An old man who is a watchman during the winter in an electric power plant and a younger worker feel the generation gap betwee...
In this romantic Italian swashbuckler, a tyrannical 17th-century Spanish governor of a small Carribbean island mercilessly sl...
Directly after his successful The Gold of Naples (1954), Italian filmmaker Vittorio DeSica served up something of a throwback...
Italian filmmaker Luca Barbareschi co-writes, directs, and stars in the political comedy Il Trasformista (The Chameleon). Fam...
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Rocca and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henc...
It's diva time when three one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini ("Suor Angelica," "Gianni Schicchi" and "Il Tabarro") are trilled...
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This erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco is based on the witch-hunting exploits of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys...
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At the time of its release, this filmization of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore was praised for its "cinematic" qualities: that is...
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A novelist suffering from a bad case of writer's block finds his troubles compounded when the violent murder of his mistress ...
Relating his facts in straight-on documentary fashion, Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 Biblical film stars Enrique Irazoqui as Jes...
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In turn-of-the-century Sicily, aristocratic scions Adriana (Sophia Loren) and Cesar (Richard Burton) have loved one another f...
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
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In this action-adventure, a lovely Italian vacation is destroyed when the tourists find themselves in the midst of a vicious ...
Il Brigante di Tacca del Lupo represented another move away from neorealism into sheer commercialism by Italian filmmker Piet...
As a young boy, Tommaso's (Gerard Darier) interest in women and in his cousin Marta (Mariangela Melato) in particular, inspir...
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In this film, a tough shark hunter races to beat a group of gangsters to a fortune in sunken treasure. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
Disciples of Italian filmmaker Pietro Germi have noted the stylistic influence of Hollywood's John Ford in Germi's neorealist...
Gradually picking up dramatic steam as it moves through its 2 1/2 hour running time, this gangster film is loosely based on t...
The classic Nicolas Gogal fable The Overcoat is given a European flavor by Italian filmmaker Alberto Lattuada; some consider ...
In 1978, Italian politics were thrown into turmoil when the Christian Democratic president Aldo Moro was executed. This gripp...
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Four Africans who have settled in Italy become part of a campaign for the rights of immigrants in this documentary from filmm...
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The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating othe...
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This film explores the events surrounding the assassination of Mussolini's chief political opponent, socialist Giacomo Matteo...
Purif (Daliah Lavi) is a young woman who, after having her amorous advances rejected by young man in her town (Frank Wolff), ...
Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica ...
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The Fascist (Il Federale) is a comedy set in 1944 Italy. Dedicated fascist Ugo Tognazzi is sent to capture anti-Mussolini pro...
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This lush anthology of erotic tales was filmed in four countries (Iran, Nepal, Yemen, and Eritrea) over a period of more than...
Il Fiume del Grande Caimano a low budget, monster-on-the-loose Italian horror film provides more chuckles than goosebumps in ...
A horror movie in production resurrects a witch called Levana, who is the main evil character in the movie.
A boy suffers from multiple sclerosis. He spends his days between treatments, memories, imagination and his struggle to stand...
In this well-paced crime thriller, Larry Stanciani (Franco Nero) is a hard-boiled private investigator in San Francisco, an e...
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the de...
The work and obsessions of director Nanni Moretti when the Iranian movie "Close Up" is scheduled to open in the movie theater...
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The innovative Italian neuropsychiatrist Marco Lombardo Radice started at treatment movement which draws its name from the un...
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In the epic Il magnifico gladiatore (The Magnificent Gladiator), a corrupt Roman commander overthrows the emperor Attalus, an...
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Vittorio Gassman showcases his comic talents in this farce by director Dino Risi about the growing success of a con artist. G...
To the public, Marco Baldini (Elio Germano) has virtually everything that one could want - including tremendous fame and a lu...
An off-beat comedy that takes a close look at the homeless and the hungry, Minestrone pulls off its wry and acerbic vision th...
An elderly Boris Karloff headlines this low-budget Italian crime drama. He plays the owner of a financially struggling nurser...
A portrait of HPG, actor, director and producer of pornographic films, designed entirely from the thousands of hours of makin...
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A father's love for his troubled daughter may be the only thing that can save her in this drama from writer and director Pupi...
A fresh-faced law student and a crafty card shark form a volatile friendship based on mutual treachery in Maximum Velocity di...
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Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' n...
Franca Malorni, a well-off widow in Rome, falls and breaks a thigh-bone during a traditional Sunday lunch with her closest re...
The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the gover...
In yet another 1980s film on Italian radicals, Marco (Saverio Marconi) is a young man determined to leave his terrorist past ...
The Neopolitan Revolution is reflected in the life story of Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca, a seemingly fragile woman who herself ...
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson ...
This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film...
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