Romolo Valli

Barbarella

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the...

Duck, You Sucker

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Ir...

1900

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends...

The Leopard

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly a...

Death in Venice

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunni...

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love...

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Girl with a Suitcase

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, wh...

Right You Are (if you think so)

Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Sig...

Bobby Deerfield

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Li...

What?

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing see...

The Story of Romance and Knife

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their...

Conversation Piece

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted b...

The Great War

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in...

Holocaust 2000

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Ant...

The Visit

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven o...

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tenni...

Boom!

Secluding herself in an island mansion in the Mediterranean with her servants and nurses, the wealthy Flora "Si...

Womanlight

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than...

The Devil's Advocate

A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find ou...

An Average Little Man

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing t...

Complexes

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up...

Outlaws of Love

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absenc...

A Day for Lionhearts

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded...

Abicinema

Sweet and Sour

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sis...

The Mandrake

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Five Branded Women

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugosla...

Check to the Queen

Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as a secretar...

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many ye...

The Lovemakers

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his ot...

Ciao, Federico!

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

The Constancy of Reason

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled...

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi...

Don't Sting the Mosquito

Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants...