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Tag Archives: Italy
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 »
That Malicious Age (1975) Silvio Amadio, Nino Castelnuovo, Gloria Guida, Anita Sanders, Drama, Romance, Erotic
Gardener Nino Castellano takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Gloria Guida and Anita Sanders which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem! Read More »
The Lion Has Seven Heads / Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças (1970) Glauber Rocha, Rada Rassimov, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Drama
A Latin-American insurgent and a black leader join forces to free an African nation. Read More »
Il manoscritto del principe / The Prince’s Manuscript (2000) Roberto Andò, Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Paolo Briguglia, Biography, Drama
Roberto Andò directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa — who gained posthumous fame with his novel The Leopard Read More »
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion / Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) Elio Petri, Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Crime, Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
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La lunga notte del ’43 / The Long Night of 1943 (1960) Florestano Vancini, Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Drama, Romance, War
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army Read More »
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) Jesus Franco, Jean Rollin, Christina von Blanc, Britt Nichols, Rosa Palomar, Horror, Erotic
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father’s will. Read More »
Romanzo di una strage / Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012) Marco Tullio Giordana, Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon, Drama
A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath. Read More »
Scipione l’africano / The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) Carmine Gallone, Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Drama, History, War
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio’s futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama. Read More »
Cadaveri eccellenti / Illustrious Corpses (1976) Francesco Rosi, Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. Read More »
Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Read More »
I nostri mariti (1966) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Comedy, Romance
Movies in three episodes due to three different hands. In the first, D’Amico, a young man is attracted by a rather masculine woman. Read More »
État de siège / State of Siege (1972) Costa-Gavras, Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Drama, Thriller
In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Read More »
Col cuore in gola / I Am What I Am (1967) Tinto Brass, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident Read More »