A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
I giorni contati / His Days Are Numbered (1962) Elio Petri, Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi, Drama
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work. Read More »
Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Drama
Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job – for which he needs a bike – hanging up posters. Read More »
5 bambole per la luna d’agosto / 5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970) Mario Bava, William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Mystery, Thriller
George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island Read More »
La cieca di Sorrento / The Blind Woman of Sorrento (1934) Nunzio Malasomma, Dria Paola, Corrado Racca, Dino Di Luca, Drama
1834. After murdering a Marquesa, a robber fled with the loot, unaware that has been seen by the victim’s daughter. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou / The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr, Drama, Romance
Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Read More »
Frau Wirtins tolle Töchterlein / The Countess Died of Laughter (1973) Franz Antel, Teri Tordai, Gabriele Tinti, Femi Benussi, Comedy
A man goes to a convent with exciting news, one of the nuns is an heir to a fortune! The man causes the nuns to become obsessed with him as he tries to find the right heir. Read More »
Le capitaine Fracasse / Captain Fracasse (1943) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris, Jean Weber, Drama
A destitute baron joins a troupe of travelling actors. Read More »
Il mondo dei miracoli (1959) Luigi Capuano, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas, Marisa Merlini, Comedy
Marco, giovane attore di una compagnia teatrale itinerante per le province romane, nonostante sia innamorato della figlia del capocomico Read More »
Une aussi longue absence / The Long Absence (1961) Henri Colpi, Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Charles Blavette, Drama
Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. Read More »
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror
Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
Le fate / The Queens (1966) Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Comedy
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. “Queen Sabina”chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. Read More »
La femme de Gilles / Gilles’ Wife (2004) Frédéric Fonteyne, Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Drama
Gilles’ wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him Read More »
Clair de femme / Womanlight (1979) Costa-Gavras, Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Drama
Reciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel’s wife is incurably ill. Read More »