(1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. (2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. (3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - casting spells. (4) The discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
The fall of a young Roman woman as told by Luigi Zampa, and starring of course the inimitable Gina Lollobrigida!
Three beautiful seamstresses from one of the fashionable dress salons near the Piazza de Spagna in Rome gather on the steps of the square to eat lunch and talk of their love lives. Marisa, the oldest in a large family, is engaged to a truck driver; Elena lives with her widowed mother and is in love with an opportunist, Alberto, who is also romancing the boss's daughter; Lucia l...
Grande Bretagne, Italie - 1954 - 85’
(La Mano dello straniero)
Avec Trevor Howard, Richard O'Sullivan, Alida Valli.
Un petit garon mène l'enquête sur la disparition de son père, agent secret qui est séquestré par un médecin douteux. L'enfant est aidé dans sa quête par une jeune femme et son fiancé.
Au fil des pages du roman "Le jardin des Finzi-Contini", que Vittorio De Sica a adapté au cinéma, un voyage empreint de nostalgie à Ferrare, entre réalité et fiction, sur les traces de son auteur, l’écrivain italien Giorgio Bassani.
C’est un jardin extraordinaire qui n’a jamais existé, un lieu fictif qui habite les mémoires. Quand, en 1962, Giorgio Bassani publie "Le jardin des...
This movie, based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani, plays in the high-day of Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Eraldo is a golden boy, a stunningly beautiful college student and boxer, popular and spoiled rotten by his mother. To keep living beyond his means he 'gratiously accepts' the generous, rarely returned favors of Dr. Fadigati, an elder, gay gentleman who tries to live his life mo...
