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The Decameron

  An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: Segment 1: A young man from Perugia is swindled twice in Naples, but ends up rich; Segment 2: A man poses Read More

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

  The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to Read More

Three Brothers

  In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; Read More

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

  Marco Tullio Giordana (The Best of Youth) delivers a Machiavellian drama, based on a book by Paolo Cucchiarelli, which dissects the Piazza Fontana bombing, highlighting the manipulations and tragic Read More

Dirty Weekend

  A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they’re kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media “stars” as Read More

Dear Father

  Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman’s son is an apparently weak-willed Read More

Good Morning, Night

  This fictionalized version of a transformational moment in Italian history chronicles the kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro (Roberto Herlitzka). In 1978, leftist revolutionaries known as the Red Brigades murder Read More

Blow to The Heart

  A morally complex study of a father-and-son relationship, set against the backdrop of political terrorism, Blow to the Heart stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Dario, a leftist university professor whose Read More

An Average Little Man

  Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest Read More

Crime Novel

  After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo (Kim Rossi Stuart) gathers his old buddies Libano (Pierfrancesco Favino) and Dandi (Claudio Santamaria) and embarks on a crime spree Read More