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The Leopard (1963)
, 2h33Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Serge Reggiani, Terence Hill, Paolo Stoppa
Sicily, 1860. The corpse of a Royalist soldier is found in the garden of the villa of Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina (the gardener quips that these soldiers stink as much in death as they do in life). As the Prince's large family enjoys the customary comforts and privileges of an ancient and noble name, including private services with their Jesuit priest, war has broken out between the King's army and the insurgent volunteer redshirts of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Among the rebels is the Prince's remarkably handsome and dashing nephew, Tancredi, with whose romantic politics the Prince shares some whimsical sympathy (and a good deal of material support—Tancredi is a notorious spendthrift).
Il Posto (1961)
, 1h45Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action
The film tells the story of Domenico, a young man who forgoes the latter part of his education when his family is in need of money. Applying for a job at a big city corporation, he goes through a bizarre series of exams, physical tests and interviews. During a brief respite from the tests, he meets Antonietta, a young girl who has similarly forgone her schooling when in need of money to support herself and her mother. Through the course of this meeting, they have coffee at a local cafe, discussing the issues of their lives and their ambitions. Becoming attracted to her, they are quickly separated when they land jobs in different departments.
White Collar Blues (1975)
, 1h40Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Liù Bosisio, Gigi Reder, Umberto D'Orsi
The movie starts with Pina, Ugo Fantozzi's wife, calling the "ItalOilEdilThermoTextilPharmMetalChemical" industry, where her husband works, asking to see if her husband is still there, since she has not had any news about him for 18 days. They will find out that, for some reason, Fantozzi got stuck inside the sealed walls of the industry's old bathrooms.
Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
, 1h55Directed by Pietro Germi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Lando Buzzanca, Aldo Puglisi, Lola Braccini, Leopoldo Trieste
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily, as did Germi's previous film Divorce, Italian Style. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. Vincenzo immediately demands that the man, Peppino Califano, marry his daughter, and antics ensue. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.
Unexpected (1961)
, 1h45Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Anouk Aimée, Tomás Milián, Raymond Pellegrin, Jeanne Valérie, Jacques Morel, Philippe Dumat
Thomas Plemian, professeur d'anglais à Meaux (France), donne des leçons particulières chez un riche industriel dont l'épouse attend un enfant. Très ambitieux, le professeur organise, avec la complicité d'une élève, l'enlèvement du bébé. Mais le plan prévu échoue, car la femme du ravisseur, stérile, refuse de céder l'enfant...
La traviata (1967)
Origin Italie
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Films based on operas, Erotic thriller films, Fictional prostitutes
Actors Anna Moffo
Version filmée en studio de l'opéra de Giuseppe Verdi.
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
, 2h12Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois
Le film raconte la romance entre un jeune homme de dix-sept ans en vacances avec sa famille en Italie et un étudiant américain plus âgé, lors de l'été 1983.
The Postman (1994)
, 1h48Directed by Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Poésie, Films about language and translation
Actors Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa, Anna Bonaiuto, Anna Bonaiuto
Set in the year 1950, Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island in Italy for political reasons. His wife accompanies him. On the island, local Mario Ruoppolo is dissatisfied with being a fisherman like his father. Mario looks for other work and is hired as a temporary postman with Neruda as his only customer. He uses his bicycle to hand deliver Neruda's mail (the island has no cars). Though poorly educated, the postman eventually befriends Neruda and becomes further influenced by Neruda's political views and poetry.
An Average Little Man (1977)
, 1h58Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Romolo Valli, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renato Malavasi, Enrico Beruschi
Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) is a petty bourgeois, modest white collar worker nearing retirement in a public office in the capital. His life is divided between work and family. With his wife (Shelley Winters) he shares high hopes for his son, Mario (Vincenzo Crocitti), a newly qualified accountant, not a particularly bright boy who willingly assists in the efforts which his father employs to make it in the same office.
Amarcord (1973)
, 2h7Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films
Actors Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Ciccio Ingrassia, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Antonino Faà di Bruno
A young woman hanging clothes on a line happily points out the arrival of "manine" or puffballs floating on the wind. The old man pottering beside her replies, "When puffballs come, cold winter’s done." In the village square, schoolboys jump around trying to pluck puffballs out of the air. Giudizio (Aristide Caporale), the town idiot, looks into the camera and recites a poem to spring and the swirling, drifting "manine."
The Best Offer (2013)
, 2h11Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Peinture
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Donald Sutherland, Sylvia Hoeks, Philip Jackson, Liya Kebede
The film tells a story of love and deceit, set in Europe (Trieste, Bolzano, Fidenza, Rome, Milan, Merano, Vienna, Prague) in the world of high-end art auctions and antiques. The story revolves around Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), an aging and esteemed, but somewhat eccentric, managing director of an auction house. Oldman is hired by a reclusive young heiress, Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. Claire always refuses to be seen in person, obviously suffering from severe agoraphobia and never leaving her room. Soon enough Virgil, a life-long bachelor, understands that he has fallen in love with her.
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
, 1h18Directed by Carlo Lizzani, Roberto Rossellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about children, Films about suicide
Actors Franz-Otto Krüger, Jo Herbst
Thirteen-year-old Edmund Kohler lives in devastated, post-World War II Berlin with his ailing, bedridden father and his adult siblings, Eva and Karl-Heinz. Eva manages to obtain cigarettes by going out with soldiers of the Allied forces, but she resists her friends' advice to prostitute herself. Karl-Heinz is the older son who fought in the war and is a burden to the struggling family, refusing to register with the police and get a ration card because he is afraid of what would happen if they found out he fought to the bitter end. The Kohlers and others have been assigned to the apartment home of the Rademachers by the housing authority, much to Mr. Rademacher's irritation.
The Earth Trembles (1949)
, 2h45Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Francesco Rosi, Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Luchino Visconti, Mario Pisu, Antonio Pietrangeli
The story takes place in Aci Trezza (Jaci Trizza), a small fishing village on the east coast of Sicily, Italy.
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
, 2h50Directed by Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about children, Films about the labor movement
Actors Carlo Rota
Four peasant families working farms for the same landlord scrape out a meager existence in 1898 in the campaign around Bergamo. Over the course of a year, children are born, crops are planted, animals are slaughtered, couples are married, stories and prayers are exchanged in the families's shared farmhouse. Undercurrents of revolution are seen by the peasants but largely ignored, as a communist rabble-rouser gives a speech at a local fair and when a newlywed couple visit the big city of Milan and witness the arrest of political prisoners. When spring comes, one of the four families is forced off their land by the incensed landlord, and the remaining families watch them go, praying for them and recognizing their own fragile existence.
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
, 1h37Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, Corrado Pani
A lonely young man, Mario, meets a lonely young woman, Natalia. Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is lonely for social reasons; he is a stranger and a newcomer to town. Natalia (Maria Schell) is lonely because she has always lived in isolation, even in the heart of the city. Her loneliness is intensified because she is in love with a man (Jean Marais) who may not ever return to her, but who continues to occupy her heart to the exclusion of any other possible relationship.