A beautiful young woman (Clio Goldsmith) was only expecting an evening's lodging when she checked into a quaint little downtown hotel-but the imposing concierge (Donatella Damiani) gave her a guided... more
If you thought Jackie Brown was the first airline stewardess to mix it up with some shady characters, think again. In this racy and lighthearted Italian crime saga, gorgeous stew Nora Green (Ursula... more
Violence and action abound in this Italian/Austrian crime thriller about down-and-out private detective Walter Spada (Maurizio Merli), who's hired to track down the missing daughter of a wealthy... more
Italian space adventure about aliens from the constellation Hydra who crash on Earth and abduct a group of humans-first to use as labor to fix their busted ship, then as specimens to be studied back... more
Packed with plenty of chills, thrills, and scares, this Italian-produced horror film stars Mimsy Farmer as Silvia, an industrial chemist suddenly plagued by strange visions and violent childhood... more
This film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" moves the setting to late-1960s London, and stars Helmut Berger as the vain title character. When Dorian Gray laments that... more
Richard Conte, Luc Merenda. A crooked cop asks his father for a special favor, but Dad walks the straight an narrow, which leads to trouble with the family, the authorities and the mob in this... more
An ex-con (Gastone Moschin) confronts a crazed gangster who thinks he has hidden a fortune in cash lost during an elaborate heist. The police think so, too, so he'll have to prove his "innocence"-but... more
In a prosperous North Italian town plagued by a kidnapping ring preying on the kids of wealthy families-and victims too ready to pay off rather than involve the cops-newly appointed commissioner... more
In 1970s Sicily, left-wing activist Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio) is one of the very few willing to publicly condemn the enormously powerful Mafia. Doing so during radio broadcasts... more
Nick the Sting is another slam-bang action movie from pulp movie master Fernando di Leo (The Italian Connection ; Shoot First, Die Later). Luc Merenda stars as small time conman Nick Hezard who gets... more
Claudio Cassinelli, Arthur Kennedy, Franco Fabrizi. Based on the real life 1969 bombing of the Piazza Fontana in Milan, this intense thriller begins with a terrorist hotel bombing which kills dozens... more
This movie attempts to reconstruct the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and it's liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through the story of it's president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found... more
Britt Ekland, Pierre Clementi. The ancient Greek tragedy Antigone gets a fresh interpretation here as the title character seeks to bury her dead brother. A fascist government has strewn hundreds of... more
In a magnetic performance, Academy Award nominee Vittorio de Sica (A Farewell to Arms) is Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning and cheating his fellow Italians, exploiting their... more
Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's... more
Based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's second novel. A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome. The... more
A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian Cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her Friends tells the story of four prostitutes... more
From legendary director Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street) comes the award-winning Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986), a coruscating battle-of-the-sexes comedy that won seven David di Donatello... more
Meet the West's most notorious lady, and the men who loved her and helped her become a legendary outlaw, in this spaghetti sagebrusher that was co-directed by Lina Wertmüller under the alias of... more
Customs agent Ivano Radovich (Gianni Garko) will form a temporary alliance with Naples' illegal cigarette trade boss Don Francesco Antiero (Mario Merola) in a desperate attempt to shut down the... more
By the early '80s, disgruntled Roman cop Remo Guerra (Valerio Mastandrea) had settled into a sideline for supplementing his income... as part of a break-in gang robbing and roughing up the city's... more
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching... more
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The setting for Conversation Piece is a handsome old Roman palazzo owned by a Professor (Burt Lancaster), an aging, American-born, Roman bred art historian who devotes his life to his books, his... more