
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) Nino Manfredi, Alberto Lattuada, Eleonora Giorgi, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Comedy, Romance

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. Read More »
Ginger and Fred (1986) Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Comedy, Drama

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. Read More »
How Strange to Be Named Federico (2013) Ettore Scola, Tommaso Lazotti, Maurizio De Santis, Giacomo Lazotti, Biography

An exciting and visionary portrait of the master filmmaker Federico Fellini, based on the memories and the feelings of his great friend director Ettore Scola. Read More »
S.O.S. Noronha (1957) Georges Rouquier, Jean Marais, Yves Massard, José Lewgoy, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Story of a group of radio-men, on the isle of Noronha, off the coast of Brazil, whose post was attacked by escaped convicts Read More »
Carthage in Flames (1960) Carmine Gallone, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Anne Heywood, Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, War

Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage. Read More »
A Man Called Sledge (1970) Vic Morrow, Giorgio Gentili, James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, Western

Outlaw Luther Sledge and sidekick Mallory pull into the town of 3 W for an overnight stay. Read More »
La circostanza (1973) Ermanno Olmi, Ada Savelli, Gaetano Porro, Raffaella Bianchi, Drama

The bourgeois family Olmi observes here is caught in a process of disintegration that hardly requires the promptings of a languid summer’s minor crisis. Read More »
N.P. il segreto (1971) Silvano Agosti, Francisco Rabal, Irene Papas, Edy Biagetti, Drama, Sci-Fi

A phrophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. Read More »
Death Walks on High Heels (1971) Luciano Ercoli, Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Mystery, Thriller

A famed jewel thief named Rochard is slashed to death on a train. His daughter Nicole, a famous nightclub performer in Paris Read More »