Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo – Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam – The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris – France (L’homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel). Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Le mani sulla città / Hands Over the City (1963) Francesco Rosi, Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti, Drama
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal. Read More »
Le Tatoué / The Tattooed One (1968) Denys de La Patellière, Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Paul Mercey, Comedy
This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of art. Read More »
Il ladrone / The Good Thief (1980) Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Montesano, Edwige Fenech, Bernadette Lafont, Comedy, Erotic
Caleb, “son of nobody” (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus’ day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. Read More »
Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto / Swept Away (1974) Lina Wertmüller, Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. Read More »
Il Colosso di Rodi / The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) Sergio Leone, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Adventure, Drama, History
A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor Read More »
Palio (1932) Alessandro Blasetti, Leda Gloria, Laura Nucci, Guido Celano, Drama
It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance’ to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe’ chanteuse. Read More »
La Course du lièvre à travers les champs / And Hope to Die (1972) René Clément, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Crime, Drama
The one that runs like the hare of French title is a Tony Cardot, young French pilot, who very unfortunately crashed his plane into a group of Gypsy children not far away from Montreal. Read More »
La femme infidèle / The unfaithful wife (1969) Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Drama, Thriller
Charles Dasvellees (Michel Bouguet), an upper middle class businessman who suspects his wife Helene (Audran) of having an affair and hires a detective to prove himself right. Read More »
Porte aperte / Open Doors (1990) Gianni Amelio, Gian Maria Volonté, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Drama
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. Read More »
Todo modo (1976) Elio Petri, Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Drama
Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes Read More »
Le tonnerre de Dieu / The Thunder of God (1965) Denys de La Patellière, Jean Gabin, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Comedy, Drama
Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can’t resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Read More »
La Meglio Gioventu / The Best of Youth (2003) Marco Tullio Giordana, Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Drama, Romance
Nicola and Matteo Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. Read More »
Marisa, la civetta / Marisa (1957) Mauro Bolognini, Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori, Francisco Rabal, Comedy
Marisa is young, beautiful Marisa, Marisa dress provocatively, Marisa is an orphan and sells ice cream station Read More »
Senilità / Careless (1962) Mauro Bolognini, Anthony Franciosa, Claudia Cardinale, Betsy Blair, Drama
The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Read More »