The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Candy (1968) Christian Marquand, Ewa Aulin, Richard Burton, Charles Aznavour, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears NcPhito, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Milou en mai / May Fools (1990) Louis Malle, Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Comedy, Romance
Like Vanya, in Malle’s last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. Read More »
Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten / The Valley of Death (1968) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Western, Adventure
Mabel Kingsley arrives at a western town to clear her missing father of the charge that he stole a shipment of government gold. Read More »
On connaît la chanson / Same Old Song (1997) Alain Resnais, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Odile is looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille just completed her doctoral thesis has fallen in love with an estate agent Read More »
Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour / Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963) Alain Resnais, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein, Drama
In the seacoast town of Boulogne, Hélène sells antique furniture, living with her step-son, Bernard, who’s back from military duty in Algiers. Read More »
Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi / Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966) Harald Philipp, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Western, Adventure
On her 21st birthday, settler Mac Haller’s daughter Apanatschi receives her father’s secret gold mine as a gift. Read More »
Il magnifico cornuto / The Magnificent Cuckold (1964) Antonio Pietrangeli, Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Comedy
A soap opera type of story about a successful businessman who has a beautiful, popular wife but still falls into an extramarital affair with a woman who is also married. Read More »
Winnetou – 3. Teil / Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Action, Adventure, Western
After the Civil War, desperadoes led by a renegade named Rollins, following the settlers moving westward, try to drive a wedge in the friendship between the whites and the Indians. Read More »
Winnetou – 2. Teil (1964) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Western, Adventure
When white settlers encroach on Indian lands, the Assiniboins declare war on the settlers. Apache chief Winnetou vows to help keep the peace between whites and natives. Read More »
Winnetou – 1. Teil (1963) Harald Reinl, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Western, Adventure
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Read More »
Old Shatterhand (1964) Hugo Fregonese, Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Western, Adventure
A peace treaty between the United States government and the Apaches is about to be signed in Washington. Read More »
L’armata Brancaleone / For Love and Gold (1966) Mario Monicelli, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Adventure, Comedy, History
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). Read More »
The Insulted and the Injured / Unizhennye i oskorblyonnye (1991) Andrey Eshpay, Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasiya Vyazemskaya, Drama, Romance
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart. Read More »