Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Waterloo (1970) Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war Read More »
Pillaged AKA Mise à sac (1967) Alain Cavalier, Michel Constantin, Daniel Ivernel, Franco Interlenghi
Edgar, the former accountant of the Martens factory, organizes a daring heist in Servage, a small town in the French Alps. Read More »
Top Secret AKA Segretissimo (1967) Fernando Cerchio, Gordon Scott, Magda Konopka, Aurora de Alba
A man escapes from a Russian prison and then from a United States embassy, taking with him some very important top secret information from both sides. Read More »
Smog (1962) Franco Rossi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori
An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. Read More »
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 »