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In a remote island prison, female inmates face the brutal realities of drug addiction, forced prostitution, and widespread cruelty. When they try to break free, they find that the perils…

Set against the backdrop of the American frontier, this classic Western film weaves a tale of revenge, greed, and redemption. The story follows a mysterious harmonica-playing gunslinger, played by Charles…

Set against the stark, snow-covered landscapes of Utah, this 1968 Spaghetti Western follows a mute gunslinger named Silence, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, as he confronts a group of ruthless bounty…

A surge of fake currency has inundated the international market, causing concern among governments worldwide. Jeff, an energetic young reporter, is tasked by his newspaper’s editor to delve into an…

In this 1967 French neo-noir film, the story follows Jef Costello, a meticulous and enigmatic hitman who becomes entangled in a web of deception after a carefully planned assassination. As…

In this 1967 film, a young and beautiful housewife, played by Catherine Deneuve, leads a double life as a high-class escort while her husband is at work. The narrative explores…

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.

Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this iconic spaghetti western follows the intersecting paths of three gunslingers, each driven by their own motives to find a hidden…

Set against the backdrop of the Algerian War of Independence, this gripping film meticulously chronicles the intense urban warfare between Algerian insurgents and French colonial forces. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo,…

In this classic Spaghetti Western, a mysterious gunslinger, played by Franco Nero, arrives in a desolate town caught in the crossfire between two warring factions. As he drags a coffin…

An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town’s husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.

Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of ”El Indio,” one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.

A young officer in the navy turns to piracy in order to earn the wealth needed to wed a beautiful woman. Along his journey, he battles against injustice and societal…

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this 1965 film offers a stark and realistic portrayal of the life of Jesus Christ, drawing directly from the Gospel of Matthew. The film is…

A playful Italian comedy presented in four separate segments.

Set in Singapore, the film follows the tale of Sandokan, a Malaysian insurgent. Alongside a band of outlaws, he challenges a British General who is attempting to compel the King…

In this iconic Spaghetti Western, a mysterious drifter, played by Clint Eastwood, arrives in a small town torn apart by a power struggle between two rival families. With his cunning…

Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it,…

Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella, two impoverished peasants deeply in love, find their romance thwarted by the malevolent Don Rodrigo, who harbors a secret affection for Lucia. Forced to flee…

This European-produced Western, inspired by Friedrich Gerstäcker’s novel, unfolds in a 19th-century town along the Mississippi River. The region is terrorized by a band of pirates led by the notorious…

As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family’s accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Federico Fellini’s 1963 film is a masterful exploration of a director’s creative and personal crisis, blending reality and fantasy in a visually stunning narrative. The story follows Guido Anselmi, a…

In this 1962 film adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novel, a man named Josef K. finds himself inexplicably arrested and entangled in a bewildering legal system. As he navigates the surreal…

Set in the vibrant streets of Paris, this 1962 film follows a young singer named Cléo as she anxiously awaits the results of a medical test that could change her…

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

Set against the backdrop of the 17th century, this swashbuckling adventure follows the journey of a Welsh buccaneer who rises from slavery to become one of the most feared pirates…

Directed by Luchino Visconti, this Italian classic follows the Parondi family as they move from rural southern Italy to the bustling city of Milan in search of a better life….

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, this 1960 film is a masterful exploration of existential themes and human relationships. The story follows a group of wealthy friends on a yachting trip to…

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch’s beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl’s brother…

In 16th century Italy, along the Adriatic shoreline, the duchy of Doruzza is under the oppressive rule of the despotic Duke Zulian and his arrogant daughter, Isabella. After they perpetrate…

In this gripping French film directed by Jacques Becker, a group of inmates at a Parisian prison meticulously plan an escape, showcasing the tension and camaraderie that develops among them….

Episodic journey of an Italian journalist scouring Rome in search of love.

Judah Ben-Hur, a Palestinian Jew, is battling the Roman empire at the time of Christ. His actions send him and his family into slavery, but an inspirational encounter with Jesus…

Set against the backdrop of World War I, this Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli follows the lives of two reluctant soldiers, played by Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi, as…

When a vessel transporting the governor of Rhodes’ daughter and confidential papers is seized by the Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor assigns Captain Diego the mission of retrieving them before…

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Seetha and Harold Berger are saved from the desert by a caravan and taken to a small village. Unfortunately, the avaricious owner of their lodging breaks the hospitality code by…

Directed by Federico Fellini, this 1957 classic follows the life of Cabiria, a resilient and optimistic woman navigating the challenges of life in Rome. Played by the talented Giulietta Masina,…

In North Africa, a distressed husband challenges the integrity of the physician he holds accountable for his wife’s demise.

The Silent World (French: Le Monde du silence) is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Its title derives from Cousteau’s 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure. The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso. Cousteau and his team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the…

In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.

The film is the third in director Castellani’s “young love” trilogy (the first two being Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and È primavera…(1950)). The story concerns the romance between Carmela (Fiore) and Antonio (Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart’s desire. Once he’s “hooked,” Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

A buccaneer attempts to rally his crew to seek revenge on a dishonest governor.

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Set in post-World War II Rome, this poignant film follows the struggles of Antonio Ricci, a desperate father who finally secures a job that requires a bicycle, only to have…

ROME, OPEN CITY is a landmark in film history. Filmed in secrecy during the Nazi occupation of Italy, the film shows a realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with its mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.

The romance between Renzo and Lucia faces a threat from Don Rodrigo, a malevolent aristocrat who desires Lucia for himself. After she rejects his advances, he arranges for her abduction…

A woman starts to believe that her husband, notorious for murdering his spouses, plans to make her his next target.

Based on Alessandro Manzoni’s renowned historical novel, this film is set in Lombardy, Northern Italy, between 1628 and 1630, during the period of Spanish rule. It tells the story of…