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Tag Archives: Italy
Uncle Was a Vampire AKA Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959) Steno, Renato Rascel, Sylva Koscina, Lia Zoppelli

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle Read More »
Star of India (1954) Arthur Lubin, Cornel Wilde, Leslie Linder, Jean Wallace

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne Read More »
Donne e Briganti (1950) Mario Soldati, Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban, Jean Chevrier

Sul letto di morte, il signor Luciani confessa al figlio Peppino che sua sorella Marietta è in realtà la figlia illegittima di Ferdinando IV di Borbone Read More »
Marauders of the Sahara AKA I predoni del Sahara (1965) Guido Malatesta, George Mikell, Pamela Tudor, Enzo Fiermonte

With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance (George Mikell) Read More »
In the Open AKA El campo (2011) Hernán Belón, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Dolores Fonzi, Juan Villegas

Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Read More »
In the Name of the Pope King AKA In nome del Papa Re (1977) Luigi Magni, Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta

In 1867, with Garibaldi’s forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno Read More »
Wifemistress AKA Mogliamante (1977) Marco Vicario, Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Leonard Mann

Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. Read More »
The One Eyed Soldiers (1967) John Ainsworth, Dale Robertson, Luciana Paluzzi, Guy Deghy

In Nassaum, a border town in an intrigue-infested Central European republic, the body of Dr. Charles Berens Read More »
Honey AKA Miele di donna (1981) Gianfranco Angelucci, Clio Goldsmith, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey

The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. Read More »