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Actors: Omero Antonutti, Pamela Villoresi, Rutger Hauer, Giancarlo Giannini, Alessandro Gassman
Synopsis: Directed by Giuseppe Ferrara, the political thriller I Banchieri Di Dio (God's Bankers) is based on the true-crime saga of the corrupted Banco Ambrosiano and the unsolved murder of bank president Roberto Calvi in 1982. Co-written by Ferrara and Armenia Balducci, the complex story involves the Read More
Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé
Synopsis: The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining Read More
Actors: Eliana Miglio, Lucia Gardin, Vittoria Arenillas, Pier Paolo Capponi, Lino Salemme
Synopsis: This Italian film explores the terrible effects of dishonesty and graft on Italy. The work does not follow a traditional plot, but instead follows the characters as they give their opinions about the state of Italy. A large part of the film focuses upon Costanza, a landlady who cannot through out Read More
Actors: Renato Carpentieri, Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Constanze Engelbrecht
Synopsis: In Fiorile (US title: Wild Flower), Italy's Taviani brothers once again dissect the manners and mores of the Tuscany region. The story is predicated on a 200-year-old family curse. During the Napoleonic era, Elizabetta "Fiorile" Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) discovers that her own brother Corado (Claudio Bigagli Read More
Actors: Carolina Rosi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: In a quest to better understand the life of his murdered Italian immigrant father, a Frenchman and his son travel to the murder site, meet with police, and gather the dead man's personal effects. They then tour Italy and come to understand things about his character from being immersed in his Read More
Actors: Giulio Brogi, Alain Cuny, Pier Paolo Capponi, Tino Carraro
Synopsis: The career and character of Dr. Ignazio Filippo Semmelweis is the focus of this sometimes confusing but informative biographical film. Semmelweis is the Hungarian doctor who first proposed that infections are transmitted by germs from one person to the next. His biggest contribution to the Read More
Actors: Riccardo Cucciolla, Paolo Bonacelli, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: The majority of Italian communists had been somewhat independent from strict adherence to the Soviet Communist Party's dictates for several decades by the 1970s. This biographical drama explores the career of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), one of the communists who, in the '20s and '30s began to Read More
Synopsis: This Italian tragedy chronicles the sad love affair between a military inductee and a young woman. The story is set in Italy, during 1938 when Mussolini was having all Jews exiled from Italy. Donatello loves Vernier. Trouble ensues when Vernier refuses to disclose her religious beliefs to the Read More
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
Actors: Pier Paolo Capponi, Uschi Glas, Marisa Mell, Antonio Sabato, Franco Fantasia
Synopsis: This uneven thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi was the final Rialto Film Company adaptation of an Edgar Wallace mystery (The Puzzle of the Silver Half-Moons), as tastes were changing and the German "krimi" genre was dying in favor of the sexier, bloodier Italian "giallo." In this awkward Read More
Actors: Vittorio Congia, Emilio Marchesini
Synopsis: In this flawed mystery-thriller from flamboyant horror director Dario Argento, Karl Malden portrays a blind man who joins forces with a reporter (James Franciscus) to catch a killer with an extra chromosome. Much of the action occurs at a research hospital, where the killer seeks to conceal the Read More
Synopsis: Peter Strauss, six years removed from his Rich Man Poor Man stardom, stars in the Italian-Spanish Man of Legend. Strauss plays a WW I-era German soldier, who barely escapes being wrongly executed as a spy. He escapes to the French Foreign Legion, then enjoys a torrid romance with Tina Aumont Read More
Actors: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè, Franco Graziosi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: Italian army regulars resist the orders of a cruel general whose rigid interpretations of the rules call for a man to be shot. Leone (Alain Cuny) orders the execution of an army regular who halted the troops while under enemy fire. A sympathetic lieutenant substitutes a dead body for that of the Read More
Synopsis: The first color film by writer/director Salvatore Samperi is this grim family melodrama, a modern-day reinvention of the tale of the Prodigal Son. Upon hearing of his father's death, Enrico Merlo (Jean Sorel) leaves his boarding school in Switzerland and returns home to Padua. There he overhears a Read More
Synopsis: Fetishistic and dark, this early giallo thriller from Italian filmmaker Luciano Ercoli prefigures such sexually-themed gialli as La Ragazza dal Pigiama Giallo and Tenebre in its explicit connection between female sexuality and violence. Dagmar Lassander stars as Minou, who is Read More
Actors: Carlo Cecchi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: A student who is involved in non-violent protest changes when he sees a picture of a Viet Cong soldier being executed by a South Vietnamese policeman. Vowing he would never kill as a soldier, he has no trouble with his conscience when he kills as a civilian. He kills a communist professor and a Read More
Synopsis: In this nasty drama, a 17th-century Italian nun's long repressed sexual passion is awakened when a handsome nobleman rapes her. Confused by her unholy emotions, the nun sees that the aristocrat is arrested. Unfortunately, the louse impregnated her and shortly after bearing his child, she helps him Read More
Actors: Lee Van Cleef
Synopsis: A combined force of Italian and American commandos are ordered to attack and take over an air base in North Africa with only two days to do it. The Italian film, dubbed into English, is also known as Sullivan's Marauders. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: A Congo rebel leader is captured and imprisoned with two white felons in this feature deep with religious symbolism and condemnation of colonial exploitation. Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode) is thrown in jail with a soldier and an Italian thief. The trio endures torture at the hands of their Read More
Synopsis: Like Cameron Mitchell and Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn spent an inordinate amount of time in obscure crime melodramas. In Falling Man, Wynn is second billed to the versatile Henry Silva. The plot concerns an ex-cop who goes after the men who ruined his career. The title refers to the hero's rapidly Read More
Actors: Ferrucio de Ceresa, Lucio Dalla, Giorgio Arlorio, Giulio Brogi
Synopsis: This political Italian drama is set after the death of that country's communist leader, Palmiero Togliatti. It is a time when the glory days of communism have passed and the party is trying to settle into the serious business of running a country. The film takes an episodic approach to chronicle Read More
Actors: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Claude Brialy, Pierre Brasseur, Micheline Presle
Synopsis: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British colonel Alexander MacBibenbrook, who orders Read More
Actors: Jacques Perrin, Ilaria Occhini, Rosemarie Dexter, Pier Paolo Capponi, Gianni Garko
Synopsis: Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an Read More
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