The film follows a four-year old boy named Prico as he becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Il camorrista / The Professor (1986) Giuseppe Tornatore, Ben Gazzara, Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta, Crime, Drama
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra’s bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of “Il professore” (the professor). Read More »
Identificazione di una donna / Identification of a Woman (1982) Michelangelo Antonioni, Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Drama, Romance
The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him Read More »
Legend of the Lost (1957) Henry Hathaway, John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Adventure, Drama
Paul Bonnard arrives in Timbuktu in search of a guide to escort him into the Sahara desert. Read More »
Le hérisson / The Hedgehog (2009) Mona Achache, Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Drama
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Read More »
Qui? / The Sensuous Assassin (1970) Léonard Keigel, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Gabriele Tinti, Mystery, Thriller
Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Read More »
The Canterbury Tales (1972) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Comedy, Drama, History, Erotic
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s startling candor and ribald humor illuminate these classic tales of romance, deception, murder and lust. Read More »
The Laughing Woman (1969) Piero Schivazappa, Philippe Leroy, Dagmar Lassander, Lorenza Guerrieri, Thriller, Erotic
A rich and sadistic man, who enjoys degrading women as part of elaborate S&M games, abducts a female journalist. She is subjected to his unpleasant games but soon begins subverting him. Read More »
A Ciascuno Il Suo / We Still Kill The Old Way (1967) Elio Petri, Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sicilia, late ’60s. Two men are killed during a hunting party. The hurried inquiry indicates that it was a killing made for ‘honor’ reasons. Read More »
Il boom / The Boom (1963) Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Geri, Comedy
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy’s 1950’s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife’s craving for luxury Read More »
Marcia nuziale / The Wedding March (1965) Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Shirley Anne Field, Alexandra Stewart, Comedy
It consists of four episodes that exemplify paradoxical or grotesque aspects of married life: In “first marriage” marriage intended to marry his dog race. Read More »
Il seme dell’uomo / The Seed of Man (1969) Marco Ferreri, Marzio Margine, Anne Wiazemsky, Annie Girardot, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Read More »
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956) Mauro Bolognini, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Comedy
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the ’50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. Read More »
Ma non è una cosa seria / But It’s Nothing Serious (1937) Mario Camerini, Vittorio De Sica, Elisa Cegani, Umberto Melnati, Comedy, Romance
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. Read More »