Just A Italian List ( mystery, gialli, satire )
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- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsValeria D'ObiciBernard GiraudeauJean-Louis TrintignantIn the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house there is a strange young woman: Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.Reversed vampir-story......she starts looking better, he starts dieing, very dark late '800 novl by "scapigliato-writer"(= 'sturm + drang', but literally means "wild hair", small group of Milanese young tormented writers, all died young, this story is autobiographical, the 'ugly' (=skinny, hysteric) but very intelligent woman , the narrator at first is repelled by hr, then falls very hard and vry deadly for her. Writer : I. Ugo Tarchetti- " Fosca"
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo TroisiAnne ParillaudThe visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.Great Massimo Troisi ( died young after finishing Il Postino) .
Anne Parillard is his girfriend, Mastroianni is his father who tries to give "bed-advice" and cracks her up, she has a gorgeous lugh. This is a small film about father + son, just a fw hours thy have, title means "how late is it? " Intelligent bitter sweet comedy. Scola again.. - DirectorMauro BologniniStarsMarcello MastroianniClaudia CardinalePierre BrasseurA newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsGian Maria VolontèSami FreyJacques LippeIn the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. His methods and opinions are outside the mainstream, but he has the protection and friendship of the local Prior. Zénon, an aristocrat with a degree in canon law, lives humbly. He learns of bacchanals under Masonic signs involving monks and women, and he warns those involved. The Prior is dying, and he urges Zénon to flee to England. Zénon burns his writing. Will he leave or will he face ecclesiastical accusers and, perhaps, the stake?Gian Maria Volonte is my super favorite Italian actor. He refused Hollywood and stayed in Italy to make ONLY political films ( yes, not even a kiss you cn find on screen of him with a woman )......Rosi was oftn his director. Marvelous actor.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèPaolo BonacelliAlain CunyA doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèLuigi SquarzinaPeter BaldwinAn Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?One of the vry best Rosi -directions , not only using nw cut tecniques ( yes I think he was vn bfor the French N.Vague, h pioneered with multiple screens + cuts, to teell thee eemotional story UNDER the actul one etc, very new at that time, the pace is ferocious vn for Italians whho know his story/unsolved mistery ( thy say killd by Nato-Cia + Demochristians as cold-war, he would have surpassed the USA- oil, and made alrady dals on his own in N-Africa, then that wird plane crash, as so oftn in Italy of 70-80......hundreds of irrsolved ( political) crimes , the CIA was VERY fraid of th Italian communist party, so they did verything to keep theem short. ( see alsso Magliana-gang: they did often the dirty laundry for the demochristian-politics , who ruled for decads + dcades. Anyway, 'not for eveerybody', but if u can understand th time+ place, this is a hll of a tru story, told in a cool new, fast way, and th guy was a charming economic genius. He got it all started: methan + gas. Autonomous in Italy. Too smart, so better kill him. Rosi is the best political, cos nostra ( dont wtch The Godfather, tht's a fable, th reeal guys were dead cold and killed always innocents alike. Lucky Luciano was exported from USA...and he hated Italy so MUCH, h didt speak a word and st uo th first heroin-line: Napoli- NY !! So you could say that the USA gave Italy our mafia LOL. He only wantd to go back sinc he was American. And tht's th truth: Godfather, Goodfelloes, Soprnos, they all dont speak a word Italian, and those movies are NOT real, if u think that's the way a mafioso is/was (= Scorsese's wet dream ) , you are very ignorant ad should absolutely educate yourslf with Rosi films......ALL of them GREAT !!! ( Salvatore Giulino, Cadaveri Eccellnti...etc ;)
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloOlivia MagnaniAdriano GianniniAn introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.See previous rant. LOL This is true 'goodfellow'.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLino CapolicchioFrancesca MarcianoGianni CavinaStefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsDonald SutherlandTina AumontCicely BrowneGiacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia CristianiGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.Should be on my Visconti list. But the system didnt work ;)
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsEdwige FenechAnita StrindbergLuigi PistilliA series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife.Terrific cool giallo a la Poe. Location near Padova. ;)
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsSilvana ManganoTerence StampMassimo GirottiA mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsHelmut BergerIngrid ThulinTeresa Ann SavoyKitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power-hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.The real Salon K was not in Germany but in Vienna and served as a high-tec-surveilence spy-hole, vry rofessional, also the girls , all trained, all high ranked political visiters ( Ciano every week ..) from all countries, fisrt talking politics then they would be trnsorteed heree and no secret was safe, so they stayd informed about Itaaly's intentions , but other nations too. So this is a REAL story ( I have th original history book ) and a marvel of engineering, thy workd ral hard with it. Madam Kitty (= the original ownrr of th club ) was simply put forced to undrgo that microphonees-redecoration of hr club or they 'd sent hr to a camp, as usual. Tinto Brass took his liberties with this film, but still rather well done historicly, and th styling of this film is in on word: MAGNIFICENT ( reeally a joy for the eye, Art DECO reigns ) ...So it's actually a small jewel, and the only Tinto ever made. Thulin+ Berger are super fetisj cool , my guess m all Hugo Boss ( LOL joke.....)
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
- DirectorEnrico Maria SalernoStarsFlorinda BolkanTony MusanteToti Dal MonteWithout mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsCarlo CecchiAnna BonaiutoRenato CarpentieriNaples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of the PCI and its employees to the University, he lives his life with disenchanted posting.
- StarsVinicio MarchioniAlessandro RojaMarco BocciThis crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.ONLY the TV-Serial , NOT the MOVIE.
This tv-serial is the VERY TOP. Just as good as The Sopranos. No joke. Based on real events ( politic, corruption, terrorism, drugs-gang of Magliana in Rome) ..........ALL the characters are unforgetable and havee time to develop, everyhing about this serial is pheenomenal, from the music to the faces, to the events. - DirectorGianni AmelioStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRenato CarpentieriA principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoAgostina BelliForced to leave his family in Sicily, Mimí finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
- DirectorAntonello GrimaldiStarsNanni MorettiValeria GolinoIsabella FerrariA look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiRenato CarpentieriAntonio NeiwillerDirector Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsAlberto SordiAnnie GirardotFernando ReyA tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziAnnie GirardotAchille MajeroniA modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaSandra MiloMario PisuVisions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloAnna BonaiutoGiulio BosettiThe story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- StarsUgo PagliaiMassimo GirottiPaola TedescoMembers of a secret society known as the Legacy fight to protect humankind from occult dangers.Cult. '70 tv. Byron, Rome, rincarnation-mystery and the greeatest succes ever of Italian RAI ( then Telvisione Nazionale). With Carla Cravino.