Italy

  • Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Sotto il segno dello scorpione AKA Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)

    1961-1970ArthouseItalyPaolo Taviani and Vittorio TavianiPolitics

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    This symbolic film underscores the struggles between a group of visionaries versus the Establishment while wondering about the survival of humankind. A group of young men manage to escape a volcano eruption on their small island. Seeking a new life, they stop at an island between their destroyed island and the mainland. This island is run by Renno, the community leader who offers the men help and a boat to continue their journey. The group conspires to panic the islanders with fear of another volcano eruption in order to take over the abandoned island. Renno has the men jailed for creating a disturbance, but after their terms are served, the men betray Renno by killing off the male population and escaping with the surviving women. The two apparently go off to pursue their utopian ideals where there is one woman for every two men.Read More »

  • Laura Bispuri – Figlia mia aka Daughter of Mine (2018)

    2011-2020DramaItalyLaura Bispuri

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    Synopsis:
    A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back. Three women struggling with primitive feelings, dealing with their wounds and inextricable bonds. The story of an imperfect motherhood and a wandering childhood.Read More »

  • Francesco Rosi – Uomini contro AKA Many Wars Ago (1970)

    1961-1970DramaFrancesco RosiItalyWar

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    On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops. (IMDb)Read More »

  • Alessandro Blasetti – Terra madre (1931)

    1931-1940Alessandro BlasettiDramaItalian Cinema under FascismItaly

    PLOT SYNOPSIS
    After many years in the city, the Duke Marco, accompanied by his lover Daisy and by a cohort of frivolous and condescending friends, pays a visit to the country estate in which he grew up, and that he now owns after his father’s death. The Duke slowly comes to acknowledge how deeply connected he feels towards the ancestral land and its humble people, but he is torn between his duties as a landowner and the whims of Daisy, who pushes him to sell the estate to an unscrupulous businessman. To complicate matters, the Duke gets increasingly fond of Emilia, the young and outspoken daughter of the head farmer.Read More »

  • Mario Soldati – La provinciale aka The Wayward Wife (1953)

    1951-1960DramaItalyMario Soldati

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    Description: The Wayward Wife (Italian: La provinciale) is a 1953 Italian drama film taken from an Alberto Moravia’s novel and directed by Mario Soldati. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

    Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn’t love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She’s desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime.Read More »

  • Steno – Febbre da cavallo (1976)

    1971-1980ComedyCommedia all'ItalianaCultItalySteno

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    Imdb User Reviews

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    13 June 2003 | by Mario Pio (Venezia, Italy)

    When in the 1976 “Febbre da cavallo” exit in cinema not so much people went to see it. The status of “cult” movie starts from the various nocturnal passages in the private tv, during the ’80. That’s why people loves “Febbre” in this way (a little bit exaggerated). It’s a personal people discover. This is not the “pinnacle” of italian comedy. It’s only a little movie but funny and memorable in some of its parts. There is one thing over others: the actors are really good, better then some late italian comedies, in a time when comedy leaves for sexy italian comedy, the “commediaccia”. So, no Alberto Sordi, not Tognazzi but Gigi Proietti (an excellent, hystrionic theathre actor), and Enrico Montesano, in one of his few good performance on cinema. Enjoy this movie and…”vai cor tango!”Read More »

  • Carlo Lizzani – Banditi a Milano AKA The Violent Four (1968)

    1961-1970ActionCarlo LizzaniCrimeItaly

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    Description: As public outrage mounts against organized crime in modern-day Milan, four robbers meticulously plan a timed assault on several major banks within a period of 40 minutes. Led by the mastermind Cavallero, the men have pulled off other robberies in the past, keeping their identities secret by leading seemingly law-abiding lives. While making their getaway after one robbery, however, there is a slip-up, and the men must blast their way through the streets with submachine guns, killing several innocent bystanders in an effort to escape from the police. Three of the robbers escape, but a fourth, Rovoletto, is wounded and captured. The city is blockaded with the latest electronic devices, and police inspector Basevi questions Rovoletto, who finally breaks down. Lopez, the youngest gang member, is easily captured in his home, but Cavallero and Notarnicola evade the police dragnet. Before long, however, they are tracked down and cornered in an abandoned farmhouse. While being brought back to headquarters by Basevi, Cavallero boasts that his crimes have made him as famous as the Sicilian bandits of old, but he is shocked when a mob of irate citizens surround the police car, cursing and spitting at him.
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  • Alessandro Blasetti – Nessuno torna indietro AKA Responsibility Comes Back (1945)

    Drama1941-1950Alessandro BlasettiItalian Cinema under FascismItaly

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    Late fascist chickflick or early lib melo – hard to tell. Early production title was Vagine di ferro.Read More »

  • Michelangelo Antonioni – Cronaca di un amore AKA Story of a Love Affair (1950)

    1941-1950CrimeDramaItalyMichelangelo Antonioni

    Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.Read More »

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