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Requiem per voce e pianoforte (1993)

Una donna spezzata (1988)

I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)

In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom's cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal tr ...

L'inquilina del piano di sopra (1978)

Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private less ...

Keoma (1976)

Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with C ...

The Children of Violent Rome (1976)

In the gritty underbelly of 1970s Rome, the harsh reality of Neo-Nazi youth, living in the shadow of societal decay, is exposed. A group of disillusioned teenagers from the outskirts of the city, whose lives are shaped by violence, crime, and their environ ...

Street People (1976)

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver ...

Order to Kill (1975)

An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexu ...

Carambola's Philosophy: In the Right Pocket (1975)

Len and Cody are two friends who can not spend more than two minutes without arguing. These crazy gunmen snatched a Confederate colonel charged an archaic machine gun sidecar soon becomes a coveted prize for all offenders in west Texas. ...

Carambola! (1974)

Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars to investigate the trafficking of arms across the Mexican border, but the pair come across a new revolutionary revolver. ...

Simona (1974)

While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sexual discoveries which eventually led to revenge and murder. ...

Long Lasting Days (1973)

Andrea Rispoli falls in love with Anna Andersson, a Swedish girl who has just inherited the boarding house where he's staying. When Anna is discovered to be suffering from a potentially lethal heart condition, Andrea decides to do whatever it takes to rais ...

Baba Yaga (1973)

A mysterious witch casts a spell on an attractive young fashion photographer, who is then thrust into a world of sadism. ...

The Sicilian Connection (1972)

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut. ...

Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected. ...

The Lineage of Cain (1971)

The relatives of a young rebellious hier to a fortune (Dean Reed), who spends most of his time on a yacht, try to have the kid interned as a madman, but are mysteriously killed one by one, in the family's villa. A girl (Stefania Careddu), lost at sea and s ...

They Have Changed Their Face (1971)

A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be impossible. ...

Salgari Of Our Childhood (1971)

The story of Emilio Salgari. ...

Basta guardarla (1970)

Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer. ...

A Pocketful of Chestnuts (1970)

A TV producer cultivates a somewhat reserved and protective young woman after interviewing her for one of his programs. ...

The Nagging Thoughts (1970)

A look at the advertising industry. ...

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy. ...

Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

Serafino (1968)

Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family. ...

Black Jesus (1968)

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortur ...

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (1968)

A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory. ...

Death on the Run (1967)

On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies. ...

The Climax (1967)

A violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic... except to drive Giulia, his legitimate wife, along with his legitimate kids to the station as they leave for a ...

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)

Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a compl ...

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)

An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite ...

Il nero (1966)

The events in Naples of a few 'figli della Madonna' (Madonna's sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers. ...

The Moment of Truth (1965)

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation. ...

Beautiful Families (1964)

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s. ...

The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) (1964)

Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Ita ...

Seduced and Abandoned (1964)

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent ...

Divorce Italian Style (1961)

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be g ...

Day by Day, Desperately (1961)

The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members. ...

The Lovemakers (1961)

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened ...

The Hunchback (1960)

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

The Passionate Thief (1960)

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade. ...

Run with the Devil (1960)

The trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists ...

The Facts of Murder (1959)

A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation. ...

The Swindlers (1959)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing 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 f ...

Hell in the City (1959)

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life. ...

Love and Troubles (1958)

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart. ...

He Thief, She Thief (1958)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. ...

Man of Straw (1958)

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop. ...

Rascel-Fifì (1957)

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ...

I sogni nel cassetto (1957)

The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy. ...

Fathers and Sons (1957)

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it. ...

Occhi senza luce (1956)

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love. ...

The Railroad Man (1956)

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due t ...

Elementary School (1954)

Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach. ...

Angela (1954)

Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing ...

Submarine Attack (1954)

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore. ...

Jealousy (1953)

A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience. ...

L'Incantevole nemica (1953)

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter. ...

Porca miseria! (1951)

Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs. ...

La Terra Trema (1949)

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently. ...

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad (2009)

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. ...

Rossellini Under the Volcano (1998)

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli. ...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth (1997)

Documentary about Italian film director Pietro Germi ...