The Name of the Rose (1986) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb

The Name of the Rose

7.2 (6 ratings) director: Jean-Jacques Annaud actor: Sean Connery / F. Murray Abraham …

other title: Il nome della rosa / Rosens Navn …

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

Divorce Italian Style (1961) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban IMDb

Divorzio all'italiana

director: Pietro Germi actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Daniela Rocca …

other title: Divorzio all'italiana / Scheidung auf italienisch …

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

A Bay of Blood (1971) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb

Ecologia del delitto

director: Mario Bava actor: Claudine Auger / Luigi Pistilli …

other title: Ecologia del delitto / Den Blodige Bugt …

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

I Vitelloni (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb

I vitelloni

director: Federico Fellini actor: Franco Interlenghi / Alberto Sordi …

other title: I vitelloni / Dagdriverne …

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Don't Look Now (1973) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData

Don't Look Now

director: Nicolas Roeg actor: Donald Sutherland / Julie Christie …

other title: A Venezia... un dicembre rosso shocking / Rødt chok …

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Seduced and Abandoned (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb

Sedotta e abbandonata

director: Pietro Germi actor: Stefania Sandrelli / Saro Urzì …

other title: Sedotta e abbandonata / Verführung auf Italienisch …

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.

Caligula (1979) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb

Caligola

director: Tinto Brass actor: Malcolm McDowell / Teresa Ann Savoy …

other title: Caligola / Caligula – Aufstieg und Fall eines Tyrannen …

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

The White Sheik (1952) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban

Lo sceicco bianco

director: Federico Fellini actor: Alberto Sordi / Brunella Bovo …

other title: Lo sceicco bianco / O Sheik Branco …

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

The Marquis of Grillo (1981) [Movie] TMDB

Il marchese del Grillo

director: Mario Monicelli actor: Alberto Sordi / Paolo Stoppa …

other title: Il marchese del Grillo / Die tolldreisten Streiche des Marchese del Grillo …

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

Be Sick… It's Free (1968) [Movie] TMDB

Il medico della mutua

director: Luigi Zampa actor: Alberto Sordi / Ida Galli …

other title: Il medico della mutua / El médico de la mutua

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

An American in Rome (1954) [Movie] TMDB

Un americano a Roma

director: Steno actor: Alberto Sordi / Maria Pia Casilio …

other title: Un americano a Roma / Ein Amerikaner in Rom …

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

A Day in Court (1954) [Movie] TMDB

Un giorno in pretura

director: Steno actor: Peppino De Filippo / Silvana Pampanini …

other title: Un giorno in pretura / Drei Sünderinnen …

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

Lo scocciatore (1953) [Movie] TMDB

Lo scocciatore

director: Giorgio Bianchi actor: Peppino De Filippo / Giulietta Masina …

other title: Lo scocciatore (Via Padova 46) / El suceso de Via Padova

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!

A Hero of Our Times (1955) [Movie] TMDB

Un eroe dei nostri tempi

director: Mario Monicelli actor: Alberto Sordi / Franca Valeri …

other title: Un eroe dei nostri tempi / Un héros de notre temps …

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..

The Sicilian Clan (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

Le Clan des Siciliens

director: Henri Verneuil actor: Jean Gabin / Alain Delon …

other title: Il clan dei siciliani / Klanen fra Sicilien …

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb

A ciascuno il suo

director: Elio Petri actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Irene Papas …

other title: A ciascuno il suo / Zwei Särge auf Bestellung …

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

The Black Stallion (1979) [Movie] TMDB

The Black Stallion

director: Carroll Ballard actor: Kelly Reno / Mickey Rooney …

other title: Black Stallion / Den sorte hingst …

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

Momo (1986) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB

Momo

director: Johannes Schaaf actor: Radost Bokel / Mario Adorf …

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Delusions of Grandeur (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData

La Folie des grandeurs

director: Gérard Oury actor: Louis de Funès / Yves Montand …

other title: Mania di grandezza / A Mania das Grandezas …

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Sick Love (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Malamore

director: Eriprando Visconti actor: Jimmy Briscoe / Nathalie Nell …

other title: Malamore

Marcello is a dwarf who is kept hidden by his family and falls in love with a prostitute from the local brothel. The prostitute's lover plots to kill the dwarf but she helps him to escape, though at a cost to her own well-being.