Drama

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Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends

World Cinema · Drama · Comedy

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian Cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her Friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome.

The Conformist

The Conformist

Based on Literature · RT Certified Fresh · Historic Drama

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

World Cinema · Drama

This new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s personal and provocative chamber study starring Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Helmut Berger explores themes of class, sex, art, and fascism and preserves Visconti’s precise chromatic design, elegant interior compositions, and sonic detail…

Crime of Love

Crime of Love

World Cinema · Drama

A forgotten classic, Crime of Love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the north and the south may have the same political ideas, but when they go home t…

Il Generale Della Rovere

Il Generale Della Rovere

Based on True Story · War · World Cinema

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The Bicycle Thief), IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italian…

The Golden Coach

The Golden Coach

Drama · Comedy

Renoir's gorgeous fantasy about a Commedia Dell'Arte troupe in 18th century South America explores Renoir's love of the theater and acting. Anna Magnani stars as a troupe member torn between three admirers, as captured in lush color photography by Renoir's nephew Claude.

Hitch Hike

Hitch Hike

World Cinema · Drama

While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar franco Nero of Django) and his beautiful wife (Corinne Clery, the Story of O and Moonraker) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of Last House on the Left infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath,…

Honey (Miele di donna)

Honey (Miele di donna)

Drama

The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s a special kind of hotel that serves more than breakfast.

I Cannibali

I Cannibali

World Cinema · Drama

I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian), is a modern reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, made during the protest years of 1967-69. A film that stands out for its visionary intelligence, in the context…

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Thriller · World Cinema · Drama

After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot.

Maladonna and Malombra

Maladonna and Malombra

Drama · Cult

In 1984 Bruno Gaburro directed two provocatively erotic dramas both starring Eurosleaze favorite Paola Senatore (Emmanuelle in America, Salon Kitty).

Many Wars Ago

Many Wars Ago

Period Drama · World Cinema · Drama

In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy.

Napoli Napoli Napoli

Napoli Napoli Napoli

World Cinema · Drama · Documentary

With his crooked face and rough demeanor Abel Ferrara looks and acts like he could have been born in Naples, Italy, the subject and location of his raw and “hyperreality” film Naples Naples Naples. Inspired by real events, this docudrama, narrated by the director, depicts a young woman m…

One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

Crime · World Cinema · Drama

The shocking story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who vocally opposed the mafia in the 1970s and paid a brutal price.

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

World Cinema · Drama

This box-set presents 38 remarkable films made by Paolo Gioli between 1969 and 2013, expressing his playfully deconstructive attitude towards motion picture technology, as seen in his early hand-painted films, his unusual manipulations of camera mechanisms and optics, and his unique interest in home…

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Thriller · Horror · Drama

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Riot in a Women's Prison

Riot in a Women's Prison

Crime · Drama

Young French tourist gets falsely accused of drug possession while on vacation in Italy. She finds herself incarcerated at a hellish women’s penitentiary where the inmates are subjected to mental and physical torture by the staff and fellow felons alike.

Seduction

Seduction

World Cinema · Drama

Maurice Ronet (Purple Noon) stars as Giuseppe Lagana, a European playboy who returns to his home in the Sicilian town of Catania to settle his deceased father’s affairs. He reunites with an old friend, Caterina (Lisa Gastoni), and a mid-life romance is kindled from the sparks of their youthful…

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious…

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious…

Thriller · Drama · Mystery

Blonde teenager Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

World Cinema · Drama

In WWII, Lieut. Martino is tasked with delivering twelve prostitutes to various military outposts across the Axis territory, to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Steam - The Turkish Bath

Steam - The Turkish Bath

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Drama

Tired of his troubled marriage, an Italian businessman's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul. Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) arrives to the Turkish city hoping that he can take care of the matter swiftly and return to Italy. He is surprised to dis…

Swept Away

Swept Away

Comedy · 4K UHD DISC · Cannes Film Festival

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is the most famous and controversial film about sex, love, and politics from influential Italian director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Director.

To Be Twenty

To Be Twenty

Erotic · World Cinema · Drama

Twenty, beautiful, sexy and liberated, and fed up with their provincial lives, Lia and Tina decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love... or so they think.

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

Drama

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome.

Waves of Lust

Waves of Lust

Thriller · Drama

Two carefree youngsters are invited for a weekend cruise on a yacht owned by a ruthless and cynical industrialist.

Young, Violent, Dangerous

Young, Violent, Dangerous

Thriller · World Cinema · Drama

Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three in…