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Actors: Anna Galiena, Peter Stormare, Simona Cavallari, Jacques Sernas, Maurizio Micheli
Synopsis: In this period drama, romance and confusion rule the day in a 17th theatrical troupe. Giovanni Andreini (Peter Stormare) is a playwright who leads the Company of Faithful Comics, a group of performers dependant on the financial support of the Duke of Mantua; however, before he's willing to finance Read More
Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Stefania Sandrelli, Sami Frey, Jan Biczycki, Alexandre Mnouchkine
Synopsis: Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is, until Martha's lover Victor (Sami Frey) decides he'd rather be Anna's lover. Mortified, Martha flees to Africa, leaving the field clear for her ex-friend. When Anna comes Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Lucia Bosé, Miguel Bose, Christopher Lee
Synopsis: Since Moliere's plays are national classics of France, an air of reverence surrounds them. However, they are for the most part comedies based on older commedia del'arte storylines and acting conventions (which most closely resemble the broad humor of the American vaudeville or the British Read More
Actors: Richard Berry, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Farid Chopel, Fabrice Eberhard
Synopsis: This technically impressive throwback to the early days of film noir stars Richard Berry as Bruno, a young actor who seems to get blamed for everything. Spotting a gorgeous female shoplifter (Victoria Abril) in trouble, Bruno decides to help her and gets arrested in her place. While lamenting his 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: Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Sernas, Jacques Serre, Ginette Garcin, Armand Philoxene Meffre, Ginette Mathieu
Synopsis: Brigett Fossey stars as a repressed young nurse who hopes that moving from the city to the country will open up new vistas in her life (thereby reversing the usual country-to-city route of most movie heroines!) She meets and falls in love with bachelor Jacques Serre, likewise a free spirit. Though Fossey Read More
Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich
Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More
Actors: Richard Alfieri, Helmut Griem, Olga Georges-Picot, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward
Synopsis: An Israeli doctor (Helmut Griem) is working with guerrillas at an enclave when the Palestinians attempt to blow up a dance-hall. The doctor is stunned to discover an old friend among the terrorist dead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Rik Boyd, Silvio Nardo
Synopsis: This sequel to Superfly has former drug dealer Youngblood Priest living in Rome with his lover. His life has become peaceful and he is utterly bored, so when a gun-smuggling African revolutionary shows up, he decides to help him overthrow the tyrant who is running the rebel's country. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Jacques Sernas, Mark Colleano
Synopsis: Captain Turner (Rock Hudson) is the American paratrooper who employs Italian children to blow up a strategic dam controlled by the Nazis. He is the only survivor of his unit gunned down during the jump. Rescued by the moppets, he slaps and rapes German medico Bianca (Sylva Koscina), which Read More
Actors: Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Ralph Richardson, Adolfo Celi
Synopsis: A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for prominent career advancements. John Pedley (Fred Astaire) is the agent who has been passed over for knighthood one too many times for his liking. He proposes a plan to university Read More
Synopsis: This well-paced spaghetti western from director Giorgio Ferroni deals with Southern Major Sanders (Jacques Sernas), who continues fighting the North after the conclusion of the Civil War. Former Rebel Gary Diamond (Giuliano Gemma), now a guide, leads a pair of Union soldiers to stop Sanders before Read More
Synopsis: The Balearic Caper is a West German gold-hunt escapade. The film zeroes in on the Balearic Islands, where a sunken treasure has been located. The island is besieged by legitimate archaeologists and crooked fortune hunters, some of whom will go to any lengths to claim the booty. Three people are Read More
Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Sophie Daumier, Jacques Sernas, José Calvo
Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck
Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More
Actors: Jacques Sernas, Mireille Darc, Marilù Tolo, Venantino Venantini
Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland
