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Old Guard

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.

Old Guard

4.8 1934
Massimamente folle

The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for unworthiness by the Institute Council; a football referee trying to escape the ire of angry fans; an endless marathon in Piazza Navona; a true but crazy producer, a not crazy but fake producer and a group of actors who want to take revenge on one and the other; a "club of toasts" that spends its time toasting to this and that, to elect new members and honorary members; finally, a censorship commission that, aboard an old and very battered car, fails to reach his workplace.

Massimamente folle

10.0 1983
And They Call It Summer

Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.

And They Call It Summer

4.1 2012
Le volpi della notte

Elena, Miriam and Anna, the foxes of the night, are three beautiful women but they are also three special agents of the police headquarters in Rome. One evening they are given the task of participating in a high fashion show: a tip-off has arrived on a drug game that should be exchanged there. At the fashion show everything happens regularly, except for the attempt to snatch a beauty case from one of the models. The next morning, however, Daniela, the wearer affected by the snatch, is found dead and it turns out that the snatcher was the guardian of Eng. Mauro De Mauro, rich builder. Foxes begin to investigate.

Le volpi della notte

7.0 1986
Satiric Horror Sette + Una

Eight interlinked short stories unfold in an Italian apartment building, connected by a concierge and at least one common victim. Each tale blends thriller, horror, and dark satire, exploring bizarre, extreme, and paradoxical situations through the eyes of the building’s eccentric residents. Several stories feature LGBTQ+ elements, including lesbian love and veiled homosexuality, woven naturally into the suspenseful, often improbable narratives. The film asks what secrets the condominium hides and why this particular building becomes the stage for intrigue, crime, and mysterious happenings, offering a surreal, darkly comic exploration of desire, identity, and human eccentricity.

Satiric Horror Sette + Una

NR N/A
La moglie di mio marito

Giulio is an advertising agent; in order to conclude an important contract with a refrigerator manufacturer, he moves into their boss's villa for the weekend with his mistress, along with his designer, who is accompanied by the advertising agent's wife for an adventure. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings until the head of the advertising agency arrives and exposes them. Thanks to the providential intervention of the industrialist, who had noticed the deception perpetrated against him, everything is resolved and the head of the agency finds his new love in the woman who accompanied Giulio.

La moglie di mio marito

6.5 1961
Stay Away from Me

Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to every woman who has fallen in love with him. Really bad luck. Because of this, he has vowed to stay away from women, for their own good. But the moment he lays eyes on Sara at a friend’s birthday party, he is smitten. Despite his resistance, the two fall head over heels leading to back-to-back, laugh-out-loud moments of disaster! Sara will quickly learn the consequences of her choice as the limits of her love are put to the test.

Stay Away from Me

5.9 2013
Night Sun

Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio turns his back on society and becomes a monk. While at the hermitage he tries to resist all sexual temptations before him and soon becomes known as a miracle worker. Eventually he succumbs to a young seductress and knowing he is undeserving of the adulation, leaves the hermitage to travel around as a homeless beggar.

Night Sun

5.5 1990
Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!

Rehearsals for a play about Maradona in Naples, with Italian actors and an Argentine director. Nothing about Maradona except anecdotes about his figure from the Neapolitans; one of the actors had come to play football. They were all 'touched' by Maradona, as is logical. Pennac is very intelligent, but he has never seen a ball in his life: his fascination comes from the public figure of Maradona, from the totem, from the stupor that invaded him when many friends confessed to having cried at his death. The spectator, Maradonian or not, has an irrepressible desire to travel to Naples and join the song that he sees towards the end of the film, which is moving and overwhelming in its beauty and simplicity. Ideal for theater lovers, or Maradona lovers, or both.

Daniel Pennac: Ho visto Maradona!

6.3 2022
Mariute

The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still troubled by that story, Bertini falls asleep and dreams: in her dream she plays the role of Mariute, a young Friulian countrywoman, mother of three kids waiting for her husband homecoming from the frontline. One day, while she is going to the well for water, she is assaulted and molested by three enemy soldiers. Her father-in-law will avenge her. In the meantime Bertini, waking up with a start, will arrive to work on time and she will end the film inviting the public to put their savings into the war bonds.

Mariute

7.0 1918
Jealousy

Pierre is a womanizing photographer, with a slight mean streak. For whatever reason, Camille, an artist in her own right, finds him entrancing and easily succumbs to his devious efforts to get her into bed. Soon she is trying to hold him to her with her oh-so submissive love, and he is playing some games with her head by pretending (usually) to have been playing around with others. Eventually, he encounters another woman who is not so sticky and tells her to buzz off. When they meet some time later, it becomes clear that the relationship meant different things to each of them.

Jealousy

3.7 1991