Ornella MutiFilmography

The Final Inquiry

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Daniele Liotti, Monica Cruz, F. Murray Abraham, Max von Sydow, Hristo Shopov

Synopsis: A Roman warrior on a quest to uncover the truth about Jesus of Nazareth becomes enamored with an Israeli beauty after rescuing the woman from a violent mugger in this Biblical-themed period drama starring Dolph Lundgren, F. Murray Abraham, Max Von Sydow, and Mónica Cruz. A solar eclipse has cast Read More

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Actors: Asia Argento, Jimmy Bennett, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Actress and filmmaker Asia Argento directed this faithful screen adaptation of the fictional J.T. Leroy's fictional memoir, which documents a boy's truly harrowing road to adulthood. Jeremiah (Jimmy Bennett) is the seven-year-old son of Sarah (Asia Argento), an unstable and unwed mother who Read More

Les Bronzes 3: Friends Forever

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: Six of France's greatest screen comedians reunite in this long-awaited sequel to the classic box-office hits Les Bronzes and Les Bronzes Font du Ski. Skirt-chasing Popeye (Thierry Lhermitte) has settled down and married beautiful Graziella (Ornella Muti), and together they run an upscale resort Read More

Friday or Another Day

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraida, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla

A Life In Suitcases

Actors: JJ Feild, Roger Rees, Raymond J. Barry, Stephen Billington, Valentina Cervi

Après la Vie

Actors: Ornella Muti, François Morel, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki, Lucas Belvaux

Synopsis: After Life is the third film in Lucas Belvaux's ambitious Trilogy, following On the Run, a thriller, and An Amazing Couple, a romantic comedy. After Life features the same characters as the other two films and happens over the same time period, but it's a melodrama, and the focus is on Pascal (Gilbert Melki Read More

Un Couple Épatant

Actors: François Morel, Ornella Muti, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: Un Couple Épatant (An Amazing Couple) is the second installment in the ambitious French-language trilogy directed by Belgian-born filmmaker Lucas Belvaux. Where the first film, Cavale (On the Run), was a film noir thriller, this sequel is a lighthearted romantic comedy in the style of a classic Read More

Cavale

Actors: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: Inspired by Lawrence Durrell's collection of interrelated novels, The Alexandria Quartet, Lucas Belvaux's trilogy--the violent noir On the Run, the romantic comedy An Amazing Couple, and the melodrama After the Life, examine many of the same characters from three distinct perspectives. In On the Read More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part III: From Sark to Finish

Actors: Roger Rees, Stephen Billington, JJ Feild, Renata Litvinova, Anna Galiena

People

Actors: Rupert Everett, José Garcia, Ornella Muti, Elie Semoun, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Jet Set writer/director Fabien Onteniente returns to craft this sequel set against the backdrop of hedonistic Ibiza, and starring Rupert Everett as a Parisian party planner whose career has been sabotaged by a jealous rival. If you want your party to pop, you call on Charles (Everett). Charles has Read More

Say I Do

Actors: Paz Vega, Santi Millan, Santiago Segura, Pepe Viyuela, Constantino Romero

Hotel

Actors: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Read More

Domani

Actors: Marco Baliani, Ornella Muti, Valerio Mastandrea, Ilaria Occhini, Patrizia Piccinini

Synopsis: In a village rocked by an earthquake, one family struggles to make a new home for themselves while juggling a variety of personal crises. In a small town in Umbia, an earthquake devastates several neighborhoods, and Paolo Zerenghi (Marco Baliani), the city's deputy mayor, finds himself in charge Read More

Una Lunga Lunga Lunga Notte D'Amore

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Marie Trintignant, Isabelle Pasco, Eljana Nikolova Popova, Marina Confalone

Synopsis: Several star-crossed couples experience both the thrills and the disappointment of romance over the course of one evening in this romantic comedy. Reporter Marcello (Giancarlo Giannini) has a brief encounter with Irene (Marie Trintignant) while waiting for a train. A young woman who has lost her Read More

Last Run

Actors: Armand Assante

Synopsis: Anthony Hickox directs Armand Assante in the espionage-laced action thriller Last Run. Assante plays Frank Banner, a man who spent much of his career helping Soviet spies make their way safely away from Mother Russia. This difficult task has left him hollow and bitter, as well as a widower. His Read More

Jet Set

Actors: Samuel Le Bihan, Lambert Wilson, Ornella Muti, Ariadna Gil, Bruno Solo

Synopsis: In the working-class Paris suburb of Montreuil, Jimmy's (Bruno Solo) restaurant, the Bombay Bar, is on the verge of being closed down by creditors. Jimmy is despondent -- the fact that his wife is about to have a baby isn't helping matters -- when he and his business partner Fifi (Lorant Deutsch) Read More

