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Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Suddenly a man masked in green arrives and performs - ever haunting - in favour of the Spanish.
A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.
Nini and Mimi are strolling musicians-bassist. For days they are playing on the streets of Rome. One day Nini announced that he has one million and one thousand pounds, having inherited from her grandmother died. Now world belongs only to them, and they can do everything! Ahead of them are Paris, Madrid, England, Scotland, Hong Kong, the United States ....
The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death: Ettore, a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause; Ludovico, an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough; Giulia, a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband; and Ermanno, a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past.
In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause the death of many of his companions and he births the upcoming revolution.
Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.
An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV.
With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance, a brother and sister try to rescue their father, held captive by the Bedouins of the Sahara.
A child is kidnapped by a secret organization to force his father to be part of a drug-smuggling ring.
A documentary depicting how Italians spend their summer holidays.
A visit inside the walls of the Annunziata, an ancient Neapolitan orphanage for girls, where numerous young women reside while waiting to get engaged, find work, and redeem themselves socially, but also elderly women who have resigned themselves to a life spent there.
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.
After his village is burned down, Captain Furio sets out for revenge.
After a rich mine worker dies in mine accident, his heirs gather in his house to hear the reading of the will.
A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness.
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia. Featuring interviews with Monica Vitti, Tonino Guerra and more.
In the study of a lawyer, two young spouses tell their story. The singer Tony manages to reach the much coveted success, and can thus marry his girlfriend. But a clause in his record contract obliges him to remain a bachelor for two years.
"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.
A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
Andrea, a young man from the provinces, leaves his home, his friends and his girlfriend to go to the city in search of new intellectual satisfactions that he believes he can no longer find in his small world. The young idealist meets Eleonora, a beautiful woman romantically linked to Luca, a rich and unscrupulous businessman, and becomes his lover. In order to live forever next to Andrea, Eleonora does not hesitate to abandon Luca and the luxurious life that he allowed her. The death of Eleonora in a car accident, however, abruptly cuts off Andrea's dreams of happiness, who returns to his provincial town, where he finds his fiancée waiting for him and comforting him.
In an operation aimed at hitting the mafia, the Sicilian police hunt down several assassins to trace their bosses. The hunted, with the help of the mafia, try to escape from the island.
Roose arrives in a town where a ruthless land baron is trying to take control of the entire area, eventually deciding to take sides with townspeople.
Yasamin returns to Iran after many years from Europe; Because her father died suspiciously and his mother is ill. Ahmad, Yasamin's cousin who lives with Farideh, shows himself interested in Yasamin.
The film is a rundown of the songs sung by the stars of the time, chained to various shows such as strip and comic caricatures.
An Italian man working as a siringuero is exploited by his sadistic boss.
Michele, recently released from the asylum, returns home where his sister Teresa, the only one who knows about his past madness, is waiting for him.
On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their lives while the war rages on.
A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer of his father, the other for a former friend who stole his gold. They're joined by a third person, a mysterious pistolero.
A high level criminal attempts to enslave the world by thought control through TV.
More than twenty years after Racconto da un affresco (1940-1946), Luciano Emmer returns to Padua and the Scrovegni Chapel, home to Giotto's frescoes. He retains the structure of his first film (telling the story of Christ through the frescoes) and his principle of immersion in the paintings, but this time in color. He adds an introductory educational section (a historical presentation of the chapel and Giotto's frescoes) and a descriptive commentary that runs throughout the film.
When the Germans recapture a Mediterranean Island during WWII, a squad of US soldiers is left behind to destroy an important radio base.
Don Juan, the governor of a Mexican province, arrests Manuel, the fiancé of the beautiful heiress, Virginia. When Quintana frees Manuel, Don Juan kidnaps Virginia to force her hand in marriage. The ceremony is interrupted in a violent battle.
With the help of two accomplices an underhanded gambler prepares a rigged roulette wheel with which they quickly accumulate money hand over fist. But then greed forges a wall between the three and the intrusion of ruthless competitors result in a massacre.
408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, Alaric vows bloody revenge.
Despite all his faults, Luciano cannot bear the idea that his own mother has left home to go and live with a man who is not her husband. As soon as he leaves the Roman prison where he served his time, the young man spends his first free nights wandering around in a tormented search for a reason for living.
Fred Leinster, an alcoholic ex-sheriff, is paid to collect a ransom for the kidnapping of a young boy. When he finds out the particulars of the crime he turns the tables on the outlaws.
Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.
Rebellious teen Sergio decides to isolate himself from society by living near the shore of a desolate lake. But he's unable to live freely once police show up and accuse him of murdering a young girl he was briefly acquainted with. This psychological drama with giallo elements appears to have been out of circulation since its theatrical run.
This brave, lonely man who arrives in Corsica, in a poor village, has no idea that he will have to take in this 9-year-old child whose mother has just died and of whom he is undoubtedly the father. His only hope is to find a place for the child, a place where he can get rid of his mother, a place where the child can stay, grow up, eat his fill and become a man. In this long race on foot through the mountains or by hitchhiking, they successively reject all the solutions that are offered, for the taste of freedom, which is more deeply rooted in them than that of security. This common feeling gradually brings them closer together, and after many incidents, they decide to face life and its uncertain future together.
Tony a young unrecognized pop singer spends most of his free time wooing all the beautiful girls he comes across. By resorting to all sorts of expedients, he manages to navigate between six semi-official girlfriends.
A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.
LA CASA DELLE VEDOVE portrays a group of widows who, he thinks, lived in a constant ‘dialogue‘ with death. In the house where they all lived ‘every colour was saturated with that special reddish shade that you see everywhere in Rome, and furthermore the rooms were filled with a stale, musty smell.‘
Vittorio is a photographer; Roberto, the waiter; Brigitta, the operator; Pannunzio, the porter; Patty, a gold-eyed waitress. All of them live and work at the Europe Palace Hotel in Capri.
A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang's head.
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
Northon is a retired gangster wants to avenge the death of his sister, who was married to Frank Cline. Cline disappeared while transporting a large shipment of the Organization's gold, leaving three dead bodies behind him. Northon follows the trail to the sunken ship and tries to beat rival gangsters to the lost gold.
The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.