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A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala. “It’s a film close to my heart. It was an old project called Essere un mostro (‘Being a Monster’) and this, too, is the story of an ‘anti-hero’. Giannini was extraordinary”. (A. Lattuada)Read More »
Alcoholic widow sobers up to sell husband’s stolen diamonds after his suicide. Legitimate buyers avoid tainted gems. Selling process forces her to confront past demons while seeking redemption.Read More »
“An almost forgotten little thriller with the great Bruno Ganz…”
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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 »
After WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancee who now has amnesia.Read More »
Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati documents the real-time persecution as a way of survival.Read More »
Amir needs money to marry his girlfriend Miriam, and joins a gang of counterfeiters, but soon Amir develops a relationship with the boss’s wife, and events reach a horrific and explosive conclusion.Read More »
Synopsis:
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter’s will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter’s two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter’s death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster’s found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter’s nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster’s crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise’s death. Mason’s investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around.Read More »
