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81) Le quattro volte
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Inspired by Pythagoras's belief in four-fold transmigration, by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, Michelangelo Frammartino's wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria.
82) Vincere
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s stunning political melodrama tells the virtually unknown story of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s (Filippo Timi) secret first marriage. An ambitious and ruthless young man, he woos and then abandons the woman who launched his career—and gave him his first child — as he plots his rise to power.
83) 8 1/2
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Italiano
Description
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s *8 ½* (*Otto e mezzo*) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for *8 ½* was "The Beautiful Confusion," and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Winner of two **Academy...
84) Body puzzle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Body puzzle tells the tragic and increasingly morbid story of the lovely widow Tracy (Gorky Park's Joanna Pacula). Not only has her famous pianist husband Abe died in an auto accident, but someone keeps breaking into her house and leaving severed body parts lying around.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, Lisa and the devil (Lisa e il diavolo) is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. Elke Sommer stars as a tourist in Spain who, upon seeing the image of a bald, grinning devil in an ancient fresco, wanders away from her group and finds herself drawn into a confounding labyrinth of mystery, lured ever deeper by a mysterious...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
89) Two Women
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
90) A Five Star Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
A Five Star Life is the sophisticated story of one woman's quest for personal and professional fulfillment set against some of the most stunning cities and opulent hotels of the world. Stylish and independent, Irene (Margherita Buy) is a single career woman in her forties with a job to die for. As a luxury hotel critic, she checks into the world's finest establishments incognito to assess their standards, meticulously judging every detail from the...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Italiano
Description
Presented by Martin Scorsese and featuring an operatic score by Nino Rota, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS is a timeless story of modernity, class tension, and family drama spun across an epic canvas by director Luchino Visconti. Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Famously labeled by Scorsese as “one of the most sumptuous black-and-white pictures,” ROCCO...
92) Nightmare city
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Umberto Lenzi's zombie shocker Nightmare city stars actor Hugo Stiglitz as a reporter caught in a living, breathing zombie hell. When an airplane comes into contact with radiation from a nuclear disaster, it causes the passengers to mutate into scabby-faced humanoids with a compulsion to kill and drink the blood of their victims. As the zombies move into the city and beyond, will anyone or anything be able to stop the wave of bloody death and disease...
93) The Asteroids
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
At the confusing age of 19, Pietro and his friend Ivan wander the provincial flatlands accented by abandoned factories, limited possibilities and petty crimes, until an asteroid threatening to destroy the Earth ends up revolutionizing their lives. Nominated for Best Film at the **Locarno International Film Festival**.
94) L'Immensita
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Clara (Penélope Cruz) and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrew, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions. L'IMMENSITA is a creative and moving film about growing up and breaking the mold.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the mascabre, based on Tolstoy's story The Wurdulak , itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. The nameless mentally ill man (Garko) is found wandering in the woods, his mind lost in fever dreams of gruesome, sexual imagery. After admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the man flashes back to his nightmarish encounter with a backwoods family whose dynasty...
96) Don't Be Bad
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
Vittorio and Cesare are “brothers for life.” A life of excess: nights at the disco, powerful cars, alcohol, and drugs. Searching for a new life, Vittorio meets Linda, and in order to save himself, distances himself from Cesare, who is spiraling out of control. But their bond is too strong, and when they meet again Vittorio tries to help his friend find work and live a normal life, with hope of a brighter future together. A favorite at the 2015...
97) Django
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
Franco Nero delivers a career-defining performance as the enigmatic loner, Django. Dragging a coffin behind him, Django arrives in a lawless border town and gets caught in a violent conflict between a racist gang and Mexican revolutionaries. Director Sergio Corbucci pushes the boundaries of sadism and sensationalism, showcasing machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes, and brutal mutilations.
98) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
99) Meet him and die
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
A robbery goes terribly wrong for a hapless criminal when he goes to knock off a jewelry store. Upon entering the store, the steel shutters immediately slam down and lock him inside until the police arrive. He is later sent to jail, but it doesn't take long before he befriends a big time crime boss inside. The two execute a successful break out and we soon find out that we don't really know the true background of these criminals or what is really...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Italiano
Description
Olga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. At first Olga is in denial and tries to win him back, but when she sees him with his new love, who turns out to be a friend's daughter, she flies into a rage. Having to face the truth, she falls into a deep depression, oblivious to the attentions she receives from Damien, a musician who lives downstairs....
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