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The American Friend
The American Friend (1977) on 23 september 1977
, 2h7
Directed by Emmanuel Clot, Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Transport films, Transport en Île-de-France, Films about psychiatry
Actors Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Daniel Schmid
Rating73% 3.6975553.6975553.6975553.6975553.697555
Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) is a wealthy American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he appears at auctions to bid on forged paintings produced by an accomplice, artificially driving up the price. At one of these auctions, he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a picture framer who is dying of a rare and unspecified blood disease. Zimmerman refuses to shake Ripley's hand when introduced, coldly saying, "I've heard of you" before walking away.
A Special Day
A Special Day (1977) on 25 september 1977
, 1h45
Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Alessandra Mussolini, Vittorio Guerrieri
Rating80% 4.047734.047734.047734.047734.04773
On May 8, 1938, the day Hitler visited Mussolini in Rome, Antonietta, a native and sentimental homemaker (Loren) stays home doing her usual domestic tasks, while her fascist husband and her six spoilt children take to the streets to follow the parade. The building is empty except for a neighbor across the complex (Mastroianni), a charming man named Gabriele. He is a radio broadcaster who has been dismissed from his job and is about to be deported to Sardinia because of his anti-fascist stance and his homosexuality. They meet by chance and began to talk. Antonietta is surprised by his opinions and, unaware of his sexual orientation, flirts with him.
Femmes Fatales
Femmes Fatales (1976) on 23 september 1977
, 1h47
Directed by Bertrand Blier, Michel Leroy
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Piéplu, Gérard Jugnot
Rating63% 3.1916953.1916953.1916953.1916953.191695
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile (Bernard Blier) who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
Padre Padrone
Padre Padrone (1977) on 24 september 1977
, 1h57
Directed by Frères Taviani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement
Actors Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Stanko Molnar, Nanni Moretti
Rating72% 3.642013.642013.642013.642013.64201
The film opens in documentary fashion at a Sardinian elementary school that six-year-old Gavino (Saverio Marconi) is attending. His tyrannical peasant father (Omero Antonutti) barges in and announces to the teacher and the students that Gavino must leave school and tend the family sheep. Under his father's watchful eyes and the victim of his sadistic behavior, Gavino passes the next fourteen years tending sheep in the Sardinian mountains. There he begins to discover things for himself and begins to rebel against his father.