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Tag Archives: italian
Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993) Nanni Loy, Tommaso Bianco, Enzo Cannavale, Italo Celoro

Life in Naples is tough. So Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly Read More »
Una vita difficile / A Difficult Life (1961) Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. Read More »
The Pleasure / Il piacere (1985) Joe D’Amato, Andrea Guzon, Gabriele Tinti, Marco Mattioli

Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard Villeneuve, all that is left of Leonora Read More »
Ti aspetterò all’inferno / I’ll See You in Hell (1960) Piero Regnoli, John Drew Barrymore, Eva Bartok, Antonio Pierfederici

When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. Read More »
I vitelloni (1953) Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi

Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend Read More »
Gli sbandati / Abandoned / The Disbanded (1955) Francesco Maselli, Lucia Bosé, Isa Miranda, Jean-Pierre Mocky

Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. Read More »
Il segno di Venere / The Sign of Venus (1955) Dino Risi, Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica

Cesira lives with her cousin Agnese. Agnese is beautiful, while Cesira, dreamy and sentimental, is unattractive. Read More »
Complexes / I complessi (1965) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. Read More »
La fumeria d’oppio (1947) Raffaello Matarazzo, Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, Paolo Stoppa

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested Read More »