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Actors: Eugenio Alabisio, Nino Baragli, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Roberto Forges Davanzati
Synopsis: Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film, 1964's Per un Pugno di Dollari (aka A Fistful Of Dollars), made Clint Eastwood a worldwide star and introduced audiences to the forbidding beauty and troubling morality of Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte, Alessandra Martines, Jean-Marie Bigard
Synopsis: Valentin (also known as And Now...Ladies and Gentleman) is directed by Claude Lelouch and features Jeremy Irons as Valentin, a criminal mastermind whose jewel-stealing business, despite having made him rich, does not offer him much room for personal growth. Hoping to find meaning for his Read More
Actors: Helmut Berger, Meralda Caracciolo Di Melito, Claudia Cardinale, Luchino Gastel, Annie Girardot
Synopsis: Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in Adam Low's 2002 documentary produced by the BBC entitled The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti. Born into Italian aristocracy in 1906, Visconti's life was one of Read More
Actors: Rob Lowe, Catherine Stewart, Arlen Aguayo-Stewart, Larry Day, Sean Devine
Synopsis: On the eve of her seventh birthday, little Amanda Meyer (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) bears witness to the gory spectacle of her parents' murder. So traumatized is Amanda that she is struck mute, unable to communicate in any manner, though she does demonstrate affection towards her favorite doll. Though Read More
Actors: Fejria Deliba, Claudia Cardinale, Nadia Farès
Synopsis: This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in France, and the lover who chose to stay in Algeria and fight the French colonials. While this is an excellent concept with great potential, in the end it is not sustained by Read More
Actors: Gamil Ratib, Mustafa Adouani
Synopsis: Set in a Tunisian melting-pot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker Ferid Boughedir, this bittersweet comedy-drama tells the tale of how the secret conspiracy between three teen girls to lose their virginity before they turn seventeen wreaks havoc on the lives and Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Carole Laure, Bernard Le Coq, Roland Blanche, Heinz Bennent
Synopsis: This fluffy French romantic comedy chronicles the love lives of several lovers and relatives. Margeau has just arrived in Paris from New York. Twenty years before, she left her husband, a painter and many years her senior and her daughter Jess, who now sells classic cars with her partner the Read More
Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Jennifer Edwards
Synopsis: After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new "Pink Panther" film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Richard Berry, Diane Bellego
Synopsis: This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from Armenia and is adapting to his new country to the best of Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif, Isabelle Sadoyan, Nathalie Roussel
Synopsis: Nina Menkes' second feature is composed of incidents in the life of a depressed Las Vegas blackjack dealer played by the director's sister and regular collaborator, Tinka Menkes. The first half of the film reveals that she lives in a cheap, ramshackle apartment building, along with a bickering Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Giulia Boschi, Bruno Cremer
Synopsis: In this painful melodrama, an aging mother (Claudia Cardinale) attempts to cope with the progressive deterioration of her grown son due to his drug addiction. At first only manipulative, in addition to stealing from her he eventually becomes abusive and violent, and she must take strong measures Read More
Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer
Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More
Actors: Lambert Wilson, Claudia Cardinale, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Laurent Terzieff
Synopsis: Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and homeless, sleeping under bridges, etc. The winter of 1953-54 proved particularly difficult for these people, as it was one of the coldest on record. Father Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Sara Triulzi, Matteo Mobilia, Athina Cenci, William Berger
Synopsis: This children's drama centers around a funeral, questions of life after death, and the meaning of love. It tells the tale of two wealthy children, who have every thing but their parents' love, and their nanny. The nanny is instructed to take the kids to their uncle's funeral. There they ask Read More
Actors: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale, John Berry
Synopsis: A married American actor (Peter Coyote) falls in love with his on-screen flame (Greta Scacchi) while filming an Italian biography of author Cesare Pavese. France's 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival, this was the first English-language film for director Diane Kurys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Synopsis: The emotional ups-and-downs of a closely-knit but often feuding family is the focus of this sentimental drama by Nadine Trintignant. She is the wife of Jean-Louis Trintignant, who appears as Paul, an impoverished playwright married to Dino (Fanny Ardant). Dino and Paul argue all the time, enough Read More
Actors: Ben Gazzara, Lina Sastri, Claudia Cardinale, Orazio Orlando, Flavio Bucci
Synopsis: In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Lambert Wilson, Francisco Rabal, Andrea Spada, Antonio Degli Schiavi
Synopsis: In this Italian drama, based upon the epic novel by Morante, a half-Jewish mother endeavors to conceal her identity during the Mussolini years, 1941-1947. The story is set in Rome where the mother has worked as a school teacher. It begins when the mother, who has a teenage son, is raped and Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Luciano Bartoli, Latou Chardons, Leopoldo Trieste
