A man inadvertently reveals his secret life to his mother in this gay-themed drama. Malik (Antonin Stahly) was born and...
|
|
2010
|
Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A...
|
|
2006
|
Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film,...
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2003
|
Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in...
|
|
2002
|
On the eve of her seventh birthday, little Amanda Meyer (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) bears witness to the gory spectacle of her...
|
|
1999
|
This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in...
|
|
1997
|
Set in a Tunisian melting-pot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker Ferid Boughedir, this...
|
|
1995
|
This fluffy French romantic comedy chronicles the love lives of several lovers and relatives. Margeau has just arrived in...
|
Margaux
|
1994
|
|
Maria
|
1993
|
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years...
|
Araxi (Mayrig)
|
1992
|
Nina Menkes' second feature is composed of incidents in the life of a depressed Las Vegas blackjack dealer played by the...
|
|
1991
|
|
|
Araxi (Mayrig)
|
1991
|
|
|
Roxelane
|
1990
|
In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her...
|
Elena Basile
|
1990
|
Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people...
|
Helene
|
1989
|
|
|
|
1989
|
With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film...
|
|
1989
|
This children's drama centers around a funeral, questions of life after death, and the meaning of love. It tells the tale of...
|
Tata, Nanny
|
1988
|
|
|
Julia Steiner
|
1987
|
The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by...
|
Jeanne
|
1986
|
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director...
|
Maura
|
1985
|
In this Italian drama, based upon the epic novel by Morante, a half-Jewish mother endeavors to conceal her identity during...
|
Ida
|
1985
|
This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than Shakespeare's historical work. Moreover,...
|
Matilda
|
1984
|
This melodrama is the second of a two part story based on a novel by Judith Krantz. In this episode, Daisy, the daughter of a...
|
|
1983
|
In a revealing documentary about one slice of film history, directors Francesco Bortolini and Claudio Masenza interview eight...
|
|
1983
|
Aldo (Lino Ventura) is a worker in a Canadian goldmine who escapes being murdered by a gang of marauding bandits as they kill...
|
La "baronne"
|
1983
|
The Gift was based on Bankers Also Have Souls, a play by Valme and Terzolli. To honor retiring co-worker Gregoire...
|
Antonella
|
1982
|
Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric...
|
|
1982
|
German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed...
|
Molly
|
1982
|
The Italian La Pelle was released in English-speaking countries as The Skin. Set in the twilight of World War 2, the film is...
|
Princess Caracciolo
|
1981
|
Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and...
|
|
1981
|
Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury...
|
|
1980
|
The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
|
Eleana
|
1979
|
In this fast-paced action/drama, a downtrodden farmer turns to crime and quickly rises to prominence in the Sicilian mafia....
|
Rosa Accordino
|
1978
|
In this family drama, a man finds himself becoming increasingly estranged from his wife and teenage daughter. To rectify the...
|
Marta Campagna
|
1978
|
The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for...
|
Countess
|
1978
|
While a CIA agent prepares to assist in the overthrow of an African nation, he discovers that his friend is interfering in...
|
|
1977
|
The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the...
|
Woman
|
1977
|
La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a...
|
Catherine
|
1977
|
Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
|
|
1977
|
A biker chick and her housewife friend go out & about. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
|
|
1977
|
|
|
La Ballarin
|
1976
|
Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback"...
|
|
1976
|
After her father (Adolfo Celi) is exiled to an island off the coast of Italy for his anti-Mussolini politics, Libera...
|
Libera Valente
|
1975
|
Made for television, Sniper originally aired under the title The Deadly Tower. In vivid, sweat-inducing detail, the film...
|
|
1975
|
This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella...
|
Gabriella Sansoni
|
1975
|
An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a...
|
|
1974
|
Franco Nero stars in Blood Brothers as an aspiring lawyer. For some reason, people are reluctant to help him in his goals....
|
|
1974
|
|
|
|
1973
|
Based on M. Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a...
|
|
1973
|
In 1934, Roberto Borgo (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Sicily for Marseille, where his childhood friend Xavier...
|
Genevieve Saratov
|
1972
|
This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal...
|
Aiche
|
1972
|
In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately,...
|
Carmela
|
1971
|
Imagine, for a moment, that a town in the American Old West was founded by and for French people, and that two of the sexiest...
|
Maria
|
1971
|
|
|
Popsy
|
1971
|
In this caper movie, a woman plots the biggest diamond theft in history. She succeeds too. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
|
|
1971
|
Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little...
|
Teresa, Countess of Morales
|
1970
|
The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and...
|
Nurse
|
1969
|
The literal translation of this title is Certain, Very Certain, As a Matter of Fact...Probable. This indeed was the title by...
|
Marta
|
1969
|
Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to...
|
Giuditta
|
1969
|
|
|
Esmeralda
|
1969
|
In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western...
|
Jill
|
1968
|
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the...
|
Rosa Nicolosi
|
1968
|
Two former World War II pilots take to running an air-freight company in South Africa after the war. They get mixed up with...
|
Elena
|
1968
|
British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield...
|
Laura Califatti
|
1967
|
In this comedy, a lovely woman lives and loves freely. Her many lovers do not mind and all are happy until one of the men...
|
Rosa
|
1967
|
This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different...
|
Armenia [Queen Armenia]
|
1966
|
In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the...
|
Aicha
|
1966
|
|
Maria Grant
|
1966
|
In this offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy, Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) is a scientist working on secret...
|
Vicky Vincenti
|
1966
|
|
|
Sandra
|
1965
|
Jealousy between the men in love with one woman cannot be contained by the woman. ~ Rovi...
|
|
1965
|
This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman,...
|
Maria Grazia Artusi
|
1964
|
Leo (Rod Steiger) is an aristocrat whose family fortunes have plummeted in this downbeat melodrama. He seeks to reverse his...
|
Carla Ardengo
|
1964
|
Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for...
|
Toni Alfredo
|
1964
|
|
Angelica Sedara
|
1963
|
|
Claudia
|
1963
|
|
Princess Dala
|
1963
|
Two popular lead actors star in this conventional story of unrequited love, directed by Mauro Bolognini. Emilio...
|
Angiolina
|
1962
|
Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from...
|
Venus
|
1962
|
Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in...
|
Albertine
|
1961
|
The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch...
|
Bianca
|
1961
|
The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by...
|
Aida Zepponi
|
1961
|
Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who...
|
|
1960
|
In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
|
Pauline
|
1960
|
Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay,...
|
Barbara Puglisi
|
1960
|
This standard action-chase film stars Renato Salvatore as Antonio, a man on the run from the Mafia, and the soon-to-be-famous...
|
Grazia
|
1960
|
The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective in this standard though...
|
Fedora
|
1960
|
A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for...
|
Maria
|
1960
|
In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The...
|
Carmela Nicosia
|
1959
|
A puzzling crime case is methodically worked out to a solution in this excellent suspense drama by director (and lead actor)...
|
Assuntina
|
1959
|
|
Carmelina
|
1958
|
As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young...
|
|
1958
|