When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Blame Freud (2014) Paolo Genovese, Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta
Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles Read More »
Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975) Steno, Bud Spencer, Al Lettieri, Enzo Cannavale
Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. Read More »
The Lickerish Quartet (1970) Radley Metzger, Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg
A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. Read More »
Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) Renato Castellani, Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo
Antonio is the sole support of her large family. Carmela wants to marry, but has no money Read More »
In the Highest of Skies (1977) Silvano Agosti, Livio Barbo, Edy Biagetti, Giorgio Bonora
A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Read More »
The Fallen (2004) Ari Taub, Christopher R Swanson, Daniel Asher, Brian Bancale
In the autumn of 1944, in Northern Italy, the German soldiers resist to the advancement of American forces Read More »
A Pistol Shot (1942) Renato Castellani, Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa
Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Read More »
The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) Augusto Genina, Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, María Denis
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco. Read More »
We, the Women (1953) Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Isa Miranda
Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars. Read More »
True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980) Bruno Mattei, Zora Kerova, Mario Cutini, Paola Corazzi
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Read More »
The Magnificent Tramp (1959) Gilles Grangier, Jean Gabin, Darry Cowl, Bernard Blier
Archiméde is an old tramp who likes to think he is a cut above the rest. Read More »
Omicron (1963) Ugo Gregoretti, Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Gaetano Quartararo
In this Italian sci-fi comedy the corpse of a laborer is inhabited and revived by an Omicron – an alien being. Read More »
L’alcova Dei Piaceri Proibiti (1994) Luca Damiano, Julia Chanel, Pussycat, Simona Valli
The whole thing is basically a hardcore remake of D’Amato’s very successful period softcore picture “L’Alcova” Read More »
Who Killed Pasolini? (1995) Marco Tullio Giordana, Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
The story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read More »