FR #56 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | Italian, German
Director
Roberto Benigni
Writer
Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Cast
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Plot
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
FR #154 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, Spain | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonte
Plot
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to take down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery.
FR #329 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, French
Director
Sergio Leone
Writer
Harry Grey, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Cast
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth Mcgovern
Plot
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
FR #849 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Italy | Italian, Latin
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi DI Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
FR #854 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | Italian, Russian
Director
Charles Crichton, John Cleese
Writer
John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Cast
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Plot
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
FR #913 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, Japan | Italian, Japanese
Director
Elio Petri
Writer
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Cast
Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Plot
A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
FR #1300 | Movie | Crime, Thriller | USA, France | Italian, Mandarin
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Writer
George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell, Harry Brown
Cast
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon
Plot
Danny Ocean, a gangster, rounds up a gang of associates to stage a sophisticated and elaborate casino heist which involves robbing three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously during a popular boxing event.
FR #1411 | Movie | Comedy, Western | Italy, India | Italian, Hindi
Director
Enzo Barboni
Writer
Enzo Barboni, Gene Luotto
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Plot
A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
FR #1455 | Movie | Drama | Italy | Italian, Sicilian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Antonio Pietrangeli, Giovanni Verga, Luchino Visconti
Cast
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono
Plot
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
FR #1882 | TV | Animation, Comedy | Italy | Italian
Writer
Zerocalcare
Cast
Zerocalcare, Valerio Mastandrea, Adam Rhys Dee
Plot
A cartoonist in Rome with his armadillo-for-a-conscience reflects on his path in life and a would-be love as he and his friends travel outside the city.
FR #2257 | TV | Comedy, Action | USA, Italy | Italian, English
Writer
Chris Fedak, Josh Schwartz
Cast
Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez
Plot
When a computer geek inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, both the CIA and the NSA assign an agent to protect him and exploit his newfound skills.
FR #2384 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Ettore Scola
Writer
Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola
Cast
Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini
Plot
Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
FR #2385 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Spain, Italy | Italian
Director
Marcello Fondato
Writer
Marcello Fondato, Francesco Scardamaglia, Vicente Coello
Cast
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Sharp, Donald Pleasence
Plot
After a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
FR #2395 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, German
Cast
Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Roja, Marco Bocci
Plot
This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
FR #2415 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Comedy | USA | Italian, Greek
Director
Blake Edwards
Writer
Maurice Richlin, Blake Edwards
Cast
David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner
Plot
The bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink P...
FR #2601 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Michael Hordern
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
FR #2904 | TV | Crime, Action | Italy, Austria | Italian
Writer
Lucio Battistrada, Massimo De Rita
Cast
Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido
Plot
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
FR #3000 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, Neapolitan
Writer
Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, Roberto Saviano
Cast
Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito
Plot
Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.
FR #3097 | Movie | Western, Drama | Italy, France | Italian, English
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola
Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Plot
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
FR #3118 | Movie | Romance, Drama | UK, USA | Italian, Hindi
Director
James Ivory
Writer
E.M. Forster, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Cast
Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Judi Dench
Plot
Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
FR #3119 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | Italian, French
Director
Peter Yates
Writer
Steve Tesich
Cast
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern
Plot
A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.
FR #3314 | Movie | Action, Thriller | USA, UK | Italian, French
Director
Len Wiseman
Writer
John Carlin, Roderick Thorp, Mark Bomback
Cast
Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
Plot
John McClane is forced to team up with a young computer hacker, Matt Farrell, to stop a master cyber-terrorist called Thomas Gabriel, who wants to shut down the entire nations computer infrastructure in a mass cyber attack.
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
FR #3350 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Cast
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jurgens, Geoffrey Keen, Bernard Lee
Plot
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
FR #3374 | TV | Crime, Drama | Italy, Egypt | Italian, Sicilian
Cast
Luca Zingaretti, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo
Plot
Commissioner Montalbano works in Vigata, Montelusa province with Deputy Commissioner Augello and Inspector Fazio, in each episode Montalbano solves complicated cases with his characteristic cunning in a rural Sicily ruled by the m...
FR #3376 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, Germany | Italian, English
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Fredric Brown
Cast
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf
Plot
An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
FR #3437 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Giovanni Pastrone
Writer
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Titus Livius, Giovanni Pastrone
Cast
Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Plot
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
FR #3438 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro
Writer
Dante Alighieri
Cast
Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe De Liguoro
Plot
1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Vir...
Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, Christian Borromeo
Plot
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
FR #3621 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Italy, France | Italian, Latin
Director
Mario Monicelli
Writer
Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Cast
Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Plot
A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
FR #3833 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Italy, France | Italian
Director
Matteo Garrone
Writer
Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso
Cast
Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano
Plot
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
FR #3860 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Italy, UK | Italian, English
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Writer
Daphne Du Maurier, Allan Scott, Chris Bryant
Cast
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Plot
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
FR #3880 | Movie | Crime, Horror | Italy | Italian, German
Director
Dario Argento
Writer
Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Cast
Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
Plot
A young opera singer on the cusp of stardom is hounded by a psychopath with a connection to her past, who forces her to watch as he brutally murders her friends and colleagues.
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.
FR #4162 | Movie | Comedy, Western | Italy, Spain | Italian, Spanish
Director
Sergio Corbucci
Writer
Franco Solinas, Giorgio Arlorio, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast
Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Franco Giacobini
Plot
A greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.
