The serious and somewhat slow Police Inspector and his bumbling assistant investigate reports of “strange goings-on” in a rural community. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
The Sign of Venus (1955) Dino Risi, Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica
Cesira lives with her cousin Agnese. Agnese is beautiful, while Cesira, dreamy and sentimental, is unattractive. Read More »
Mission to Hell (1964) Gianfranco Parolini, Paul Hubschmid, Marianne Hold, Brad Harris
Some guys try to locate a evil guy’s secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand. Read More »
Every Man Is My Enemy (1967) Franco Prosperi, Robert Webber, Elsa Martinelli, Jean Servais
When a heist goes wrong a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who’s betrayed him… Read More »
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Laurent Terzieff, Horst Frank, Mica Orlovic
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. Read More »
1001 Nights of Pleasure (1972) Antonio Margheriti, Barbara Bouchet, Femi Benussi, Barbara Marzano
The frame story involves a powerful sultan who is unable to, um, rise to the occasion with a new harem girl (Femi Benussi) Read More »
The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1961) Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Marie Laforêt, Paul Guers, Françoise Prévost
This routine film by novice director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco handles the taboo subject of a homosexual relationship between women Read More »
All About Loving (1964) Jean Aurel, Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Michel Piccoli
Hélène, who has just broken up with Raoul, a dentist, lets herself be seduced (though not without great resistance) by the obstinate Serge. Read More »
The New Barbarians (1983) Enzo G. Castellari, Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman
The year is 2019 in a post-apocalyptic future, a group of weary survivors is faced with a relentless onslaught from a gang of roving bandits. Read More »
Women Without Names (1950) Géza von Radványi, Simone Simon, Vivi Gioi, Françoise Rosay
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Read More »
The Red Tent (1969) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Mario Adorf
The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the “Italia” airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. Read More »
Blue Nude (1978) Luigi Scattini, Gerardo Amato, Susan McBain, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Rocco is a young Italian living in New York. He is desperate for a job and willing to do anything, including being in porn movies, just like his friend Lilly. Read More »
The Serpent (1973) Henri Verneuil, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde
Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. Read More »
The Burning Court (1962) Julien Duvivier, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. Read More »
The Deserter (1971) Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi, Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors
Bitter over his wife’s death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. Read More »