Italian cinematic politics
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- StarsMarco BellocchioSilvano AgostiSandro PetragliaA critique of cineastes and cinephiles, including a once famous actress reduced to poverty and a man who fails miserably at running a film society with no money.
- DirectorMarco Bellocchio
- DirectorPaolo CavaraStarsPhilippe LeroyDelia BoccardoGabriele TintiPaolo is a documentary filmmaker on a mission to see the world and present human nature in its true and raw form, even pushing his crew to the limit to capture the brutality of a world gone mad even at the expense of safety and a moral price.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiFranca ValeriGiovanna RalliAlberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreA look at Sicily with the eyes of the Sicilian director, through more than 500 songs taken from over a hundred films shot or set on the island. A film anthology on the history of Sicily divided into 14 chapters.
- DirectorGianfranco MingozziStarsGiulio BrogiMimsy FarmerWilliam BergerA filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
- DirectorFabio CarpiStarsMimsy FarmerFrançois SimonGiovanni RosselliA father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsIvo GarraniMariano RigilloIlija DzuvalekovskiThe revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClaudia CardinaleJean SorelMichael CraigSandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoStarsSenta BergerLino CapolicchioAdriana AstiTurin, late 19th century. The young Simone Celzani is hopelessly in love with the gym teacher Maria Pedani.
- DirectorGianni TotiStarsGeorges WilsonAlessandro HaberBrizio MontinaroIn Rome, where he is a prisoner, Saul converses with young people on the acceleration of history (the great wheel that often appears in the film), power, corporate corruption, class consciousness, death, sectarianism, utopia , the recovery of the sense of the flesh, freedom. In this dialogue and non-fiction setting, Toti keeps the story of the saint "in costume" and traces them with some flash-backs and flash-forward orchestrating a parable of lunges in the contemporary. A metahistorical film and a cinematic destination on the life of Saul of Tarsus.
- StarsEdmonda AldiniMassimo FoschiLuigi DibertiThe knight Orlando falls for the fickle princess Angelica. She spurns him. He goes mad, pursues her, visits the moon to recaptures his lost wits, and loses her to a sexy servant boy.
- DirectorMario BrentaStarsCarlo CabriniMaria MontiGiancarlo BadessiStory of a loser who is forced to collect worms to live. When the prostitute who keeps him company leaves, he enters the hospital, once again sick and alone.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsArthur KennedyZhanna ProkhorenkoRaffaele PisuChronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsMiguel Mateo 'Miguelín'José Gómez SevillanoPedro Basauri 'Pedrucho'The rise and fall of a famous torero, Miguelin, inside and outside of the bullfighters ring.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsNatale RossiRoberto SevesoPaolo QuadrubbiTwo workers at an isolated Alpine dam grow closer when an avalanche traps them in their hut without power or contact.
- DirectorMarco LetoStarsAdalberto Maria MerliAdolfo CeliMilena VukoticRossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsRenato SalvatoriNorma BengellNino SeguriniA man is beset by financial and personal problems, as his business goes bankrupt and he finds out his wife is being unfaithful. Undeterred, he battles on and his determination carries the day.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsFranco NeroMario AdorfRiccardo CucciollaHow the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniCandice BergenMichael TuckerA communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGian Maria VolontèDon BackyRay LovelockA detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
- DirectorFranco MolèStarsRay LovelockMartine BrochardSilvia DionisioOberdan Rossi is half Jewish and a fascist. After coming back from the Ethiopian war, he becomes disillusioned and works as a journalist.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsLuigi VannucchiDominique DarelRita CalderoniThe story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.
- DirectorFranco CastellanoGiuseppe MocciaStarsAdriano CelentanoClaudio BigagliFrançois BastienIn Weimar Germany, twin brothers Hermann and Gustav find themselves on opposite extremes: Hermann is a loyal sympathizer of the emerging Nazi party and Gustav is an anarchist who prints and spreads anti-Nazi propaganda.
- DirectorRiccardo GhioneStarsMarisa MantovaniRuggero MitiRiccardo Cucciolla14 people--7 men and 7 women--of different ages gather in a comfortable seaside hotel to perform an experiment inspired by the theories of Wilhelm Reich.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsWoody StrodeFranco CittiJean ServaisRebel Maurice Lalubi is arrested by the military on trumped up charges and tortured, which turns him into a martyr. Inspired by the final days of the first democratic Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba.
- DirectorValentino OrsiniStarsFrank WolffMarilù ToloSerigne Ndiaye GonzalesUpon his death, a young African director, Abramo Malonga, bequeathed his first and last unfinished film to his former teacher, the Italian director Fausto Morelli. Morelli, after having seen the work, is faced with a puzzling, complex and, in part, incomprehensible work. Helped by Abramo Malonga's young widow and by the notes left by his deceased friend, and again by his personal memories, the Italian director tries to reconstruct and complete the film. Fausto's work proceeds with difficulty, not only because of the problems that the film poses to him, but because of the problems that arise in his daily life. After a long crisis, after which he returns to Pisa with his old party mates and abandons himself to love and his own solitude, Fausto takes up the work of his African friend again, closing it with a last invention, in which, with daring metaphor, has refigured the human condition of our time.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsSady RebbotPascale AudretNando AngeliniBonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans. What will he do?
- DirectorSs-SundaStarsAldo AgliataRenato BaldiniJohn BenedyA documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as Killing, aka Satanik in France and Sadistik in America. Also the basis for the Turkish cult film series shot as Kilink. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from spaghetti westerns, splatter films and historical dramas from the 1960s and 70s.
- DirectorFranco MarescoStarsLetizia BattagliaCiccio MiraMatteo ManninoOn the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia.
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsTony MusanteCarla GravinaSalvo RandoneDramatization of real-life gangster Gaspare Pisciotta, lieutenant of the bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and his death by poisoning in jail in 1954.
- DirectorWilma LabateStarsRossella CanacciniFranca DeniDaniela SanteriniThey are very young and come from all over the industrial districts of Tuscany, so different from the famous hills of Chianti: the steelworks of Piombino, the port of Livorno and the Piaggio factories in Pontedera. It is the red province of "houses of the people" and the Italian Communist Party. Getting away from this region is a dream for them, but this is 1968 and everything is possible. They receive an offer they can't turn down, a tour in the Far East: Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore. Armed with musical instruments and a desire to sing, they set off hoping for success but find themselves in the middle of a war, and the war is the real one of Vietnam. Fifty years later Le Stars tell the story of their adventure amongst American soldiers, remote jungle bases and soul music.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsVittorio GassmanPaolo VillaggioRiccardo GarroneTheatre director Don Albino Moncalieri and his only employee Guido Guidi are in desperate need of money. On tour throughout Mexico they get by accident entangled in revolutionary activities.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsUgo TognazziPiera Degli EspostiGastone MoschinThe Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
- DirectorNino ZanchinStarsSusanna MelandriRosemary DexterUmberto OrsiniIn a small town in Palestine, a Jewish woman attends an Arab boy. The two fall in love and manage to get married. At the outbreak of the war her parents decide to save the whole family.
- DirectorBruno BarattiStarsFrançoise PrévostMassimo FarinelliGabriella BoccardoPaola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsHugh O'BrianBarbara RushNeil HamiltonA reporter and a New York City cop team up to find out who is trying to assassinate a UN leader.
- DirectorPaolo Benvenuti
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsMarcello MastroianniJacqueline BissetJean-Louis TrintignantThe investigation of the murder of ambiguous architect Garrone takes Police Commissioner Santamaria to the Turinese high society, but the results are unclear. In the meanwhile, another murder takes place.