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Black Sunday (1960 film)
''Black Sunday'' is a 1960 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava, from a screenplay by Ennio De Concini and Mario Serandrei, based very loosely on Nikolai Gogol’s short story "Viy". The film stars Barbara Steele, John Richardson, and Ivo Garrani. It was Bava's directorial debut, although he had helped direct several previous feature films without credit. The movie was considered unusually gruesome by early 1960s standards and was banned in the UK until 1968 due to its violent... More »
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
''Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'' is a 1975 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the book ''The 120 Days of Sodom'' by the Marquis de Sade. More »
The Godfather Part II
''The Godfather Part II'' is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to ''The Godfather'', chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the rise to power of the young Vito Corleone. Unusually for a sequel, ''The Godfather Part II'' is a film of very high quality, sometimes considered as good as or better than the original. More »
Zombi 2
The best-known of Lucio Fulci's films, ''Zombi 2'' sparked an obsession with zombie films across Europe and made Fulci a horror icon. Upon its release in 1979, the film was ridiculed for having no connection to the original ''Zombi'' and was scorned for its extremely bloody content, yet the film was a tremendous success. More »
Il Postino
''Il Postino'' is a 1994 Italian language film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as ''The Postman'', a straight translation of the Italian title. However, since the release of Kevin Costner's film of the same name, the film has been released on DVD as ''Il Postino: The Postman''. The film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a relationship with a simple postman who learns to love poetry. More »
Amici miei
''Amici miei'' is a 1975 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. The film was followed by two sequels, ''Amici miei Atto II'' and ''Amici miei Atto III'' , the latter directed by Nanni Loy. More »
Compañeros
''Compañeros'' is an Italian Zapata-themed spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Corbucci in 1970. The film stars Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance and Fernando Rey. The soundtrack for the film was written by Ennio Morricone, and the orchestra was conducted by Bruno Nicolai. Compañeros is one of Corbucci's best-known westerns, as well as one of the best-known spaghetti westerns altogether. The film has been compared to ''Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo'' , as it intertwines the... More »
Deep Red
''Profondo Rosso'' is a 1975 giallo thriller film directed by Dario Argento and starring David Hemmings. It is widely regarded as the best giallo ever made, as well as the best film of Argento's distinguished career . More »
Rome, Open City
''Rome, Open City'' is a 1945 Italian film, directed by Roberto Rossellini. The picture stars Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, and others. The film is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. More »
Blood and Black Lace
''Blood and Black Lace'' is a 1964 Italian horror thriller film directed by Mario Bava. Bava cowrote the screenplay with Giusseppe Barilla and Marcello Fondato. The film stars Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok. The story focuses on the stalking and brutal murders of various scantily-clad fashion models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate attempt to obtain a scandal-revealing diary. The film is generally considered one of the earliest and most influential of all ''giallos'',... More »
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