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Tag Archives: Italy
Violent Summer (1959) Valerio Zurlini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Read More »
Cavalleria (1936) Goffredo Alessandrini, Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani, Luigi Carini

Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Read More »
Tentacles (1977) Ovidio G. Assonitis, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. Read More »
Eye of the Cat (1975) Alberto Bevilacqua, Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Eli Wallach

In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
Montparnasse 19 (1958) Jacques Becker, Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani

Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Read More »
Beket (2008) Davide Manuli, Fabrizio Gifuni, Paolo Rossi, Luciano Curreli

Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man’s world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. Read More »
Vinodentro (2013) Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Vincenzo Amato, Pietro Sermonti, Daniela Virgilio

It all started with the first wine sip Giovanni Cuttin had in his life. Read More »
The Last Mistress (2007) Catherine Breillat, Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aït Aattou, Roxane Mesquida

At 30, boyish penniless aristocrat Ryno de Marigny has separated from Villini, a passionate Spaniard and his mistress of 10 years. Read More »
The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont

After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »