A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »
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L’Ultimo Capodanno / Humanity’s Last New Year’s Eve (1998) Marco Risi, Max Mazzotta, Monica Bellucci, Beppe Fiorello, Comedy, Drama
New year’s eve at “The Islands” condos. An aging countess’s party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo’s town. Read More »
Fuga dal paradiso / Escape from Paradise (1990) Ettore Pasculli, Fabrice Josso, Inés Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe Read More »
Il pirata sono io! / The Pirate’s Dream (1940) Mario Mattoli, Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Enzo Biliotti, Comedy
The governor of Santa Genoveffa eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Viceroy and his wife and decides to stage a pirate attack…. and from then on a bad idea gets worse. Read More »
La gondola del diavolo / The Devil’s Gondola (1946) Carlo Campogalliani, Loredana, Carlo Lombardi, Erminio Spalla, Adventure
In Ducal Venice, a series of heinous crimes are mysteriously committed concomitantly to the arrival of a gondola, by the popular fantasy called “the devil’s gondola”. Read More »
Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario, Comedy
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. Read More »
Divisione Folgore / Folgore Division (1954) Duilio Coletti, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Monica Clay, War
During the Second World War, after a long training, a group of young paratroopers of the Folgore is parachuted into the desert of Libya. Read More »
Caterina di Russia / Catherine of Russia (1963) Umberto Lenzi, Hildegard Knef, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Drama, History
Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter’s sworn enemy Read More »
Altri tempi / Times Gone By (1952) Alessandro Blasetti, Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Riva, Enzo Staiola, Comedy, Drama, Music
The mood is set with the opening with excerpts from the Excelsior Ball, a famous ballet at the turn of the century that heralded the advances of the upcoming century Read More »
Riso amaro / Bitter Rice (1949) Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Drama
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. Read More »