Italian

A group of rich decadents pick up wanderers from the streets and take them back to their large villa, where they are initially treated with consummate care but things take a turn for the worse.Read More »

Benito Mussolini’s early career from his founding of the Fasci Italiani in 1919 up to the assassination of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1924 and his speech in Parliament on 3 January 1925.Read More »

During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus’ camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed.

It’s considered the unofficial sequel to Spartacus and it was the last sword-and-sandal film for Steve Reeves.Read More »

The lawyer Brà works for insurance and is suspicious since the death of an insured, Maria Mancuso, which occurred an hour before the expiry of the policy. The Bill is unusual as it excludes the daughters married is can be levied only with the presence of the other three children. But Cinzia, a minor, is not. Brà takes then searched for her and his research is successful. But this success you will in many respects, different, very much different from what expected the lawyer Brà.Read More »

1963: The Mondo Libero newsreel by Gastone Ferranti and other material found in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and England became, for Pier Paolo Pasolini, the basis for a lyrical and polemical analysis of the social phenomena and conflicts affecting the modern world, from the Cold War to the Economic Boom, with commentary consisting of a “poetical voice” (Giorgio Bassani) and a “prosaic voice” (Renato Guttuso).
While Pasolini was working on editing “La Rabbia”, the producer, with either political and/or commercial motives, decided to turn the movie into a four-handed work, and entrusted Giovannino Guareschi with a part of it, following the well known journalist-like scheme “seen by right, seen by left.”
Pasolini reacted with irritation to this forced co-habitation, but in the end he acquiesced, giving up the first part of his movie to make room for Guareschi’s segment.Read More »

Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love.
It is based on the autobiographic book Journal d’une schizophrène. The film was awarded with the Nastro d’Argento for best screenplay.Read More »

Teresa Numa in Nardecchia, motherless daughter of a heartless Lazio peasant, becomes a war widow and single mother constantly looking for new jobs–and often forced to steal in order to live.Read More »

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A recently-widowed father of five finds himself overwhelmed when he’s left to play father and mother to a group of kids in whose lives he hadn’t taken a whole lot of interest in a long time, if ever.Read More »

Footsteps” is a medium-length film of 34 minutes directed by Giulio Questi in 1964. A real jewel of Italian underground cinema, unknown to most and brought into the open in 2009 on the occasion of the 66th Venice International Film Festival.Read More »