Esther

Actors: Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: The tenth in a series of made-for-TV movies based on stories from the Bible, this drama stars Louise Lombard as Esther, a common Jewish woman who rose to wealth and power when she captured the heart of the King of Persia. Eventually, Esther opted to use her influence to win freedom and a better Read More

Tierra Del Fuego

Actors: Jorge Perugorría, Ornella Muti, Claudio Santamaria, Nancho Novo, Nelson Villagra

Synopsis: Recalling Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littin directs this sweeping epic about the true-life tale of Romanian engineer Julius Popper and his half-crazed pursuit of gold. Set in 1850, the handsome Romanian rides into a rough and tumble frontier town Read More

Panni Sporchi

Actors: Michele Placido, Mariangela Melato, Paolo Bonacelli, Alessandro Haber, Marina Confalone

Synopsis: Panni Sporchi is a satiric comedy from veteran director Mario Monicelli about the public and private squabbles of a family-owned cough drop company. The Razzi family's business has been the economic backbone of a small Northern Italian city for years, but when Amedo (Paolo Bonacelli), the aging Read More

Somewhere in the City

Actors: Sandra Bernhard, Ornella Muti, Robert John Burke, Peter Stormare, Bai Ling

Synopsis: Iranian-born director Ramin Niami loosely adapted the Maxim Gorky play The Lower Depths for this ensemble character study set in modern-day New York City's Lower East Side. Sandra Bernhard stars as Betty, a remarkably introverted and lonely therapist hungering for a male companion. In her Read More

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

Actors: Ornella Muti, Charles Berling, Johan Leysen, Christian Vadim

Synopsis: Chilean-born Valeria Sarmiento directed this improbable French thriller. Madeleine (Ornella Muti) is with her lover, Jean-Paul (Charles Berling), when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Read More

The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: Michel Aumont, Jean Rochefort, Georges Moustaki, Stanislas Merhar, Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Gerard Depardieu stars in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic adventure story by Alexandre Dumas. Edmond (Depardieu) has been held in a French prison for nearly 20 years for daring to love Mercedes (Naike Rivelli), a woman who has also been wooed by a man in power, Mondego (Jean Rochefort). Read More

Widows: Erst Die Ehe, Dann Das Vergneugen

Actors: Ornella Muti, Katja Flint, Eva Mattes, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Martin Benrath

Synopsis: The title of this German comedy-drama translates literally as "First Marriage, Then Fun." The Father's Day team of director Sherry Hormann and scripter Kit Hopkins reunited to capture the lives of three women, friends since their school days -- lawyer Elisabeth (Katja Flint), living with the much Read More

Pour Rire!

Actors: Ornella Muti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Chappey, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian Read More

Mordburo

Actors: Ornella Muti, Philippe Clevenot, Patrick Catalifo, Maurice Bénichou, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev (Maurice Bennichou) goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco (Herve Read More

El Amante Bilingüe

Actors: Ornella Muti, Imanol Arias, Loles Leon, Javier Bardem

Synopsis: Juan (Imanol Arias) speaks Catalan and Spanish. He was active in political protests under the Franco regime. He is an astonishingly bad accordian player, and an acceptable ventriloquist, which enables him to scratch a living from the streets as an itinerant musician/entertainer. A long time ago Read More

Once Upon a Crime

Actors: John Candy, Cybill Shepherd, James Belushi, Giancarlo Giannini, Sean Young, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: The murder of a millionaire has unexpectedly humorous results in this farcical comedy. When Phoebe (Sean Young) and Julian (Richard Lewis), two Americans on a tour of Europe, discover a lost dachshund, they learn that a $5,000 reward has been posted for the dog's return. Phoebe and Julian head to Read More

Non Chiamarmi Omar

Oscar

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go Read More

Vacanze Di Natale '91

Actors: Massimo Boldi, Christian de Sica, Nino Frassica, Ezio Greggio, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Read More

Il Conte Max

Actors: Christian de Sica, Ornella Muti, Galeazzo Benti, Maria Mercader, Alain Flick

Synopsis: Years before, the millionaire Pierre (Alain Flick) destroyed the wealthy nobleman Count Max's fortune. In the present, Alfredo (Christian De Sica), a restless young mechanic who resembles the count, has fallen in love with a model (Ornella Muti) and wants some new adventure in his life. In return Read More

A Season of Giants

Actors: Mark Frankel, John Glover

Synopsis: Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional rivalry existed between Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo (Mark Frankel) and Leonardo da Vinci (John Glover). While the Florentine and Roman scenery is authentic, certain Read More

La Domenica Specialmente

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Chiara Caselli, Ivano Marescotti, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Three very odd relationships provide the basis for this thought-provoking Italian anthology that is overseen by director Bernardo Bertolucci. The first tale, "The Blue Dog" centers on a barber who becomes the fixation of a mysteriously devoted dog with an unusual blue spot upon his head. In Read More

