Movie List for "italy"

State of Siege (1972) Crime Drama Mystery Movie

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas. Year 1972.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Franco Solinas, Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse

The Restless and the Damned (1959) Drama Movie

Set in French Polynesia, a man trades his old life for one in the Pacific. Year 1959.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yves Allégret
Writer: Joy Cavill, W.P. Lipscomb, François Ponthier
Actors: Edmond O’Brien, Richard Basehart, Andréa Parisy

Girl’s Apartment (1963) Comedy Crime Romance Movie

A charming gold smuggler tries to recruit equally charming air hostesses to transport gold bars to Bombay. Year 1963.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Director: Michel Deville
Writer: Jacques Robert, Michel Deville, Nina Companeez
Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert

La meilleure part (1955) Drama Movie

Philippe Morin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteri… Year 1955.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yves Allégret
Writer: Yves Allégret, Jacques Sigurd, Philippe St-Gil
Actors: Gérard Philipe, Michèle Cordoue, Umberto Spadaro

Victory (1981) Drama Sport War Movie

As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team’s escape. Year 1981.

Generes: Drama, Sport, War
Director: John Huston
Writer: Yabo Yablonsky, Djordje Milicevic, Jeff Maguire
Actors: Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Pelé

Escape to Nowhere (1973) Drama Thriller Movie

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to be… Year 1973.

Generes: Drama, Thriller
Director: Claude Pinoteau
Writer: Jean-Loup Dabadie, Claude Pinoteau, Francis Ryck
Actors: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon

Le Vent d’Est (1970) Drama Movie

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary. Year 1970.

Generes: Drama
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Writer: Sergio Bazzini, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan

Love at Twenty (1962) Drama Romance Movie

“Love at Twenty” unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cart… Year 1962.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini
Writer: Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini
Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay

Partner (1968) Drama Movie

Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski’s 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present. Year 1968.

Generes: Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) Biography Comedy History Movie

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and–most of all–the omnipresence o… Year 1969.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, History
Director: Luigi Comencini
Writer: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Luigi Comencini, Giacomo Casanova
Actors: Leonard Whiting, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lionel Stander

Hearth Fires (1972) Drama Movie

Alexandre Boursault, solicitor in the provinces, would have been the happiest of men if his wife had not openly displayed her political ideas and participated in all sorts of demonstrations. Year 1972.

Generes: Drama
Director: Serge Korber
Writer: Serge Korber, Catherine Paysan, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Actors: Annie Girardot, Jean Rochefort, Claude Jade

Orlando (1992) Biography Drama Fantasy Movie

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world. Year 1992.

Generes: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Sally Potter
Writer: Virginia Woolf, Walter Donohue, Sally Potter
Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp

Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Comedy Drama Movie

An examination of the possible consequences of a certain event. Year 1993.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Alain Resnais
Writer: Alan Ayckbourn, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Dutter
Actors: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi, Peter Hudson

Madame (1961) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon’s army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon’s victory, so that after the war the grateful Empero… Year 1961.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Christian-Jaque
Writer: Christian-Jaque, Ennio De Concini, José Luis Dibildos
Actors: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Renaud Mary