Italian

Set in Viareggio an Italian famous tourist place, this movie is a gentle comedy where we admire a beautiful and remarkable debutant, Jacqueline Sassard supported by a good group of actors – Raf Vallone, Sylva Koscina and the young Raf Mattioli – directed with steady hand by Alberto Lattuada. Based on a subject by Valerio Zurlini, this well scripted movie tells the transformation of a young and spoilt rich girl who discovers the substance of sentiments while living the drama of her parents divorce and the delights of love. The love story is showed in a very delicate way and it is carried out with crescendo untill the nostalgic finale.Read More »

“An almost forgotten little thriller with the great Bruno Ganz…”

Synopsis:
Former bank manager Bruno, who now works as a gardener, seeks revenge on his old bank. After he saves the life of the unemployed Stefano, he sees him and his girlfriend Maria as the ideal accomplices for his plan. Together they want to rob the bank where Bruno once worked and thus fight for a new life.Read More »

An uncompromising cop gets transferred to Naples on account of this city’s atrocious crime levels. His no-hold-barred police methods are considered to be the perfect anti-dote.Read More »

Variety Review
A strongly narrated tale about obsessive love between two sisters, “Open My Heart” by young documaker Giada Colagrande starts as a quasi-voyeuristic look at forbidden passion, then slowly turns to a very Italian film noir. Though the racy material is used more ritualistically than naturalistically, story still has a perverse fascination, despite some technical clumsiness and stiff thesping.Read More »

A dangerous love triangle develops among brothers and an immigrant woman hired to work the fields.Read More »

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Lu is a disruptive, rebellious teenage mother. She lives with her daughter Nina in a women’s refuge run by a group of nuns in Buenos Aires. The arrival of Paola, a sympathetic Italian nun who takes a shine to Nina, coincides with Lu going missing. What ensues is a sensitively realized and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of life in a refuge.Read More »

Amazon.co.uk Review
Like the finest of film scores with its fluid beauty and succession of intensely romantic tunes, Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has a surprisingly cinematic feel. In 1995 director Frederic Mitterand exploited this quality of the story, exposing a young woman’s disillusionment against a backdrop of cultural chasms. Shot on location, with Tunisia doubling convincingly as a turn of the century Nagasaki, this Butterfly shines with fragile beauty. The house becomes a brilliantly used set; airy and full of the scent of flowers and at the same time a cage for the trapped woman. Archive footage of bygone Nagasaki is used skilfully to underline the distance between the 15-year-old bride and Pinkerton.Read More »

SYNOPSIS
Young protesters live together in a commune in Milano. One has a ventriloquist ability and is signed by national TV becoming a superstar in commercials aimed for kids. One by one his commune friends leave the protest to enter the business world except for one.Read More »

A prisoner (Lorraine De Salle) is forced to serve as a doctor’s assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There’s the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to “cure” homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.Read More »