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Deep Red

  A psychic medium (Macha Méril) is brutally murdered, and musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) feels a need to solve the case, since he was the one who discovered the Read More

The Last Emperor

  This sweeping account of the life of Pu Yi (John Lone), the last emperor of China, follows the leader’s tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as Read More

The Iron Crown

  Sedemondo (Gino Cervi) kills his brother, usurps the throne of his Italian kingdom, and then rules without regard for law or justice. An elderly seer warns the wicked king Read More

Cabiria

  Young Sicilian girl Cabiria (Lidia Quaranta) and her nurse, Croessa (Gina Marangoni), survive a devastating volcanic eruption, only to be taken by Phoenicians to Carthage. As the second of Read More

The Passionate Thief

  On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Read More

The Night of the Shooting Stars

  During World War II, an Italian village finds itself caught in the bloody struggle between retreating Nazi forces, stubborn fascists, local partisans and the incoming U.S. forces. A group Read More

Once Upon a Time in the West

  There’s a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to Read More

A Special Day

  In Rome, fascist supporter Emanuele (John Vernon) attends a parade commemorating Adolf Hitler’s historic meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini, leaving his apolitical wife, Antonietta (Sophia Loren), to tend Read More

Paisan

  Roberto Rossellini’s film, made in the aftermath of WWII, consists of six distinct chapters, showing various relationships between the American occupiers and the newly liberated Italians. Two of the Read More

Rome Open City

  Resistance leader Luigi Ferrari is pursued by Major Fritz Bergmann, a German intelligence officer who wants the names of others in the underground movement. Ferrari enlists the help of Read More