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Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo, Ricardo Tognazzi
Synopsis: After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the son if he does not pay a large ransom. Unsure if they really have his son and if the son is still alive, he has to decide if he should or should not sell his business to Read More
Actors: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina
Synopsis: On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar -- and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Bocconcino (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian drama, Wilma, an aging dance hall girl, befriends La Cicada, a feisty, free-spirited woman who refuses to have sex for money. Together, they go traveling and on the rode take up with the handsome Hannibal, who dreams of opening up his own truck stop/gas station. The two women end Read More
Actors: Mariangela Melato, Bruno Ganz, Renato Salvatori, Laura Morante, Maria Luisa Santella
Synopsis: A surreal and often abstruse tale about a woman and her innermost feelings, Oggetti Smarriti starts out with Marta (Mariangela Melato) and her husband taking a long train ride to go pick up their daughter from grandmother's house. Theory and practice are immediately at odds when the husband gets Read More
Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Fred Gwynne
Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is Read More
Actors: Martin Halm, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi
Synopsis: Ernesto (Martin Hahn) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Jean Yanne, Renato Salvatori, Michel Duchaussoy
Synopsis: When Carrier (Jean Yanne), a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, receives an inheritance, it lends fuel to his violent fantasies. He has a relationship by mail with Ambrose (Alain Delon), the one man who can stop him from killing a theater full of people. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
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
Actors: Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tina Aumont
Synopsis: Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery film involving murder and corruption in high places. As the film begins, a well-known prosecutor is killed. The murder turns out to be the first in a series of murders -- and Read More
Actors: Edward Albert, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Cotten, Renato Salvatori, Claudio Volonte
Synopsis: From 16th century Sicily to the streets of contemporary New York, the Mafia has transcended its humble roots to evolve into one of the most formidable crime organizations ever. Centuries ago, the dreaded Gramignanos family took control over Sicily by launching a vicious campaign of violence and Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Maurice Barrier, Paul Meurisse, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: The plotline of Le Gitan concerns a devil-may-care "good badman" with gypsy blood flowing through his veins. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, our hero confounds the authorities in contemporary France. The film makes implications that the attitudes of French society towards the gypsies Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Maurice Barrier, André Pousse
Synopsis: Borniche (Alain Delon) has three difficult tasks before him: to keep a rein on police violence, to cut through bureaucratic red tape in order to do his job, and to find Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and put him behind bars. Based on a true story which takes place in 1947, Buisson is a Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile (Gian Maria Volonte) has been sent to Turin by the Italian Communist Central Committee in Paris, ostensibly to find out which of the four Party representatives working in the Fiat Read More
Actors: Fernand Ledoux, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet
Synopsis: In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These forces are held in equilibrium until a murdered woman's body is found near their farm, the Les Granges Brulees of the film's title. At first, Police Inspector Larcher (Alain Delon Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau
Synopsis: Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized herein is the kidnapping of a U.S. official somewhere in Latin America. The director's sympathies clearly lie with the kidnappers, especially since the official (played by Yves Montand Read More
Actors: Jean-Marc Bory, Françoise Fabian, Yasmine Dahm, Jean-Pierre Darras
Synopsis: This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is a pubescent adolescent girl, and when her family moves into a new house, poltergeist effects begin to appear: paint cans tip over, tin soldiers disappear. Upset after being Read More
Actors: Florinda Bolkan
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a Read More
Actors: Alain Delon
Synopsis: This gloomy Italian melodrama is set in the resort town of Rimini, the same small town as Fellini's picture I Vitelloni. The notables of the town spend their time speculating in real estate and doing a little gambling. Their interest is piqued by Daniel (Alain Delon), the magnetic new instructor Read More
