Released Date:
1958-07-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(5894 Reviews)
Director:
Mario MonicelliAgenore Incrocci (story)
Furio Scarpelli (story)
Agenore Incrocci (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Mario Monicelli (screenplay)
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Though they are advised by Dante, a retired burglar, the task is not so easy...
Released Date:
1959-09-23
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
132 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (265 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiSuso Cecchi D'Amico (story)
Francesco Rosi (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (screenplay)
Francesco Rosi (screenplay)
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Released Date:
1961-06-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
180 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (10352 Reviews)
Director:
Luchino ViscontiLuchino Visconti (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (story)
Vasco Pratolini (story)
Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay)
Massimo Franciosa (screenplay)
Enrico Medioli (screenplay)
Luchino Visconti (screenplay)
Giovanni Testori (inspired by episodes in the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa")
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...
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:
1970-10-21
Languages:
Italian, Portuguese, English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (3145 Reviews)
Director:
Gillo PontecorvoFranco Solinas (story)
Giorgio Arlorio (story)
Franco Solinas (screenplay)
Giorgio Arlorio (screenplay)
Norman Gant (based on novels by)
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Released Date:
1978-11-01
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
132 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (953 Reviews)
Director:
Valerio ZurliniGenres:
DramaEnrico Medioli
Valerio Zurlini (story)
Valerio Zurlini
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.
Released Date:
1978-11-01
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
132 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (955 Reviews)
Director:
Valerio ZurliniGenres:
DramaEnrico Medioli
Valerio Zurlini (story)
Valerio Zurlini
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.
Released Date:
1975-02-09
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, Spain
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (573 Reviews)
Director:
Vittorio De SicaRodolfo Sonego (story)
Cesare Zavattini
A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end. When she is cured, she has to return to that rathole from which she only briefly emerged.
Released Date:
1973-02-08
Languages:
French
Countries:
France, Italy, West Germany
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2245 Reviews)
Director:
Costa-GavrasFranco Solinas
Costa-Gavras (original scenario)
Franco Solinas (original scenario)
In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.
Released Date:
1975-02-21
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (66 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco MaselliFrancesco Maselli
Franco Solinas
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:
1979-09-30
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy, USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2918 Reviews)
Director:
Bernardo BertolucciGenres:
DramaFranco Arcalli (story)
Bernardo Bertolucci (story)
Giuseppe Bertolucci (story)
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Clare Peploe
Bernardo Bertolucci
Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe--maybe even herself--with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.
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