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Tag Archives: Italy
Beach House (1977) Sergio Citti, Catherine Deneuve, Jodie Foster, Paolo Stoppa
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Read More »
Garibaldi (1961) Roberto Rossellini, Renzo Ricci, Paolo Stoppa, Franco Interlenghi
How Italy’s historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign Read More »
Passport for a Corpse (1962) Mario Gariazzo, Alberto Lupo, Hélène Chanel, Linda Christian
When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. Read More »
Handle with Care (1967) Guido Zurli, Rod Dana, Luisa Rivelli, Spela Rozin
Secret agent Mark Roberts is described by his very angry boss as a “lascivious pleasure seeking sybarite”. Read More »
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973) Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carrière
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. Read More »
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) Elio Petri, Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice
Lulù is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. Read More »
Totò le mokò (1949) Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Totò, Gianna Maria Canale, Carla Calò
The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. Read More »
Maladonna (1984) Bruno Gaburro, Paola Senatore, Maurice Poli, Claudia Cavalcanti
Since Osvaldo is a wealthy landowner, his beautiful wife Maria is forced to live in the countryside. Read More »
One Hundred Steps (2000) Marco Tullio Giordana, Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo
“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Who Knows? (2001) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler
The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted Read More »
Hawks and Sparrows (1966) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi
This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history Read More »
Difficult Years (1948) Luigi Zampa, Massimo Girotti, Umberto Spadaro, Ave Ninchi
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. Read More »
Fatal Exposure 2 (1988) Mario Gariazzo, Milly D’Abbraccio, Valentine Demy, Gino Concari
Billy – a young photographer, engaged spicy photo calls. Its main clients – women who want to revive the feelings and desires to their husbands. Read More »