Synopsis: This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than Shakespeare's historical work. Moreover, the Henry depicted herein is not the English king, but the 11th-century Holy Roman emperor. In addition, central character Marcello Mastroianni doesn't play emperor Henry Read More
Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Paul Michael Glaser, Robert Urich, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: 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 Russian prince and an American movie star, must leave college and begin looking for a job in New York so that she can pay her sister's enormous medical bills. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Claudia Cardinale, Bernard Giraudeau, Beatrix Van Til, Pierre Frag
Synopsis: Aldo (Lino Ventura) is a worker in a Canadian goldmine who escapes being murdered by a gang of marauding bandits as they kill off everyone in the camp except Aldo and two Native American workers and then nab the gold stores. The three survivors manage to kill off the assassins and discuss dividing Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Sylva Koscina, Virna Lisi, Claudia Cardinale, Giorgia Moll
Synopsis: In a revealing documentary about one slice of film history, directors Francesco Bortolini and Claudio Masenza interview eight Italian actresses who attained fame in the U.S. through films they made in Hollywood. Most of the eight agree that performers are treated better in Hollywood than in Italy Read More
Actors: Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, Clio Goldsmith, Jacques Francois, Cecile Magnet
Synopsis: The Gift was based on Bankers Also Have Souls, a play by Valme and Terzolli. To honor retiring co-worker Gregoire (Pierre Mondy), a group of bank employees pool their money and purchase a farewell gift: gorgeous prostitute Barbara (Clio Goldsmith). Since Gregoire is married to the luscious Read More
Actors: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric German filmmaker made his epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. Herzog's production is in trouble right from the start. He begins filming with Jason Robards Read More
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Jose Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Ken Marshall
Synopsis: The Italian La Pelle was released in English-speaking countries as The Skin. Set in the twilight of World War 2, the film is a compendium of bitter recollections concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. These memories were originally bundled together in book form by Curzio Malaparte, played Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Sybil Danning
Synopsis: Dante Matucci (Franco Nero), a counter-intelligence officer, uncovers a fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government, and as he begins to investigate, he has an ally in Bruno Manzini (Anthony Quinn), a man dedicated to hunting down war criminals. Bruno and other operatives, including the Read More
Synopsis: Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury becomes taken with fantasies about the marriage of the accused. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree
Synopsis: The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes, emphasizing the action content and neutralizing the duller dialogue sequences. Roger Moore stars as Major Otto Hecht, an anti-Nazi German who presides over a World War II POW Read More
Synopsis: A Nazi-held island in World War II is the sight of an odd union between Allied prisoners of war, USO entertainers, Greek partisans and patriotic prostitutes. (AKA Escape to Athena) ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, Francisco Rabal, Stefano Satta Flores, Michele Placido
Synopsis: In this fast-paced action/drama, a downtrodden farmer turns to crime and quickly rises to prominence in the Sicilian mafia. Along the way, he learns the importance of political connections and of having legitimate businesses to funnel ill-gotten cash into. Determined to do away with the old and Read More
Actors: Stefano Satta Flores, Claudia Cardinale, Benedetta Fantoli
Synopsis: In this family drama, a man finds himself becoming increasingly estranged from his wife and teenage daughter. To rectify the situation he gets a handgun and begins to try to prove that he is indeed a real man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Lara Wendel, Umberto Orsini, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Fresson, Marius Goring
Synopsis: The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for wealthy misfits who had no other place to go to escape that regime. Despite the certain knowledge that their doom is approaching, the characters in this film party and quarrel Read More
Synopsis: While a CIA agent prepares to assist in the overthrow of an African nation, he discovers that his friend is interfering in the country's politics. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it. Indeed, on occasion he finds it necessary to gun Read More
Synopsis: A biker chick and her housewife friend go out & about. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Rufus, Roland Bertin
Synopsis: La Part du Feu is a French idiom, and has to do with making a sacrifice for some gain. Hansen (Michel Piccoli) is a wheeler-dealer and building developer, who apparently manipulates people and situations just for the joy of it. In this melodrama, it was his wife Catherine's (Claudia Cardinale) Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger
Synopsis: Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down
Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Adolfo Celi, Philippe Leroy, Bekim Fehmiu, Bruno Cirino
Synopsis: After her father (Adolfo Celi) is exiled to an island off the coast of Italy for his anti-Mussolini politics, Libera (Claudia Cardinale) is increasingly incensed by the fascist government of Italy and makes a number of bold and very personal gestures against it. At first, these only result in her Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto
Synopsis: This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella Sansoni (Claudia Cardinale), learns about love from the testimony of Tina Candela (Monica Vitti), a woman on trial for murder. It seems that Tina has found ecstasy in a Read More
