seen in twelve years since she was a child. Read More »
Bellissima (1951) Luchino Visconti, Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. Read More »
The Man Who Lies (1968) Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Zuzana Kocúriková
This enigmatic, plodding story concerns a man who may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter in his hometown during World War II. Read More »
I Knew Her Well (1965) Antonio Pietrangeli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business. Read More »
Oasis of Fear (1971) Umberto Lenzi, Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock, Ornella Muti
Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman. Read More »
Minnesota Clay (1964) Sergio Corbucci, Cameron Mitchell, Georges Rivière, Ethel Rojo
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. Read More »
Marta (1971) José Antonio Nieves Conde, Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears Read More »
The Senator Likes Women (1972) Lucio Fulci, Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women’s bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment Read More »
The First Man (2011) Gianni Amelio, Michel Crémadès, Jacques Gamblin, Mickaël Batret
Franco-Italian production filmed in French and Italian directed by Amelio, based on the latest novel by Albert Camus, “The first man” unfinished work published in 1994. Read More »
Machine Gun McCain (1969) Giuliano Montaldo, John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk
Tough criminal Hank McCain gets released from prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Read More »
Voyage in Time (1983) Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovsky
Like the Russian poet of ‘Nostalghia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator Read More »
Delusions of Grandeur (1971) Gérard Oury, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Read More »
Anyone Can Win (1963) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »