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During the filming of Arabian Nights (1974), Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about his passion for protecting the complete form of ancient cities and shows us Orte and Sabaudia. Part of a TV Series documentary in 8 episodes.
Leone, a very rational man, silently accepts that his wife Silia is cheating on him with Guido. When a well-known swordsman offends Silia, the woman asks her husband to make amends by challenging him to a duel; Leone accepts, but sends Guido in his place.
A married woman with a young daughter runs away from home to live out her dream of becoming a photo model. She becomes involved with a wealthy Italian entrepreneur while she's at it but has second thoughts once her daughter becomes ill.
Antonio Barracano is a man who enforces his own law in the Sanità district, which is why he is recognized as the neighborhood's "mayor." He dispenses advice and opinions and solves the problems of poor people.
Five bored rich boys from Rome receive a tip-off, and steal three cars that belong to a clandestine organisation that exports to Switzerland. One of the cars contains four billion lire.
A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
In a school on the extreme outskirts of Rome, a young teacher, instead of neglecting his half-empty classroom, decides to tackle the problem looking for the children who do not attend classes.
In biblical times, a shepherd buys a wife for one of his sons, but a passion breaks out between the patriarch and the slave and the tribe risks falling into ruin.
Having withdrawn his complaint from the police station, Alberto now finds himself in trouble: the public prosecutor, suspicious, believes that he acted in this way out of fear or something else.
Fists of Dollars & Spinach is a 1978 film directed by Emimmo Salvi. It is the first flesh-and-blood film about the adventures of Popeye, anticipating the Disney film Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman by two years
With his film "Il quadrato. Definizione di spazio", Tonino De Bernardi represents an exception in the Italian underground scene: the author retired to private life and continued an experimental production, in a reduced format and in a private cinema context, even after the end of the experience of the Cooperativa del cinema indipendente.
A young and talented dancer with aspirations of becoming a movie star soon finds himself exploited by a screenwriter friend looking for ways to fund his expensive drug addiction.
Gloria Fontanesi is a girl who works as a factory worker but carries within her a great passion: dancing! Success comes one night, when due to a delay by Renato Zero, the stage is finally hers.
Paulo joins a student protest, where he meets the socialist Michela. She has been separated from her husband. Paul is intrigued and spiritually attracted by the new political movement. Peaceful demonstrations keep turning into riots.
In a construction site near Rome, a Calabrian construction worker dies. The emigrant's hard life is reconstructed through the words of his fellow workers and family, interviewd between Rome and Calabria. One of the first experiments of collective directing that will later turn into the group Videobase.
Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her Son-in-Law” into a play two years later. Right You Are (If You Think Are) was presented in dramatic form as a “A Parable in Three Acts.” As in any instructive parable, the characterization is put fully into the service of delivering the lesson and thus creates mysteries about motivation that remain unresolved by the conclusion.
Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina. However, she is currently staying with Dr. Bartolo – who desires to marry her. By using a series of disguises, Almaviva manages to pass letters to Rosina and serenade her with his beautiful voice. Dr. Bartolo does his best to stop Almaviva but is constantly thwarted. In the end, Count Almaviva marries Rosina and Dr. Bartolo comes to terms with his defeat.
Documentary on a case of heretical worship that occurred within popular Catholicism in Serra d'Arce, in the province of Salerno, where Giuseppina Gonnella, a sort of mystical sorceress-exorcist, freed people from evil and spells and was sometimes possessed by the spirit of her nephew, who died in a car accident in the 1950s.
Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.
Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.
A self-parody film on Arnaldo Pomodoro's sculptures and the art as "commodity", shot together with Francesco Leonetti and Ugo Mulas.
A film about painting and its denial concerning Giordano struggling with the Sleeping Beauty, this is the challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies be able to give back to the child raped and abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Giordano, Prince Charming bearing butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, plods along sinking into the snow and… but revolutionary creativity is not the one that makes the bird in the cage sink: is it the reason why the imprisoned bird breaks the cage.
