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Chaos (1984)
, 3h8Directed by Frères Taviani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, L'émigration
Actors Margarita Lozano, Omero Antonutti, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti, Ciccio Ingrassia, Regina Bianchi
The film depicts four short stories from Pirandello's 15-volume series Novelle per un anno, which play around his birthplace in the 19th century. A raven, which in the introduction is shown to get a bell around his neck from locals, leads one from one story to the next.
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
, 2hDirected by Giuliano Montaldo
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about anarchism, Politique, Prison films, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about anarchism, Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen, Rosanna Fratello, Milo O'Shea
Un hold-up sanglant est commis le 15 avril 1920, dans le Massachusetts. Deux anarchistes d'origine italienne, Nicola Sacco et Bartolomeo Vanzetti sont arrêtés. Malgré le manque de preuves formelles, ils sont condamnés à mort et envoyés à la chaise électrique.
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy (1956)
, 1h42Directed by Camillo Mastrocinque
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Dorian Gray, Teddy Reno, Mario Castellani, Nino Manfredi
The brothers Antonio (Totò) and Peppino (Peppino De Filippo) Caponi are boorish landowners living in southern Italy. Antonio is lavish and steals his stingy brother's money.
Perfect Strangers (2016)
, 1h37Directed by Paolo Genovese
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Kasia Smutniak, Marco Giallini, Valerio Mastandrea, Alba Rohrwacher
À l'occasion d'une éclipse de Lune qu'ils vont observer depuis la terrasse de leur appartement romain, Eva et Rocco reçoivent à dîner leurs amis de toujours : Bianca et Cosimo, Carlotta et Lele et enfin Peppe, le divorcé de la troupe qui doit leur présenter sa nouvelle copine. Mais Peppe arrive seul, prétextant que son amie est souffrante. À l'apéritif, ils évoquent un couple d'amis récemment séparé à la suite d'une tromperie découverte par un texto. Ils réalisent que les téléphones sont devenus notre boîte noire, et se demandent alors combien de couples se sépareraient si chacun avait accès au téléphone de l'autre. Eva propose, malgré la gêne perceptible de certains, de jouer au jeu de la vérité le temps de la soirée : chacun pose son téléphone sur la table et toute conversation, message ou appel reçu sera lu et écouté de tous…
The Marquis of Grillo (1981)
, 2h15Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Caroline Berg, Riccardo Billi, Jacques Herlin, Flavio Bucci, Cochi Ponzoni
Rome, Year of our Lord 1809. The Pope Pius VII with his cardinals and ministers manages both temporal and spiritual power of the Papal States in Italy. The Marquis Onofrio del Grillo is one of his favorites, but even the worst of all the nobility. As a privileged and protected nobleman, Onofrio feels free to play his pranks on the poor people without any fear of the consequences. On one occasion, when he is arrested at a dinner with common criminals, he turns to the populace in a vulgar speech, claiming that his nobility allows him to do what he wants, and that they, being poor, are not worth anything. Memorable is the dispute between the poor Jew Aaron Piperno and the Marquis for the payment of a salary. Aaron is amazed when Onofrio refuses to pay with the argument that his creditor being a Jew is a murderer of Jesus. Aaron brings his case to court, but Onofrio wins the lawsuit by corrupting the judges and the cardinals. Piperno is condemned and mocked by the people, and Onofrio announces to the Pope that justice has just died in his States.
Two Women (1960)
, 1h41Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Political films
Actors Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Raf Vallone, Andrea Checchi
The story centers on Cesira (Loren), a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta (Brown), her devoutly religious twelve-year-old daughter, during World War II. To escape the Allied bombing of Rome, Cesira and her daughter flee southern Lazio for her native Ciociaria, a rural, mountainous province of central Italy.
L'Eclisse (1962)
, 1h58Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner, Lilla Brignone, Rosanna Rory
At dawn on Monday 10 July 1961, a young literary translator, Vittoria (Monica Vitti), breaks off her relationship with Riccardo (Francisco Rabal) in his apartment in the EUR residential district of Rome, following a long night of conversation. Riccardo tries to persuade her to stay, saying he wants to make her happy, but she turns out the lights in his apartment, tells him she no longer loves him, and leaves. As she walks the deserted early-morning streets past the EUR water tower, Riccardo catches up and walks with her through a wooded area to her apartment building at 307 Viale dell'Umanesimo, where they say their final goodbyes.
