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Tag Archives: italian
Rocco and His Brothers / Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) Luchino Visconti, Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. Read More »
The Unfaithfuls / Le infedeli (1953) Mario Monicelli, Steno, Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Pierre Cressoy
An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce Read More »
The Sea Purple / Viola di mare (2009) Donatella Maiorca, Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi
Nothing – not her father, not the church – can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Read More »
Bibione Bye Bye One (1999) Alessandro Rossetto
An Italian summer in black and white. Not very far away from the old border that divided Eastern and Western Europe there is Bibione. Read More »
Sin / Il peccato (2019) Andrey Konchalovskiy
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries Read More »
Top Secret AKA Segretissimo (1967) Fernando Cerchio, Gordon Scott, Magda Konopka, Aurora de Alba
A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides. Read More »
Twenty Thousand Dollars for Every Corpse AKA 20,000 dólares por un cadáver (1971) José María Zabalza, Miguel de la Riva, Dyanik Zurakowska, José Truchado
Dale and Helen Brais are a marriage of farmers who subsist on what little they manage to get from their land. Read More »
Smog (1962) Franco Rossi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori
An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. Read More »
The Girl with a Pistol AKA La ragazza con la pistola (1968) Mario Monicelli, Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave
A Sicilian woman, “dishonored” by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him. Read More »