In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
The Three Thieves / I tre ladri (1954) Lionello De Felice, Totò, Jean-Claude Pascal, Simone Simon
Tapioca, a small time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, followed shortly after by Cascarilla Read More »
Seeking Asylum / Chiedo asilo (1979) Marco Ferreri, Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin, Chiara Moretti
Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who’s mute. Read More »
Cjamango (1967) Edoardo Mulargia, Ivan Rassimov, Mickey Hargitay, Hélène Chanel
Just when Cjamango has won a bag of gold in a poker game, he is attacked by the gangs of El Tigre and Don Pablo. Read More »
The Last Savage / Addio ultimo uomo (1978) Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni, Riccardo Cucciolla
Mad Love / Juana la Loca (2001) Vicente Aranda, Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti, Rosana Pastor
Juana is married off by her pious parents, the Catholic kings Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille Read More »
Mamma Roma (1962) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) Read More »
The Moon and the Stars (2007) John Irvin, Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack
Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) Read More »
El Alamein – The Line of Fire / El Alamein – La linea del fuoco (2002) Enzo Monteleone, Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. Read More »
The Curse (1987) David Keith, Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare
Nathan Crane is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. Read More »