Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. Read More »
Tag Archives: Italy
South Is Nothing / Il sud è niente (2013) Fabio Mollo, Miriam Karlkvist, Vinicio Marchioni, Valentina Lodovini
Grazia is 17 and lives in a small town in the South of Italy. Her brother Pietro disappeared years ago Read More »
Love, So Violent, So Fragile (1973) Leros Pittoni
Rejecting the consumer society, a young man abandons the profession of architect and retires to live in a South Island. Read More »
We Want the Colonels (1973) Vogliamo i colonnelli
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman Read More »
Aclas Decent Into Floristella / La discesa di Aclà a Floristella (1992) Aurelio Grimaldi, Francesco Cusimano, Tony Sperandeo, Luigi Maria Burruano
Brutal film about the exploitation of a young Italian boy, who is virtually sold Read More »
Torre Bela (1975) Thomas Harlan, Jacques d’Arthuys, Maria Vitória, José Neves Paiva
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal Read More »
Man, Pride and Vengeance / L’Uomo, l’Orgoglio, la Vendetta (1968) Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Nero, Tina Aumont, Klaus Kinski
The film tells the story of a Spanish soldier, who falls in love with a gypsy only to end Read More »
The Love of a Woman / L’amour d’une femme (1953) Jean Grémillon, Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay
Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Read More »
The Bloody Judge / Il trono di fuoco (1970) Jesús Franco, Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn
Unaware of the torture that takes place in the dungeons, Judge Jeffries condemns women Read More »
Screams in the Night / Schreie in der Nacht (1969) Antonio Margheriti, Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Helga Anders
The characters engage in a séance at a mansion while a storm rages outside. Read More »