Released Date:
1965-08-01
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
83 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (406 Reviews)
Director:
Elio PetriTonino Guerra (story)
Elio Petri (story)
Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay)
Massimo Franciosa (screenplay)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
Elio Petri (screenplay)
Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police in his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what is the investigation about as we find out details about his life.
Released Date:
1962-02-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1741 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiSuso Cecchi D'Amico
Enzo Provenzale
Francesco Rosi
Franco Solinas
In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following Giuliano's death. After Sicily's self-rule is declared, will the outlaws be pardoned as promised? And why does Giuliano order his gang to fire on a peaceful May Day rally? Police, Carabinieri, and Mafia have their uses for him. There's a trial after his death: will the truth come out or does the code of silence help protect those in power?
Released Date:
1963-10-09
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1361 Reviews)
Director:
Francesco RosiGenres:
DramaFrancesco Rosi (idea)
Raffaele La Capria (idea)
Enzo Forcella (screenplay)
Raffaele La Capria (screenplay)
Enzo Provenzale (screenplay)
Francesco Rosi (screenplay)
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Released Date:
1965-12-20
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2139 Reviews)
Director:
Elio PetriRobert Sheckley (story)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
Giorgio Salvioni (screenplay)
Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)
Elio Petri (screenplay)
A campy futuristic tale where people hunt one another for sport. In this film, Victim and Hunter run around Italy trying to score a kill in front of the movie crews they arranged so they could make commercials from the footage.
Released Date:
1970-03-11
Languages:
Italian, Latin
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (10946 Reviews)
Director:
Federico FelliniPetronius (book)
Federico Fellini (adaptation)
Bernardino Zapponi (adaptation)
Brunello Rondi (additional screenplay)
In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. We follow Encolpio through a series of adventures, where he is eventually reunited with Ascilto, and which culminates in them helping a man kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god from a temple. The god dies, and as punishment Encolpio becomes impotent. We then follow them in search of a cure. The film is loosely based on the book Satyricon by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the court of Nero. The book has only survived in fragments, and the film reflects this by being very fragmentary itself, even stopping in mid-sentence.
Released Date:
1962-04-05
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
93 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (200 Reviews)
Director:
Elio PetriGenres:
DramaTonino Guerra (story)
Elio Petri (story)
Elio Petri (screenplay)
Carlo Romano (screenplay)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
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