Stasera A Casa Di Alice

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Ornella Muti, Sergio Castellitto, Yvonne Scio, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: In this comedy, Saverio (Carlo Verdone) and his brother-in-law Filippo (Sergio Castellitto) both work at a travel agency which is wholly owned by their wives. In effect, they are their wive's employees. In the course of doing his job, Saverio discovers that his brother-in-law is setting up a woman Read More

Il Viaggio Di Capitan Fracassa

Actors: Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti, Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean-François Perrier

Synopsis: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Read More

Le Voyage Du Capitaine Fracasse

Actors: Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ornella Muti, Faye Dunaway, Michael Bacall, Burt Young

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Fante, this film follows the trials of the Bandini family as they try to struggle through hard times in 1920s Colorado. Out of work and in need of money, Svevo Bandini (Joe Mantegna) tries to scrounge up the money his family needs to make it through the winter, while Read More

'O Re

Actors: Ornella Muti, Christina Marsillach, Carlo Croccolo

Synopsis: Italy was finally unified in the latter half of the nineteenth century under the revolutionary leader Giuseppi Garibaldi (1807-1882), and the whole nation was then given by him to the rulership of its king, Victor Emmanuel II. One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 Read More

Il Frullo Del Passero

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ornella Muti, Nicola Farron, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: Ornella Muti plays a Kept Woman whose keeper has the bad taste to die. Silvana (Muti) attaches herself to another wealthy "patron," aging lothario Gabriele (Philippe Noiret). His idea of sexual stimulation is to recall the highlights of his previous affairs, going into orgasmic ecstasies whenever Read More

Codice Privato

Actors: Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This provocative drama toys with notions of time and space on film as it presents the story of a woman who is suddenly abandoned by her lover and mentor, the famed Italian writer Emilio Flora who has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. For the past three years this man who is considerably older than Read More

Io E Mia Sorella

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Ornella Muti, Elena Sofia Ricci

Synopsis: Carlo (Carlo Verdone) is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia (Ornella Muti) in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Read More

Cronaca di una Morte Annunciata

Actors: Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon, Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Lucia Bosé

Synopsis: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year Read More

Casanova

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova (1725-1798) in this made-for-television biopic. The teleplay by George Macdonald Fraser (of "Flashman" fame) follows Casanova as his reputation for being catnip to women Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Stregati

Actors: Francesco Nuti, Ornella Muti, Novello Novelli

Synopsis: Lorenzo (Francesco Nuti) is a local playboy who satisfies the carnally curious women of Genoa in this often somber comedy drama. He makes the mistake of falling in love with a woman who is to be married the following day. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Grandi Magazzini

Actors: Alessandro Haber, Laura Antonelli, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments. In one skit, Elena (Laura Antonelli) and her husband the personnel director, are Read More

Tutta Colpa del Paradiso

Actors: Francesco Nuti, Ornella Muti, Laura Betti

Synopsis: In a well-rounded tale of fatherly love and its sacrifices, (Francesco Nuti) stars as Romeo Casamonica, a thief just released from a five-year prison sentence who returns to his old haunts to look for his wife and son. The neighborhood has changed beyond recognition, his wife is nowhere to be Read More

Il Futuro è Donna

Actors: Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least. After Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and Gordon (Niels Arestrup) invite Read More

Swann in Love

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

Synopsis: This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed Read More

Bonnie E Clyde All'italiana

La Ragazza di Trieste

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket, beginning a strange relationship with the obviously unbalanced woman which ends when she Read More

Love and Money

Actors: Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante, King Vidor

Synopsis: James Toback wrote and directed this typically intense and idiosyncratic satiric thriller. Byron Levin (Ray Sharkey) is an investment planner who has grown tired of his job and is bored by his relationship with his girlfriend Vicky (Susan Heldfond). When Frederick Stockheinz (Klaus Kinski), an Read More

Innamorato Pazzo

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Cristina (Ornella Muti) is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble Read More

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara delivers a gutsy, four-barreled performance as skid-row poet and storyteller Charles Bukowski (rechristened Charles Serking onscreen) in Tales of Ordinary Madness, blackly comic Italian director Marco Ferreri's adaptation of Bukowski's roman à clef Erections, Ejaculations Read More

Il Bisbetico Domato

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

Synopsis: This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, and showcases the popular singer/comedian Adriano Celentano as an irascible country farmer named Elia, who locks horns with Lisa (Ornella Muti), a gorgeous society snob. Elia is a notoriously Read More

Flash Gordon

Actors: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) Read More

La Vita è Bella

Actors: Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini, Otar Koberidze, Stefano Madia, Yevgeny Lebedev, Regimantas Adomajtis, Juozas Budraitis

