Nino Baragli Filmography

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

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

Và Dove Ti Porta Il Cuore

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Actors: Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Galatea Ranzi

Synopsis: The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Read More

Silenzio Si Nasce

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Synopsis: Off-beat is a description scarcely adequate to describe this highly-original Italian comedy-drama that takes place within a woman's womb and centers on the conversations between two developing fraternal twins, known only as Big Guy and Little Guy. The fetuses are played by long-haired grown men Read More

Il Barbiere Di Rio

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Synopsis: Popular comic actor Diego Abatantuono headlines this lively comedy that follows the adventures of a small-town barber from Italy who one day spontaneously heads for Rio de Janeiro to see his estranged sister. Life there is bewilderingly busy and colorful and the simple barber has many riotous Read More

I Bucchi Neri

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Actors: Vincenzo Peluso, Iaia Forte, Marinella Anaclerio, Manuela Arcuri, Anna Avitabile, Maurizio Bizzi, Lorenzo Crespi, Fabiana Forte

Synopsis: A funky, more than slightly askew love affair between a hooker and a homosexual provides the core of this erotic Italian romantic comedy. Angela is the hooker who, along with a few cronies, provides customers with outdoor love. Adamo, is a platinum blonde Adonis who has just dumped his latest Read More

C'e Kim Novak al Telefono

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Actors: Jacques Perrin, Joanna Pacula, Joachim Lombard, Sylva Koscina, Anna Falchi

Synopsis: This poignant Italian drama tells the tale of a producer who would do just about anything to have actress Kim Novak appear in his next film. Enrico, a producer, needs $250,000 so he can hire Kim Novak for his film. The problem is that he is almost broke. He wants to sell his palatial family home Read More

The Monster

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Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Michel Blanc, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive. During a party he is pointed towards an "easy mark." Unfortunately he approaches the wrong woman. When he discovers his mistakes, he nervously apologizes for the attempted Read More

L'Ours en Peluche

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Actors: Alain Delon, Francesca Dellera, Laure Killing, Regina Bianchi, Paolo Bonacelli, Martine Brochard

Synopsis: This Italian psychological thriller is based on as novel by Georges Simenon. Delon is an immoral, gynecologist who frequently cheats on his wife. He is also very successful and has a richly appointed office in Brussels. His good life begins to change when he finds himself receiving death threats Read More

I Pavoni

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Actors: Rinaldo Rocco, Nicola Russo, Sabrina Knaflitz, Vincenzo Crivello, Max Malatesta

Synopsis: As a lark, a spoiled Italian teenager coolly murders his parents for their money in this chilling Italian drama that closely follows a true story that occurred several years ago. The boy, Vittorio engenders no sympathy from those who dealt with him. He, the son of a wealthy businessman and an Read More

Jona Che Visse Nella Balena

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Actors: Juliet Aubrey, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Luke Petterson, Jenner Del Vecchio, Francesca de Sapio, Djoko Rosic

Synopsis: Fuzzy memories of Anne Frank's diary sometimes cause people to forget that at the height of World War II, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam was not a safe haven for Jews. While many people in the Netherlands and elsewhere risked their lives to protect them, a great many more enthusiastically assisted the Read More

Il Lungo Silenzio

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Actors: Carla Gravina, Jacques Perrin, Alida Valli, Ottavia Piccolo, Giuliano Montaldo

Synopsis: The seemingly endless chain of assassinations of judges who seek to end (or at least curtail) the pervasiveness of organized crime and deep corruption in Italian political life, is the topic of this political thriller. As the film opens, Carla (Carla Gravina) is the gynecologist wife of a judge (Jacques Perrin Read More

Puerto Escondido

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Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Mario (Diego Abatantuono) is a gentle soul living in a big Italian city. He works as a bank teller. When his bank is robbed for the umpteenth time, and he sees yet another policeman killed, he throws in the towel on city life, and attempts to get away from it all by fleeing to a small town in Read More

Johnny Stecchino

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Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi

Synopsis: Comedian Roberto Benigni wrote and directed this Italian farce, in which he stars as Dante, a bus driver who is the exact double of the infamous gangster Johnny Toothpick (Benigni again). After Dante meets Johnny's girlfriend Maria (Nicoletta Braschi), he travels to her Palermo villa, where it Read More

Mediterraneo

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Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti

