Virna Lisi

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.

이태리 영화배우로 유명했던 사베리오 크리스포가 10년 전에 죽었다. 그의 네 명의 자식들은 서로 다른 부인들의 아이들이다. 그들이 한 자리에 모이게 되었다. 푸을리제라는 배우의 고향에서 서로 각기 다른 나라 출신인 자식들과 두명의 미망인이다. 아버지가 유명한 배우였다는 존재에 대해서 알지 못하고 게다가 4번째 자식은 친자확인결과를 기다리고 있다. 이들이 벌이는 해프닝이 가족과 사랑이라는 개념을 다시금 생각하게 한다. (2016년 제8회 이탈리아영화제)

No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective imagination of generations of Italians who grew up with his world of dreams and hopes. This documentary explores this love story.

Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. In jail meet three dams, Anna, Giulia and Elvira, who have been victims of Maresco. From this moment the four women join forces to find and kill the brawler.

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.

The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win her the hearts of her girl pupils. Vithold, a nice young doctor, is also fascinated by Rosanna and gradually manages to convince her of his deep feelings for her. Rosanna encounters rejection and hatred from Alberta, the Mother Superior, who has a deep belief in strict discipline and order, as well as from her close associate Sister Federica, who is severe to the point of inhumanity.

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

한때 작가이자, 제작자이자 감독이기도 했던 백 살이 다 되어가는 '시네마'씨는 영화의 박물관과도 같은 거대한 성에서 집사의 보살핌을 받으며 살고 있다. 그에게는 이탈리아 친구 마르셀로와 그에게 영화 이야기를 들려줄 수 있는 아름다운 여인이 함께한다. 그녀는 가끔 그를 찾아오는 여러 영화배우들을 보고 큰 만족을 얻는다. ‘시네마’씨에게 이제 나이는 중요하지 않다. 그는 인생의 황금기를 누리고 있기 때문이다. 프랑스와 할리우드의 전설의 배우들을 만날 수 있는 것은 영화의 백미.

1572년, 10년째 계속된 신교와 구교의 전쟁으로 피폐해진 프랑스. 평화를 위해 구교도인 ‘샤를 9세’의 동생 ‘마고’는 신교도인 나바르 왕 ‘앙리’와 결혼하게 된다. 평화와 화해의 상징이 되어야 했던 ‘마고’의 결혼식은 ‘샤를 9세’의 잘못된 판단으로 인해 프랑스 역사상 가장 잔인한 대학살로 이어진다. 대학살이 일어났던 그 날, ‘마고’는 길에서 우연히 마주쳤던 ‘라 몰’을 구해주고, 그와 운명적인 사랑에 빠진다. 구교도 세력과 왕실에 환멸은 느낀 ‘마고’는 남편 ‘앙리’를 도와 신교도 편에 서고, ‘마고’의 도움으로 프랑스를 탈출했던 ‘라 몰’은 ‘마고’와 ‘앙리’를 탈출시키기 위해 병력을 이끌고 다시 프랑스로 돌아오는데…

In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have had enough, and elope, finding contentment as lighthouse keepers off the coast of Sicily.

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys.

Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her father and hurts Mario's work which further infuriates his boss. Will love prevail?

In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.

A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.

An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.

Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. When the boy finds himself participating in an arranged marriage with the female twin of one of his male lovers, he finally makes the choice that will determine the direction of his subsequent sex life.

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.

Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.

Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.

Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him.

Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?

Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?

Forty-year-old Sandro (Marcello Mastroianni) is married to Claude (Virna Lisi). Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark (Timothy Dalton) enters their life. Written by Steven Dixon

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.

