Adelina, a former “Miss Smiles” beauty queen, is a resident at a senior citizen retirement home. Read More »
Tag Archives: italian
Head Down, Feet Up / Testa in giù, gambe in aria (1972) Ugo Novello, Corrado Pani, Marina Malfatti, Maria Pia Conte
A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea Read More »
Il sorpasso (1962) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Bruno Cortona and Roberto Mariani meet by chance as Roberto helps Bruno one day while everything Read More »
Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes / La morte negli occhi del gatto (1973) Antonio Margheriti, Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Françoise Christophe
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Read More »
Romance / Incontro (1971) Piero Schivazappa, Massimo Ranieri, Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Giorgi
Love story between a young man and a married woman. Read More »
Devil in the Flesh / Diavolo in corpo (1986) Marco Bellocchio, Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi
An Italian high school student named Andrea becomes infatuated with Giulia Read More »
The Wastrel (1961) Il relitto – Michael Cacoyannis
Duncan Bell (Van Heflin) is a wealthy man who sets out to sail around the globe with his son. Read More »
Taboos of the World (1963) I tabù
An early shockumentary, a mondo style production that spins all over the world. Read More »
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) Vittorio De Sica, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Mussolini’s Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Read More »
Many Wars Ago / Uomini contro (1970) Francesco Rosi, Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland Read More »