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Paprika (1991) Tinto Brass, Debora Caprioglio, Stéphane Ferrara, Martine Brochard
In 1950s Italy, just before the ban of brothels, Mimma, a young and innocent country girl Read More »
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean
This movie deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Read More »
Clouzot and C. contro Borsalino and C. (1977) Mario Pinzauti, Roberto Dell’Acqua, Nello Pazzafini, Richard Harrison
The clash between two detectives and a crook. Read More »
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978) Federico Fellini, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi
In a Medieval Roman chapel, now an oratorio, an elderly factotum sets up for rehearsal. Read More »
Samson Against the Pirates (1963) Tanio Boccia, Kirk Morris, Margaret Lee, Daniele Vargas
A terrible pirate terrorizes the Antilles plundering ships, slaughtering their crews and selling women as slaves. Read More »
The Big Bet (1985) Bert I. Gordon, Lance Sloane, Kim Evenson, Sylvia Kristel
A teenage boy that had early sexual encounters is having trouble finding them now, and spends a lot of time fantasizing about the women he knows. Read More »
Black Angel (2002) Tinto Brass, Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official Read More »
Grazie zia (1968) Salvatore Samperi, Lisa Gastoni, Lou Castel, Gabriele Ferzetti
Young Alvise’s body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. Read More »
The Great War (1959) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. Read More »