Released Date:
1951-11-10
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (113 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo LizzaniRodolfo Sonego (story)
Ugo Pirro (story)
Giuliani G. De Negri (story)
Giuseppe Dagnino (story)
Carlo Lizzani (story)
Massimo Mida (story)
Enrico Ribulsi (story)
Mario Socrate (story)
Released Date:
1951-10-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
74 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (120 Reviews)
Director:
Pietro GermiFederico Fellini (story)
Tullio Pinelli (story)
Luigi Comencini (story)
Federico Fellini (screenplay)
Tullio Pinelli (screenplay)
Pietro Germi (screenplay)
Giuseppe Mangione (screenplay)
As a soccer match is in progress, a group of four criminals robs the stadium office. Before they can make their getaway, a chase begins, and they must split up before they can divide the money. The police have little to go on, since it appears that none of the robbers were experienced criminals. Meanwhile, the thieves have to arrange for dividing the money while trying to avoid being captured.
Released Date:
1954-04-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
87 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(390 Reviews)
Director:
Renè ClairRenè Clair (scenario)
Renè Clair (adaptation)
Pierre Barillet (adaptation)
Jean-Pierre Grèdy (adaptation)
Renè Clair (dialogue)
Gian Luigi Rondi (credited in Italian version only)
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. But in his dreams, he lives in other eras where he is appreciated, lionized, and the conquerer of delicious women (idealized forms of women he's seen in waking life). The dreams are suitably dreamlike, yet have a kind of reality, for he revisits them after waking. The conflict between waking and dream worlds leads to amusing, strange, even fantastic situations. Which world will prevail?
Released Date:
1953-05-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1802 Reviews)
Director:
Christian-JaqueRenè Wheeler (original scenario)
Renè Fallet (original scenario)
Christian-Jaque (adaptation)
Henri Jeanson (adaptation)
Renè Wheeler (adaptation)
Henri Jeanson (dialogue)
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
Released Date:
1953-12-22
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
(842 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniLuigi Comencini (story)
Ettore Maria Margadonna (story)
Ettore Maria Margadonna (dialogue)
Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to Sagliena, an imaginary little village in the center of Italy in the '50s, to assume his new mandate. In the village he knows Maria (Frisky) AKA 'la Bersagliera', secretly in love with a policeman (Carabiniere) reporting to Antonio. But also Paoletta, the priest's nephew, loves him. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a restless situation.
Released Date:
1953-12-17
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
UK, USA, Italy
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (5765 Reviews)
Director:
John HustonClaud Cockburn (novel)
Truman Capote (screenplay)
John Huston (screenplay)
A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.
Released Date:
1953-12-17
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
UK, USA, Italy
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (5769 Reviews)
Director:
John HustonClaud Cockburn (novel)
Truman Capote (screenplay)
John Huston (screenplay)
A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.
Released Date:
1954-12-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (340 Reviews)
Director:
Luigi ComenciniEttore Maria Margadonna (story)
Luigi Comencini (story)
Ettore Maria Margadonna (screenplay)
Luigi Comencini (screenplay)
Eduardo De Filippo (screenplay)
Vincenzo Talarico (screenplay)
Released Date:
1956-05-30
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (2853 Reviews)
Director:
Carol ReedMax Catto (novel)
Liam O'Brien (adaptation)
James R. Webb (screenplay)
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to covince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act.
Released Date:
1957-11-03
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1616 Reviews)
Director:
Jean DelannoyVictor Hugo (novel)
Jean Aurenche
Jacques Prèvert
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Released Date:
1960-11-11
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
114 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (473 Reviews)
Director:
Jules DassinRoger Vailland (novel)
Jules Dassin
Franèoise Giroud (dialogue)
Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the 'game of the Law,' selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others. Illicit passions abound: the judge's wife pursues Francesco, son of crime boss Matteo, who is after Marietta (so is her brother-in-law); Marietta wants engineer Enrico for a husband, but he claims he's too poor to marry. So she decides to steal herself a dowry! All this may lead to an explosion...and some changes in who dictates 'the law.'
Released Date:
1959-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
139 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (1852 Reviews)
Director:
King VidorCrane Wilbur (story)
Anthony Veiller (screenplay)
Paul Dudley (screenplay)
George Bruce (screenplay)
Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and vows to attain the throne. Meanwhile the Egyptian Pharoah agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba is she can find a way to destroy Solomon, whose wisdom and benevolent rule is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. Sheba, Pharoah, Adonijah, the leaders of the Twelve Tribes and his own God make life difficult for Solomon who is tempted by Sheba to stray.
Released Date:
1961-08-09
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2183 Reviews)
Director:
Robert MulliganStanley Shapiro (screenplay)
Maurice Richlin (screenplay)
Stanley Roberts (story)
Robert Russell (story)
Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Firstly, his long-time girlfriend Lisa Fellini has given up waiting for him to pop the question and has decided to marry another man. Secondly, the major domo of his villa, Maurice Clavell, has turned the estate into a posh hotel to make some easy money while the boss isn't around. And, finally, the current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls trying to fend off a gang of oversexed boys, led by Tony, who are 'laying siege' at the outer walls of the villa. Talbot, to his own surprise, finds himself becoming an overprotective chaperone.
Released Date:
1968-12-01
Languages:
English, French, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1002 Reviews)
Director:
Melvin FrankGenres:
ComedyMelvin Frank
Denis Norden
Sheldon Keller
Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father of her daughter Gia, so they have all been paying well for her upbringing. As this dawns on the threesome old rivalries surface, but times have changed and complications such as wives, middle-age, and the need to protect Gia's future start to surface.
Released Date:
1977-02-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
West Germany, USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (134 Reviews)
Director:
Jerzy SkolimowskiGenres:
ComedyVladimir Nabokov (novel)
David Seltzer
David Shaw
On the death of his parents, Frank, a romantic teenager, moves in with his aunt and uncle He quickly falls in love with his beautiful, sophisticated aunt, Martha, and begins to fantasize about her. Frank is torn between his adolescent desires and his fondness for his Uncle Charles.
Released Date:
1953-05-04
Languages:
French
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1804 Reviews)
Director:
Christian-JaqueRenè Wheeler (original scenario)
Renè Fallet (original scenario)
Christian-Jaque (adaptation)
Henri Jeanson (adaptation)
Renè Wheeler (adaptation)
Henri Jeanson (dialogue)
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
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