Actors: Kurt Russell, Richard Yniguez, Ned Beatty
Synopsis: Made for television, Sniper originally aired under the title The Deadly Tower. In vivid, sweat-inducing detail, the film recreates the horror of August 4, 1966, when outwardly normal student Charles Whitman climbed to the tower of the University of Texas and began firing his rifle on the passersby Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi
Synopsis: An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a decadent family moves upstairs. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Franco Nero stars in Blood Brothers as an aspiring lawyer. For some reason, people are reluctant to help him in his goals. That's when he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. Claudia Cardinale costars in this leisurely crime melodrama. Blood Brothers Read More
Synopsis: Based on M. Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Michel Constantin, Michel Peyrelon, Aldo Bufi-Landi
Synopsis: In 1934, Roberto Borgo (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves Sicily for Marseille, where his childhood friend Xavier (Michel Constantin) has just been condemned to 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Indeed, local gang leader, Villanova, has framed Xavier. Roberto confronts the mobster and Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Alain Cuny, Vittorio Gassman, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi
Synopsis: This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo's battle with officious Vatican bureaucrats and bungling attempts to catch the Pope off-guard, the film rarely rises to the level Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately, for this shy, homely Italian man, all of Australia is remote. He wants a wife, and arranges for one by mail. The woman he has chosen is Carmela (Claudia Cardinale), a very Read More
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard
Synopsis: 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 women in modern times were rivals for control of that town. In Les Petroleuses, Frenchy (Brigitte Bardot) and Maria (Claudia Cardinale) are at war over an oil lease. Maria Read More
Actors: Stanley Baker, Claudia Cardinale, Henri Charriere
Synopsis: Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her "pop" wrong as they are both pursued by police. This French-language underworld Read More
Synopsis: In this caper movie, a woman plots the biggest diamond theft in history. She succeeds too. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Peter McEnery
Synopsis: Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little Corporal's 1808 campaign in the Spanish peninsula. Col. Gerard's adventures include an ongoing war of nerves against Napoleon's forces, not to mention a steamy affair with one Read More
Actors: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti
Synopsis: The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and Russian co-production. Peter Finch stars as General Umberto Nobile, who is visited in Rome by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken in his ill-fated mission forty years Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Catherine Spaak, Robert Hoffman, Nino Castelnuovo, John Phillip Law
Synopsis: The literal translation of this title is Certain, Very Certain, As a Matter of Fact...Probable. This indeed was the title by which this trivial Italian comedy was known during its limited American release. The star is international glamour plate Claudia Cardinale, improbably cast as a telephone Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Renaud Verley
Synopsis: Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to rise up against the Pope. Cornacchia (Nino Manfredi) is the politician who helps the rebel outlaws Montanari (Robert Hossein) and Targhini (Renaud Verley). Martial law is Read More
Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin, Ellen Corby
Synopsis: In this 1968 Italian production, Francesco Maselli directs this light-hearted and fast-paced caper comedy with Rock Hudson as New York City police captain Mike Harmon, who becomes involved with sex bomb Esmeralda Marini (Claudia Cardinale). Esmeralda, using the ploy that Harmon was an old friend Read More
Actors: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti
Synopsis: In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda) Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Gaetano Cimarosa, Nehemiah Persoff
Synopsis: 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 death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rod Taylor, Claudia Cardinale, Harry Guardino, Kevin McCarthy, William Marshall
Synopsis: Two former World War II pilots take to running an air-freight company in South Africa after the war. They get mixed up with Lee Harris (Harry Guardino), the dangerous black-market crime boss who flaunts his beautiful mistress Elana (Claudia Cardinale). Brynie (Rod Taylor) and Mike (Peter Deuel) Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Akim Tamiroff, Lando Buzzanca
Synopsis: 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 gets possessive and knocks her around. As the woman recovers in the hospital, her physician suggest she try monogamy for a while. She does, but it is not as much fun and so Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate
Synopsis: British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) is a footloose tourist who meets Laura Califatti (Claudia Cardinale) when she accidentally edges his car off the highway. Laura invites Carlo to her home; he seems Read More
Actors: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Giovampietro, Franco Balducci, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode
Synopsis: Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (Lee Read More
Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter
Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy, Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) is a scientist working on secret military projects for the United States government. Vincenti is becoming increasingly unstable as he works in solitude in a backwater swamp; his superiors fear that he might Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale, Gregoire Aslan
