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Behind the White Glasses 2015 A spotlight on Italian maestro Lina Wertmuller, the visionary and groundbreaking Italian writer director who worked side by side with Federico Fellini and went on to make more than 30 films becoming the first woman ever to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Dire

The Belle Star Story 1968 Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out rides, out smokes, out shoots, and out gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb One man whos her equal is Larry Blackie with whom she has an on againoff again relationship

Mimì metallurgico ferito nellonore (1972) In Sicily, the mine worker Carmelo "Mimí" Mardocheo votes in the Communist Party candidate instead of in the Mafia's one believing that the suffrage is secret. After the elections, he loses his job and cannot find any other job in his village tha

Rita the Mosquito (1966) Rita, a rebellious girl of a boarding school, falls in love with a shy singing teacher, who is secretly a rock singer at night.

Dont Sting the Mosquito (1967) Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but her father who is dead against it has her kidnapped. He finally gives in when his wife threatens to sing in the contest

Swept Away (1974) A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. One day she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where e

I basilischi (1963) The neorealistic story follows the uneventful lives of Francesco, Sergio and Antonio, three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village. Since all three are unemployed they ...

A Night Full of Rain (1978) Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini star as two people from very different worlds who fall in love in A Night Full of Rain. When romantic Italian journalist Paolo (Giannini) rescues American photographer Lizzy (Bergen) from a scuffle in an Italian village, his efforts a