Renzo Palmer

Fey super-thief Diabolik runs around stealing jewels, gold, murdering innocent people, and being a nuisance to the government of a generic European country. (imdb)

A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets. (imdb)

Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side. (imdb)

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals. (IMDB)

This little gem has been overlooked and underrated by film buffs, and I think it is time to bring some credit to it. Maybe the reason was the mixed nature of the movie itself, somewhere between giallo and Italian social satires of Italian contemporary society. (imdb)

1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. (imdb)

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help. (imdb)

A young gangster nicknamed "Chinaman," and his two thugs scheme to rip off crime boss Frank Di Maggio, who runs a criminal empire in Rome. They plan to take control of all of his syndicate operations. As a vicious war breaks out between the two feuding gangsters, police inspector Leonardo Tanzi comes on the scene, guns a'blazing. Driven by the recent killing of this uncle, it seems nothing can stop him in his quest for bloody revenge. (Amazon.com)

Fabio Testi stars in this crime film as an ex-stunt man turned bodyguard (or "Gorilla") who buddies up with a rich businessman who has been harassed by the mob. Also stars Renzo Palmer, Claudia Marsani, Saverio Marconi and the late great Al Lettieri in his last film. (lfvw.com)

Comedy and episode film about several people in the italian town Viareggio.

A movie for italian television about the life and struggles of the great painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Italian director Tonino Ricci helmed this 1974 snowbound adventure film about a young boy in danger and the courageous wolf who comes to his rescue. Originally called Zanna Bianca Alla Riscossa and later retitled White Fang to the Rescue, the film is the sequel to Lucio Fulci's Zanna Bianca, a 1972 adaptation Jack London's classic novel White Fang. Maurizio Merli stars along with Henry Silva and Gisella Hahn. (allrovi.com)

In this crime drama a mobster kills a cop during a robbery. He finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media. (allrovi.com)

Traces events in the life of Carlo, from his christening in 1906, where his grandfather reminds his father that Carlo means "free man," to his 80th birthday party. The film principally explores his relationships with younger brother Guilio, with wife Beatrice, and with her sister Adriana, whom Carlo loved as a young man (imdb)

Paola Senatore plays a doctor in a hotel where a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with Paola Senatore and other assorted hi-jinks. Written by Ørnås (imdb)

Antonio and Felice two experience swindlers - always afraid to get arrested by their school friend Malvasia - use the money to pay the college of Antonio's daughter, Diana. Ignoring his origin, Diana falls in love with Franco, who is not only one of her father's victims, but also the policeman's son! Love, humorism and an unexpected inheritance solve a situation that could have gotten out of hand... (movie-time)

Four former soldiers meet and reminesce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe. (imdb)

"What do I love...the man in the boy or the boy in the man?" (imdb)

Comedy Western about two pedlars on the run who are mistaken for brave sheriffs and by dint of this clear a city of bandits led by the Mayor. (bfi)

A super computer named Gordon is bought as a solution for a company getting out of the crisis. The ability of memorisation and poetry of the machine creates serious complications among the workers of the company. (Rafael Queiroz)

A biographical film on Dante Alighieri that concern literary and political aspects on the life of Divine Comedy poet.

Napoleone a Sant'Elena is a television drama with historical content, filmed in 1973 for the Rai National Programme, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.

After shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe survives alone on island, building shelter, reminiscing about past. With wildlife as company, months pass. One day he discovers footprint, making him wonder if he's still alone. (imdb)