Renato Romano
1940 (86 лет)The Mattei Affair
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
The Mattei Affair
Tre donne - La sciantosa
Alfredo Giannetti
Anna Magnani, Massimo Ranieri
La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Tre donne - La sciantosa
The Italian Job
Peter Collinson
Michael Caine, Noël Coward
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
The Italian Job
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dario Argento
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
La città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori
Fernando Di Leo
Luc Merenda, James Mason
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.
Kidnap Syndicate
Dio è con noi
Giuliano Montaldo
Franco Nero, Richard Johnson
Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are captured and put in a prison camp run by the Canadian Army. When Colonel von Bleicher—the rigid and militaristic commander of German POWs—learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war has ended. The uninterested Canadian officers oblige him and the two soldiers find themselves facing the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".
The 5th Day of Peace
Caro Michele
Mario Monicelli
Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Dear Michele
Sans sommation
Bruno Gantillon
Maurice Ronet, Bruno Cremer
A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.
Without Warning
I protagonisti
Marcello Fondato
Sylva Koscina, Jean Sorel
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
The Protagonists
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Umberto Lenzi
Antonio Sabàto, Uschi Glas
A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire
Franco Giraldi
Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
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
Death Laid an Egg
Giulio Questi
Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Louis Trintignant
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Death Laid an Egg
