Claudio Gora

Fey super-thief Diabolik runs around stealing jewels, gold, murdering innocent people, and being a nuisance to the government of a generic European country. (imdb)

Reeves in this film is a roman solider working for Julius Ceasar and is put on a mission by Ceasar to find out how strong and how dangerous another roman ruler, Crassus is in another roman province. Casear is very concerned that Crassus will be a threat to his own empire and try to attempt a coup against Caesar. Reeves as Randus goes to spy on Crassus... (nndb.org)

The bordellos of Rome are closing down, and four working girls decide to plough their hard-earned cash into an out-of-town trattoria. They need the support of a shifty but powerful ex-client to get them started. The business takes off and they begin to believe they have a chance of a new kind of life, without having to sell their bodies. However, the shadow of their pasts is ever-present. (Channel4.com)

Silvio is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement against Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena. He spends three months hidden on Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. (Wikipedia)

When a crook gets framed as a drug kingpin, the mob decide to "off" his wife. Revenge is the name of the game, and the manhunt is on! (imdb)

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer of 1962. They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto's and Bruno's family. (imdb)

Spaghetti western about a group of bandits, led by Peter Graves, who plan on robbing a train transporting gold for the Mexican army. (imdb)

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets. (imdb)

One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the architect in the city is in the mafia.

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction. (imdb)

An old prince (Eduardo De Filippo) lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors; he proudly rejects a huge offer for the palace by a real estate group seeking a place to build a department store; but the prince suddenly dies (and joins the ghosts!) and his nephew (Marcello Mastroianni), just back from the States, sells the palace for a much lesser price. (imdb)

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world. (imdb)

The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective. Claudia Cardinale appears in one of her early screen roles as Fedora, a member of the elite and privileged in a provincial Italian town. The seedy underside of illicit affairs, quick flings, betrayals and deceptions, and other, similar pasttimes of the "in" circle slowly become apparent when a young outsider tries to gain acceptance into the exclusive group. (allmovie.com)

Trying to make a career into the Italian medical system, young doctor Guido Tersilli has sometimes to bend the rules of ethics.

Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous retribution in high places from those who in turn want her. From his prison window, Fabrice falls in love with the jailer's daughter who takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again if his escape succeeds. (imdb)

Roberto Razzi is the esteemed host of a tv show in which he exposes fake magicians and faith healers. After an accident during a travel in India, he discovers he's got what seem to be real special powers.

The story of this film is freely based on the Carlo Emilio Gadda's novel "Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana" ("Bad deal on Merulana street"). This Pietro Germi's movie represents the beginning of Italian Commedy, of which Germi will be one of the masters, certainly the most innovative. (imdb)

Rome, 1910. Checco Puricelli, the son of a carpenter, is called "Conte Tacchia" ("Count Wooden Wedge") because of his obsession with the aristocracy. He dresses fancy and tries to act as a nobleman with the help of the old Prince Torquato. One evening a young noblewoman begins to take interest in him, and Checco will soon find himself entangled in the treacherous world of the Roman aristocracy. (imdb)

After the 8th September 1943 (when the Fascist Government was deposed), an Italian officer, Pietro Innocenzi, gives up his uniform and makes his way from the North to his home in Naples. Here he is drawn back into combat, this time on the side of the partesans who liberate the city. (bfi)

Doctor Guido Tersilli, previously involved in a series of shady deals, becomes head of Villa Celeste, a luxurious clinic owned by his father-in-law. Driven by an excessive desire to make money, he provokes a revolt by his colleagues in the clinic. (wordlcat)

Comedy of provincial life under Mussolini at a time just before the Ethiopian war. (bfi)

A young swedish girl, married to an Italian musician who treats her as a mere erotic object, dreams of having a baby to overcome a sexual shock she had as a child. At the first signs of insanity, her husband hospitalizes her in a mental asylum, starting a new life with a lover! The horrible conditions and the cruelty in the clinic further worsen her imbalance... (movie-time)

Four episodes satirising the relationship of man and wife. (bfi)

Film commemorating Rossini, looking into his personality and aspects of his character ranging from a precarious childhood to his loves, humour, manic-depression, obssessions and his genius. (imdb)

Three episode film about the problems which face wives with their husbands. (bfi)

Two policeman make endless blunders and eventually end up in prison for having brought the force into disrepute. (bfi)

After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco's other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself. The girl's relatives hold Anna responsible for the death and are ready to lynch her until Davide intervenes and is able to save her. (imdb)

Based on the novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. An inspector investigates the death of a 50-year old architect, found dead in his office with his head smashed in. (bfi)

Drama: a young architect is temporarily imprisoned for his involvement in a car accident. He shares a cell with a homicidal maniac and other hardened criminals and learns some grim lessons about jail intrigues. One prisoner who might reveal incriminating evidence against highly placed person is done to death with the complicity of the guards. (bfi)

Italian action star Luc Merenda stars as Dario Mauri, a Milanese cop who is transferred to Naples. He immediately sets his sights on bringing down crime boss Laurenzi (Claudio Gora), with begrudging assistance from his wisecracking new partner, Capece (Enzo Cannavale). Laurenzi also has other problems to deal with: one of his drug shipments has been stolen and attempts to get it back reveal traitors in his midst. ~ Donald Guarisco, Rovi

1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela. (imdb)

In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength....

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved morals. (imdb)

A heavily fictionalized account of the life of the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791).

Fabio Bonetti has been married to Livia for almost 20 years. One day a private eye investigating on their neighbors, the Vitali family, by mistake starts filming and recording Livia's life. (imdb)

Several stories intertwine in St Moritz at Christmas.