The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. Read More »
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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 »
Emanuelle in America (1977) [Uncut] Joe D’Amato, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Roger Browne, Drama, Mystery, Sexploitation, Erotic
An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. Read More »
Perinbaba / The Feather Fairy (1985) Juraj Jakubisko, Giulietta Masina, Petra Vancíková, Tobias Hoesl, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. Read More »
The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance (1975) Alfredo Rizzo, Femi Benussi, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Krista Nell, Horror, Mystery, Erotic
Set in Ireland 1902. Count Marnak welcomes a modest theatre company to his isolated castle. Read More »
Carica Eroica / Heroic Charge (1952) Francesco De Robertis, Antonio Caprice, Giuseppe Carignani, Ludovico Ceriana, Drama, War
In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. Read More »
Man on a Tightrope (1953) Elia Kazan, Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom. Read More »