Three different stories of Italian social mores are presented. In “Adelina”, unemployed Carmine Sbaratti Read More »
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man / Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore (1976) Ruggero Deodato, Marc Porel, Ray Lovelock, Adolfo Celi
Fred and Tony are members of an elite ‘special squad’ of police in Rome Read More »
Aida (1953) Clemente Fracassi, Sophia Loren, Renata Tebaldi, Lois Maxwell
Aida, featuring the actress Sophia Lauren, was a film adaptation of a theatre performance written by Verdi. Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
We the Living / Noi vivi (1942) Goffredo Alessandrini, Fosco Giachetti, Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi
The time is the Russian Revolution. The place is a country burdened with fear Read More »
Sandra / Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… (1965) Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. Read More »
The Mountain Woman / La donna della montagna (1944) Renato Castellani, Marina Berti, Amedeo Nazzari, Maurizio D’Ancora
A widowed engineer finds solace in the love of a young woman, with whom he marries. Read More »
Are We Men or Corporals? / Siamo uomini o caporali (1955) Camillo Mastrocinque, Totò, Paolo Stoppa, Fiorella Mari
Corporals are the powers that be, the Man, the Totalitarian creeps, the Bureaucratic bosses and bullies Read More »
Hate Thy Neighbor / Odia il prossimo tuo (1968) Ferdinando Baldi, Spiros Focás, George Eastman, Nicoletta Machiavelli
Ken wants justice for his brother Bill, who was killed by a notorious gunman named Stevens for a goldmine map. Read More »
The Woman in the Painting (1955) Amici per la pelle
Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends Read More »