Released Date:
1955-11-18
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1485 Reviews)
Director:
Michelangelo AntonioniCesare Pavese (novel)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
Alba De Cespedes (collaboration)
Clelia comes from Rome to her native Turin, to set up a new fashion salon. On her first night, the woman in the next room of her hotel takes an overdose of pills. Clelia becomes involved with this woman, Rosetta, and three of her rich women friends, Momina, Nene, and Mariella. Momina is older than the others, and lives apart from her husband. Her current lover is Cesare, the architect of Clelia's salon. Nene is a talented ceramics artist, and lives with her fiance, the painter Lorenzo. Mariella is a flighty woman only interested in having a good time. Clelia becomes attached to Carlo, the architect's assistant, but the other women look down on him as he comes from a working class background. Momina, with the help of Clelia, discovers that Rosetta fell in love with Lorenzo as he was painting her portrait. Momina then encourages Rosetta to go after Lorenzo, even though he and Nene were supposed to marry soon.
Released Date:
1956-10-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (34 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliGenres:
ComedyRoberto Amoroso
Sandro Continenza
Ruggero Maccari
Mario Monicelli
Piero Tellini
Released Date:
1961-03-04
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
143 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(16018 Reviews)
Director:
Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni (story)
Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
Elio Bartolini (screenplay)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend, try without success to find her. While looking for the missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the missing Anna.
Released Date:
1968-02-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
(639 Reviews)
Director:
Elio PetriElio Petri (screenplay)
Ugo Pirro (screenplay)
Leonardo Sciascia (novel)
Sicilia, late '60s. Two men are killed during a hunting party. The hurried inquiry indicates that it was a killing made for 'honor' reasons. Paolo Laurana is a leftist professor not convinced of the official truth and starts investigating by himself. He finds some help from a solicitor, Mr. Rosello. While investigating, he is fascinated by Luisa, the widow of one of the victims. But the reality is too different from what Laurana could imagine. Reality includes not only the mafia and corrupt politicians, but also Church connections. The reality is that there could be only one end for Laurana. It won't take long.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (128 Reviews)
Director:
Salvatore SamperiSalvatore Samperi (story)
Salvatore Samperi
Sergio Bazzini
Pier Luigi Murgia
Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.
Released Date:
1969-12-18
Languages:
English, German, French
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (53013 Reviews)
Director:
Peter R. HuntSimon Raven (additional dialogue)
Richard Maibaum (screenplay)
George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Draco, he must become very close friends with his daughter, Tracy, and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld's guards as well as his hench-woman, Irma Bunt. What has Blofeld got in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are ANY Bond girls safe?
Released Date:
1970-12-09
Languages:
Spanish, French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
139 min
Rated:
GP
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1728 Reviews)
Director:
Costa-GavrasLise London (book)
Artur London (book)
Jorge Semprèn (adaptation)
Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London.
Released Date:
1970-10-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
GP
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (586 Reviews)
Director:
Giuliano MontaldoMino Roli (story)
Ovid Demaris (novel)
Mino Roli (screenplay)
Israel Horovitz (dialogue)
Tough criminal Hank McCain gets released from prison after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Hank hooks up with his son Jack, who has devised a daring plan to rob a Las Vegas casino. Unbeknownst to Hank, Jack is also involved with volatile and ambitious mob capo Charlie Adamo, who uses Hank as a pawn so he can gain control of Vegas territory that's currently being run by the formidable Don Francesco De Marco.
Released Date:
1974-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
118 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (7314 Reviews)
Director:
Liliana CavaniGenres:
DramaLiliana Cavani (screenplay)
Italo Moscati (screenplay)
Barbara Alberti (screenplay)
Amedeo Pagani (screenplay)
Liliana Cavani (story)
Barbara Alberti (story)
Amedeo Pagani (story)
Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.
Released Date:
1988-02-05
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (629 Reviews)
Director:
Peter Del MontePeter Del Monte (screenplay)
Silvia Napolitano (screenplay)
Sandro Petraglia (screenplay)
Silvia Napolitano (story)
Joseph Minion (dialogue)
Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds, where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other she is married to Paolo. In the latter time-line, Paolo is alive and well with their five year old son, and Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel. The frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Julia crazy, as she begins having difficulty in telling them apart, and as she learns which world she is currently living in.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (48 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ZampaGenres:
DramaMassimo De Rita
Arduino Maiuri
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