Irina (archive footage) (uncredited)
"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Herself
Franco Maresco celebrates the heritage of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 99th anniversary of his birth through a series of exchanges with renowned intellectuals which were involved or influenced by his works and ideas.
Self (archive footage)
A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of "Last Tango in Paris", Giacomo Marramao and Walter Siti dwell on the relationship with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesca Archibugi remembers a precious friend, Michelle Kokosowski and Jack Lang talk about the successful and mutual love for France, Piero Tosi and Paolo Poli remember her youth, Jacqueline Risset her private life, Valentino Parlato her civic passion, Renato Nicolini recaps her difficult relationship with institutions, Filippo Crivelli remembers the singer. Views that seek to reconstruct the figure of an exceptional artist, unusual and contradictory.
Self (archive footage)
Segundo o diretor, "uma hipótese de reconstrução" do filme original de Pasolini, incluindo trechos cortados em 1963.
Interviewee
Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.
Presidente del Tribunale
The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
Usuraia
Madre Superiora
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.
Period giallo about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.
Suora
Pavoncella
Director
Through interviews, archive footage and quotes from books and films by Pasolini, Laura Betti, friend, actress and collaborator of Pasolini, improvises as a director, making a feature film dreaming of Pier Paolo's words immersed in everything that has not involved him for a long time
Fernando's Mother
O verão chegou e a familia parte para as ferias. O calor do sol e o sal do mar criam o ambiente ideal para os amores passageiros. Anais e Elena são irmãs. Anais tem 12 anos e carrega em seu corpo o peso do mundo. Elena tem 15 e traz no corpo uma beleza diabolica. Os tres anos que as separam não as diferenciam. As duas desenvolveram uma apaixonante relação em que amor e odio se misturam como em um coquetel explosivo.
Herself
Giuseppa
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry his uncle Pietro, a disgusting old man, at age 13. She bears three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Dottoressa Trebbi
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
Beatrice
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
Laura
Mario and Maria Boschi, a 30-year-old couple with small children, are hit by a crisis: husband and wife cannot agree on a party name. A colleague, also named Mario, makes an impressive speech, and Maria find herself increasingly attracted to him. She feels able to relate to him like she could to her husband in the old days. They spend the night together, and she falls ill. When she is asked by her husband to leave the house, she realizes that there may be a difference between real love and a vague need for understanding.
Sister Valida
Aida
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Laura
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
Catherine de Medicis
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.
Olympia
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actress.
Milena
Ferruccio, who knows everything about camels, and Camillo, who acts as his manager, go to Milan to take part in a telequiz.
Lardy
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Keli
Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found again. As the ocean rejects a new corpse everyday, the mystery thickens and the list of potential suspects grows longer. This slows Molinat's progress as much as the cumbersome Leroyer, sent in to spy on him and hopefully impede his progress. The tension mounts and the ring involving the three young ladies in the grey mansion, the village idiot and the real estate agent starts spinning out of control.
Mademoiselle von Planta
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Jolanda
A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?
Lidia Corradi
Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
direttrice
A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him
Brunelda
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Clio
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...
Virginia Capacelli
Em 1791, durante a Revolução Francesa, uma carruagem tenta sair da França, levando passageiros que querem fugir da situação enquanto enfrentam seus dramas. Entre eles, um patriota americano, um escritor e o famoso conquistador Casanova.
Madame Hanska
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery.
Self
Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.
Self
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
La signora Bondi
The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is fond of music and mathematics, with whom he becomes close friends. Alfred goes to Switzerland, but one day he receives an anguished letter from the boy and rushes back to Florence where he learns some terrible news.
Calogera
Laura
American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
Madame Carrabo
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
Jacqueline
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
Irina
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
Felicia
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Regina
Uma retrospectiva histórica da Itália do início do século XX até o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial a partir das vidas de Olmo, filho bastardo de camponeses, e Alfredo, herdeiro de uma rica família de latifundiários. O pano de fundo é o intenso cenário político da época, com o fortalecimento do fascismo e, em oposição, as lutas trabalhistas ligadas ao socialismo.
Teresa
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and they organize a celebration which becomes a wild orgy and culminates in death and tragedy.
Elle-même
Director
Self
Léonore
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
Tisa Borghi
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
Esther Imbriani
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
Rosalia Scuderi
Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.
Clara
A man receives a telegram that his father is dying, and travels with his wife to his hometown. They discover that the telegram is untrue, and set out to find who sent the message and why.
Giovanna la Pazza
Duke Philippe married Cristina, daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that these after marriage they would miss out inheritance, decide to get rid of the woman by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.
Rita Zigai
1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a conservative newspaper, tries to derail the official police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his boss to win the elections.
