After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother’s death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, “Armaguedon”. A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.Read More »
Bologna (Italy), 1950. A former member of the Fascist military group “X MAS” (10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla) and a friend join forces with a third man from Istria and create a bank-robbing gang.
Vancini’s sophomore feature is a realistic action movie that depicts the anti-bourgeois wrath that came from poverty and some right-wing milieus. Based on the real life events of criminal group led by Paolo CasaroliRead More »
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Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.Read More »
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.Read More »
Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Based on the novel of the same name written by Pasquale Festa Campanile. The film won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was followed by La nipote Sabella.Read More »
On a road in Haute-Provence, Francis meets up with a young musician, Samuel. They strike up a friendship and decide to stay at a mountain hotel, managed by an attractive young woman called Anna. Whilst Francis takes Anna as his mistress, Samuel organises card games with the locals. When they realise he has been cheating, his fellow gamblers break his hands. After he has been driven to kill an old woman, Samuel flees….Read More »
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it’s not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor (Marcello Mastroianni) that they find their voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli, brimming with humor and honesty, is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, and features engaging, naturalistic performances; cinematography by the great Giuseppe Rotunno; and a multilayered, Oscar-nominated screenplay by Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci, and Furio Scarpelli.Read More »
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The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.Read More »
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Made right after the great success of Risi’s own Poveri ma belli, and released later the same year, here are the further adventures of Romolo, Salvatore and Giovanna.Read More »