Released Date:
1976-04-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
X
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (694 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriGenres:
DramaMarco Ferreri (story)
Rafael Azcona (screenplay)
Marco Ferreri (screenplay)
Dante Matelli (screenplay)
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
Released Date:
1977-12-07
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (969 Reviews)
Director:
Georges LautnerJean Laborde (novel)
Michel Audiard (dialogue)
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Marèchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Released Date:
1981-09-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1624 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriGenres:
DramaMarco Ferreri (scenario)
Sergio Amidei (scenario)
Charles Bukowski (book)
Sergio Amidei (adaptation)
Marco Ferreri (adaptation)
Anthony Foutz (adaptation)
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet, Charles Serking, meets a young girl backstage. Then he travels to Los Angeles, and has sex with bizarre women. When Charles meets the gorgeous self-destructive prostitute Cass in a bar, he finds his soul mate and falls in love for her.
Released Date:
1984-09-05
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France, West Germany
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (171 Reviews)
Director:
Marco FerreriMarco Ferreri (story)
Dacia Maraini (story)
Piera Degli Esposti (story)
Released Date:
1984-02-23
Languages:
French, English, German
Countries:
France, West Germany
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1112 Reviews)
Director:
Volker SchlèndorffPeter Brook
Jean-Claude Carrière
Marie-Hèlène Estienne
Marcel Proust (novel)
Volker Schlèndorff
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.
Released Date:
1987-05-08
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France, Colombia
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (672 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiGenres:
DramaGabriel Garcèa Mèrquez (novel)
Tonino Guerra
Francesco Rosi
A small village in Latin America. Santiago have been knife in the morning. It surprise nobody. The Vicario brothers have openly declared the would kill him to avenge the lost honour of their young sister. It's the way and custom of the country. Nothing and nobody would have prevent it. It was a death foretold. Let see how and why.
Released Date:
1987-12-19
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
(333 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo VerdoneGenres:
ComedyCarlo Verdone
Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (83 Reviews)
Director:
Gianfranco MingozziTonino Guerra
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Roberto Roversi
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (84 Reviews)
Director:
Gianfranco MingozziTonino Guerra
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Roberto Roversi
A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Italian village where they lived and moving to another place. An old and rich man offers her a place in his house, however, she will have to listen to him telling his past love stories.
Released Date:
1989-12-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (360 Reviews)
Director:
Dominique DeruddereDominique Deruddere
John Fante (novel)
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American widow, Hildegarde. Even though his beautiful and pious mother lets his father get away with that, even if his little brother wets the bed. Arturo loves them all. He also loves to play baseball, even though he has to wait until spring. And he also loves the movies ... and Rosa. But she doesn't love him ...
Released Date:
1977-09-14
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (267 Reviews)
Director:
Dino RisiLeonardo Benvenuti
Piero Chiara (novel)
Piero De Bernardi
Dino Risi
Mario (Tognazzi), a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco (Dewaere), a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe (Lia Tanzi Gabriella) and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde (Muti). Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
Released Date:
1999-06-21
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Germany, Italy
Runtime:
400 min
IMDB Ratings:
(4595 Reviews)
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. 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:
1970-03-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (296 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiDamiano Damiani (screenplay)
Damiano Damiani (story)
Enrico Ribulsi
Sofia Scandurra
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito's eye settles on Francesca, only 15, but lovely and self-possessed. Among her virtues are high self worth and forthright speech, so although she falls in love with Vito, she won't bow down to him. Believing he's losing face, he has his boys kidnap her and he rapes her. Then, he tells her he'll still marry her. Instead, she files charges. Her parents, brother, and neighbors refuse to support her. Will she break? Will Vito continue his assaults?
Released Date:
2003-01-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (769 Reviews)
Director:
Lucas BelvauxThe final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
Released Date:
2003-01-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(1028 Reviews)
Director:
Lucas BelvauxAfter nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the cop on his tail. An unexpected event, however, brings cop and crook closer than they ever could have expected.
Released Date:
2003-01-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Belgium
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (933 Reviews)
Director:
Lucas BelvauxThe first installment of the trilogy focuses on Cecile. She is a teacher who is still madly in love with her husband Alain, a hypochondriac who is convinced that a routine operation will take his life. He doesn't want to alarm his wife, and she mistakes his secrecy for an affair. Enter Pascal, who is hired by Cecile to track Alain, but who falls in love with Cecile instead.
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