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The Great War 1959 Italy, 1916 Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI They meet at the recruiting office where Giovanni bribes Oreste in the hope of securing a medical deferment, however the joke is on him when Oreste pulls off

The Immortal Bachelor 1975 Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight The lone female jury member compares her life to Tinas and, believing her to be innocen

The Tiger and the Pussycat 1967 Comedy drama about a middle aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina Years later, the schoolgirl has become a promiscuous young woman Ann Margret and sh

In nome del popolo italiano 1971 An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes But will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people h

Signore e signori, buonanotte 1976 An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the 1970s, through the shows of one day of a television channel an English language lesson turns into the killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by an

Fiasco in Milan 1959 The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation

La cambiale 1959 I cugini Posalaquaglia sono due piccoli truffatori e vivacchiano di espedienti Dante ottiene come riconoscimento per Tommaso una cambiale da centomila lire del famoso finanziere Bruscatelli, che pero finisce subito dopo in prigione Inizia cosi il viaggio della cambiale che riuscira

For Love and Gold (1966) A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will oc

I nuovi mostri (1977) Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.

I picari (1987) The adventures of two derelicts. They are prisoners in a battleship, then, after a mutiny, they succeed to become officers. They leave the boat and start to drift all around the Spain with ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) 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. Though they are advised by Dante, a retired burglar, the task

Beautiful But Dangerous (1955) Rome, 1905. Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques". Sergei finds

Lets Talk About Women (1964) Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

Scent of a Woman (1974) An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio ("Babyfat"), and spends the next few days ord

Anima persa (1977) Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Bitter Rice (1949) Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice f

Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. Actually it's Maria's lover, a very rich man, who showers her with presents.

Il Sorpasso (1962) Bruno Cortona and Roberto Mariani meet by chance as Roberto helps Bruno one day while everything is closed in Rome for the holiday weekend. The two men could not be more different. Thirty-six year old Bruno is extroverted, a man who seizes opportunities as they arise, is an excite

12 + 1 (1969) Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair.

Slalom (1965) Lucio (Vittorio Gassman) sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.

Quintet (1979) In the distant future the world is in the grip of another ice age. A city originally built to house five million people is now in its death throes as the relentlessly advancing glacier is slowly crushing the metropolis's steel infrastructure. The relatively few surviving fur-clad inha

We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974) Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments

Sombrero (1953) Adapted from the book, "Mexican Village," by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Cyd Charisse and Rick Jason are the lovers in a tender romance; Vittorio Gassman and Yvonne DeCarlo the lovers i

The Desert of the Tartars (1976) As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars, coming from beyond the desert. Some fellow o

Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop in Atlanta who's demoted to vice after a botched bust. In the depths of this lowly division, while investigating a high-dollar prostitution ring, Sharky ...