In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.
After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.
Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...
The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.
Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.
Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.
A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.
A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.
A gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer.
On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by nine elderly people, including the ancient wizard Lucanòr, no one remembers what children are. One day, however, a boat carrying a group of helpless shipwrecked children arrives on this piece of land surrounded by the sea. Will the children manage to gain respect? Who will help them?
Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.