A middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. Read More »
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Violent Summer (1959) Valerio Zurlini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »
The Mass Is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti, Marco Messeri, Ferruccio De Ceresa
Don Giulio, a young Roman priest, returns home after being pastor in an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is intended for a church in the suburbs. Read More »
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) Pietro Germi, Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde’s fiancé. Read More »
Cavalleria (1936) Goffredo Alessandrini, Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani, Luigi Carini
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Read More »
Eye of the Cat (1975) Alberto Bevilacqua, Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Eli Wallach
In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
Beket (2008) Davide Manuli, Fabrizio Gifuni, Paolo Rossi, Luciano Curreli
Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man’s world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. Read More »
Vinodentro (2013) Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Vincenzo Amato, Pietro Sermonti, Daniela Virgilio
It all started with the first wine sip Giovanni Cuttin had in his life. Read More »
The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont
After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »
Houseboat (1958) Melville Shavelson, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. Read More »