Synopsis: Gabriele Salvatores' antiwar story Mediterraneo is set during World War II on a seemingly deserted island in the middle of the Aegean Sea. After their ship is sunk by the British, a unit of Italian soldiers finds refuge on the island, where they soon realize that the area is not deserted after Read More

Ambrogio

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Actors: Roberto Citran

Synopsis: Anna-Ambrogio grew up loving the sea and sailing, and nothing would please her more than being able to become a merchant seaman. However, it is the early 1960s, and women are not welcome either at sea or at the various marine academies that train youngsters for oceangoing careers. She has one Read More

L'Avaro

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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

Beyond the Ocean

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Actors: Ben Gazzara, Treat Williams, Peter Riegert, Jill Clayburgh, Rebecca Glenn

Synopsis: As nearly as anyone can figure, this first-time directorial effort by the American actor Ben Gazzara was never released in the United States. It was produced in Italy, shot in England, and uses a large cast of big-name American actors. However, reviewers have said that its style owed a bit too Read More

L'Africana

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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

La Voce della Luna

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Actors: Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani

Synopsis: The elfin, irrepressible and very popular Italian comic Roberto Benigni and the similarly popular Paolo Villaggio star in this, the last of celebrated director Federico Fellini's films. The film's dreamlike story follows the meanderings of the moon-struck (or lunatic) Salvini (Benigni). As it Read More

Cavalli Si Nasce

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Actors: Paolo Hendel, David Riondino, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: In this picaresque period adventure comedy, the roguish almost-gentleman Paolo (Paolo Hendel) of 1832 Naples accompanies his younger friend, Duke Ottavio (David Riondino) to the southern part of Italy. At the time, Italy was a hodge-podge of tiny nations, dukedoms, and principalities which were Read More

Il Piccolo Diavolo

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Actors: Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Nicoletta Braschi, John Lurie, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Father Maurice (Walter Matthau) is called on to perform an exorcism of a demon from a fat lady in this offbeat comedy. What emerges is Giuditta (Roberto Benigni) a narcissistic, fun-loving devil with a penchant for nonsensical sayings, and the devil attaches himself to Father Maurice for a series Read More

I Cammelli

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Actors: Paolo Rossi, Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Boschi, Giancarlo Sbragia, Sabina Guzzanti

Synopsis: Ferroccio Ferri (Paolo Rossi) is a quiz-show champion who is an expert on camels in this offbeat comedy. He is eligible for the upcoming show that will award a sizeable sum of money to the grand-prize winner. Camillo (Diego Abatantuono) is the manager of a second-rate traveling troupe who recruits Read More

Strana La Vita

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Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Monica Guerritore, Lina Sastri, Amanda Sandrelli, Domiziana Giordano

Synopsis: Dario (Diego Abantantuono) is a psychologist who is in no hurry to marry his schoolteacher paramour Maria (Lina Sastri) in this romantic comedy. He meets an old friend who married Dario's former sweetheart Anna (Monica Guerritore), and with a picture of his wife and mistress in his hand, the man Read More

Miss Arizona

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Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Dorottya Udvaros, Alessandra Martines, Urbano Barberini

Synopsis: Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists looking for a cache of diamonds. She and her young son escape with Sandor to Italy. By the 1930s, they return to Budapest to run the successful Arizona Club, a posh Read More

Le Vie Del Signore Sono Finite

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Actors: Massimo Troisi, Jo Champa, Marco Messeri, Massimo Bonetti

Synopsis: In this uneven feature that wavers between a political comedy and social drama, Camillo (Massimo Troisi) suffers from psychosomatic paralysis when his fiance Vittoria (Jo Champa) ends the engagement. Camillo is thrown in jail by the card-carrying fascist Orlando (Massimo Bonetti) when he falls for Read More

Intervista

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Actors: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein

Synopsis: Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict Read More

Mosca Addio

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Actors: Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Aurore Clément, Francesca Ciardi, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays real-life Jewish dissident and astronomer Ida Nudel in this historical biography. Ida is denied papers to emigrate after her lover Yuli (Daniel Olbrychski) is release from a labor camp. When Yuli and Ida's sister Elena (Aurore Clement) receive their papers, Ida rides with them on Read More

D'Annunzio

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Actors: Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli, Sonia Petrova, Teresa Ann Savoy, Florence Guerin

