Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional...
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1991
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Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a...
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1991
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1990
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In this religious horror-story, Father Juan (Fernando Guillen Cuervo) is being interviewed by the Holy Office (Inquisition)...
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1990
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In a befuddling look at the nature of evil (apparently linked with how much money one has), a young idealist finds himself in...
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Lab Director
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1985
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Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking...
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1985
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In this mystery, a vengeful husband goes looking for the six people who tortured him and then killed his wife. The husband is...
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Genco Bari
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1983
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Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring...
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1983
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Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian...
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1981
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A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a...
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1981
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Michel
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1980
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Inside jokes about the film industry dominate this slight tale of ambition and romance at the Cannes Film Festival....
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Freddie
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1979
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This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century...
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1979
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The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right....
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Spyros Tomasis
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1978
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One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In...
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Constantin Demeris
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1977
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This cut-rate Italian giallo effort stars Daniela Giordano as Margaret, a recently paroled ex-reprobate who takes up...
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1976
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Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious...
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1975
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A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this thriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with...
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Dr. Lupo
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1975
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Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes...
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1975
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A young girl and her lover attempt to free an innocent girl being held prisoner by her demented father with tragic results....
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1974
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1973
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Made for television, The Small Miracle is based on a story by Paul Gallico. Little Pepino (Marco Della Cava) hopes to cure...
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1973
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In this drama, a conservative Catholic priest representing the Pope is sent to Ireland to settle down a few influential...
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1973
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Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie....
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Joseph Bonnano
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1973
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Robert Mitchum's son Christopher heads the cast of this Italian melodrama. Despite the horrific title, the film is actually a...
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1973
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This multinational crime action film also boasts an international cast. During his childhood, a boy (Chris Mitchum) sees four...
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1972
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A Gunfight was the first mainstream American film to be produced by an Indian tribe -- specifically, the Jicarilla Apaches of...
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1971
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Though not a giallo film in the strictest sense, this crime/revenge film merits attention by fans for its genre cast and an...
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Amanzio Berzagni
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1970
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In this limp western melodrama, when Mexican bandit Hector Cordoba (Raf Vallone) attacks a U.S. Army fort a few miles from...
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Cordoba
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1970
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When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a...
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1970
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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career...
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Altabani
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1969
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In this drama, two Polish brothers escape from a Russian labor camp and try to join the exiled Polish Army in Afghanistan....
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Victor
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1968
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The Spanish Thousand and One Nights brings a new slant to an old story. Several Arabian Nights legends are blended together...
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1968
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An evil scientist attempts to use his newly designed satellite to sterlize everyone on earth. Fortunately two savvy secret...
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Mr. Ardonian
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1966
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Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor...
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1966
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1965
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Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war...
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1964
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Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from...
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Cardinal Quarenghi
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1963
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A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that...
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Eddie Carbone
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1962
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Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between...
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Thanos
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1962
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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo...
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Count Ordonez
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1961
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Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or...
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Giovanni
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1960
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1960
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The main drawback to this well-wrought tale of a man on the run is the weight it places on dialogue and concepts over actions...
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Mario
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1960
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Two of Spain's leading film personalities - star Carmen Sevila and director Juan Antonio Bardem - pool their talents for La...
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Luis
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1960
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A gun-for-hire organizes a bandit ring to bring justice to some dictatorial Spanish-controlled territory. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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The legendary Spanish screen siren Sarita Montiel headlines this gentle romantic drama; she stars as Soledad, a beautiful...
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1959
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Le Piege (The Trap) top-bills Raf Vallone as a likeable fugitive from justice. Protected from arrest by big-hearted waitress...
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1958
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1956
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1956
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1956
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In this crime drama, a beautiful widow gets involved with a prison escape even though she is under constant supervision by...
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1956
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West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The...
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Arthur Streckmann
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1956
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Ignazio
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1955
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Gerard
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1955
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Despite their questionable behavior during WWII, the Italians were generally cast in a sympathetic light in war films of the...
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1955
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Aldo
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1954
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Andre
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1954
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Cassias
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1954
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The French/Italian Obsession was based on a novel by American suspense writer William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich)....
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1954
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La Pensionnaire was released in English-speaking countries as The Boarder. The title character is a good-hearted prostitute...
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Silvio
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1954
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This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad...
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1954
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Laurent
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1953
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1952
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Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani....
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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1952
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Strange Deception combines a standard revenge tale with a postwar reenactment of the first four books of the New Testament....
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Bruno
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1951
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1951
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Andrea
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1951
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Saro
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1950
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The White Line is a modest anti-war statement set in a tiny Italian village near Trieste. As the result of an International...
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Domenico
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1950
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Francesco Dominici
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1950
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1950
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Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement....
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Marco
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1949
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