When Teresa’s husband dies she only inherits debts. In order to pay them she must assume her husband’s place as a truck driver.
She will have to avoid the moves fellow male drivers make on her, for she is still a very attractive woman. While working, she begins a steamy love affair with an experienced driver that helped her with her new job. But the debts are too big and the truck owner demands her to marry him to settle them. Things will settle at the altar, but not in the expected way!Read More »
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Dino Risi – Teresa (1987)
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Monte Hellman – Iguana (1988)
1981-1990AdventureCultItalyMonte Hellman

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Iguana is an allegorical fable of the abuses of power which follows a disfigured and fiercely misanthropic sailor who jumps ship to become the improbable king of a remote barren island. Featuring a haunting score by Joni Mitchell and starring Everett McGill as a man raging against the calcified hierarchies of 19th century society, Iguana has gained the reputation of a cult film maudit for its harrowing depiction of the savagely exacting master-slave society created by the despotic sailor. Among Hellman’s least discussed works, Iguana will be presented in its rarely screened extended director’s cut. – HGRead More » -
Valerio Zurlini – La ragazza con la valigia AKA Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
1961-1970DramaItalyRomanceValerio ZurliniQuote:
Lorenzo’s older brother Marcello is a playboy who has broke the heart of a cabaret singer named Aida (Claudia Cardinale). When she shows up one evening at their home Marcello unable to handle his own dirty business sends Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) out to get rid of her. Lorenzo fails in love Aida the moment he lays he eyes upon her. Feeling guilty about the way his brother treated her he does his best to help her out.Read More » -
Carmine Gallone – Casta diva (1954)
1951-1960Carmine GalloneDramaItalyRomance

Just graduated from the Conservatory of Naples, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
To make a musical portrait for her, he writes the romanza “Casta Diva”, of which he makes her homage.
Bellini is the most promising student of the Conservatory, but he only wants to return to Sicily and live with Maddalena. He thus refuses the offer of famous singer Giuditta Pasta to go to Milan with her.
Maddalena, however, doesn’t want that Vincenzo renounces to fame, and leaves.
Bellini hence goes to Milan with Giuditta, where he’s successful with the opera “Il Pirata”, and where he meets – and clashes with – Donizetti.
Maddalena, however, is always in his heart, so he leaves Giuditta and writes a harsh opera, “Norma”, which has no success. Maddalena, upon learning this, takes to Giuditta the romanza “Casta Diva”, which is added to the opera and leads it to success…Read More » -
Marco Bellocchio – Enrico IV (1984)
1981-1990ItalyMarco BellocchioPoliticsThe story begins at a medieval dressing party. A man, dressed as the King Enrico IV, falls from his horse and hits his head. This causes him serious lesions and gets insane, believing he is really the KingRead More »
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Sergio Martino – Lo strano vizio della signora Wardh AKA The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
1971-1980GialloItalySergio MartinoThrillerAn ambassador’s wife discovers that one of the men in her life – either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover – may be a vicious serial killer.Read More »
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Rafael Romero Marchent – ¿Quién grita venganza? AKA Dead Men Don’t Count (1968)
1961-1970ItalyRafael Romero MarchentSpanish cinema under FrancoWesternEvery good Spaghetti Western begins with a killing, a man bids his wife and baby goodbye and rides off, his wife’s smiling face turns hard and she signals a rifleman in the hills with a mirror, the man dies.
Years later, two opportunistic bounty killers Fred (Anthony Steffen) and Johnny (Mark Damon) arrive in Blackstone to try and swindle the Sheriff (Piero Lulli) out of a $15,000 bounty by posing as the captor and killer. However they are are drawn into a bloody mystery. Who is responsible for the massacre of rancher’s families? Why do the distinctive pistols Fred carries cause such consternation? The answer to events in the present can only be found in the past.Read More »
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Bruno Bozzetto – West and Soda (1965)
1961-1970AnimationBruno BozzettoEuro WesternsItalyWestern

A greedy villain tries to coerce a woman into marrying him so he can take over her land, when a stranger rides into town intent on taking down the bad guys.
Inspired from the most ironic spaghetti western the master of italian animation Bruno Bozzetto develops West and Soda, a sweet parody of western’s epic.Read More » -
Lina Wertmüller – Tutto a posto e niente in ordine AKA All Screwed Up (1974)
1971-1980ComedyDramaItalyLina WertmüllerA group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano’s suburbia in the 1974. Not only they share the house, but also hopes and troubles that in those years where part of the Italian society. Loves and fights among them are the mirror of the difficult environment in which the poor south Italians found themselves in the 70s in the industrial cities of north Italy.Read More »





