Laura Betti

A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family. (imdb)

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's sexually explicit retelling of "The Canterbury Tales" take Chaucer's famous stories into the realm of wild expressionism and beyond. Filmed on location in England, Pasolini's "Canterbury Tales" brings the bawdy world of Chaucer vividly to life, complete with a rendering of hell that would have made Hieronymus Bosch proud. (rottentomatoes.com)

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu)... (imdb)

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate. (imdb)

In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis. (imdb)

A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ? (imdb)

Sent to America by his parents to avoid a family scandal, Karl Rossmann (Christian Heinisch) - already a victim of the authority of his parents and their notions of social propriety - finds himself in this new land forced into a number of awkward, embarrassing and confusing situations that seem to increasingly extend beyond his control into nightmarish proportions. (dvdtimes.co.uk)

Every time John Harrington hacks up a bride on her wedding night with a meat cleaver, the face of his mother's killer (who died similarly) becomes a bit more clear. Compelled to discover the killer's identity, he kills again and again, even killing his own unloveable wife, who returns to haunt him as a ghost that everybody can see...but him! (imdb)

A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer? (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)

An anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them. (imdb)

Earning a Golden Palm nod at the Cannes Film Festival, this erotic drama uses the real-life Mayerling affair -- in which Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress committed suicide after being forbidden to wed -- as its jumping off point. In director Miklós Jancsó's reinterpretation, however, it's patriarchal tyranny that leads to tragedy as the young prince refuses to end his extended erotic idyll at his country estate. (Netflix)

In this emotional war drama set in Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger (Giovanna Ralli) gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs - an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. By taking them in, she tragically jeopardizes the safety of her Communist lover while the confinement of the trapped prisoners brings their uneasy alliance to a boiling point, symbolizing the chaos of the world around them. (dvdbeaver.com)

The chief editor of an italian conservative newspaper exploits the murder of a young woman in order to influence the results of the upcoming elections.

It's 1958, the year of the death of Pius XII, the most clerical and authoritarian of modern pontiffs. In a boarding school, the handsome, rich and rebellious Angelo Transeunti arrives. He is a devotee of the "overman". With his arrival, the school life is shattered - the boy puts into action plan to deride and destroy the institution against the deputy rector, Father Corazza. (mubi.com)

A bank officer sets off for his provincial home town to see his dying father, and takes along a casual aquaintance, an American girl. (bfi)

TV adaptation of Chekhov's play

Valentina, an epileptic girl, is sent to a psychiatric clinic after many years of treatment. Arturo, a young psychiatrist, takes her under his wing and, despite his own troublesome personal life and the inefficient public health system, he develops a close relationship with Valentina. His commitment to understanding her family life, rather than a reliance on drugs, allows them to finally understand her true condition.

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics ... (imdb)

Christian, art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche and understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery. (Wiki)

Mario and Maria Boschi, a 30-year-old couple with small children, are hit by a crisis: husband and wife cannot agree on a party name. A colleaguge, also named Mario, makes an impressive speech, and Maria find herself increasingly attracted to himl she semms able to relate to him like she could to her husband in the old days. They spend the night together, and she falls ill. (imdb)

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman. (imdb)

A couple returns to the man's hometown after they receive a telegram stating his father is dying.

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter. It would be used to cure an actress. (imdb)

Professor Heines, an English art critic living in Tuscany in the 1930s with his family, realizes the incredible intellectual capacity of Guido, the son of a farmer and orphan of a mother. Stimulated by the scholar, the boy shows a great talent for music and, above all, for mathematics. When Heines returns to England for a short period of time, Guido is adopted by Mrs. Bondi, who owns the land where his father lives and works. (FILMAFFINITY)

Augusto, a writer faced with writer's block, spends his days among his intellectual friends in Lucca. When his friend Celi dies, he hires her maid Antonia, whom he falls in love with.