A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.Read More »
Italy
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Vittorio De Seta – Lu tempu di li pisci spata AKA The Age of Swordfish (1955)
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Joe D’Amato – Orgasmo nero AKA Voodoo Baby (1980)
1971-1980EroticaExploitationItalyJoe D'AmatoA man is doing research on an island where a strange tribe lives. The man’s wife gets into a (sexual) relationship with a woman from the tribe and brings her back to the big city where problems begin to occur.Read More »
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Alberto Lattuada – Una spina nel cuore (1986)
Alberto Lattuada1981-1990DramaItalyRomanceA small town by the lake. Guido is a young man with no desire to work who spends the whole day in the local hotel at the poker table and manages to win decent sums with a lot of luck. One day he meets Caterina at the station and falls in love with her.
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Ruben Maria Soriquez – Sexocracy: The man of Bunga Bunga (2012)
2011-2020DocumentaryItalyRuben Maria SoriquezFirst decade of 2000. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi holds lavish parties at his residence in Milan. The political opposition starts speculating that unrestrained sex parties are taking place.Read More »
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Silvio Amadio – Lupi nell’abisso AKA Wolves of the Deep (1959)
Silvio Amadio1951-1960DramaItalyWarItalian submariners trapped in their damaged boat on the ocean floor.Read More »
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Lucio Fulci – La Casa nel tempo AKA The House Of Clocks (1989)
Lucio Fulci1981-1990HorrorItalyA gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!Read More »
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Carlo Vanzina – Mystère AKA Dagger Eyes (1983)
Carlo Vanzina1981-1990CrimeItalyThrillerAssassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician’s assassination. A delightfully playful giallo starring the beautiful Carole Bouquet as Mystère, a high class call girl who becomes the target for a couple of assassins.Read More »
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Francesco Lagi – Il pataffio (2022)
Francesco Lagi2021-2030DramaItalyAn unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren’t willing to be ruled.Read More »
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Marco Bellocchio – Per una rosa AKA All for a Rose (2017)
Marco Bellocchio2011-2020DramaItalyShort FilmElena (18), is on her first day at work in a bar in a small Apennine town of Bobbio. It’s summer and the bar is very busy.Read More »