Mario Garriba

In punto di morte

Mario Garriba

On the Point of Death (Italian: In punto di morte) is a 1971 Italian drama film directed by Mario Garriba. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Una breve vacanza

Vittorio De Sica

Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.

Bianca

Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.

Sweet Dreams

Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti, Nicola Di Pinto

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.

Crescete e moltiplicatevi

Giulio Petroni

Raymond Pellegrin, Lionel Stander

Italian comedy

Il testimone deve tacere

Giuseppe Rosati

Bekim Fehmiu, Rosanna Schiaffino

De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.

Corse a perdicuore

Mario Garriba

Andy Luotto, Mirella D'Angelo

A very earnest--but very confused--young man is smitten by a young woman he meets in a cafe. He pursues her through the city, even as obstacle after obstacle get in his way.

La vita in gioco

Gianfranco Mingozzi

Mimsy Farmer, Giulio Brogi

A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.

Piccoli fuochi

Peter Del Monte

Dino Jaksic, Valeria Golino

Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three imaginary friends. Seemingly loved by his parents, Tommaso senses that their affections are superficial and he yearns for something more.

Maschio, femmina, fiore, frutto

Ruggero Miti

Anna Oxa, Giovanni Crippa

A pair of twins, Anna and Tony, leave their country to go to Rome to make their fortune. Anna knows how to sing and Tony knows how to dance. They suffer many setbacks, but they are willing to go the distance in order to succeed.

Un fiocco nero per Deborah

Marcello Andrei

Bradford Dillman, Marina Malfatti

A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive, her desire to do so creates a supernatural force determined to fulfill her wishes

Zelda

Alberto Cavallone

Maria Pia Luzi, James Harris

Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformations.

La minorenne

Silvio Amadio

Gloria Guida, Rosemary Dexter

Suffocated from the strict atmosphere of her high school, Valeria has been experiencing erotic dreams with sadistic motorcyclist rapists, a doctor who decides more than an exam is in order and a torturous priest whipping her in pure delight. After leaving school she finds out that the her bourgeois family setting has something to do with her recurring dreams and suppressed desires. She idealistically seeks out romance and love, but falls short time and time again...

That Malicious Age

Silvio Amadio

Gloria Guida, Nino Castelnuovo

Gardener Nino Castellano takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Gloria Guida and Anita Sanders which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem!

Non ho tempo

Ansano Giannarelli

Daniela Caroli, Mario Garriba

This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student mathematician whose republican politics and hot-bloodedness resulted in his death; it is unclear whether he died by political assassination or as a result of a duel.