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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 »
The Temptress / Le due verità (1951) Antonio Leonviola, Anna Maria Ferrero, Michel Auclair, Michel Simon

The young Lut Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. Read More »
The Seventh Sword (1962) Riccardo Freda, Brett Halsey, Béatrice Altariba, Giulio Bosetti

A dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him. Read More »
Noi cannibali (1953) Antonio Leonviola, Folco Lulli, Silvana Pampanini, Vincenzo Musolino

A chorus line girl, Virginia and a small time smuggler, Aldo try to be together and change their lives. Read More »
La cintura di castità / On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who… (1967) Pasquale Festa Campanile, Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti, Ivo Garrani

The knight Guerrando is forced to leave for the Crusades before he’s had time to consummate Read More »
Le salamandre (1969) Alberto Cavallone, Erna Schurer, Beryl Cunningham, Antonio Casale

Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population Read More »