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Tag Archives: italian
China Is Near (1967) Marco Bellocchio, Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi
A pair of working class lovers – a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Read More »
Nine Guests for a Crime (1977) Ferdinando Baldi, Sofia Dionisio, Massimo Foschi, Dana Ghia
Nine members of the same family go to an island, where nobody lives – but the head of the family owns a nice house there. Read More »
Rust (2011) Daniele Gaglianone, Filippo Timi, Stefano Accorsi, Valerio Mastandrea
In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. Read More »
A Woman Has Killed (1952) Vittorio Cottafavi, Frank Latimore, Lianella Carell, Alessandro Serbaroli
In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film Read More »
Tickets (2005) Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was Read More »
Blaise Pascal (1972) Roberto Rossellini, Pierre Arditi, Rita Forzano, Giuseppe Addobbati
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal Read More »
Domenica è sempre domenica (1958) Camillo Mastrocinque, Mario Riva, Lorella De Luca, Alberto Sordi
Una trasmissione televisiva lancia un proclama per dilettanti: “Se sapete parlare, saprete anche cantare”. Read More »
City of Pain (1949) Mario Bonnard, Luigi Tosi, Barbara Costanova, Gianni Rizzo
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito’s Jugoslavia. Read More »
Maddalena (1971) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lisa Gastoni, Eric Woofe, Ivo Garrani
A woman is desperate to find real love in a steady and secure relationship. Read More »