Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her. Read More »
History
Private Vices, Public Pleasures / Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù (1976) Miklós Jancsó, Lajos Balázsovits, Pamela Villoresi, Franco Branciaroli
Golden boy, who cavorts on his rural estate with a host of beautiful, aristocratic lovers and friends of both sexes. Read More »
Joan of Arc: God’s Warrior (2015) Lucy Swingler, Helen Castor, Georgia Moffett, Michael Feast
Writer and historian Dr Helen Castor explores the life – and death – of Joan of Arc. Read More »
The Desert of the Tartars / Il Deserto dei Tartari (1976) Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma
As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders Read More »
Hercules Against Rome / Ercole contro Roma (1964) Piero Pierotti, Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon
Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days Read More »
The Twilight Samurai / Tasogare Seibei (2002) Yôji Yamada, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. Read More »
Operación masacre (1973) Jorge Cedron, Marta Albanese, Norma Aleandro, Enrique Alonso
In 1956 a military civic coup against self-appointed Liberating Revolution fails, and in Jose Leon Suarez, Argentina Read More »
The Condemned of Altona / I sequestrati di Altona (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father Read More »
Metello (1970) Mauro Bolognini, Massimo Ranieri, Ottavia Piccolo, Frank Wolff
Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents Read More »
Terror of the Red Mask / Il terrore della maschera rossa (1960) Luigi Capuano, Lex Barker, Chelo Alonso, Livio Lorenzon
Marco, a traveling soldier in Renaissance Italy, enters the employ of an ambitious lord Read More »