After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) Read More »
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The Decameron / Il Decameron (1971) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples Read More »
El Alamein – The Line of Fire / El Alamein – La linea del fuoco (2002) Enzo Monteleone, Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. Read More »
Run, Psycho, Run / Più tardi Claire, più tardi… (1968) Brunello Rondi, Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered Read More »
Hercules and the Captive Women / Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961) Vittorio Cottafavi, Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) Read More »
Shock / Schock (1977) Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr.
Dora Baldini, her husband Bruno Baldini and her son Marco move to a huge house that belongs to her. Read More »
The Organiser / I compagni (1963) Mario Monicelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century Read More »
Night of Violence / Le notti della violenza (1965) Roberto Mauri, Alberto Lupo, Marilù Tolo, Lisa Gastoni
A masked man is hunting down and murdering women throughout the city. Read More »
The White Slave Trade / La tratta delle bianche (1952) Luigi Comencini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Marc Lawrence, Ettore Manni
Cunning and exploitative, Manfredi, the ruthless human trafficker, has always been good at lying. Read More »
The Camp Followers / Le soldatesse (1965) Valerio Zurlini, Anna Karina, Lea Massari, Marie Laforêt
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes Read More »