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Tag Archives: italian
I giorni contati / His Days Are Numbered (1962) Elio Petri, Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Regina Bianchi, Drama

A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work. Read More »
Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Drama

Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, gets at last a good job – for which he needs a bike – hanging up posters. Read More »
5 bambole per la luna d’agosto / 5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970) Mario Bava, William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Mystery, Thriller

George Stark is a wealthy industrialist who invites five business friends of his to his remote Mediterranean island Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Il mondo dei miracoli (1959) Luigi Capuano, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas, Marisa Merlini, Comedy

Marco, giovane attore di una compagnia teatrale itinerante per le province romane, nonostante sia innamorato della figlia del capocomico Read More »
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror

Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
The Hostess Also Likes to Blow the Horn (1970) Franz Antel, Teri Tordai, Harald Leipnitz, Glenn Saxson, Comedy

Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Read More »
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 »
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 »