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein
Synopsis: This French-made feature was based on a 1957 Hollywood "B" effort The Burglar. Both films were inspired by the same David Goodis novel. Gallic crime-flick icon Jean Paul Belmondo play a slick jewel thief who steals a valuable emerald. He is stalked by cop Omar Sharif, who when he catches up to Belmondo Read More
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot, Fernando Rey
Synopsis: This action adventure is based on Jules Verne's The Light at the Edge of the World. It takes place in 1865 on the chilly tip of Argentina in a lighthouse set up to guide ships around the extremely dangerous and turbulent waters of Cape Horn. The lighthouse keeper (Fernando Rey) and his assistant Read More
Actors: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Renato Salvatori, Norman Hill, Tom Lyons
Synopsis: Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is the aristocratic secret agent sent by Britain to secure a profitable Portuguese sugar cane plantation for the Crown. When he arrives, he befriends the black dockworker Jose (Evaristo Marquez) and plants revolutionary ideas in his head. Walker talks Jose into Read More
Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, François Perier
Synopsis: Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a political assassination. Zei (Yves Montand) is a scientist who is scheduled to give a speech against the use of the atomic bomb. On the way to the event, he is attacked outside Read More
Synopsis: This satirical comedy illustrates that women are just as likely to succumb to the pleasures of the flesh as their male counterparts. Carol Baker enjoys a series of unashamed romantic romps with three different men. She tells her story to a homosexual male friend and a six-month-old cheetah when Read More
Actors: Peter Alexander, Renato Salvatori, Antonella Lualdi, Scilla Gabel, Helga Anders
Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless fellow's life changes dramatically after he is accidentally (a computer malfunctioned) "playboy of the year," by an international men's journal. The publisher's know it's all a mistake, but decide to turn this regular joe into every woman's fantasy. In true "pygmalion" Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Norma Benguell
Synopsis: Renato Salvatori and Norma Benguell star in this crime drama. Ettore is a husband whose wife has left him for her lover. The wife returns to tell him their marriage is over, but the scheming husband talks her into loaning him her car. He meets her lover and murders the man, disposing of his Read More
Actors: Gastone Moschin, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: This three-part Italian comedy with several pretty females is another in a long series of gang-directed efforts. Director Masimo Franciosa adds a surrealistic touch to "The Shower," the story of a dedicated husband who takes a liking to extramarital affairs. "The World Belongs To The Rich" is Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Rosemarie Dexter
Synopsis: In this Italian sci-fi comedy the corpse of a laborer is inhabited and revived by an Omicron -- an alien being. When the creature becomes accustomed to the body, he returns to the worker's former job and begins operating the machines at an incredible speed. Soon he finds himself involved in a Read More
Actors: Catherine Spaak, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Three different takes on love are presented in this episodic Italian film. The first story begins as a prostitute is involved in an auto wreck and ends up in a body cast. While recuperating, she attempts to seduce a young priest preparing to take his final vows. He does not succumb and instead Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Gabriella Giorgetti, Folco Lulli
Synopsis: The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of Italian laborers in the 19th century. Shorn of all his studio-imposed glamour, Marcello Mastrioanni plays a Genoan political refugee visiting a friend in Turin. Appalled by the horrible Read More
Actors: Robert Hossein, Anouk Aimée, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: The French-made Of Flesh and Blood plays like "Dostoyevsky Meets Roger Corman." Robert Hossein finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence. Understandably unnerved by all this, Hossein murders an old woman. Read More
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Jean-Claude Brialy, Renato Salvatori, Pascale Audret, Marie Déa
Synopsis: The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and murdering a child, but two of them can possibly be guilty. Is the innocent party Anthony Perkins, an American who has fled to France in the wake of a sex scandal? Is it Read More
Actors: Enrico Maria Salerno, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
