Renato Salvatori

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles. (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.

Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang (imdb)

Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict... (imdb)

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized to much power that now threatens British sugar interests. (imdb)

Mario Monicelli's wonderfully full portrait of an early workers' strike at a Turino textile factory. (IMDB Comments)

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas. (imdb)

A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children. Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end... (imdb)

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy whom are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops whom thrive on living dangerously. (imdb)

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati. (imdb)

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation. (imdb)

Gallic crime-flick icon Jean Paul Belmondo plays a slick jewel thief who steals a valuable emerald. He is stalked by cop Omar Sharif, who when he catches up to Belmondo reveals himself to be a fellow crook, interested only in a piece of the action. (All Movie Guide)

This movie depicts the authentic story of the hunt for the dangerous criminal Emile Buisson, who escaped from prison in 1947. During three years Buisson manages to hide from detective Borniche by repeatedly killing his informants. When he's finally caught with help from the little criminal Paul, Buisson will have committed more than 100 robberies and killed 30 people. (imdb)

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)

Gérard is an engineer who is married to Gabrielle and has a nine-month-old son, for whom he cares deeply. When his wife leaves him for feminist reasons, he is left with custody of their son. To satisfy his romantic longings, Gérard embarks on an affair with Valérie, his son's daycare worker. (Wikipedia)

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

A boy is kidnapped and murdered on the French riviera. The police, who had watched the delivery of the ransom to TWO men gives chase once they determine that the boy is dead. The police never loses sight of the TWO men who flee on a speedboat and run into an old lighthouse after landing. However, when the police surrounds the lighthouse, THREE men come out, each one claiming that he was there on a stroll and the following investigation can not determine who is lying. (imdb)

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris. (imdb)

An alien takes over the body of an Earthman in order to learn about the planet so his race can take it over. (imdb)

In 1934 the Italian Communist Party is outlawed by the fascist regime and its center has to direct from Paris. Emilio is sent back to Turin to expose a fascist informant infiltrated into the organization.

The guys from "I soliti Ignoti" strike back.

Three beautiful seamstresses from one of the fashionable dress salons near the Piazza de Spagna in Rome gather on the steps of the square to eat lunch and talk of their love lives. (imdb)

Asso, the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the final game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his widow. (imdb)

Short. An ageing woman and her final fling and safe return. (bfi)

Drama about an innocent housewife falsely convicted of theft. Sent to a women's prison in Rome, she is trying to survive and learn to cope in the company of murderers, thieves and prostitutes. (worldcat)

Three episodes of love affairs. (bfi)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer. (imdb)

Story about a fickle teenager who runs two boys of the neighborhood a merry chase before she settles on an older man. (bfi)

In the final chapter in the trilogy started with Poveri ma belli, two freshly married young couples end up back in Rome after a botched double Honeymoon to Florence. After Salvatore (Renato Salvatori) is suddenly fired from his job, his bride Marisa (Lorella De Luca) seeks to annul the marriage - but his luck takes an unexpected turn in the form of a car accident.

Domestic comedy about a grandmother's attempts to prevent a young girl from marrying the boy she is in love with. (bfi)

Romolo and Salvatore decide to forget they party life and find a decent job. (filmaffinity)

In Eastern Sicily, Antonio is a young worker affiliated with a local crime syndicate. He receives an order from up top to kill the Marquis Macri, but a personal relationship may influence him otherwise.

Marisa is a provocative, flirtatious girl who is much sought-after. She falls in love with a sailor called Angelo and the two become engaged but during Angelo's absence, Marisa ruins everything. (surffilm.com)

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the direction of Don Cesar Pancarano of Rondo. For many years, Policarpo seeks a promotion and a raise that never came, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerome, the son of Don Caesar knows Celeste, the daughter of Polycarp, and falls for her. Policarpo see in that regard the solution to aspirations at work, and does everything in its power to make this relationship fruitful.

Jolanda discovers she is not the daughter of the gypsy who raised her, but of the Count of Ventimiglia, the Black Corsair, killed by Van Guld, the current governor of Maracaibo. (MUBI)

The real life events of criminal group led by Paolo Casaroli.

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory. (imdb)

A man is beset by financial and personal problems, as his business goes bankrupt and he finds out his wife is being unfaithful. Undeterred, he battles on and his determination carries the day. (imdb)