Set in Rome in 1943, this standard wartime drama has its moments. Read More »
Tag Archives: Carlo Lizzani
The Dirty Game AKA La guerra segreta (1965) Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young, Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Vittorio Gassman
This anthology of spy stories has the US intelligence chief in Europe, General Bruce Read More »
Luchino Visconti (1999) Carlo Lizzani, Björn Andrésen, Laura Antonelli, Tina Apicella
A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement Read More »
The Hills Run Red AKA Un fiume di dollari (1966) Carlo Lizzani, Thomas Hunter, Henry Silva, Dan Duryea
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. Read More »
Crazy Joe (1974) Carlo Lizzani, Peter Boyle, Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster “Crazy” Joey Gallo. Read More »
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) Carlo Lizzani, Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi
In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Read More »
The Violent Four (1968) Carlo Lizzani, Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian, Margaret Lee
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers. Read More »
The Teenage Prostitution Racket (1975) Carlo Lizzani, Mino Giarda, Cinzia Mambretti, Cristina Moranzoni, Annarita Grapputo
Young girls(13-20’s) are drawn into the web of prostitution where they are bought and sold like slaves. Read More »
Svegliati e Uccidi / Wake Up and Die (1966) Carlo Lizzani, Robert Hoffmann, Gian Maria Volontè, Claudio Camaso, Crime, Drama
Robert Hoffman is Luciano Lutring, a small time jewelry thief who, despite his hot temper, can’t seem to get caught. Read More »
Ai margini della metropoli (1953) Carlo Lizzani, Massimo Mida, Massimo Girotti, Marina Berti, Giulietta Masina, Crime, Drama
Mario Ilari, a young unemployed worker, is wrongly accused of killing a girl, friend of his. Read More »
Achtung! Banditi! / Attention! Bandits! (1951) Carlo Lizzani, Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Vittorio Duse, Drama, War
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there’s a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.
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Requiescant (1967) Carlo Lizzani, Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Western
In the post-Civil War West, a young boy is rescued from a massacre by Protestants who instill the value of pacifism in the young boy. But it’s only when he chases after his missing step-sister that he discovers a skill for gunslinging, takes on the name Requiscant, and re-enters the world of violence denied to him as a child. This spaghetti Western also includes a cameo from director Pier Paolo Pasolini as a renegade priest.
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Lo svitato (1956) Carlo Lizzani, Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Giorgia Moll
Achille is the errand boy in a newspaper of Milan, who wants to become a famous journalist.
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