Synopsis: Director Franco Rossi takes a few pot-shots at Italian politics in this drama about an interlude in Los Angeles. The politically ambitious Vittorio (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a sleazy lawyer who is stranded in L.A. for awhile when he does not make his plane connections to Mexico City. He finds a Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Sami Frey, Louis Jourdan, Curd Jürgens, Antonella Lualdi, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Disorder was a French/Italian co-production, released as Le Desordre in France and Il Disordine in Italy (somebody was in a rut). This leisurely paced modern fable stars Renato Salvatore as a poor young man, struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills. Virtually everyone whom Salvatore Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or her English-language "performance" was often dubbed in by an anonymous third party. Such was not the case of Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara), who did her own Read More
Actors: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin
Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori Read More
Actors: Giovanna Ralli, Sergei Bondarchuk, Leo Genn, Peter Baldwin, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: In keeping with his previous film Generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Robert Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in his 145-minute "personal epic" Era Notte a Roma. The story concerns three Allied POWS, who escape from their camp and hide out in Rome. The trio is given shelter by a beautiful young Read More
Actors: Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Annibale Ninchi, Rossella Falk
Synopsis: This standard action-chase film stars Renato Salvatore as Antonio, a man on the run from the Mafia, and the soon-to-be-famous Claudia Cardinale as Grazia, a woman who joins Antonio in his escape attempt. Antonio lives in Sicily and receives orders from the Mafia on the island to assassinate a man. Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale
Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The task seems simple enough, but the gang suffers a variety of zany mishaps before the leader finally gets hold of the money. Just as he gets it, he is arrested by the police for Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Renato Salvatori, Belinda Lee, Aldo Giuffré
Synopsis: A young group of enterprising con artist attempt to break up some Italian expatriates trying to sell an inferior cloth as genuine quality fabric. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Milly, Renato Salvatori, Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gajoni
Synopsis: This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off on a naive woman (Giulietta Masina) in a women's prison. Taking the innocent Masina under her wing, Magnani corrupts her, but is secretly touched by her kind heart. On Read More
Actors: Renato Rascel, Peppino De Filippo, Renato Salvatori, Carla Gravina, Luigi de Filippo
Synopsis: Even though this period drama is leisurely to especially slow in parts, it tells an entertaining story about Policarpo (Renato Rascel), a sincere and honest, low-level clerk in the government bureaucracy. Policarpo, dissatisfied with his salary, is moving through the labyrinth of paperwork Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
Synopsis: Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a Read More
Actors: Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori, Maurizio Arena, Lorella de Luca, Alessandra Panaro
Actors: Giorgia Moll, Nino Taranto, Renato Salvatori, Franco Fabrizi, Memmo Carotenuto
Synopsis: Told in anecdotal fashion, this lightweight comedy examines the amorous activities of husbands who remain in the city while the wives and kiddies are shipped off to summer vacation resorts (shades of The Seven Year Itch!) Most of the individual episodes are obvious in their humor and outcome. The Read More
Actors: Marisa Allasio, Renato Salvatori, Francisco Rabal
Synopsis: Popular European leading lady Marisa Allasio stars in Marisa la Civetta. Our heroine's dilemma: four suitors, all equally qualified to be her husband. Whom can she choose, and how can she avoid breaking the hearts of the other three? The complication: While making her decision, Allasio offhandedly Read More
Actors: Tina Pica, Peppino De Filippo, Renato Salvatori, Paolo Stoppa
Synopsis: La Nonna Sabella (Grandmother Sabella) was one of two 1957 offerings from prolific Italian filmmaker Dino Risi. The 80-year-old title character tries to arrange a wealthy marriage for her worldly grandson. But our hero is a bit too clever for Grandmother Sabella: he intends to wed his childhood Read More
Actors: Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Initially released in Italy in 1957 as Poveri Ma Belli, Poor But Beautiful had its first American theatrical go-round under the not entirely appropriate cognomen Poor, But Handsome. Marisa Allasio plays a teen-aged heartbreaker who is actively wooed by two moonstruck young Italian swains. After 90 Read More
Actors: Lucia Bosé, Cosetta Greco, Ave Ninchi, Leda Gloria
Synopsis: Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna is better known by its English-language title Three Little Girls from Rome. The girls in question are Marisa, Elena and Lucia, played respectively by Lucia Bose, Cosetta Greco and Liliana Bonfatti. All three work in a fancy Roman house of fashion, and all three have Read More
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