Movie | Drama, History | Italy, France | Italian, Latin
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
Francesco Rosi, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Enzo Provenzale
Cast
Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi
Plot
The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Italy, France | Italian, German
Director
Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli
Writer
Giovanni Arpino, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italo Calvino
Cast
Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Plot
Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
A reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and le...
An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast
Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.
Movie | Biography, Drama | UK, Italy | Italian, English
Director
Franco Zeffirelli
Writer
Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Charles Dyer, Kenneth Ross
Cast
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
Plot
Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
The peaceful, almost idyllic life of an Italian village is interrupted during the war by the appearance of two American soldiers who keep hiding in the house of one of the villagers.
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk, but his life was turned upside-down when he met Giulio. a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the overconfident man. Giovanni did what he never should h...
Derek Jarman, Nicholas Ward Jackson, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast
Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry
Plot
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Michelangelo Antonioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Diego Fabbri
Cast
Etchika Choureau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jacques Sempey
Plot
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling ci...
During the Christmas celebrations, a surprising announcement takes a family by surprise and threatens to break the delicate balance that regulates the familial relationships.
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a female prison environment. The story concerns a young girl sent to prison who experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from tough dangerous dames ...
