The bourgeois family Olmi observes here is caught in a process of disintegration that hardly requires the promptings of a languid summer’s minor crisis. Read More »
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N.P. il segreto (1971) Silvano Agosti, Francisco Rabal, Irene Papas, Edy Biagetti, Drama, Sci-Fi
A phrophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. Read More »
Death Walks on High Heels (1971) Luciano Ercoli, Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Mystery, Thriller
A famed jewel thief named Rochard is slashed to death on a train. His daughter Nicole, a famous nightclub performer in Paris Read More »
A Free Woman (1954) Vittorio Cottafavi, Françoise Christophe, Pierre Cressoy, Gino Cervi, Drama
Liana, a girl with a good family, is about to marry an engineer, but the meeting with the musician Gerardo makes her change her mind. Read More »
Year of the Gun (1991) John Frankenheimer, Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino, Action, Romance, Thriller
David Raybourne is an American journalist covering political news in Italy during the 1970’s. Read More »
The Spiders Stratagem (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Drama, Mystery
Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. Read More »
Crimebusters (1976) Michele Massimo Tarantini, Antonio Sabato, Ettore Manni, Henry Silva, Action, Crime, Drama
Henry Silva plays an army major who teams up with a tough cop played by Antonio Sabato to solve a string of recent crimes involving army issue machine guns. Read More »
The Protagonists (1968) Marcello Fondato, Sylva Koscina, Jean Sorel, Pamela Tiffin, Drama
Taddeu, a Sardinian outlaw, organizes fake kidnappings for the tourists who go for strong emotions. Read More »
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Drama
Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. Read More »
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama
It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Svegliati e Uccidi / Wake Up and Die (1966) Carlo Lizzani, Robert Hoffmann, Gian Maria Volontè, Claudio Camaso, Crime, Drama
Robert Hoffman is Luciano Lutring, a small time jewelry thief who, despite his hot temper, can’t seem to get caught. Read More »
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) Ermanno Olmi, Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Drama, History
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. Read More »
Roma l’altra faccia della violenza / Rome: The Other Side of Violence (1976) Marino Girolami, Marcel Bozzuffi, Anthony Steffen, Ennio Girolami, Action, Crime
The story concerns a special undercover squad attached to the Rome police force and commanded by Inspector Betti. Read More »
Master Stroke (1967) Michele Lupo, Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee, Crime, Drama
In Madrid, actor Lang is hired by Monsieur Bernard to impersonate a certain Owen for a time. Read More »
Odissea (1968) Franco Rossi, Mario Bava, Piero Schivazappa, Bekim Fehmiu, Leonard Steckel, Constantin Andrieu, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Odysseus’ journey told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. Read More »