Set against the cold, industrial backdrop of factory life in Turin circa the late 1970s, Pasquale Squitieri's Savage Breed is an engaging slice of realist drama which certainly deserved a lot better. With its none too flattering imagery of the factories and factory life in general, the film was allegedly bought outright and taken out … Continue reading Savage Breed/Razza Selvaggia (1980)

An early historical drama about the life and times of Emperor Nero, one of Rome's most notorious emperors often credited with burning down half of the city and playing the violin as it turned to ash (neither of which are probably true). Beginning with his childhood years, we see Nero as a lover of the … Continue reading Nero and the Burning of Rome/Nerone e Messalina (1953)

On holiday on the island of Pantelleria, just off the Sicilian coast, Anna and Eva, two young women from Milan with a thing for reeling men in and then dumping them, decide to add Marco, a local youth, to their collection. The son of a widow - his father died a week after the wedding … Continue reading Thank You, Ladies P…/Grazie, Signore P… (1972)

A romantic drama about a German poet who wins a two-week stay in a luxury hotel. Enlisting her old flame from the previous summer she attempts to rekindle the inspiration to write more poetry... A very low-budget drama which no doubt passed in a flash at the cinemas. Like Later, Claire, Later... although this film … Continue reading Love or Something Like It/Amore o Qualchecosa del Genere (1968)

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Director Lino Ranieri appears to have briefly started out as an actor, with three roles to his credit in 1967, and then bowed out as quickly as he arrived with the rather bizarre 'The Angels From 2000', which he wrote, produced and directed. A very low-budget morality tale about the perils of drugs, filmed at … Continue reading The Angels From 2000/Gli Angeli del 2000 (1969)

WIP https://cinemaitalianodatabase.forumfree.it/?t=73919353 ''BLUE MOVIE'' SPOGLIANDOSI DISCUTONO ROMA - «E' un film volutamente pornografico ma con un suo contenuto politico. Un film sulla violenza come mezzo di comunicazione e conoscenza in una società repressiva». E' la catalogazione che Alberto Cavallone (noto per Le salamandre, Dal nostro inviato a Copenaghen, Afrika, Zelda, Spell, dolce mattatoio) dà di … Continue reading Blue Movie (1978)

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