Released Date:
1948-09-05
Languages:
English, Italian, Spanish
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (168 Reviews)
Director:
Alberto LattuadaFederico Fellini (screenplay)
Federico Fellini (story)
Alberto Lattuada (screenplay)
Ettore Maria Margadonna (idea)
Tullio Pinelli (screenplay)
Tullio Pinelli (story)
Released Date:
1955-02-16
Languages:
French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (31560 Reviews)
Director:
Henri-Georges ClouzotGeorges Arnaud (novel)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (adaptation)
Jèrème Gèronimi (adaptation)
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Released Date:
1954-01-14
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
183 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (434 Reviews)
Director:
Robert VernayAlexandre Dumas père (novel)
Georges Neveux (adaptation)
Robert Vernay (adaptation)
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Released Date:
1957-09-13
Languages:
French, Arabic
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
(67 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè CayatteGenres:
DramaAndrè Cayatte
Vahè Katcha (novel)
Vahè Katcha (screenplay)
In North Africa Dr. Walter (W) is a very skilled surgeon but lives at a distance from the hospital. In the evening a husband (H) and his sick wife come to his private home from far away. He tells them to go to the hospital. The wife dies during the operation. The other doctors think that W might have saved her. Shortly afterward a man asks W to come to a village to treat a very sick man. W goes thither in his car. The local habitants do not allow him to apply Western medical techniques, all tyres of his car are stolen, and he sees H in this village. W tells him that his wife would not have died if he had timely taken her to a doctor. W buys a lot of coca-cola and starts walking home on his feet. He refuses H's offer to show him a shortcut. But thrice he finds H sitting at the road much ahead of him. Then he accepts H's guidance = misguidance! When they have been without water for many days and W wishes he was dead, he wounds H with a knife. H is sure to die within 24 hours without medical treatment. Then H says that inhabited areas are found in a quite different direction. W starts in this direction, not followed by H. The camera rises and reveals that before W there is nothing but stone and sand.
Released Date:
1957-09-13
Languages:
French, Arabic
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
113 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (68 Reviews)
Director:
Andrè CayatteGenres:
DramaAndrè Cayatte
Vahè Katcha (novel)
Vahè Katcha (screenplay)
In North Africa Dr. Walter (W) is a very skilled surgeon but lives at a distance from the hospital. In the evening a husband (H) and his sick wife come to his private home from far away. He tells them to go to the hospital. The wife dies during the operation. The other doctors think that W might have saved her. Shortly afterward a man asks W to come to a village to treat a very sick man. W goes thither in his car. The local habitants do not allow him to apply Western medical techniques, all tyres of his car are stolen, and he sees H in this village. W tells him that his wife would not have died if he had timely taken her to a doctor. W buys a lot of coca-cola and starts walking home on his feet. He refuses H's offer to show him a shortcut. But thrice he finds H sitting at the road much ahead of him. Then he accepts H's guidance = misguidance! When they have been without water for many days and W wishes he was dead, he wounds H with a knife. H is sure to die within 24 hours without medical treatment. Then H says that inhabited areas are found in a quite different direction. W starts in this direction, not followed by H. The camera rises and reveals that before W there is nothing but stone and sand.
Released Date:
1959-10-28
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (2205 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Luciano Vincenzoni (story)
Mario Monicelli (story)
Agenore Incrocci (dialogue)
Furio Scarpelli (dialogue)
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges to make him avoiding the army. But the destiny make them meeting again on the train directed to the front. Nevertheless Oreste stolen money to Giovanni they become friends and in first times are allocated to a secondary and quite front (village of Tigliano). Here they spend some months in relative peace and Giovanni finds time to fall in love for prostitute Costantina. But war is getting everyday closer. During the most important battle among Italians and Austro-Hungarians, Giovanni and Oreste are in charge to deliver a vital message to the Italian headquarters. But, unfortunately, they fall in the hands of an Austrian officer that, under life menace, starts an interrogation to find out the Italian message. What they should try to do now?
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(1097 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliGenres:
DramaAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Mario Monicelli (story)
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle.
Released Date:
1966-04-07
Languages:
Italian, Latin
Countries:
Italy, France, Spain
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
(2845 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliAgenore Incrocci (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Mario Monicelli (screenplay)
Agenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Mario Monicelli (story)
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
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