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168 films, 1 show


castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
The film recounts the "First International Festival of Poets" held on the beach at Castelporziano in 1979, intertwining the event with symbolic and disturbing events in Italy in the late 1970s, such as the proximity to the site of Pasolini's murder and an oil spill offshore coinciding with the event.


The Cardboard Village
2011 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between his calling and his orders.


Wine Cliffs
2009 · 53m
country: Italy
A journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.


Mother Earth
2009 · 1h 19m
country: Italy
Documentary about sustainable agriculture and food.


2061 - Un anno eccezionale
2007 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.


One Hundred Nails
2007 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.


Olé
2006 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Two quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.


Natale a New York
2006 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.


Baciami piccina
2006 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.


La cura del gorilla
2006 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A bodyguard with split personality is hired to protect an elderly American actor sent to Italy to promote a western video game. They get on each other's nerves but eventually form a bond. He also meets a pretty social worker with problems.


Il ritorno del Monnezza
2005 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Rocky Giraldi, son of police officer Nico, followed in his father's footsteps and is now an agent in the police force's operational departments. He is currently working on a seemingly straightforward case: the murder of a burglar. In reality, behind the crime lies a dangerous network of drug dealers involved in money laundering, which also includes an important law enforcement official whom the man knows well.


Come Into the Light
2005 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.


In This World of Thieves
2004 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers.


What Will Become Of Us
2004 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.


Il pranzo della domenica
2003 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.


I'm Not Scared
2003 · 1h 48m
country: Italy
In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...


The Soul Keeper
2003 · 1h 30m
country: France
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.


Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
2002 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?


Merry Christmas
2001 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.


Body Guards
2000 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.


Quello che le ragazze non dicono
2000 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
Francesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compromising in her relationships, Laura is an overprotected dreamer, Paola is a lawyer who seeks true love, and Francesca is a dancer on a TV show


One Hundred Steps
2000 · 1h 54m
country: Italy
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.


I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
2000 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.


Aprile
1998 · 1h 18m
country: Italy
Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.


A Walk in Time: The Adventure Continues
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.


A Walk in Time
1996 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.


Land in Between
1996 · 1h 18m
country: Italy
On the edge of a road that leads out of town, some Nigerian prostitutes pass the time on sagging sofas, bargaining with white clients for their bodies and their thoughts. On another street, some Slavic boys wait to be hired as bricklayers, but they are willing to do any kind of work. At night, an Egyptian works as an illegal in a gas station.


Squillo
1996 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.


Vesna Goes Fast
1996 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.


Elective Affinities
1996 · 1h 38m
country: France
After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.


Un inverno freddo freddo
1996 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.


Savages
1995 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.


Who Killed Pasolini?
1995 · 1h 40m
country: France
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?


OcchioPinocchio
1994 · 2h 12m
country: Italy
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.


With Closed Eyes
1994 · 1h 53m
country: France
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.


Law of Courage
1994 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.


The New Comics
1994 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
Third chapter of the Comic saga, with Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto. Four different gags. From two electricians who combine all kinds of things during a theatrical performance, to competing for the attention of a beautiful girl during a campsite, to hired bodyguards of a judge threatened by the mafia, and finally as the adoptive parents of a newborn found outside the door of the house.


The Pack
1994 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard. The only one who pulls back from the group is Raniero, the others willingly accept to follow him. Slowly the news of the two imprisoned tourists spread like wildfire and attracts all the men of the area.


Lamerica
1994 · 1h 52m
country: France
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.


Caro diario
1993 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted, sun-drenched summertime Rome; in the second, he visits a reclusive friend on an island, who ropes him into an impromptu journey between islets in search of quiet; and in the last, he finds himself grappling with an unknown illness.


The Blonde
1993 · 2h 1m
country: Italy
Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.


Infelici e contenti
1992 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.


Ciao, Professore!
1992 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples


The Comics 2
1991 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion and then work as a Santa Claus in a Department Store.


Piedipiatti
1991 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino.


Zitti e mosca
1991 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine.


Husbands and Lovers
1991 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband.


The Flesh
1991 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…


The Yes Man
1991 · 1h 32m
country: France
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.


In nome del popolo sovrano
1990 · 1h 52m
country: Italy
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.


Fantozzi to the Rescue
1990 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.


The Comics
1990 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.


Palombella rossa
1989 · 1h 29m
country: France
Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.


I Won the New Year's Lottery
1989 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...


The Belt
1989 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.


Fantozzi Retires
1988 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.


