Franco Mannino

Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.

Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked by grand tragedy, but whose heart is simple and uncomplicated enough not only to endure, but even to attain serenity in the face of her manifold frustrations. Her only friend, to whom she pours out all her troubles, is an old parrot. When the parrot dies, she reverently has it stuffed and continues telling it her woes. This drama is based on a story by Gustave Flaubert.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Um professor aposentado de origem americana vive uma vida solitária em um luxuoso palácio em Roma. Ele é confrontado por uma vulgar marquesa italiana e seu amante, por sua filha e pelo namorado de sua filha, e forçado a alugar para eles um apartamento no andar superior de seu palácio. Desse ponto em diante, sua rotina tranquila é transformada em caos pelas maquinações de seus inquilinos, e a vida de todos sofre uma reviravolta inesperada, mas inevitável.

Um professor aposentado de origem americana vive uma vida solitária em um luxuoso palácio em Roma. Ele é confrontado por uma vulgar marquesa italiana e seu amante, por sua filha e pelo namorado de sua filha, e forçado a alugar para eles um apartamento no andar superior de seu palácio. Desse ponto em diante, sua rotina tranquila é transformada em caos pelas maquinações de seus inquilinos, e a vida de todos sofre uma reviravolta inesperada, mas inevitável.

Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.

Este filme retrata a conturbada histórica de vida de Ludwig, rei da Baviera, desde sua coroação em 1864 até sua morte em 1886 como um herói romântico. Fã de Richard Wagner, traído por ele, apaixonado por sua prima Elisabeth da Áustria, abandonada por ela, ele experimentou uma sucessão de derrotas pessoais. E, além disso, foi atormentado por sua homossexualidade e pouco a pouco foi aceitando a loucura.

Início do século XX. Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) é um compositor austríaco que vai para Veneza buscando repouso, após um período de estresse artístico e pessoal. Porém ele não encontra a paz desejada, pois logo desenvolve uma paixão por um jovem, Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), que está em férias com sua família. Tadzio incorpora o ideal de beleza que von Aschenbach sempre imaginou e pensa em ir embora antes de cometer um ato impensado, mas sua bagagem foi para outra cidade, obrigando-o a permanecer ali. Além disto a cólera asiática começa a chegar em Veneza.

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.

Peplum movie from 1964.

A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.

Hercules battles an evil sorceress who turns men into werewolves. The mythic duo returns in Prisoner of Evil, where a sorceress seduces Herc and transforms him into a mindless beast. Italian horror master Antonio Margheriti directed this installment of the Hercules legend, a blend of sword-and-sandal fantasy and horror.

Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.

In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him.

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.

Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation.

A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.

An Italian drama based on the play by Luigi Pirandello.

While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.

A caminho da África estão um grupo de patifes, que esperam ficar ricos lá, e um aparentemente inocente casal britânico. Eles se encontram e as coisas acontecem .... Um quarteto de bandidos internacionais - Peterson, O'Hara, Ross e Ravello - está encalhado na Itália enquanto seu navio está sendo reparado. Com eles também estão os Dannreuthers. Os seis estão indo para a África, presumivelmente para vender aspiradores de pó, mas na verdade vão para comprar terra supostamente rica com urânio. Eles são acompanhados por outros que aparentemente têm objetivos semelhantes.

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.

The ever-growing popularity of Gina Lollobrigida was a decided box-office asset when the Italian La Provinciale was distributed to the U.S. as The Wayward Wife. Lollobrigida acquits herself quite nicely in the tensely dramatic role of a much-put-upon small-town girl named Cemma. Seduced by a lad who turns out to be a relative, Cemma is tossed out of her home. Seeking security, she impulsively marries bookish science professor Franco Vagnuzzi (Gabriele Ferzetti). Bored by her marriage, Cemma doesn't realize the true value of her loving husband until it's almost too late. The original 118-minute run time was reduced for U.S. release.

Madalena tenta transformar a filha Maria em uma estrela de cinema. Quando surge uma audição para um filme importante, ela acha que encontrou a oportunidade perfeita, mas acaba lidando com a desilusão.

A doctor saves a woman who was planning to commit suicide and takes her with him during his night shift.

A doctor saves a woman who was planning to commit suicide and takes her with him during his night shift.

Short film by Mario Bava.