Produced within the framework of the “Programmi Sperimentali” of Italian public television (structure of the RAI which allowed, in the 1970s, the production of films such as Lutte en Italie by the Dziga Vertov Group, Cancer by Glauber Rocha or Perché pagare per essere felici by Marco Ferreri), Cronaca di un gruppo tells the story of a group of young French revolutionaries who, between Paris and the Pyrenees region, are looking for ways to continue their political activities, through the theater experimental and counter-information, the day after May 68. Produced in collaboration with Gianni Toti, Didier Sandre and the Nanterre experimental theater group.
A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, “Effetti speciali”. As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything.
Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest survival from the miserable life that capitalism has offered and continues to impose on us.
Two wise guysmanage a messed up underground casino and brothel. A "hunting club" as a cover up. The place is frequented by all kind of characters, from the Neapolitan upper class to the petty criminals, who use it as a base and such is the turmoil that it will not take much to blow the cover up.
Produced for the Tourism Department of the Province of Matera, with the executive collaboration of Istituto Luce-Italnoleggio.
The renowned director Franco Zeffirelli interviews Eduardo De Filippo to discuss the famous Neapolitan mask Pulcinella.
Depicts the birth of an independent TV station.
A sculptor, in the company of a disciple, isolates himself in an underground room, no longer able to identify with a society without any value. His personal revolution is no longer to create anything, but simply to wait. However, he is forced to receive unwelcome visits that keep him in touch with the absurdities of the outside world. When he finally decides to go out to the surface, he will find a world worse than when he left it.
A film by Ellis Donda.
The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.
A being from outer space can enter the mind and body of anyone he wants.
A documentary that investigates the changing role of women and sex in society. Tales such as a female Satanist, stewardesses who are trying to show more skin, and a female doctor who's patients are nude military recruits are showcased
Luciana, a country girl who has moved to Milan, is married to Mario, an intellectual type who avoids her since an accident forced him to live with his torso permanently in a cast. Lonely and depressed because also of her recent dismissal, she asks for help through a letter and becomes friends with elementary school teacher Anna, who also resents the negativity of her workplace and the world around her. Meanwhile, blue collar worker Marco waits for his fellow paisan Luciana to reciprocate his feelings. The vicissitudes of this quartet intertwine with the comical interludes of a commune of hippies who live in the tunnels of the Milan subway and spend their time pulling pranks on the passers-by.
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
Mr. Linea faces proverbial obstacles while walking and turns to his cartoonist to draw him a solution. This time he’s dealing with a guard dog and needs to dash away.
The idea of each episode is that of the forbidden dreams at Fracchia-Fantozzi. Paolo Villaggio, sitting at a bar table, is struck by the title of a book or a radio broadcast and begins to imagine himself in the shoes of various characters and in funny situations, always alongside the beautiful Nicoletta Macchiavelli. Back to reality, he orders a martini which he drinks in the company of the actress.
Underwater documentary exploring the shipwreck of SS Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner which sunk in 1956.
Mina live at a concert on September 16, 1972, at the Bussola nightclub in Tuscany.
Research on faces, made of color and superimpositions.
Experimental arthouse film taking satirical views on war, politics and religious beliefs.
Milan: a drifter, hungry for money, allows himself to be corrupted and carries out a murder on commission.
Based on a chapter of 'Una questione privata' by Beppe Fenoglio, 'La torta di Riccio' recounts an episode of the Resistance. A Fascist officer of the Salò army is ordered to shoot two young men, captive partisan relay girls, in retaliation.
Raffaele is a man who decides to change his life: he manages to get noticed by a beautiful girl.
Mario is a hairdresser and thereby maintains his large family. He is an avid footballer and, together with two friends on a football team, girls from the local orphanage. In addition, he falls in love with Elizabeth. By train a lot the team arrives at the national level and makes it even chance to win an important game.