Italian cinematic politics

A critique of cineastes and cinephiles, including a once famous actress reduced to poverty and a man who fails miserably at running a film society with no money.

Documentary filmmaker travels globally, pushing crew's limits to capture raw human nature and brutality of a chaotic world, risking safety and ethics for unfiltered footage.

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.

A look at Sicily with the eyes of the Sicilian director, through more than 500 songs taken from over a hundred films shot or set on the island. A film anthology on the history of Sicily divided into 14 chapters.

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

A father and son, separated by the "generation gap," discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.

The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily.

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Turin, late 19th century. The young Simone Celzani is hopelessly in love with the gym teacher Maria Pedani.

In Rome, where he is a prisoner, Saul converses with young people on the acceleration of history (the great wheel that often appears in the film), power, corporate corruption, class consciousness, death, sectarianism, utopia , the recovery of the sense of the flesh, freedom. In this dialogue and non-fiction setting, Toti keeps the story of the saint "in costume" and traces them with some flash-backs and flash-forward orchestrating a parable of lunges in the contemporary. A metahistorical film and a cinematic destination on the life of Saul of Tarsus.

The knight Orlando falls for the fickle princess Angelica. She spurns him. He goes mad, pursues her, visits the moon to recaptures his lost wits, and loses her to a sexy servant boy.

Story of a loser who is forced to collect worms to live. When the prostitute who keeps him company leaves, he enters the hospital, once again sick and alone.

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

The rise and fall of a famous torero, Miguelin, inside and outside of the bullfighters ring.

Two workers at an isolated Alpine dam grow closer when an avalanche traps them in their hut without power or contact.

Rossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.

A man is beset by financial and personal problems, as his business goes bankrupt and he finds out his wife is being unfaithful. Undeterred, he battles on and his determination carries the day.

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

A communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

Oberdan Rossi is half Jewish and a fascist. After coming back from the Ethiopian war, he becomes disillusioned and works as a journalist.

The story of Christian Democrat leader De Gasperi and his struggle to lead Italy in the years after the end of World War Two.