
Quinto Parmeggiani
1926 - 2018The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Pietro Germi
Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Al centro dell'area di rigore
Roberto Ivan Orano, Bruno Garbuglia
Gérard Rinaldi, Giorgio Tirabassi
1942: A group of Roma fans, Carletto, Renato, Tina and Mozzicone, organize a trip to Turin to support their team in the decisive match for the Scudetto. They are joined by Roberto, Renato's brother-in-law, and Biagio, Renato's friend from Lazio. One of them has to acquire a precious document in the hands of an anti-fascist teacher.
Al centro dell'area di rigore
Domani accadrà
Daniele Luchetti
Paolo Hendel, Giovanni Guidelli
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
It's Happening Tomorrow
Concerto per pistola solista
Michele Lupo
Anna Moffo, Ida Galli
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
The Weekend Murders
E tanta paura
Paolo Cavara
Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
Plot of Fear
Identikit
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.
Identikit
Conviene far bene l'amore
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Gigi Proietti, Agostina Belli
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.
The Sex Machine
Amor nello specchio
Salvatore Maira
Anna Galiena, Peter Stormare
In 17th century France, a theater troupe is allowed by its patron to go to Paris to produce an erotic play. The head of the troupe dreams of fame while his wife, the leading actress, and a new leading girl fall for each other.
Love in the Mirror
Abuso di potere
Camillo Bazzoni
Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo
When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
Shadows Unseen
Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne
Lucio Fulci
Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
The Eroticist
Il cappotto di Astrakan
Marco Vicario, Piero Chiara
Johnny Dorelli, Andréa Ferréol
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
The Persian Lamb Coat