Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking “a job for life” from a big city corporation. Read More »
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Paura e amore (1988) Margarethe von Trotta, Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino
An adaptation of a classic “Three Sisters” play by Anton Chekhov. Read More »
The Band of Honest Men AKA La banda degli onesti (1956) Camillo Mastrocinque, Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini
Janitor Antonio Buonocore joins his friend Lo Turco e Cardone, to print some counterfeit bills. Read More »
Eugenia Grandet (1946) Mario Soldati, Alida Valli, Gualtiero Tumiati, Giorgio De Lullo
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Read More »
Agente X 1-7 operazione Oceano (1965) Tanio Boccia, Lang Jeffries, Aurora de Alba, Rafael Bardem
Professor Calvert has invented a revolutionary formula which make it possible to manipulate the oceans. Read More »
Heat (1972) Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman
Joey, an unemployed ex-child actor, uses sex to get his landlady, Lydia, to reduce his rent Read More »
According to Pereira AKA Sostiene Pereira (1995) Roberto Faenza, Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. Read More »
The Anatomy of Love AKA Tempi nostri – Zibaldone n. 2 (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot, Vittorio De Sica, Dany Robin, François Périer
A five-part compilation film. in “The Baby,” a poverty-ridden couple with children decides Read More »
The Pacifist AKA La pacifista – Smetti di piovere (1970) Miklós Jancsó, Monica Vitti, Pierre Clémenti, Peter Pasetti
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved Read More »
Don Giovanni (1970) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Vittorio Bodini
In many respects a stylistic prototype for his masterpiece Salome, the film marks a move aware from real locations towards the baroque artifice of his later works. Read More »