Synopsis: During his lifetime, the noted Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio was considered to be a genius, a daring adventurer, and a major Italian nationalist. During the Mussolini era, he was still considered to be a major figure in Italian literature, and many schoolchildren were required to study his Read More

Hotel Colonial

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Actors: John Savage, Robert Duvall, Rachel Ward, Massimo Troisi, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: After discovering that his terrorist brother has committed suicide, Marco (John Savage) travels to Columbia to investigate, in this action film. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Ragazzo di Calabria

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Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè, Therese Liotard

Synopsis: Like many uninsightful fathers, Nicola is very ambitious and hardworking and perceives himself to be a failure. He has persuaded himself that the only good thing his thirteen-year-old son can possibly do is to work harder and smarter than he himself did, so that he, at least, can fulfill his Read More

Troppo Forte

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Actors: Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, Alberto Sordi, John Steiner, Mario Brega

Synopsis: The Italian comic Carlo Verdone stars in (and directs and co-authors) this conventional, and unevenly humorous look at Oscar (Verdone), the neighborhood wannabe jock and biker who tries to land a part in a movie. After he is rejected, Oscar exacts revenge by causing a car crash that the producer's Read More

Ginger and Fred

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Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Martin Maria Blau

Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts Read More

Segreti Segreti

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Actors: Lina Sastri, Lea Massari, Giulia Boschi, Rossana Podestà, Alida Valli, Mariangela Melato

Synopsis: Giuseppe Bertolucci (younger brother of Bernardo Bertolucci) has created a movie unusual for its all-female cast of well-known Italian actresses and for a script that gives them latitude to develop their individual characters. The story is about Laura (Lina Sastri) a young terrorist who commits a Read More

L'Attenzione

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Actors: Ben Cross, Amanda Sandrelli

Synopsis: This is a slow-paced, weighty story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism that never materialize. Livia (Stefania Sandrelli) is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto (Ben Cross), whose journalism career takes him away for months at a time -- on Read More

La Storia

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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

Non Ci Resta Che Piangere

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Actors: Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Amanda Sandrelli

Synopsis: Two of Italy's top comics, Massimo Troisi and Roberto Benigni teamed up to write (with Giuseppe Bertolucci), direct, and star in this comedy about two men accidentally thrown back to the year 1492. In a series of comic sketches, two friends, Saverio (Benigni) and Mario (Troisi) suddenly find Read More

Don Chisciotte

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Synopsis: As Don Quixote would say (an original quote), "the proof of the pudding is in the eating," and this interpretation of Cervantes' famous idealist and his trusty sidekick Sancho Panza is not gourmet. Don Quixote still tilts at windmills, and Panza goads him on, but their adventures are boxed in by Read More

Occhei, Occhei

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Actors: Paula Molina, Giulia Salvatori, Luigi Laezza, Ninetto Davoli

Synopsis: Occhei, Occhei was not "occhei" with the Italian censors, who based their judgment on teen Bianca's sexual liaison with her boyfriend and her later gang-rape by three men who saw her lurid disco dancing -- implying that the rape was "her fault." Bianca (Paula Molina) and her friend Rosy (Giulia Salvatori Read More

Once Upon a Time in America

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Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their Read More

Malamore

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Actors: Jimmy Briscoe, Nathalie Nell, Tony Marsina, Remo Girone

Synopsis: Set in a fictional area in Northern Italy during World War I, this story spins around Marcello (Jimmy Briscoe), a man blessed with the wealth of his landowner parents, but cursed with a "deformity" he cannot alter -- he is a dwarf. His family is ashamed and keeps him secluded, and their feelings Read More

Bianco, Rosso E Verdone

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Actors: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: The stage comedian Carlo Verdone directed and stars as the three main characters -- Furio, Mimmo, and Pasquale -- in this classic Italian comedy. All three men are driving back to their hometowns to vote on election day, and each has a different story and a different though easily recognizable Read More

Il Minestrone

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Actors: Roberto Benigni, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Daria Nicolodi

Synopsis: An off-beat comedy that takes a close look at the homeless and the hungry, Minestrone pulls off its wry and acerbic vision thanks to Sergio Citti, director and co-author of the script (with Vincenzo Cerami). Roberto Begnigni as Maestro contributes his own comedic talents to the film. The story Read More

La Vera Storia Della Signora Delle Camelie

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Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz, Fernando Rey, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite Gautier, (called "Camille" because of her love for camelias) is supported by a series of aristocratic lovers, but does not fall in love until she meets Armand Duval. Armand's Read More

