
Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Franco Zeffirelli, Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. Read More »
Cabiria (1914) Giovanni Pastrone, Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano

Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna. Read More »
The Monk of Monza (1963) Sergio Corbucci, Totò, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario

Italy, 1630. The widower Pasquale loses his job as a cobbler. In search of food for his twelve children Read More »
Grand Slam (1967) Giuliano Montaldo, Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Read More »
Dirty Weekend (1973) Dino Risi, Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they’re kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. Read More »
In the Name of the Italian People (1971) Dino Risi, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. Read More »
The Designated Victim (1971) Maurizio Lucidi, Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine

A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another’s relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. Read More »
Avanti! (1972) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill

Baltimore industrialist Wendell Armbruster crosses paths with London shop girl Pamela Piggott when they come to Ischia to pick up the bodies of her mother and his father Read More »
For A Few Dollars More (1965) Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè

Monco is a bounty killer chasing El Indio and his gang. During his hunting, he meets Col. Douglas Mortimer, another bounty killer Read More »