After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons / Decameron n° 3 – Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) Italo Alfaro, Pier Paola Bucchi, Giovanni Elsner, Roy Bosier
Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes. Read More »
First Surrender / La primera entrega (1971) Angelino Fons, Emma Penella, Glen Lee, Franco Citti
Johnny and Michel, young men who live on the edge of the law, taking advantage Read More »
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001) Richard Lowenstein, Noah Taylor, Emily Hamilton, Romane Bohringer
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences Read More »
The Gaucho (1964) Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Amedeo Nazzari, Nelly Panizza
Gassman plays Mario Ravicchio, a financially-strapped press representative who follows Read More »
Flavia (1987) Lorenzo Onorati, Maria Ann Levine, Rita Silva, Aldo Sambrell
The slave Flavia works in a brothel of ancient Rome. Read More »
Snow White and 7 Wise Men / Biancaneve & Co… (1982) Mario Bianchi, Michela Miti, Franco Bracardi, Aldo Sambrell
The king and the queen conceive Snow White during a sexual relationship in the snow. Read More »
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017) Abdellatif Kechiche, Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer Read More »
Journey to Italy / Viaggio in Italia (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples Read More »
The Brigand / Il brigante (1961) Renato Castellani, Francesco Seminario, Adelmo Di Fraia, Mario Ierardi
In 1940s Calabria a man unjustly accused of murder flees to the countryside Read More »