Mignon Has Left
1988 · 1h 36m
country: France
With her father on trial, 15-year-old Mignon leaves Paris to stay with her Italian relatives. The rather prim, snooty teen at first struggles to fit in with the more earthy Forbicioni family, each with their own problems. Eventually she bonds with her lovestruck little cousin Giorgio—who'll learn important life lessons over the course of his summer with Mignon.


The Third Solution
1988 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.


The Big Fox
1988 · 1h 55m
country: Italy
Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?


Mia moglie è una bestia
1988 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Gianni (Boldi) is an ad agent from Milan vacationing in the mountains. Inside a cave he stumbles upon a cavewoman (Grimaldi) frozen intact. Of course she retained all of her young beauty and immediately Gianni is attracted to her, but after he begins thinking she is best left behind she follows him around creating havoc in his normal life. Gianni believes he can transform her into a beautiful modern day woman.


Montecarlo Gran Casinò
1987 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.


Stuff for the Rich
1987 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.


Notte italiana
1987 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.


Specters
1987 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.


Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
1987 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.


The Barbarians
1987 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary the owner of a powerful jewel. The evil Kadar wants both Canary and the jewel. Attacking the tribe he kidnaps Canary but the stone eludes him. The brothers are taken to be trained as gladiators and years later have grown to be VERY big. They escape and set off on a quest to find the jewel and rescue Canary.


Rimini Rimini
1987 · 1h 54m
country: Italy
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.


Us Real Men, We Hard Men
1987 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.


Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.


Body Count
1986 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.


School of Thieves
1986 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.


The Professor
1986 · 2h 51m
country: Italy
Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.


Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!


Firefighters
1985 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption.


Madman at War
1985 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.


Attention
1985 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter.


Sue Me
1985 · 1h 48m
country: Italy
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems.


Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
1984 · 2h 1m
country: Italy
During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...


Vacanze in America
1984 · 1h 29m
country: Italy
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.


Magic Moments
1984 · 1h 58m
country: Italy
Three young friends – aspiring film director Roberto, aspiring producer Ben and aspiring comedian Cico – move to Rome looking for a career in a film industry that they discover being well past its heyday.


Bianca
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, a new teacher at the local high school, enters his life, Michele finds himself falling in love. At the same time, a string of murders rocks the neighborhood, casting suspicion on him.


A Boy and a Girl
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Anna and Calogero are in love and living together in a low-scale apartment while going to the University of Milan. When Anna discovers she is pregnant, Calogero handles the situation like the moral coward he is.


Christmas Holidays
1983 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.


This and That
1983 · 1h 59m
country: Italy
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.


Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later
1983 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.


Son contento
1983 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
Francesco, a young comedian, is dumped by his girlfriend and falls into a creative crisis. After several years of anonymity, he finds success with a series of shows that draw on his private life.


Petomaniac
1983 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.


Magic Touch
1983 · 1h 29m
country: Italy
Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotion. He is very down hearted and since he does not want to be a burden to his family he takes the place of the house maid.


At the Sports Bar
1983 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a casino, he loses all money! But luck returns...


Walking, Walking
1983 · 2h 59m
country: Italy
Italian maestro Ermanno Olmi tells the tale of the journey of the Magi in this lyrical odyssey. The film focuses on a wise man who interprets his sighting of a comet streaking through the sky as a spiritual message. Joined by two associates, soldiers, villagers and others, the Magi sets out on a journey that tests his beliefs and strength.


Nostalgia
1983 · 2h 4m
country: Italy
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.


Rich and Poor
1983 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.


Taste of the Sea
1983 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.


Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
1983 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."


Count Tacchia
1982 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.


My Friends Act II
1982 · 2h 10m
country: Italy
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.


God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up
1982 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.


Viuuulentemente mia
1982 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.


An Ideal Adventure
1982 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.


Più bello di così si muore
1982 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.


Eccezzziunale... veramente
1982 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.


Looking for Jesus
1982 · 1h 44m
country: France
An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.


A Estrangeira
1982 · 1h 40m
country: Portugal
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.


Do you know the latest on the crazy ones?
1982 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.


Don't Play with Tigers
1982 · 1h 55m
country: Italy
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.


I Fichissimi
1981 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
Romeo and Felice lead two rival bands who constantly make fun of each other. One day, Romeo meets and falls in love with Giulietta, without knowing that she is Felice's sister.


Nobody's Perfect
1981 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.


Passion of Love
1981 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
In 1860s Italy, Giorgio is a young soldier is sent to a remote post, far from his lover, Clara. Lodged with the colonel, he befriends the colonel and the local doctor. Among the inhabitants are a strange young woman, both unattractive and mad; however, she's got a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.