The Last Emperor (1987)
, 2h43Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about children, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryūichi Sakamoto
The film opens in 1950, five years after the capture of Puyi by the Red Army when the Soviet Union entered the Pacific War in 1945 and his having been kept in their custody. In the recently established People's Republic of China Puyi arrives as a political prisoner and war criminal at the Fushun Prison. Soon after his arrival, Puyi attempts suicide, which only renders him unconscious.
Beautiful (1952)
, 1h50Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tecla Scarano, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Lola Braccini, Alessandro Blasetti
Bellissima centers on a working-class mother in Rome, Maddalena (Anna Magnani), who drags her young daughter (Tina Apicella) to Cinecittà to attend an audition for a new film by Alessandro Blasetti. Maddalena is a stage mother who loves movies and whose efforts to promote her daughter grow increasingly frenzied.
L'Avventura (1960)
, 2h23Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Jack O'Connell, Dominique Blanchar, Lelio Luttazzi
Anna (Lea Massari) meets her friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) at her father's villa on the outskirts of Rome prior to leaving on a yachting cruise on the Mediterranean. They drive into Rome to Isola Tiberina near the Pons Fabricius to meet up with Anna's boyfriend, Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti). While Claudia waits downstairs, Anna and Sandro make love in his house. Afterwards Sandro drives the two women to the coast where they join two wealthy couples and set sail south along the coast.
The Name of the Rose (1986)
, 2h11Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Witches in film, Serial killer films
Actors Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Michael Lonsdale, Valentina Vargas, Helmut Qualtinger
As an old man nearing the end of his life, Adso, youngest son of the Baron of Melk recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he accompanied his mentor, the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville to a Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. The abbey had been chosen as the site for a theological debate between the Franciscan order and the Pope on the poverty of Christ. The abbey is already home to a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books. The mysterious recent death of the monk Adelmo of Otranto - a young but famous illuminator - has stirred fears among the abbey's devout inhabitants. The Abbot seeks help from William, known for his deductive powers. The illuminator's death cannot be dismissed as a suicide because the body was found at the foot of a tower having only a window which cannot be opened. William is reluctant to involve himself, though he is persuaded not only because of the intellectual challenge, but also because of his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit in Adelmo's death. William is also motivated to act by his fears that the Abbot will summon officials of the inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.
The Great Beauty (2013)
, 2h22Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers
Actors Toni Servillo, Sabrina Ferilli, Isabella Ferrari, Carlo Verdone, Carlo Buccirosso, Serena Grandi
The film opens with a quote from Céline's Journey to the End of the Night: "To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength." The main character is an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. After his 65th birthday party, he walks through the ruins and city streets, encountering the various characters, reflecting on his life, his first love, and sense of unfulfillment.
Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
, 1h55Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Nino Manfredi, Zoe Incrocci, Marcella Michelangeli, Adriana Russo, Beryl Cunningham
The film tells the grotesque story of a large Apulian family living in an extremely poor shantytown of the periphery of Rome. The protagonist is one-eyed patriarch Giacinto (Manfredi). Four generations of his sons and relatives are cramped together in his shack, managing to get by mainly on thieving and whoring, among other things more or less respectable.
For Love and Gold (1966)
, 2h8Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Gian Maria Volonté, Catherine Spaak, Carlo Pisacane, Folco Lulli, Ugo Fangareggi
The movie opens with a small Italian village being stormed by a band of Hungarian pillagers. When the murders and rapes are over, a German knight arrives and bravely kills the bandits. However, as he is healing his wounds he is attacked by two of the surviving villagers and one of the thieves. They throw the wounded knight into a river.
The Great Silence (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Sergio Corbucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee, Marisa Merlini
Henry Pollicut, a corrupt Utahn banker, has Gordon, a man with evidence against him, and his wife murdered by two bounty killers. Fearing that Gordon's son will give them away, one of the killers slices his throat, rendering him permanently mute. Years later, the son, armed with a Mauser C96, extracts his revenge by assassinating the bounty killer and shooting Pollicut’s right-hand thumb.