Released Date:
1962-06-30
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (83 Reviews)
Genres:
DramaValentino Orsini (story)
Paolo Taviani (story)
Vittorio Taviani (story)
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker...
Released Date:
1972-02-19
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1026 Reviews)
Director:
Lina WertmèllerGenres:
ComedyLina Wertmèller (screenplay)
Lina Wertmèller (story)
In Sicily, the mine worker Carmelo "Mimè" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses his job and cannot find any other job in his village that is controlled by the mobster Don Calogero. He leaves his wife Rosalia with his family and travels to Turin expecting to find a job. He finds an illegal position in the civil construction that is also explored by the Mafia and when a coworker dies in an accident, he finds that the mobsters have dumped his body on the road. However, he does not report the crime to the police and lies to the mobster Salvatore Tricarico telling that he belongs to the family of a powerful mobster. Mimi gets a metallurgic position and joins the Communist Party. Then he fall in love with the virgin Trotskyite street vendor Fiorella Meneghini and they have a boy. When Mimi witness the mobster Vico Tricarico executing several men in a hotel, he survives but he does not report to the police. Mimi is transferred to Catania in a supervisory position against his will. He brings Fiore and their son to Sicily, but he is still married with Rosalia but he claims that he is ill and does not have sex with her. When Mimi learns that Rosalia is pregnant, he finds that he is a cuckold and plots a scheme to seduce and knock up Amalia Finocchiaro, who is the wife of Rosalia's lover. But his revenge does not work as planned.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1223 Reviews)
Director:
Salvatore SamperiOttavio Jemma
Alessandro Parenzo
Salvatore Samperi
A widower and his sons fall in love with Angela (Laura Antonelli), the beautiful housekeeper. Each man uses his particular way to approach and capture the - apparently innocent and naive - young woman, and to see more of her sexy body. But only one of them succeeds in dominating and conquering her.
Released Date:
1980-07-04
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, Spain, West Germany
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (207 Reviews)
Director:
Salvatore SamperiBarbara Alberti
Amedeo Pagani
Umberto Saba (novel)
Salvatore Samperi
Triest in the year 1911. Ernesto is the priviliged, seventeen year old son of a jewish mother and a non-jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and his moaning aunt Regina, who send him to work at the office of a trading company. Ernesto doesn't take his new job very serious, he wants to become a violin player. One day when he is alone in the storage, he is approached by a young stablehand, to whom he has given working orders before. They agree to meet. Ernesto is very aware of the sexual intentions of the man. He is curious and starts having sex with the man frequently. But after an overwhelming heterosexual experience with a prostitute, he decides to avoid any further contact with the man. He quits his job and concentrates on studying the violin. During a concert, Ernesto meets a 15 year old violin player of classic beauty called Emilio. The two boys start an intense friendship that is troubled by jealousy and possessiveness. Untill Emilio introduces Ernesto to his twin sister Rachele. Then Ernesto becomes insecure and confused. Does he want the brother or the sister?
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