Anna, a former sexy nightclub dancer who has become a hospital nurse, is on the verge of taking the veil. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo / Flesh Will Surrender (1947) Alberto Lattuada, Aldo Fabrizi, Roldano Lupi, Yvonne Sanson, Drama
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Read More »
The Woman God Forgot (1917) Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Reid, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, History, Romance
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. Read More »
Sciuscià / Shoeshine (1946) Vittorio De Sica, Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Drama
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys, the orphan Pasquale and his younger friend Giuseppe, are riding. Read More »
Certo, Certissimo, Anzi… Probabile / Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969) Marcello Fondato, Claudia Cardinale, Catherine Spaak, Robert Hoffmann, Comedy, Romance
Marta and Nanda are two women tied to a long friendship, but of opposite personalities: one is a romantic dreamer, the other a calculating opportunist. Read More »
Cantando dietro i paraventi / Singing Behind Screens (2003) Ermanno Olmi, Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa, Sally Ming Zeo Ni, Drama, History, Music, War
A young Western student, of unusual candor, due to a misunderstanding of address, is led to a theater-brothel for customers inclined to strong and transgressive emotions. Read More »
Le fate ignoranti / The Ignorant Fairies (2001) Ferzan Ozpetek, Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Drama, Romance
AIDS doctor Antonia’s husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Read More »
I recuperanti / The Scavengers (1970) Ermanno Olmi, Antonio Lunardi, Andreino Carli, Oreste Costa, Drama
After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job Read More »
La cuccagna (1962) Luciano Salce, Donatella Turri, Luigi Tenco, Umberto D’Orsi, Comedy, Drama
Rossella (Donatella Turri), a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the “greasy pole” Read More »
Amarcord / I Remember (1973) Federico Fellini, Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Comedy, Drama
One year in a small northern Italian coastal town in the late 1930s is presented. Read More »