The Wife from Bath
Segunda parte da Trilogia da Vida do aclamado diretor italiano Pier Paolo Pasolini, o longa é baseado nas obscenas histórias de Geoffrey Chaucer do século XIV. Mergulhando com prazer em alguns dos mais perversos e lascivos contos, Pasolini celebra de forma ardente quase toda forma imaginável de ato sexual com um humor rico, rude e visual mágico. Para completar, Pasolini faz uma representação de inferno que teria deixado Hieronymos Bosch orgulhoso.
Betty
Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.
Franco's Mother
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
Additional Writing
Vários assassinatos acontecem numa paradisíaca baía, começando pela condessa Donati, a proprietária do local. Jovens adolescentes com os hormônios em ebulição, moradores das redondezas e herdeiros daquela propriedade - todos parecem tornar-se vítimas de um assassino misterioso, embora a cada momento do filme mais de uma pessoa tenha motivos para matar seus semelhantes.
Anna Fossati
Vários assassinatos acontecem numa paradisíaca baía, começando pela condessa Donati, a proprietária do local. Jovens adolescentes com os hormônios em ebulição, moradores das redondezas e herdeiros daquela propriedade - todos parecem tornar-se vítimas de um assassino misterioso, embora a cada momento do filme mais de uma pessoa tenha motivos para matar seus semelhantes.
Sister
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
This lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable thread involves ventriloquist Ricky becoming a TV star, dressed up as a superhero with an “impish robot” dummy.
Writer
This lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable thread involves ventriloquist Ricky becoming a TV star, dressed up as a superhero with an “impish robot” dummy.
Screenplay
Dono de uma loja de vestidos de noivas mata suas vítimas para tentar entender fatos que ocorreram em sua infância e, assim, superar os traumas que o perseguem. Nesta criativa mistura de giallo e horror, este raro filme de Bava é um de seus trabalhos mais pessoais e com um apuro visual impressionante.
Mildred Harrington
Dono de uma loja de vestidos de noivas mata suas vítimas para tentar entender fatos que ocorreram em sua infância e, assim, superar os traumas que o perseguem. Nesta criativa mistura de giallo e horror, este raro filme de Bava é um de seus trabalhos mais pessoais e com um apuro visual impressionante.
In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
Paulina leaves the apartment where she lives with her two brothers, Nicolas and Olivier. Her departure is mark by chaotic and sometimes violent confrontations.
Donna
The tragic and self-destructive sexual battle between a man and his wife. A drama for the desperate struggle of those who are different against the normality that rejects the margins. The couple is preparing to consume a relationship of extreme sadomasochism. Recorded theatre production.
Emilia, the Servant
Em Milão a vida de uma rica família burguesa é totalmente modificada por um misterioso visitante, que seduz a empregada, o filho, a mãe, a filha e finalmente o pai. Além disto, tem um contato intelectual com todos eles, convencendo-os da futilidade da existência, e após cumprir seu objetivo parte em poucos dias. Após sua ida ninguém da família consegue continuar vivendo da mesma forma.
Desdemona
Seis curtas em que são apresentadas histórias interessantes, com críticas aos costumes da sociedade em diferentes aspectos. Abrangem, a literatura infantil, a cabeleira masculina, o trânsito, as visitas de soberanos às antigas colônias, a falsidade e o ciúme.
Desdemona
Em um teatro, diante de um público popular, é encenada uma versão cômica da tragédia "Otelo," de Shakespeare, em que atores reais fazem papel de marionetes. O invejoso Iago, alferes de Otelo, mente ao seu senhor. Diz que sua amada mulher, Desdêmona, o havia traído com Cássio, soldado de sua confiança. Otelo não se conforma e quer vingança. O público não aceita o final da história, invade o palco e reverte toda a situação.
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Édipo Rei começa em 1920 na Itália, relatando um nascimento, fruto de um caso entre uma burguesa e um oficial militar. O filme se desenvolve retratando o mito de Édipo sobre parricídio e incesto. O epílogo mostra Édipo tocando sua flauta na agitação urbana da Bolonha dos anos 60.
Male Tourist
Cinco histórias diferentes que tem como tema a mulher na sociedade.
un turista
Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife and mother by mushroom poisoning, are dedicated to find her replacement and have no luck until they find a mysterious deaf mute green-haired woman.
Self
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
Sonia, the 'Diva' (segment "La ricotta")
Quatro curtas-metragens de quatro diretores diferentes lidando com princípios da vida moderna.
Teresa
Sob a ocupação alemã, três militares de diferentes nacionalidades escapam de um campo nazista de extermínio em Roma e tentam chegar às linhas aliadas. Para isso, eles contam com o apoio de italianos que encontram pelo caminho.
The Painter
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.
Laura
Roma, início dos anos 60. O jornalista Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni em desempenho memorável) vive entre as celebridades, ricos e fotógrafos que lotam a badalada Via Veneto. Neste mundo marcado pelas aparências e por um vazio existencial, frequenta festas, conhece os tipos mais extravagantes e descobre um novo sentido para a vida.
