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Amleto Palermi – Cavalleria rusticana (1939)
PLOT & Review: (Contains some spoilers) Quote: This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It’s...
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Gualtiero Jacopetti – Addio zio Tom aka Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi, best-known for the groundbreaking shockumentary Mondo Cane, directed this bizarre and shocking look at slavery in America. Set...
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Roberto Rossellini – Francesco, giullare di Dio AKA The Flowers of St....
Quote: The Flowers of St. Francis—or, Francesco, giullare di Dio (Francis, God’s Jester), to give it its full title in Italian—is a delicate, fascinating hybrid, a film that is self-consciously,...
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Asia Argento – Incompresa (2014)
Misunderstood (Italian: Incompresa) is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Asia Argento. It was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Imdb wrote:...
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Max Ophüls – La signora di tutti AKA Everybody’s Woman (1934)
Plot & review: From a novel by Salvator Gotta, scripted by the director with Curt Alexander and Hans Wilhelm. Under anesthesia, after a suicide attempt, Gaby Doriot, movie star, relives her life...
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Vittorio De Sica – Sciuscià AKA Shoeshine [+Extras] (1946)
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to...
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Alessandro Blasetti – 4 passi fra le nuvole AKA Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)
Quote: Originally released in 1942, Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro Passi fra le Nuvole) was a major stepping stone in the starring career of Gino Cervi. The story begins as young unwed mother-to-be...
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Vittorio De Sica – Maddalena, zero in condotta AKA Maddalena, Zero for...
Imdb comment: This is definitely one of the best comedy ever made anywhere…In a Technical school girl students learn to write commercial letters to a Mr Doe in Germany…one day one of these letters is...
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Alessandro Blasetti – Resurrectio (1931)
PLOT SYNOPSIS: Desperate because abandoned by his lover (V. Alexandrescu), orchestra conductor hesitates: to kill himself, or kill her? He simply shoots the portrait of the lover and returns to...
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Roberto Rossellini – Il tacchino prepotente (1939)
This is an anti-Fascist short Rossellini made in 1940. Quote: La vispa Teresa was rejected and, although Ferrara said that Il tacchino was distributed by Scalera under its working title, “La perfida...
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Francesco de Robertis & Roberto Rossellini – La Nave Bianca aka The White...
Quote: La Nave Bianca is a movie about a group of firemen on a Italian battleship, that takes part in a sea battle. During the battle one of the heaters is wounded and brought to the hospital ship,...
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Roberto Rossellini – La vispa Teresa (1939)
Quote: Scalera had obtained backing for a series of animal shorts and needed someone to make them. Roberto plunged in enthusiastically. He arrived at Ladispoli with animals of all sorts distributed...
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Nino Oxilia – Rapsodia satanica aka Satan’s Rhapsody (1915)
Quote: Rapsodia Satanica (1915) was the last film directed by Nino Oxilia and is undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the early Italian cinema. In it, Oxilia spins a variation on the Faust...
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Vittorio De Sica – Teresa Venerdì (1941)
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com Doctor Beware was the U.S.-released title of Vittorio DeSica’s 1941 effort Teresa Venerdi. DeSica not only directed, but played the leading role of orphanage official...
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Luchino Visconti – Le notti bianche AKA White Nights [+extras] (1957)
Synopsis: A chance encounter on a canal bridge results in a series of twilight rendezvous between a lonely city transplant (Marcello Mastroianni) and a sheltered woman (Maria Schell) haunted by a...
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Nanni Moretti – Mia madre AKA My Mother (2015)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother....
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Luciano Emmer – Parole dipinte. Il cinema sull’arte di Luciano Emmer...
The art film by Luciano Emmer: the camera explores the figurative worlds of Giotto, Bosch, Carpaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Picasso. First edition on DVD of a valuable asset for art history and...
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Luigi Scattini – Il corpo (1974)
Plot : Director Luigi Scattini had previously worked with the beautiful model-turned-actress Zeudi Araya in “The Sinner” (1972) and in a previous film that I have not had the pleasure of viewing. Even...
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Tinto Brass – Nerosubianco AKA Black on White (1968)
IMDB: Before directing “Salon Kitty” and moving into the erotic style of film making that he is more known for director Tinto Brass made a series of movies that can only be called “pop art” (these...
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Tinto Brass – Action (1980)
Description: Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a...
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