Synopsis: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray was taken off the film and replaced by the more pliable directorial touches of Andrew Marton. Charlton Heston stars as Read More
Actors: Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale, Claudio Gora, Ivo Garrani
Synopsis: Steve Reeves once again dons sandals and hoists a sword to come to the dashing rescue of the oppressed masses in this routine Roman tale of the good old days when men were unbelievably muscular, invulnerable fighting machines. Randus (Steve Reeves) is a centurion assigned to Rome's army in Egypt Read More
Synopsis: A beautiful warrior queen battles it out with her rivals in this adventure fantasy set in the 1400s. As a girl, the Hun girl was orphaned when her tribe's enemies attack and raze her village. She then is raised by a friendly tribe and with them learns warrior's ways. Complicating her upcoming Read More
Actors: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas
Synopsis: This unexceptional Duel of the Titans takes place on two different levels at once. The legendary brothers Romulus and Remus go at it to see who will ultimately survive and found the city of Caesars. And the slightly less legendary but still impressive Steve Reeves (Romulus) and Gordon Scott Read More
Synopsis: Centurions was initially released in the US The Centurion (some difference). Jacques Sernas heads the cast as a Roman gladiator sent on a diplomatic mission to Greece. Sernas's task is to convince the Greeks to acquiesce to Roman rule, but he is opposed by a group of freedom advocates (among them John Drew Barrymore Read More
Synopsis: Set in ancient Rome, this film follows the struggle of Roman triplets as they battle their Alban arch-enemies to prevent Rome from being annexed to Alba. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Jacques Sernas, Leonora Ruffo, Annabella Incontrera
Synopsis: Former big-screen Tarzan Gordon Scott appears in one of many sword-and-sandal epics featuring muscle-bound, mini-skirted hero Maciste (aka Goliath, cinematic kin to Steve Reeves's Hercules), sworn to protect the helpless with his strength and swordsmanship. In this horror-tinged outing, the Read More
Synopsis: The trouble in this Italian crime drama begins when five convicts and their leader escape from Elba and endeavor to rob the payroll office of an iron mine. The mine owner's son refuses to allow this. Unfortunately, the son's sister and her pals happen into the office and soon find themselves held Read More
Actors: Jean Valerie, Jacques Sernas, Edmund Purdom, Arnoldo Foa, Riccardo Garrone
Synopsis: In this drama, the daughter of the leader of Carthage falls in love with the mercenary leader of an angered band of soldiers who are out to get the pay they were cheated out of after they valiantly fought to save the city. The woman promises to give him her jewels to repay them, but then a Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker
Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More
Actors: Dalida, Jacques Sernas, Raymond Bussières, Mario Carotenuto
Actors: Belinda Lee, Jacques Sernas, Michele Mercier, Arnoldo Foa, Franco Fabrizi
Synopsis: The Nights of Lucretia Borgia and not her days in history are the openly seductive draw in this standard Italian costume drama with a rather weak storyline. Lucretia of the poisonous vial (Belinda Lee) lusts after the handsome swordsman (Jacques Sernas) who works for her nefarious brother Cesare. Read More
Actors: Anita Ekberg, Folco Lulli, Jacques Sernas
Synopsis: This sword and sandal epic set in 217 AD follows the exploits of a courageous gladiator who is taken prisoner on behalf of the Queen of Palmyra. To win her confidence, the gladiator pretends to hate his Roman masters, but as soon as she trusts him, he has his soldiers take her prisoner. Because he Read More
Actors: Belinda Lee, Massimo Girotti, Jacques Sernas
Synopsis: British sex symbol Belinda Lee stars in the overheated Italian costume melodrama La Venere di Cheronea (The Venus of Cheronea). Lee is cast as Afrodite, the girl who allegedly inspired the greatest works of famed Greek sculptor Praxiletes (Massimo Girotti). According to the screenplay, Afrodite Read More
Actors: Dany Robin, Jacques Sernas, Noël Roquevert, Denise Grey
Synopsis: Per its title, C'est La Faute D'Adam (It's Adam's Fault) is a comedy about romance. En route to his wedding, the hero picks up a pretty hitchhiker who is suffering from amnesia. Naturally, his fiancee takes a dim view of this, and the marriage is promptly called off. But that's not the end of the Read More
