Released Date:
1950-09-18
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1949 Reviews)
Director:
Giuseppe De SantisGenres:
DramaCorrado Alvaro
Giuseppe De Santis (screenplay)
Giuseppe De Santis (story)
Carlo Lizzani (screenplay)
Carlo Lizzani (story)
Carlo Musso
Ivo Perilli
Gianni Puccini (screenplay)
Gianni Puccini (story)
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
Released Date:
1953-05-03
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (133 Reviews)
Director:
Curzio MalaparteBack in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long last, Antonio, a joiner, reveals the informer but this comes at a cost.
Released Date:
1955-03-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (250 Reviews)
Director:
Dino RisiEdoardo Anton (story)
Luigi Comencini (story)
Franca Valeri (story)
Edoardo Anton (screenplay)
Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)
Franca Valeri (screenplay)
Dino Risi (screenplay)
Cesare Zavattini (scenario collaborator)
Released Date:
1953-11-06
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (772 Reviews)
Director:
Marcel Carnèèmile Zola (novel)
Marcel Carnè (adaptation)
Charles Spaak (adaptation)
Charles Spaak (dialogue)
Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truckdriver, Laurent... and of course they fall in love. But they will be pursued by fate.
Released Date:
1957-02-20
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
(42 Reviews)
Director:
Alberto LattuadaGenres:
ComedyValerio Zurlini (story)
Leonardo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Jean Blondel
Alberto Lattuada
Released Date:
1961-12-14
Languages:
English, Latin
Countries:
Italy, USA
Runtime:
182 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (9049 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony MannFredric M. Frank (story)
Philip Yordan (screenplay)
Fredric M. Frank (screenplay)
Ben Barzman (screenplay)
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Released Date:
1962-09-01
Languages:
English, Greek
Countries:
France, Greece, USA
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (860 Reviews)
Director:
Jules DassinGenres:
DramaMargarita Lymberaki (screenplay)
Jules Dassin
Margarita Lymberaki (original scenario)
The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a bored woman and has a son from her first marriage. Thanos gives an expensive ring to Phaedra and soon he learns that his estranged son from his first marriage, Alexis, has left the University of Economics in London to dedicate to paint. Thanos asks Phaedra to travel to London to bring Alexis to meet him in Greece. When Phaedra meets Alexis, she falls in love with her stepson and seduces him. Their doomed love affair leads the family to a tragedy.
Released Date:
1962-01-19
Languages:
French, Italian, English
Countries:
France, Italy
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (272 Reviews)
Director:
Sidney LumetGenres:
DramaArthur Miller (play)
Norman Rosten (screenplay)
Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.
Released Date:
1983-02-02
Languages:
English, German, Italian
Countries:
USA, UK, Italy
Runtime:
143 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (1725 Reviews)
Director:
Jerry LondonJ.P. Gallagher (book)
David Butler
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian Resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story.
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