Synopsis: In this political drama, the critically acclaimed Russian director Grigori Chukhrai -- who also wrote the script -- focuses on the nature of political persecution through his hero Antonio (Giancarlo Giannini), a taxi driver in the capital of a dictatorship. Running alongside the political theme is Read More

Giallo Napoletano

Synopsis: Crime specialist Sergio Corbucci directed this madcap comic mystery that is just waiting to be discovered by cult audiences. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as a café mandolin player who performs on a streetcorner to help pay for his father's gambling debts. After a murder and a suicide occur, the Read More

Summer Affair

Synopsis: A hot summer romance forms the basis of this fantasy that follows two defiant young lovers who steal away aboard a sailboat to tryst and end up marooned on a lonely island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Eutanasia Di un Amore

Actors: Ornella Muti, Tony Musante, Monica Guerritore, Mario Scaccia, Laura Trotter

Synopsis: Paolo (Tony Musante) has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena (Ornella Muti) as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. After a series Read More

Primo Amore

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Caterina Boratto, Mario del Monaco

Synopsis: Villa Serena is a retirement home for aging theatrical and vaudeville performers in this film, which stars Ugo Tognazzi as its newest inmate, Picchio, a former comedy great. There, he meets and falls in love with the lovely young attendant Renata (Ornella Muti), and goes off with her to Rome for Read More

Ritratto di Borghesia in Nero

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

Viva Italia

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Orietta Berti

Synopsis: This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the 1978 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Foreign film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Nuovi Mostri

La Stanza Del Vescovo

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: In this drama, Temistocle Orimbelli (Ugo Tognazzi) is a middle-aged man with a profound appreciation for womankind -- an appreciation that does not extend to Cleofe (Garbiella Giacobbe) his dried up old shrew of a wife. He is much taken with the charms of his sister-in-law Matilde (Ornella Muti) Read More

Mort d'un Pourri

Actors: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Maurice Ronet, Mireille Darc

Synopsis: Xavier Marechal (Alain Delon) is a businessman whose long-time business partner and friend is Philippe Dubaye (Maurice Ronet) a member of the French parliamentary assembly. In the film, Philippe has just killed Cerrano, a fellow assemblyman who threatened to disclose Philippe's involvement in Read More

L'Ultima Donna

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori, Zouzou

Synopsis: This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a custody battle over the man's young son has a cataclysmic ending which is not for the fainthearted. In the story, Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is an engineer who has just been Read More

Leonor

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis, Jose Maria Caffarel

Synopsis: Richard (Michel Piccolo) is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor (Liv Ullmann) comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to Read More

La Joven Casada

Sisters of Satan

Synopsis: The Mexican convent of St. Archangelo has a "bad rep" long before Sisters of Satan gets under way. The eponymous sisters don't seem to have a very firm grasp on the concept of giving one's life to one's Lord. When they finally determine that neither God nor the Virgin Mary can satisfy their Read More

Romanzo Popolare

Actors: Ornella Muti, Michele Placido, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Northern Italian Giulio (Ugo Tognazzi) thought himself very broad-minded about things like marital fidelity until he married a much younger woman (Ornella Muti). Now he suffers the beginning pangs of jealousy when he and his wife become friends with young Giovanni (Michele Placido), a Sicilian who Read More

Appassionata

Synopsis: In this Italian effort (spoken English is obviously dubbed) a dentist is seduced by his daughter and her girl friend. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Paolo il Caldo

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: This Italian feature caters to a self-congratulatory stereotype of male virility which many an Italian male might fantasize as being true for himself. Paolo is from the lower ranks of the Sicilian nobility, and he shares his grandfather's penchant for beautiful women. Indeed, he proved his Read More

Tutti figli di "mammasantissima"

Synopsis: Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable Read More

Le Monache Di Sant' Archangelo

Synopsis: From the Middle Ages onward, certain monasteries and nunneries were basically elegant retirement homes for rich noblemen and noblewomen. The position of abbot or abbess at one of these institutions often carried with it considerable wealth and worldly power. So it comes as no surprise that the Read More

Cebo Para Una Adolescente

La Casa de las Palomas

Synopsis: This Spanish/Italian melodrama concerns the rivalry between a mother and her daughter for the affections of a rakish drifter. The mother has known his affection before, but on this particular journey through their town, he is drawn to the girl instead. He takes her to his favorite assignation Read More

Experiencia Prematrimonial

Violation of Laura

Un posto ideale per uccidere

Synopsis: A philandering man's wife decides to take matters into her own murderous hands. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

La Moglie Piu Bella

Actors: Ornella Muti, Alessio Orano, Tano Cimarosa, Pierluigi Apra

Synopsis: A 16 year old girl rebels against Sicilian tradition by refusing to partake in a pre-arranged marriage. When Francesca (Ornella Muti) is kidnapped and raped by the nephew of the local mafia Don, her accusations sends the rapist to jail. She confides in the local police chief (Pier Luigi Apra) when Read More