Italy

  • Luigi Cozzi – L’Assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora AKA The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)

    1971-1980GialloItalyLuigi CozziThriller

    Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer’s car with Nora’s corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa.Read More »

  • Roberto Gavaldón – Sombra verde AKA Untouched (1954)

    1951-1960AdventureDramaItalyRoberto Gavaldón

    Synopsis:
    With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.Read More »

  • Louis Nero – Pianosequenza (2005)

    2001-2010DramaItalyLouis Nero

    Synopsis
    “Pianosequenza”is a bet and together a provocation. A feature film turned in digital way that expect no operation of editing, an only long breath that remains attached to the characters without break, it capturing with the agility of the moving camera every minimum jump, every detail, every variation in the expressive band and in the physical action of the actor. “Pianosequenza” wants play with time and take possession of it. The real time, Not the sham time, perceived time , and it’s the rarity, in the same way for the actor and for the audience. The theme of “Pianosequenza” born from a reflection on fate and destiny. Bunuel asserted that he was fascinated from as, events very important, , come for a connection of fates. Read More »

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Appunti per un’Orestiade africana aka Notes towards an African Orestes (1970)

    Documentary1961-1970ItalyPier Paolo Pasolini

    Quote:
    The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.Read More »

  • Dario Argento – 4 mosche di velluto grigio AKA Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

    1971-1980Dario ArgentoGialloItalyThriller

    Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders…Read More »

  • Luigi Cozzi – Blood on Méliès’ Moon (2016)

    2011-2020FantasyHorrorItalyLuigi Cozzi

    For his first narrative feature in 27 years, the legendary Luigi Cozzi (PAGANINI HORROR, THE BLACK CAT) wrote, directed and stars as himself in this insane supernatural sci-fi splatter mystery: When an obsessive fan’s visit triggers a brutal murder in Luigi’s Profondo Rosso store/museum, Cozzi’s phantasmagoric freakout will include vanished inventors, alternate dimensions, cursed books, lost films, bizarre pajamas and his own reputation as ‘the Italian Ed Wood’, with appearances by Lamberto Bava, Barbara Magnolfi (SUSPIRIA), screenwriter Antonio Tentori (CAT IN THE BRAIN), best-selling author Giulio Leoni and Dario Argento.Read More »

  • Silvio Soldini – Cosa voglio di più AKA Come Undone (2010)

    2011-2020DramaItalySilvio Soldini

    Quote:
    Like a slow-building avalanche of interior conflict, Silvio Soldini’s meticulously paced Come Undone collapses the façade of emotional connection by highlighting the small erosive moments of deception rather than grandiose melodramatic tirades. A casual glance, an innocent smile, a fleeting flirtation carry all the weight of a wrecking ball, pummeling expectations of happiness until there’s nothing left but romantic uncertainty. These subtle cues of torment organically mix into daily routines and rhythms, revealing the undercurrent of doubt plaguing each couple. Even more staggering, life’s traditionally important benchmarks (the birth of a child, a retirement party, and a promotion) are minimal afterthoughts to the narrative, while the seemingly arbitrary crossroads of everyday life are given an unmatched immediacy and impact. It’s this focus on the mundane elements that makes the film’s sudden sex scenes and the continuous betrayals so striking, and the downfall of each person’s inability to trust so believable.Read More »

  • Lucio Fulci – Quella villa accanto al cimitero AKA The House by the Cemetery [Blue Underground 4K] (1981)

    1981-1990Cannibal and Zombie moviesCultHorrorItalyLucio Fulci

    A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone – or something – is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.Read More »

  • Mauro Bolognini – Un bellissimo novembre AKA That Splendid November (1969)

    1961-1970DramaItalyMauro Bolognini

    Quote:
    The story is set in a manor farm on the slopes of Etna near Catania, at the beginning of November, during some days of vacation that are the occasion for a family of the Sicilian bourgeoisie to come together.
    Nino is a restless teenager of seventeen, who harbors an unbridled love passion for Cettina, the sister of his mother. The woman, who is married and mature, partly reciprocates the attention of his nephew Nino, but at the same time is interested in an associate of her husband, Sasà, young and handsome. The husband seems to push her toward the partner for the sake of convenience.Read More »

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