Miracolo italiano

Miracolo italiano 1994

4.12

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.

1994

Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman 1974

7.47

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

1974

How Funny Can Sex Be?

How Funny Can Sex Be? 1973

5.80

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

1973

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) 1970

7.30

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?

1970

Teresa

Teresa 1987

4.20

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

1987

The Children Thief

The Children Thief 1991

4.70

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.

1991

The New Monsters

The New Monsters 1977

6.90

A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid (Mario Monicelli) - 6. Big Boy to His Little Mother (Dino Risi) - 7. Model Citizen (Ettore Scola) - 8. Pornodiva (Dino Risi) - 9. Like a Queen (Ettore Scola) - 10. Inn! (Ettore Scola) - 11. Without Words (Dino Risi) - 12. The Funeral Oration (Ettore Scola)

1977

I See Naked

I See Naked 1969

6.40

Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

1969

Lost Soul

Lost Soul 1977

6.65

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

1977

Taste of the Sea

Taste of the Sea 1983

6.43

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

1983

An Ideal Adventure

An Ideal Adventure 1982

4.84

Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.

1982

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Till Marriage Do Us Part 1974

5.80

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.

1974

Sesso e volentieri

Sesso e volentieri 1982

4.44

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

1982

Ghost of Love

Ghost of Love 1981

6.99

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

1981

Il commissario Lo Gatto

Il commissario Lo Gatto 1986

6.28

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.

1986

The Career of a Chambermaid

The Career of a Chambermaid 1976

5.00

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

1976

The Heroes

The Heroes 1994

5.30

Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?

1994

I Fichissimi

I Fichissimi 1981

5.70

Romeo and Felice lead two rival bands who constantly make fun of each other. One day, Romeo meets and falls in love with Giulietta, without knowing that she is Felice's sister.

1981

Celluloide

Celluloide 1996

6.60

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .

1996

Taste of Life

Taste of Life 1988

5.14

Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.

1988