Alien Contamination

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Actors: Ian McCullough, Louise Monroe, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch, Lisa Hahn

Synopsis: Following the surprising success of his cheapjack Star Wars knockoff, Star Crash, Italian director Luigi Cozzi was given the helm of this cheapjack Alien knockoff. An alien cyclops causes a man to cover the Earth with nasty eggs (sometimes made of silicone, sometimes close-ups of common olives). Read More

Il Cappoto Di Astrakan

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Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Andréa Ferréol, Carole Bouquet

Voltati Eugenio

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Actors: Saverio Marconi, Dalila di Lazzaro, Bernard Blier, Carole Andre

Synopsis: Adept at dissecting marriage as an essentially no-win institution, Luigi Comencini applies his directorial scalpel here through the viewpoints of ten-year-old Eugenio (Francesco Bonelli) and his parents. Giancarlo (Saverio Marconi) is a father who loves his wife, Fernanda (Dalila Di Lazzaro), and Read More

Il Malato Immaginario

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Actors: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Marina Vlady, Giuliana de Sio, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties in this tasteless, low-brow comedy. While his doctor (Bernard Blier) tries various cures, Argante exposes his unfaithful wife (Marina Vlady) and makes peace with his Read More

Due Pezzi Di Pane

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Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Luigi Proietti

Synopsis: The two wandering minstrels Pippo (Vittorio Gassman) and Peppe (Philippe Noiret) have long been favorites in their Roman neighborhood, each separately contributing a musical accompaniment to the lives of its inhabitants. During a critical time some months previously, they had both had relations Read More

L'Ingorgo

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Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Dramma Borghese

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Actors: Franco Nero, Dalila di Lazzaro, Lara Wendel

Synopsis: Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to Read More

Caligula

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Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, John Gielgud

Synopsis: This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza. The star-studded cast, perhaps lured by the high-profile involvement of producer Bob Guccione and screenwriter Gore Vidal, includes such luminaries as John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole Read More

Ritratto di Borghesia in Nero

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Actors: Ornella Muti, Senta Berger, Christian Borromeo, Capucine, Giuliana Calandra

Synopsis: In this dramatic romance, a piano teacher seduces one of her son's friends, who proceeds to fall in love with one of the teacher's students, causing tremendous jealousy. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Il Gatto

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Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato, Michel Galabru, Dalila di Lazzaro

Synopsis: Amedeo and Ofelia (Ugo Tognazzi and Mariangela Melato) own an old, fairly unprofitable apartment house in Rome. Someone has offered to buy the property for redevelopment for a lot of money, but only if the building has no tenants. Since six of its apartments are currently in use, Amedio and Ofelia Read More

Mogliamante

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Actors: Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Leonard Mann, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: A comeback film of sorts for director Marco Vicario, Mogliamante stars Laura Antonelli as the wife of political activist Marcello Mastrioanni. When her husband has to go into hiding from the authorities, Laura consoles herself by going through his private papers. Curiously, discovering the length Read More

Corrupt

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Actors: Harvey Keitel, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis: A New York policeman (Harvey Keitel) imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer (John Lydon), but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment. Highlighted is the intense interplay between the irrepressible Keitel and Lydon, the sneering frontman of Read More

Quelle Strane Occasioni

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Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Three films are gathered here under one title, and the general theme of sexual encounters unites them. In "Superman and Lady Godiva," a man working as a bouncer at an Amsterdam sex show is forced to bring his jealous wife to his workplace. She is hired as a performer and becomes a "star," much to Read More

The Inheritance

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Actors: Anthony Quinn, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Luigi Proietti, Adriana Asti

Synopsis: Wealthy patriarch Gregorio Ferramonte (Anthony Quinn) openly lusts after his new daughter-in-law (Dominique Sanda). Seemingly resistant at first to the lecherous Quinn, Sanda rapidly succumbs to his crude charms. There's a little more to the story than that: Sanda knows that Quinn is dying, and Read More

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

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Actors: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange

Synopsis: The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who Read More

Per Le Antiche Scale

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Synopsis: In this drama, set during the 1930s, the head shrink at an Italian insane asylum believes that insanity is caused by a virus. His intensive research has caused him to spend all his time at the hospital. He hasn't left it for eight years. A young female doctor comes and gets close to the