Synopsis: Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina. The 56-day battle of Dien Ben Phu is herein reenacted, with several French volunteers emerging as the heroes. Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Read More
Actors: Märta Torén, Gino Cervi, Charles Vanel, Jacques Sernas, Folco Lulli
Actors: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis
Synopsis: Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the title role of Helen of Troy. Filmed in Italy, this super-epic costars Jacques Sernas as Paris of Troy, who sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful Read More
Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More
Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Jacques Sernas, Lea Padovani
Synopsis: Barrier of the Law is an Italian crime meller with an above-average cast. Italy's Rosanno Brazzi and France's Jacques Sernas are top-billed in this tense little effort. The plot concerns an undercover operation, wherein a honest cop infiltrates a gang of clever crooks. Complications ensue when a Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Etchika Choureau, Jacques Sernas, Dora Doll, Jacques Castelot
Synopsis: Erich von Stroheim dominates the proceedings in the French L'Envers du Paradis (Other Side of Paradise) Set in a tiny village near the Riviera, the story concerns a diverse group of has-beens and losers. Von Stroheim plays O'Hara (sic!), a sea captain who's never been to sea. The Countess (played Read More
Actors: Susan Stephen, Anna Maria Ferrero, Jacques Sernas, Steve Barclay, Marina Vlady
Synopsis: The misleadingly titled Italian comedy Luxury Girls is set in an exclusive Swiss finishing school. Rambunctious American lass Lorna Whitmore Susan Stephan is enrolled in the school by her wealthy parents. Before long, Laura has set the institution on its ear with her precocious behavior. Her Read More
Actors: Jacques Sernas, Rossana Podestà, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento
Synopsis: Gli Angeli del Quartiere (Angels of the District) concentrates on five lovable Italian war orphans. Living a hand-to-mouth existence, the children are elated to discover a bagful of money in a cellar. Wondering where best to spend their treasure, the kids are "advised" by adult thief Mario (Jacques Sernas Read More
Actors: Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Alain Cuny, Jacques Sernas, Carlo Ninchi
Synopsis: Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani. The actress plays the wife of the great Italian patriot Garibaldi, who at the beginning of the film hovers on the brink of death, harking back to past glories. Most of the Read More
Actors: Marina Berti, Jacques Sernas, Anna Maria Ferrero
Synopsis: The Italian The Sky is Red (Il Cielo e Rosso) details the romantic adventures of two postwar couples. Despite being confined to a quarantined zone (quarantined for political, rather than health reasons), love finds a way. The neorealistic elements are passable, but what really "sold" this film Read More
Actors: Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Miles Malleson, Walter Rilia
Synopsis: In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he finds himself entangled with a murderous band of arms smugglers. The story is based on one of Victor Canning's novels. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Sernas, Jean Debucourt
Synopsis: Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan le Tulip, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleu. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title Read More
Synopsis: Gioventu Perduta (Lost Youth) represented Pietro Germi's second directorial effort. Jacques Sernas stars as Stefano, the charismatic head of a youthful bandit gang. Successfully leading a double life, Stefano poses as a pillar of postwar society, all the while plotting a robbery with his fellow Read More
Actors: Carla Del Poggio, Jacques Sernas, Giulio Cali, Anna Carena
Synopsis: Il Mulino del Po was based on a novel by Riccardo Baccheli. Essentially an elaborate retelling of the old one about a pair of young lovers kept separated by family rivalries, the film is distinguished by its evocative location photography and tight, mathematically precise editing. Director Alberto Lattuada Read More
Actors: Silvana Mangano, Amedeo Nazzari, Jacques Sernas, Vittorio Gassman
Synopsis: Barely seen in the US at the time of its release, the Italian Lure of the Sila (IL Lupo Della Sila) became a television mainstay in the 1960s. Vittorio Gassman plays a man whose life is ruined when he is accused of murder. Gassman's tragedy is broadcast throughout Italy, "glorified" in song and Read More
Actors: Jacques Sernas, Massimo Girotti, Carla Del Poggio, Nando Bruno
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