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An Average Little Man / Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977) Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti

Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. Read More »
Scarred / Assunta Spina (1948) Mario Mattoli, Anna Magnani, Antonio Centa, Maria Donini

Carnal passion, tender feelings, devotion, murder, blood, broken hearts, vicious gambling Read More »
Battle in Outer Space / Uchû sai sensô (1959) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Minoru Takada

Munchkin-like aliens invade Earth full force with their flying saucers and laser weapons, rendering cities helpless. Read More »
Violent Life / Una vita violenta (1962) Paolo Heusch, Brunello Rondi, Franco Citti, Serena Vergano, Enrico Maria Salerno

Based on a novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini, UNA VITA VIOLENTA chronicles the life and death of Tommaso (Franco Citti) Read More »
Imago mortis (2009) Stefano Bessoni, Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin, Leticia Dolera

In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli Read More »
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 »