Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

2007

Italian

7.2

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli Director

Alba Rohrwacher as Anna

Lisa Gastoni as Gemma Montesano

Massimo Poggio as Giuseppe Montesano

Paola Cortellesi as Maria Montessori

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.

Conversation Piece

1974

Italian

7.3

♡ 13

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Valentino Macchi as

Vittorio Fanfoni as

Burt Lancaster as Il Professore

Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Salon Kitty

1976

Italian

5.4

♡ 51

29%

Tinto Brass Director

John Steiner as Biondo

John Ireland as Cliff

Helmut Berger as Helmut Wallenberg

Teresa Ann Savoy as Margherita

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

The Witches

1967

Italian

5.9

♡ 17

46%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Clint Eastwood as Carlo / Charlie

Helmut Berger as Hotel Page

Valentino Macchi as Man at Stadium

Annie Girardot as Valeria

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

The Dead Are Alive

1972

Italian

5.4

♡ 5

Armando Crispino Director

Alex Cord as Jason Porter

Samantha Eggar as Myra Shelton

John Marley as Nikos Samarakis

Horst Frank as Stephen

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Nightmare City

1980

Italian

5.6

♡ 10

military to the rescue

Umberto Lenzi Director

Alejandro de Enciso as Captain

Francisco Rabal as Major Warren Holmes

Edy Biagetti as Military Officer

Benito Pacifico as Zombie

In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity, while the military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless atomic zombies.

Fantozzi

1975

Italian

7.8

♡ 6

95%

Action

Comedy

Luciano Salce Director

Margherita Horowitz as Catellani's Guest

Luciano Bonanni as Cliente al ristorante giapponese

Paolo Paoloni as Mega Direttore Galattico Duca Conte G.M.Balabam

Paolo Villaggio as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

The Black Cat

1981

Italian

5.8

♡ 6

33%

Lucio Fulci Director

Lucio Fulci as Doctor

Bruno Corazzari as Ferguson

Mimsy Farmer as Jill Trevers

Patrick Magee as Prof. Robert Miles

Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.

Devil Fish

1984

Italian

2.8

♡ 4

Lamberto Bava Director

Darla N. Warner as Dr. Janet Bates

Valentine Monnier as Dr. Stella Dickens

William Berger as Prof. Donald West

Iris Peynado as Sandra Hayes

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

April

1998

Italian

7.0

♡ 5

81%

Action

actor playing himself

Nanni Moretti Director

Angelo Barbagallo as Angelo Barbagallo

Nanni Moretti as Self

Silvio Berlusconi as Self

Renato De Maria as Self

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

Manhattan Baby

1982

Italian

4.9

♡ 3

Horror

Lucio Fulci Director

Lucio Fulci as Dr. Forrester

Tonino Pulci as Orderly

Christopher Connelly as Professor George Hacker

Mario Moretti as Tennant

An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon their arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.

Sacrifice!

1972

Italian

5.3

♡ 5

Umberto Lenzi Director Chit

Chit as Cannibal

Ivan Rassimov as John Bradley

Pipop Pupinyo as Mihuan

Song Suanhud as Witch Doctor

A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.

The Boat

2022

Italian

4.7

♡ 5

Thriller

Alessio Liguori Director

Eduardo Valdarnini as

Marina Rocco as Claudia

Alessandro Tiberi as Federico

Filippo Nigro as Flavio

The trip aboard a luxury yacht of three couples that will turn from an exciting experience to a terrible nightmare.

Touch of Death

1988

Italian

5.1

♡ 5

dismemberment of human beings

Lucio Fulci Director

Antonio Maimone as Guest at Randy's Poker Tablele

Brett Halsey as Lester Parson

Maurice Poli as TV Newscaster #1

Mickey Knox as TV Newscaster #2

The financially strained and increasingly desperate, Lester Parsons concocts a brilliant get-rich-quick scheme; cruise the lonely hearts ads for rich women to fleece. Too bad then, that Lester’s also a psychotic cannibal who enjoys mutilating these lovelorn souls, via his trusty chainsaw, and using their flesh for his dinner. When a copycat killer threatens to bring him down, Lester must do all he can to prevent this new killer’s sloppy work from ruining them both.

The Island of the Fishmen

1979

Italian

5.3

♡ 4

Sergio Martino Director

Barbara Bach as Amanda Marvin

Cameron Mitchell as Decker

Joseph Cotten as Prof. Ernest Marvin

Giuseppe Castellano as Skip

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.

The Catholic School

2021

Italian

5.6

♡ 4

14%

19%

based on novel or book

Drama

full frontal female nudity

Stefano Mordini Director

Jasmine Trinca as Coralla Martirolo

Benedetta Porcaroli as Donatella Colasanti

Valeria Golino as Ilaria Arbus

Riccardo Scamarcio as Raffaele Guido

Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.

Django

1966

Italian

♡ 33

94%

Sergio Corbucci Director

Gino Pernice as Brother Jonathan

Franco Nero as Django

Rolando De Santis as Klan Member

Simón Arriaga as Miguel

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.

Compañeros

1970

Italian

7.2

♡ 3

Sergio Corbucci Director

Jack Palance as John Svedese

Iris Berben as Lola

Fernando Rey as Prof. Vitaliano Xantos

Franco Nero as Yodlaf 'The Swede' Peterson

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.

Starcrash

1978

Italian

4.0

♡ 10

Luigi Cozzi Director

Joe Spinell as Count Zarth Arn

David Hasselhoff as Prince Simon

Candy Clark as Stella Star

Christopher Plummer as The Emperor

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

Everybody's Fine

1990

Italian

7.6

♡ 1

67%

87%

Action

Drama

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Victor Cavallo as

Roberto Nobile as Guglielmo

Leo Gullotta as Uomo armato sul tetto

Michèle Morgan as Woman in train

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

Conversation Piece

Salon Kitty

The Witches

The Dead Are Alive

Nightmare City

Fantozzi

The Black Cat

Devil Fish

April

Manhattan Baby

Sacrifice!

The Boat

Touch of Death

The Island of the Fishmen

The Catholic School

Django

Compañeros

Starcrash

Everybody's Fine