Italian Underrated Masterpieces!
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- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino ManfrediMario AdorfValeria MoriconiAn inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsAntonio PetruzziStefano Satta FloresSergio FerraninoThe story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
- DirectorNino ManfrediStarsNino ManfrediDelia BoccardoPaola BorboniLittle Benedetto came out of an accident uninjured on his First Communion day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and make him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin, and grace.
- DirectorGiovanni FagoStarsTomas MilianUgo PagliaiEduardo FajardoEspidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As "Redeemer" Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel band. The discovery of oil twists everything.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsFranco NeroMiou-MiouMichele PlacidoThe young student Paolo Passeri is firmly anti-militarist but has to do his military service.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsPaolo VillaggioLila KedrovaEleonora GiorgiThe young noble Didino is a big baby and an introverted man who has trouble socializing because of his possessive mother. He is still treated at thirty years old as a kid and does not know what to do to overcome his shyness.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsGigi ProiettiIrene PapasTeresa Ann SavoyAn older man plans to marry a mentally-challenged, sex-crazed, adolescent girl.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsUgo TognazziFrancesca Romana ColuzziMilena VukoticEmerenziano, a middle-aged tax inspector, is in search of a wealthy wife. He travels to Italy where he meets three sisters, who, though wealthy, are not by any stretch of the imagination young or beautiful. He decides to marry one of them.
- DirectorVittorio SindoniStarsStefano Satta FloresMacha MérilLeopoldo TriesteIn "Hopelessly Yours", the son of a poor Sicilian tenant farmer who committed suicide due to a financial debt to a baron, 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian city after 15 years as a guest worker in Western Germany. He brings back to Sicily a Mercedes, 100 million Lire in his portfolio and the ambitious plan to gain the respect of the villagers through his financial success in Germany. This is not at all possible for him. Instead, the greedy Sicilians only get jealous. Some of them are plotting to grab his hard-earned assets. Immediately he is surrounded by the men and women of the Church and other institutions wanting him to become a "patron", and especially by women who quickly "fall in love" with him. The charming Baroness Valeria Lamìa is the first of these. They immediately become a couple, but surreptitiously, due to the Baroness's family circumstances. Carmelo wants to marry her. Despite the Baroness's charm, Carmelo is actually more interested in her daughter Jessica, with whom he falls in love as soon as he sees her in her youthful sports attire. Carmelo fantasizes more and more about Jessica. But the Baroness's plans to marry Carmelo are solely aimed at getting his money. Both Valeria's and Carmelo's plans are, however, thwarted. After several devastating blows due to the cunning and ruthless Valeria, Carmelo intends to take revenge upon his audacious enemies in a Sicilian way, but while he now must accept that he has failed in his endeavours, and that Jessica is "hopelessly his", he prompts for a more constructive solution by once again turning his back on his own greedy Sicilian people.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsSenta BergerVittorio CaprioliFranco FabriziThe classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable characters.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsFranco NeroMartin BalsamMarilù ToloIn a city rife with corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney as they attempt to nab an elusive Mafia boss.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanCatherine DeneuveDanilo MatteiBizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsUgo TognazziAnnie GirardotAchille MajeroniA modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaGiulio AndreottiThe movie on the career of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, from the debut until the death of both. It's composed of selected passages from movies and varieties, and interviews to directors (Mario Monicelli, Mariano Laurenti, Osvaldo Civirani, Lucio Fulci), actors (Lino Banfi, Lando Buzzanca, Pino Caruso), scriptwriters (Pipolo), singers (Mario Merola, Nino D'Angelo), and to the television presenter Pippo Baudo; beyond to the close relatives of Franco and Ciccio.
- DirectorCiccio IngrassiaStarsCiccio IngrassiaLino BanfiDidi PeregoA satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
- DirectorMarco VicarioStarsGiancarlo GianniniRossana PodestàGastone MoschinFrom his youth, Sicilian baron Paolo Castorini, is as attracted to women as they to him. However, he feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a serious thinker.
- DirectorFlavio MogheriniStarsRenato PozzettoJanet AgrenStefano Satta FloresThe Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his character.
- DirectorRiccardo PazzagliaStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaFiorenzo FiorentiniA man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiElena Sofia RicciAmanda SandrelliWhat would it have happened if...? Italian director Maurizio Nichetti replies to this question in this humorous film, where he plays six different roles who meet one another in a way or another during a night.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsStefania SandrelliKeir DulleaMicheline PresleA child suspected of killing his father is imprisoned in a mental hospital. A doctor finds him mentally healthy and begins to suspect another explanation.
- DirectorSergio SollimaStarsOliver ReedFabio TestiPaola PitagoraAn Italian prison warden is forced to exchange a French criminal for his kidnapped wife, but they soon find themselves on the trail of a larger conspiracy.
- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsMarina BertiJacques SernasMischa Auer Jr.Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in a refuge with some girls.