어머니가 돌아가신 후로, 10살 난 소년 파스칼(Pascal: 브룩 풀러 분)은 아버지, 로랑 세귀르(Laurent Segur: 윌리암 홀덴 분)와 함께 휴가를 보내기 위해 찾아온다. 어느 날, 파스칼은 코르시카 섬 해변 근처에서 낚시를 하는 동안 비행기 한 대가 바다로 추락하는 것을 목격하게 된다. 얼마의 시간이 지나지 않아 파스칼의 얼굴에 푸른 반점들이 나타나기 시작한다. 사실 추락한 비행기에는 핵무기가 실려있었고, 파스칼은 방사능에 노출된 것이었다. 아버지와 함께 병원을 찾은 파스칼은 6개월 이상 살 수 없다는 진단을 받는다. 로랑은 병든 아들, 파스칼의 마지막 나날들을 행복하게 만들어 주기 위해서라면 뭐든지 해주고 싶어한다. 로랑은 여자친구 카트린(Catherine: 비르나 리지 분), 전쟁 동료 베르뎅(Verdun: 앙드레 부르빌 분)과 함께 아들이 원하는 모든 걸 들어주려고 노력한다. 그는 아들에게 트랙터를 사주기도 하고, 베르뎅의 도움을 받아 파리 동물원에서 늑대를 훔치기도 한다. 그렇게 아버지와 아들은 함께 할 수 있도록 허락된 만큼의 시간을 즐겁게 보내려고 애쓰는데.

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.

2차 세계 대전에서 패한 이탈리아 군대가 와인의 맛이 좋기로 유명한 이탈리아 북부의 산타 비토리아에 백만병의 와인을 내놓을 것을 요구한다. 화가 난 마을 사람들은 이탈로 봄볼리니에게 도움을 청한다. 봄볼리나와 마을 사람들은 힘을 모아 와인을 모두 숨기고, 마을에 도착한 군인들은 남아 있는 와인이 하나도 없다는 것을 알게 된다.

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.

A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly.

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

루마니아의 산골 폰타나의 농부 요한(안소니 퀸)은 아내 스잔나(버나 리지)의 미모를 탐낸 경찰서장 도브레스코(그레고이리 아스란)의 계략으로, 유태인이라고 상부에 거짓 보고되어 강제 노동에 보내진다. 스잔나는 서장의 꼬임에 넘어가 남편과의 이혼서에 강제 서명을 한다. 수용소를 탈출한 요한은, 스파이 혐의로 검거되어 독일로 끌려가 강제 노동을 하게 된다. 그러나, 독일 친위대 대령에게 아리안족의 순혈통을 가진 영웅의 일원으로 인정받아, 수용소장에 임명되는데...

During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

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.

Italian comedy film in three segments

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.

In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.

1789년 대혁명이 일어나기 직전인 6월, 프랑스의 한 작은 도시에는 마스크를 쓴 채 귀족들의 재산을 강탈하는, 정체를 알 수 없는 '검은 튤립'이라는 의적이 있다. 경찰의 책임자는 젊고 매력적인 귀족, 기욤 백작이 '검은 튤립'이라고 확신하고 있다. 그 사실을 증명하기 위해 그는 '검은 튤립'이 강도 행각을 벌이는 현장에서 그의 왼쪽 뺨에 검으로 상처를 입힌다. 기욤은 얼굴의 상처로 인해 사람들 앞에 모습을 드러내지 못하게 되자, 자신과 똑같이 생긴 동생 쥘리앙을 불러 당분간 자신의 역할을 해달라고 부탁한다. 기욤과 마찬가지로 귀족이 아닌 평민들을 지지했던 쥘리앙은 형이 '검은 튤립'이라는 사실에 자랑스러워하며 기꺼이 그 부탁을 들어준다. 쥘리앙은 혁명을 방해하는 귀족 세력에 맞서, 우연히 알게된 카롤린과 다리를 폭파하고 왕자를 납치하지만, 체포되어 사형선고를 받고 감옥에 갇힌다. 이 사실을 알게 된 기욤은 쥘리앙을 탈출시키고, 그 과정에서 총상을 당해 잡히게 되어 쥘리앙 대신 교수형을 당하게 된다. '검은 튤립'의 죽음에 기뻐하던 귀족들은 파리에서 바스티유감옥이 점령되었다는 것과 혁명이 일어났다는 것을 알게 된다. 그리고 그 순간 쥘리앙이 나타나 '검은 튤립'이라고 자처하고 그 도시의 감옥에 갇혀 있던 죄수들도 풀어준다.

A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.

Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.

A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.

A young man leaves the countryside and falls for the owner of a nightclub.

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?