The Boss
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film-the final part of his Milieu Trilogy-is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld.
Caliber 9
In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has …
The Conformist
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
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…
The Italian Connection
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft.
Love In The City
Six top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City).
The Mystery of Picasso
Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and painter Pablo Picasso used experimental and innovative techniques to create an entirely new kind of art documentary — one that is both joyous and suspenseful.
Slaughter Hotel
From Fernando DiLeo, Klaus Kinski stars as a doctor whose mostly female patients are being brutally dispatched by a psychopath.
Swept Away
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.
Werewolf Woman (La Lupa Mannara)
Daniela, a woman troubled from a childhood trauma, begins to have delusions that she is a werewolf. She spends her nights seducing and killing men, until she meets a kind man named Luca, who she falls in love with. Her happiness is short-lived when she is raped and Luca is killed, reverting her back…