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Films from the country "italie", sorted by name
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Attention! Bandits! (1951)
, 1h38Directed by Carlo Lizzani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Andrea Checchi, Lamberto Maggiorani, Maria Laura Rocca, Pietro Tordi, Giuliano Montaldo
Le scénario s'inspire de faits authentiques qui se sont déroulées pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en Italie. Ici, ce sont les aventures d'un groupe de résistants italiens originaires de Gênes et dirigé par le commandant Vento qui sont évoquées. Ceux-ci doivent s'emparer d'une cargaison d'armes destinées à l'occupant allemand. Aidés par un comité d'ouvriers en grève menés par Marco, ceux-ci parviennent à leurs fins, après plusieurs péripéties pleines de tension. Les chasseurs alpins italiens, un moment hésitant, et placés devant un dilemme crucial, choisissent eux aussi d'entrer en résistance.
Steel (1933)
, 1h7Directed by Walter Ruttmann, Mario Soldati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Piero Pastore, Isa Pola, Olga Capri, Romano Calò, Romolo Costa, Domenico Serra
Two steelworkers engage in a violent rivalry over a woman.
Bitter Waters (1954)
Directed by Sergio Corbucci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Ignazio Balsamo, Mirko Ellis, Narciso Parigi, Piero Lulli, John Kitzmiller, Folco Lulli
Action (1980)
, 2hDirected by Tinto Brass
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Luc Merenda, Adriana Asti, Paola Senatore, Tinto Brass, John Steiner, Alberto Lupo
Bruno Martel (Luc Merenda) is a "Z movie" actor with hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets Doris (Susanna Javicoli) an actress who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno "rescues" Doris from the set, leaving the town to encounter various absurd situations. They meet an old anarchist (Alberto Sorrentino) who thinks he is Giuseppe Garibaldi and the three are locked at a mental asylum where Doris commits suicide. Bruno and "Garibaldi" escape and take refuge at an awkward petrol station run by Florence (Adriana Asti) and her invalid husband Joe (Alberto Lupo).
The Heroin Busters (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Joshua Sinclair, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Patrizia Webley
De Rome à Hong-Kong, de New-York à Amsterdam, les cargaisons de drogue transitent, responsables de décrépitudes sociales à travers le monde et voyant l'occident peu à peu pourrir. Capitaine du bureau narcotique à Rome, Mike Hamilton décide qu'il est temps d'instaurer un grand nettoyage à la source en prenant le taureau par les cornes pour vaincre le réseau tentaculaire de la drogue. Il est secondé par Fabio, un de ses agents, qui s'infiltre dans ce dernier afin de le démanteler de l'intérieur. Après avoir gagné la confiance du dirigeant du cartel, Gianni, il est rapidement démasqué et traqué par ses hommes...
Africa Addio (1966)
, 2h20Directed by Francesco Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi
Origin Italie
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Le documentaire comporte des images de la révolution de Zanzibar, (massacre d'environ 5 000 arabes en 1964), ainsi que de la révolte Mau Mau au Kenya.
Goodbye Youth (1940)
, 1h34Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors María Denis, Adriano Rimoldi, Clara Calamai, Carlo Campanini, Bianca Della Corte, Paolo Carlini
The film is set in Turin at the beginning of the twentieth century, where a student (Rimoldi) begins a romance with a seamstress Dorina (Denis). However, he is lured away by a sophisticated older woman (Calamai) to Dorina's distress.
Farewell Moscow (1987)
, 1h41Directed by Mauro Bolognini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Aurore Clément, Francesca Ciardi, Anna Galiena, Carmen Scarpitta
Le film retrace l'histoire vraie de la juive russe Ida Nudel, interdite d'exil en Israël, arrêtée en 1978 lors d'une manifestation avant d'être envoyée dans un camp masculin de travaux forcés en Sibérie.
Adiós Gringo (1965)
, 1h40Directed by Giorgio Stegani, Jean Pourtalé
Origin Italie
Genres Western, Spaghetti Western
Actors Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Pierre Cressoy, Germano Longo, Frank Braña, Roberto Camardiel
A young rancher, swindled in a cattle deal, kills a rancher, in self-defense, who has accused him of stealing his cattle. He then gets caught up in adventure and romance as he tries to prove his innocence and clear his name.
Adiós, Sabata (1970)
, 1h44Directed by Gianfranco Parolini
Origin Italie
Genres War, Action, Western, Spaghetti Western
Themes Political films
Actors Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Salvatore Borgese, Gérard Herter, Franco Fantasia
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Adua and Her Friends (1960)
, 1h46Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Claudio Gora, Ivo Garrani, Gianrico Tedeschi
In 1958 the Merlin law made brothels illegal in Italy. Adua, Lolita, Marilina and Millie are four prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Under Adua's leadership, they pool their savings, 500,000 lire apiece, to open a restaurant on the outskirts of Rome. They buy a run-down building, and hire workmen to fix it up, but when they apply to open the restaurant, their permit is rejected because of their history of prostitution. One of Adua's former customers, Ercoli, agrees to buy the building, use his connections, and get the permit in his name, but he expects them to run the restaurant as a front and work as a brothel on the upper floors, in return for a rent of 1 million lire a month.
Aenigma (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Lucio Fulci
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about school violence
Actors Jared Martin, Lucio Fulci, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Dušica Žegarac
At St. Mary's College, a boarding school for girls located just outside Boston, Massachusetts, a lonely, gaunt, unattractive student, named Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), becomes the center of a cruel practical joke perpetrated by a gang of students and the hunky, but sadistic gym teacher, Fred Vernon (Riccardo Acerbi). Kathy is tricked into going on a date with Mr. Vernon, but when she over eagerly makes her move onto him in his parked car in the woods, the students appear in their cars to taunt her. Running away from several carloads of her tormentors, Kathy runs onto a busy street where she immediately gets hit by an oncoming car and is admitted to the local hospital in a coma. Kathy's strange mother, Mary, continues to gloom around the school in her capacity as a cleaner.
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.
Afghan Breakdown (1991)
, 2h20Directed by Vladimir Vladimirovitch Bortko
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Michele Placido, Oleg Yankovsky, Tatiana Dogileva, Alekseï Serebryakov, Vladimir Yeryomin, Leonid Kulagin
The events unfold just before the start of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. Lieutenant Steklov, son of a high-ranking General, is assigned to Afghanistan, hoping to take part in combat and earn some medals before the war ends. Sgt. Arsionov (Aleksei Serebryakov) combines his combat experience and bravery with brutal hazing of young conscripts back on the field base. Major Bandura`s tour of duty has expired. He is free to go home and reunite with his wife whom he has almost forgot. This means leaving his mistress Katya (Tatyana Dogileva), a nurse in the base's hospital—to a much anticipation from Bandura's superior Leonid (Mikhail Zhygalov) who fell in love with Katya. Anxiety is felt by many characters about the change taking place back in the Soviet Union during the Perestroika. Bandura himself thinks he might not be able to adapt. Katya says that Afghanistan will be remembered as the best part of their lives.
, 1h46Directed by Sergio Sollima
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Michel Lemoine, George Ardisson, Frank Wolff, Evi Marandi, Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo
Un certain Général Siqueiros a capturé le scientifique Karlesten et comme ça il a obtenu le contrôle sur une arme à destruction massive. L'Agent 3S3 doit rendre le gredin inoffensif. Il voyage à l'île caraïbe San Félipe mais son homme de contact Mendozza est déjà remplacé par quelqu'un qui travaille pour un autre service secret. La situation est une menace pour le monde entier.