An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
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 »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
The Passion AKA La passione (2010) Carlo Mazzacurati, Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Battiston, Kasia Smutniak
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. Read More »
Serenade for Two Spies AKA Serenade für zwei Spione (1965) Michael Pfleghar, Alberto Cardone, Wolfgang Neuss, Hellmut Lange, Barbara Lass
An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. Read More »
The Sicilian Clan AKA Le clan des Siciliens (1969) Henri Verneuil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing Read More »
A Matter of Time (1976) Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
Nina has just started working as a chambermaid in Rome’s Imperial Hotel, a once grand but now slightly run down establishment. Read More »
Acts of the Apostles AKA Atti degli apostoli (1969) Roberto Rossellini, Bradai, Edoardo Torricella, Jacques Dumur
The spread of Christianity, according to Luke’s account, 30 years after the departure of Jesus Read More »
Mambo (1954) Robert Rossen, Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman
Silvana Mangano (a very lovely & sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. Read More »
The Demons of St. Petersburg AKA I demoni di San Pietroburgo (2008) Giuliano Montaldo, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Carolina Crescentini, Roberto Herlitzka
St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij Read More »