Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Sacco and Vanzetti (1971) Giuliano Montaldo, Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack
In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants Niccola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) Read More »
Secrets of A Call Girl (1973) Giuliano Carnimeo, Edwige Fenech, Corrado Pani, Richard Conte
Anna is quiet, living with her parents, cashiering at a café bar in Bergamo. Read More »
The Legions of Cleopatra (1959) Vittorio Cottafavi, Linda Cristal, Ettore Manni, Georges Marchal
Roman Emperor Octavian rules the empire from Rome, and his rival Marc Antony has taken Egyptian queen Cleopatra Read More »
Kill the Wicked (1967) Tanio Boccia, Larry Ward, Rod Dana, Furio Meniconi
Good Samaritan drifter, Benny Hudson and a stranded woman, Jenny finds themselves being torture Read More »
Sartana and His Shadow of Death (1969) Demofilo Fidani, Jeff Cameron, Benito Pacifico, Paolo Figlia
Sartana has a bounty on his head and he’s wanted dead or alive. Read More »
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) Ettore Scola, Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Massimo Troisi
In the Eighteenth Century, the “Traveling Company of Scenic Arts” composed of Tyrant Read More »
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) Ermanno Olmi, Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger Read More »
The Profession of Arms (2001) Ermanno Olmi, Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
The Devil in Love (1966) Ettore Scola, Vittorio Gassman, Claudine Auger, Mickey Rooney
This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Read More »