Italy

Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.Read More »

Boccaccio ’70 is a four-part anthology film inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s collection of bawdy, limerick-laden farces, The Decameron. The Italian-American brainchild of producers Carlo Ponti and Joseph E. Levine, the film pulls together contributions from four major Italian directors: Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8½), Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D.), and Luchino Visconti (The Leopard).Read More »

A married couple try to resolve their marriage crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two other lovers…Read More »

The Ties (Italian: Lacci) is a 2020 Italian romantic drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Domenico Starnone.
In early 1980s Naples, the marriage of a loving couple is threatened by a potential affair between the husband and a younger woman.

The picture will have its world premiere on 2 September 2020 at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, out of competition.Read More »

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.Read More »

A middle-aged man manages to get an appointment at the home of a beautiful and young colleague.Read More »

Taking the identity of a dead postal inspector found on the trail, a stranger rides into a small western town and finds himself in the middle of a stagecoach robbery perpetrated by a gang…Read More »

A puppet equipped with suction cups slides along different surfaces.

Story:Ugo Nespolo
Screenplay:Ugo Nespolo
Photography:Bruno Dreossi
Music:Stefan Grapelli, George SheringRead More »

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Three stories, three portraits of Neapolitan women, three social environments (bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie, proletariat).
Each story takes the name of the protagonist.
1) “Aurora”: a bourgeois woman, enriched by marriage, is abandoned by her husband; a former boyfriend comes back, but only to take her belongings.
2) “Carmela”: young man discovers, together, his homosexuality and the true identity of his mother, a father since always transvestite.
3) “Libera”: a newsdealer with an adulterous husband secretly films his carnal congresses and sells them in pornocassette.Read More »