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Tag Archives: Italy
Un meurtre est un meurtre / Murder Is a Murder (1972) Etienne Périer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paul Kastner’s wife dies in tragic circumstances. Although Paul is, or seems, blameless, a stranger soon appears in town who maintains he has evidence to show Paul in fact murdered the woman. Read More »
Molokh / Moloch (1999) Aleksandr Sokurov, Elena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Irina Sokolova, Drama
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) Roger Vadim, Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, Drama
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
Lamerica (1994) Gianni Amelio, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Drama
Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. Read More »
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985) Georges Lautner, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi, Comedy
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato’s drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. Read More »
Diario napoletano / Neapolitan Diary (1992) Francesco Rosi, Simona Caramelli, Pietro Bontempo, Documentary, Crime, History
A fascinating return to the same issues done in a semi-docu style. The ‘story’ joins Rosi as he fights his way through impossible city traffic to a school of architecture to host a discussion of the older movie. Read More »
Nella città l’inferno / …and the Wild Wild Women (1959) Renato Castellani, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Drama
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »
Ti aspetterò all’inferno / I’ll See You in Hell (1960) Piero Regnoli, John Drew Barrymore, Eva Bartok, Antonio Pierfederici, Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who may wind up being even more trouble for them than the botched robbery.
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Les magiciens / Death Rite (1976) Claude Chabrol, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Drama, Thriller
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »
La machine à découdre (1986) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Semmler, Comedy, Thriller
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children. Read More »
Quién sabe / A Bullet for the General (1967) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Western
El Chuncho’s bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias’ revolutionaries. Read More »
Éducation sentimentale / Sentimental Education (1962) Alexandre Astruc, Jean-Claude Brialy, Marie-José Nat, Dawn Addams, Drama, Romance, Comedy
Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Read More »
Perceval le Gallois (1978) Éric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Drama, Music, Romance, War
The film chronicles Perceval’s knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table Read More »
Arabella (1967) Mauro Bolognini, Virna Lisi, James Fox, Margaret Rutherford, Comedy
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother. Read More »