Una vacanza del cactus
1981 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
A group of five people is going to vacation on the island of Rhodes: among them is the good-natured Augusto, who intends to bring a cactus to the grave of his uncle Michael.


Venetian Lies
1981 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.


The Tango of Jealousy
1981 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Since her husband is distracted by his passion for horse racing, Lucia decides to make him jealous by pretending to be the lover of his bodyguard, Diego.


Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
1981 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
A Milanese industrialist goes to Rome to bribe a politician but he loses money. A thief helps him recover them. Milan and Rome in comparison in the duets of the couple Pozzetto-Milian.


Hotel Room
1981 · 1h 45m
country: France
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.


Manolesta
1981 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Gino Quirino aka Manolesta, a thief and a con man, lives on a barge anchored on the Tiber with Bruno, his young son. Gino ends up in the crosshairs of the social worker Dr. Angela De Maria, and he is forced to find an honest job.


The Nosy One
1981 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
Luciano Persichetti is hypersensitive and convinced that he has paranormal powers. Susanna, a parapsychology student with whom he is in love, tries to help him interpret the paranormal warning messages he is receiving. When Luciano turns out to be haunted by a mysterious killer who calls himself "The Guardian Angel", Susanna discovers that Luciano's paranormal powers are not real at all.


The Other Hell
1981 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A priest investigates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?


Crime at Porta Romana
1980 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.


Il casinista
1980 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
Pippo Caciotta is an actor looking for a role. His manager wants to renew his repertoire. Caciotta then, with the help of the brother Poldo and a camera, go around the city to find new ideas.


The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town
1980 · 1h 37m
country: France
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.


Girls Will Be Girls
1980 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
A group of employees, on a winter vacation, rather than skiing, spend their time in an attempt to impress the beautiful Angela and a sexy servant girl.


The Persian Lamb Coat
1980
country: France
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...


The Terrace
1980 · 2h 40m
country: France
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.


Speed Cross
1980 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.


The Good Thief
1980 · 1h 48m
country: France
Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.


Tesoromio
1979 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.


Hot Potato
1979 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.


Skin Deep
1979 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Danny, whose summer vacation with three friends and some nudists from Norway, turns into a real mess as sexual rivalries and jealousy escalate into tragedy.


Liquirizia
1979 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.


Ernesto
1979 · 1h 38m
country: Germany
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.


My Loves
1978 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant.


Break Up
1978 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason.


La Cage aux Folles
1978 · 1h 32m
country: France
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.


Highway Racer
1977 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
A hot-shot police officer has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary cop responsible for numerous large scale arrests.


Sweetheart
1977 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.


Dimmi che fai tutto per me
1976 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from America demanding the purchase of a large Palladian villa. Tired of his wife, Francesco consoles himself with Paola and then lets himself be ensnared by the very young and beautiful Mary, who has come as housekeeper and father-in-law's lover. The need to fill the administrative gaps and the dream of running away with Mary lead the doctor to organize a coup against his father-in-law who, linked to the mafia, managed to transfer a large dollar patrimony, stolen from the gang, to the villa. The presence of the boy allows the commissioner to exonerate his son-in-law, Mary and Felegatti, of the death of the old mafioso. However, everyone will be left without the dreamed treasure which will fall to Mary and the son of the Salmarani who flee together.


Plot of Fear
1976 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. Inspector Lomenzo investigates a series of bizarre murders, each linked by the fact that pages from the German children’s book "Shock-Headed Peter" have been left at the scene of the crime. As the bodies pile up, Lomenzo is guided by a model and a surveillance expert to a decadent club frequented by the rich and powerful.


Italy is Rotten
1976 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.


La madama
1976 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.


The Boss and the Worker
1975 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.


The Sensuous Nurse
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.


Savage Man Savage Beast
1975 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.


Zorro
1975 · 1h 58m
country: France
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.


Policewoman
1974 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.


The Handsome Devil
1974 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.


Emergency Squad
1974 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.


Rugantino
1973 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.


La calandria
1972 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.


Indian Summer
1972 · 2h 12m
country: France
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 local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.


Jus primae noctis
1972 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.


Blessed Are the Rich
1972 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an important social position, try in every way to recover it, also leveraging the weakness of the policeman. After the petty betrayal of his brother-in-law, the smuggler decides to keep all the money and flee to Switzerland.


Secret Fantasy
1971 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...


When Women Had Tails
1970 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live.


Death Occurred Last Night
1970 · 1h 33m
country: Germany
A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the killers before the grieving father does


Those Sweet Creatures
1970 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.


Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
1970 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.


The Libertine
1968 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.