Synopsis: In this wartime melodrama, Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is a French peasant who has worked his way up the military ladder during the French involvement in Indochina. Sent to Algeria, Raspeguy must mold a group of raw recruits into a competent fighting unit. He calls on Esclavier (Alain Delon Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Marie Bell, Amalia Troiani, Renzo Ricci
Synopsis: American Andrew (Michael Craig) comes with his young wife Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) to her Italian estate, where she again finds herself a prisoner of the past: the memories of her dead father, hostility towards her mother, and her strange relationship with her brother Gianni (Jean Sorel). Read More
Synopsis: Jealousy between the men in love with one woman cannot be contained by the woman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Philippe Nicaud, Michéle Girardon, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard, Rod Steiger, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Leo (Rod Steiger) is an aristocrat whose family fortunes have plummeted in this downbeat melodrama. He seeks to reverse his money problems by courting the wealthy Mariagrazia (Paulette Goddard), throwing over his former lover Lisa (Shelley Winters) in his quest to continue his posh lifestyle. Read More
Actors: John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte
Synopsis: Filmed in Cinerama and Technicolor, Circus World may have drawn the crowds for various reasons -- not the least, perhaps, for the big names. John Wayne stars as circus owner Matt Masters, who takes his show to Europe hoping to save it from financial ruin. Accompanying Matt, is young Toni (Claudia Cardinale Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Serge Reggiani
Synopsis: Arguably Luchino Visconti's best film and certainly the most personal of his historical epics, The Leopard chronicles the fortunes of Prince Fabrizio Salina and his family during the unification of Italy in the 1860s. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau
Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More
Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player. David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing Read More
Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Claudia Cardinale, Betsy Blair, Philippe Leroy, Nando Angelini
Synopsis: Two popular lead actors star in this conventional story of unrequited love, directed by Mauro Bolognini. Emilio (Anthony Franciosa) is caught in the midst of a heavy-duty mid-life crisis when he runs into sexy Angiolina (Claudia Cardinale), voluptuous and frivolous in equal measure. In spite of Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort, Odile Versois, Marcel Dalio
Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from everyone in sight (he has to -- he's head man of a Parisian crime syndicate) Cartouche is rechanneled into becoming a Gallic Robin Hood by beauteous gypsy Venus (Claudia Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura
Synopsis: Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in her first French film, appears as Albertine, a sexy divorced woman from the countryside who goes to Paris and becomes involved with the fashionable elite. Lino Ventura is Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Paul Frankeur, Gabriella Pallotta
Synopsis: The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). 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 Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Corrado Pani, Luciana Angelillo, Romolo Valli
Synopsis: The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by her lover. She is befriended and protected by her ex-suitor's younger brother Jacques Perrin, who eventually becomes her new romance, despite the difference in ages (Perrin Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin
Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori Read More
Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais
Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay, cowritten by directorial giant Pier Paolo Pasolini. Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale are happily married until she finds out he's impotent. It takes her a year to find Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Annibale Ninchi, Rossella Falk
Synopsis: This standard action-chase film stars Renato Salvatore as Antonio, a man on the run from the Mafia, and the soon-to-be-famous Claudia Cardinale as Grazia, a woman who joins Antonio in his escape attempt. Antonio lives in Sicily and receives orders from the Mafia on the island to assassinate a man. Read More
Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims
Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Gérard Blain, Betsy Blair, Anna Maria Ferrero, Sergio Fantoni
Synopsis: The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective in this standard though uneven drama by director Francesco Maselli. Claudia Cardinale appears in one of her early screen roles as Fedora, a member of the elite and privileged in a provincial Italian Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The task seems simple enough, but the gang suffers a variety of zany mishaps before the leader finally gets hold of the money. Just as he gets it, he is arrested by the police for Read More
Actors: Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Cristina Gajoni, Claudio Gora
Synopsis: A puzzling crime case is methodically worked out to a solution in this excellent suspense drama by director (and lead actor) Pietro Germi. Inspector Ingravallo (Germi) is charged with an investigation into the murder of the wife of Remo Banducci (Claudio Gora). The good inspector is only human Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
Synopsis: Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a Read More
Actors: Omar Sharif, Zohra Faïza, Lauro Gazzolo, Daniel Emilfork
Synopsis: As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes Read More
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