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Tag Archives: Italy
Un meurtre est un meurtre / Murder Is a Murder (1972) Etienne Périer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Stéphane Audran, Robert Hossein, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Paul Kastner’s wife dies in tragic circumstances. Although Paul is, or seems, blameless, a stranger soon appears in town who maintains he has evidence to show Paul in fact murdered the woman. Read More »
Molokh / Moloch (1999) Aleksandr Sokurov, Elena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Irina Sokolova, Drama

In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics. Read More »
Sait-on jamais… (1957) Roger Vadim, Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, Drama

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger. Read More »
Lamerica (1994) Gianni Amelio, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Drama

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. Read More »
Diario napoletano / Neapolitan Diary (1992) Francesco Rosi, Simona Caramelli, Pietro Bontempo, Documentary, Crime, History

A fascinating return to the same issues done in a semi-docu style. The ‘story’ joins Rosi as he fights his way through impossible city traffic to a school of architecture to host a discussion of the older movie. Read More »
Nella città l’inferno / …and the Wild Wild Women (1959) Renato Castellani, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Myriam Bru, Drama

A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a non-coed, totally female prison environment. Read More »
Les magiciens / Death Rite (1976) Claude Chabrol, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Drama, Thriller

While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »
La machine à découdre (1986) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Semmler, Comedy, Thriller

The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children. Read More »
Quién sabe / A Bullet for the General (1967) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Western

El Chuncho’s bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias’ revolutionaries. Read More »