Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

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7 Beauties: The Films of Lina Wertmüller

World Cinema

Kino Lorber is proud to bring to U.S. theaters this touring series featuring restorations of seven films by the first woman every nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, plus Valerio Ruiz's definitive documentary on the Italian master, Behind the White Glasses.

All Screwed Up

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · World Cinema

An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, ALL SCREWED UP is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and Anarchy (1973) and Swept Away (1974).

Behind the White Glasses

Documentary

Behind the White Glasses offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for her masterpiece Seven Beauties.The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when…

Below Sea Level

Documentary

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. Rosi spent five years shooting BELOW SEA LEVEL, which documents the hand-to-…

Bloom Up

Documentary · World Cinema

Pet shop owners by day and swingers by night, Italian couple Hermes and Betta grant filmmaker Mauro Russo total access to their lives, resulting in an honest and sex positive look at the swinger lifestyle that is fascinating and sensual without ever feeling vulgar or exploitative.

The Boss

Crime · Thriller · Historic Drama

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.

Cabiria

Silent · World Cinema

Set amidst the splendor of ancient Rome, this film quickly became the most spectacular of the italian cinema's epic, historical genre. Restored using newly mastered materials, variable speed projection and a thrilling piano score.

Caesar Must Die

Drama · World Cinema

The captivating new drama from legendary Italian auteurs Paolo & Vittorio Taviani follows real-life prison inmates as they rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's classic story of honour and power, Julius Caesar.

Caliber 9

Thriller · World Cinema

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

Based on Literature · Drama · 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

Drama · World Cinema

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…

Diabolik

Mystery · Crime · Action & Adventure

In 1960s Clerville, master thief Diabolik sets his sights on heiress Eva Kant’s pink diamond in this stylish adaptation of the Italian comic series.

The Diabolik Trilogy

Mystery · Crime · Action

Based on the iconic Italian comic book series, this new trilogy of Diabolik feature films follows the master thief and his beautiful accomplice Eva Kant in a series of increasingly daring capers.

The Disappearance of My Mother

Documentary · Sundance Film Festival

An iconic fashion model who was a muse to Warhol and Dali and a radical feminist and teacher, Benedetta Barzini is fed up with all the roles life has imposed on her and wants nothing more than to disappear. But her filmmaker son wants to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, a…

Fernando Di Leo: The Italian Crime Collection Vol. 2

Crime · Action · World Cinema

Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy.Di Leo's films demonstr…

Filibus

Crime · Silent · Drama

Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus steals from the rich… before mysteriously vanishing into the clouds. But when famed a famed detective sets out to catch her, this cross-dressing master criminal has other plans. Newly remastered and restored by the Eye Filmmuseum.

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Horror · Cult

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia).

Hercules in the Haunted World

Horror · Cult

Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess.

Il Dono

Drama

In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village.

The Italian Connection

Crime · Thriller · Action

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 & Anarchy

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.

Love In The City

World Cinema

Six top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City).

Marriage Italian Style

Academy Award Nominees · Drama

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of…

Martin Eden

Period Drama · Based on Literature · Drama

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London and operating in the tradition of the great Italian classics, Martin Eden tells the story of a dashing young proletarian who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station in order to marry a bourgeois university student.

Mondocane

Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Action · Crime

Like Mad Max meets Lord of the Flies, Mondocane sees a pair of teenage orphans in a near-future, crimeridden town hatch a scheme to join one of its gangs.

Nightmare City

Thriller · Horror · World Cinema

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Open City

War · World Cinema

The downtrodden people of Rome battle poverty and fascism in this Neorealist classic starring Anna Magnani.

Le Quattro Volte

Spirituality · Avant Garde · Earth Day

Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of…

Sacro Gra

Documentary

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. SACRO GRA, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, is an enga…

The Seduction of Mimi

Comedy · Erotic · World Cinema

This raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away) is a blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, taking aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

Seven Beauties

Drama · Cannes Film Festival · War

COMING SOON IN A NEW 2K RESTORATION! Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while…

Slaughter Hotel

Thriller · Horror · World Cinema

From Fernando DiLeo, Klaus Kinski stars as a doctor whose mostly female patients are being brutally dispatched by a psychopath.

Story of a Love Affair

Film Noir · World Cinema

Story of a Love Affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that wo…

Summer Night

Comedy · World Cinema

NEW DCP COMING SOON! Mariangela Melato (Swept Away) stars as Signora Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological preservation. She is fed up with the terrorists who poach Italy's rich beauty, and as part of a crazy retaliation scheme she hires a former CIA agent to abduct the number one violat…

Swept Away

Cult · Drama · Romance

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.

Tommaso (Canada)

Drama

Willem Dafoe is an American artist living in Rome with his family, played by Abel Ferrara’s real-life wife and daughter. Their tumultuous relationship is set against his day to day life as a teacher, ex-pat, and recovering addict.

Werewolf Woman (La Lupa Mannara)

Cult · World Cinema

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…

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Drama · Academy Award Winners · World Cinema

A sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious. Acade…