Adriana Asti

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. (Miramax)

One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously... (imdb)

Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life... (imdb)

Following death of husband, Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves to Milan with her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori), Rocco (Alain Delon), Ciro (Max Cartier), and Luca (Rocco Vidolazzi). Already there is Vincenzo (Spiros Focas), preoccupied with his impending nuptials to the beautiful Ginetta (Claudia Cardinale). Movie chronicles the familys' struggle. Much of the second half deals with loutish Simone and Rocco. Complications arise when Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute, enters their lives.

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide... (imdb)

This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa. (imdb)

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandonned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness. (imdb)

Six short films. "What are the clouds" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Totò is a puppet painted green is thrown ina landfill with a second puppet (Ninetto Davoli) at the endof a play. Will they still find a reason for watching an extraordinarily magical sky. "Monster of Sunday" Directed by Steno starring Totò.Antonio De Curtis is a monster obsessed by 60's youths with long hair... (antoniodecurtis.org)

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 garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window (imdb)

ealthy patriarch Gregorio Ferramonte (Anthony Quinn) openly lusts after his new daughter-in-law Irene (Dominique Sanda). Seemingly resistant at first to the lecherous Quinn, Irene rapidly succumbs to his crude charms. There's a little more to the story than that: Sanda knows that Quinn is dying and that he hasn't yet chosen anyone to inherit his fortune. (allmovie.com)

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. (imdb)

A writer brings his ailing grandmother along with him on a business trip to Tokyo, where the last moments of her life help both people feel better-connected to one another. (imdb)

The directorial debut of famed American writer, philosopher, and political activist Susan Sontag is an intriguing tale of two couples involved in academia and politics. Artur is a professor living in exile in Sweden with his enigmatic wife Francesca. He hires young Tomas to help prepare a compendium of his works, but Tomas soon suspects that there is an erotic side to his new assignment. (worldscinema.com)

This movie about a poor Neapolitan guy that emigrates in Rome to find a job is hilarious. After reading a book about sex written from American experts he manages to work out a profession of it, making himself an expert in sexual matters... (imdb)

The plot is based on the real life case of Leonarda Cianciulli who murdered 3 women between 1939 - 1940 and turned their bodies into soap. However, in the film version many details have been changed and interestingly the 3 female victims are all played by male actors in drag. (theitalywiki)

Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong. (imdb)

Comedy about the unhappy husband of a domineering modern woman, who becomes the hapless victim of an insatiable mistress and the happy (for a time) patron of an Amazon slave... (bfi)

Comedy. Five episodes. (bfi)

Three grotesque episodes where the main theme it's abortion as experienced by women of different social status: Carla, wife of a rich industrial, Annabella La Monica, a sicilian woman and Patrizia, wife of a very poor man. (beatrecords)

Film about the Paris music-hall star Joseph Pujol, famous for his exhibitions of farting. He has problems when he falls in love with a lady who is ignorant of the way he makes his living. (bfi)

"Karol - The Pope, the Man" is a sequel to "Karol, un uomo diventato Papa". Film plot starts with inauguration of John Paul's II pontificate and later shows his first pilgrimages, tragic events of assassination attempt in 1981 and, after returning to health, continued life as a religious leader.

Cottafavi's adaptation of Sophocles play.

Subjected to unwanted sexual advances by the owner of the private hospital where she has found a job as a maid, a young woman must decide whether she can afford to blow the whistle.

In 1912, retired judge George Dennison, his wife Claire, and their son Robert arrive at a villa in Mount Argentario, Tuscany for the summer. Shortly after a party, both Claire and Robert are murdered. A year later, Dennison once again returns to the villa with his new fiancée, Ann, and her son. Ann resembles Claire which he believe will assist him in unmasking the murderer.

The story of a triangular relationship between a theater director, an actress and an actor. (imdb)

This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right-wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order. (Kittyman)

In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police. (imdb)

A young man returns to the family home to face a childhood trauma: his brother's suicide, but nobody in the family is willing to help him. (imdb)

Italia anthology movie.

Ugo Tognazzi (La grande bouffe) is an innocent playboy holiday rep in Greece who is picked up by two secret agents (Michel Piccoli, Le Mépris and Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection). Suspected of being part of an underground resistance, he is to be transported by the agents to Athens where he will be interrogated by superior officers. Their journey is the start of a cat-and-mouse game. (Radiance Film)