Christ Stopped at Eboli
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
The Swindlers
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
The Challenge
Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total control of the regional fruit and vegetable distribution considered more profitable. He looks for the help of a rural crime Boss.
Carmen
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
The Moment of Truth
Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.
Illustrious Corpses
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Hands Over the City
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
More Than a Miracle
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
The Mattei Affair
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.
Salvatore Giuliano
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
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Francesco Rosi
Director
Gian Maria Volonté
as
Carlo Levi
Paolo Bonacelli
as
Don Luigi Magalone
Irene Papas
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Giulia Venere
Lea Massari
as
Luisa Levi
Aldo Giuffrè
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Armando
Belinda Lee
as
Paula Mayer
Guglielmo Spoletini
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Rosita Pisano
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(uncredited)
Fernando Rey
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Security Minister
Max von Sydow
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Supreme Court's President
Tina Aumont
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The prostitute
Pasquale Martino
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Capo dell'archivio
Rod Steiger
as
Edoardo Nottola
Valentino Macchi
as
Carlo Pisacane
as
First Witch
Sophia Loren
as
Isabella Candeloro
Omar Sharif
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Prince Rodrigo Fernandez
Vittorio Fanfoni
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Charles Cioffi
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Vito Genovese
Renato Romano
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Journalist
Edy Biagetti
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Mattei's Bodyguard
Peter Baldwin
as
William McHale
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