Liliana Cavani

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel... (imdb)

Tom Ripley persuades a man to commit a murder for a large sum of money. The situation goes out of control, and that man must escape trouble. (imdb)

Based on the book by Curzio Malaparte, the film is a collection of bitter memories about the Allied liberation of Naples. (umuc.edu)

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands of the family of Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253), who becomes St. Clare. (imdb)

This story of youthful rebellion is taken from the ancient Greek classic "Antigone." The setting is modern times and Britt Eklund plays Antigone in a fictitious land where reality is suspended. Haimon (Tomas Milian) goes against the wishes of his father and the prime minister by wanting to become an animal. Tiresias (Pierre Clementi) plays a Christ-like figure.

Exotic Morocco is the background for this psychological thriller. Marcello Mastroianni plays an ex-diplomat in jail for the murder of his wife. He is soon visited by a young woman who not only happens to be his lover but his step-daughter as well. In turn, she meets an American engineer (Beringer) and ultimately falls in love with him. A bizarre erotic triangle forms as the tale of strange bedfellows comes to a shocking climax.

Film focuses on love triangle between Nietzsche, his friend Paul Ree and Lou Salome.

The biography of one of most influential Italian politicians, through the dramatic years of fascism, WWII and country economic and social rebuilding. First victim of political persecution, at end premier during the transition from monarchy to republic, De Gasperi was one of the writers of the Italian Constitution, and a thinker capable to invoke an European union when the ruins of war were still burning. (imdb)

A look at Galileo Galilei's discovery that the Earth revolves around the sun, with a focus on the clergy of the Catholic Church and on Galileo's heresy trial. (anonymous)

Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. (imdb)

Documentary featuring interviews with female partisans who participated in the resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy in the 1940's.

The life of Saint Francis of Assisi retold from the sixties political radical point of view (imdb)

Fausto's mother refuses to accept the fact that her child is deaf, and refuses to send him to a special school where he can learn sign language. His aunt, though, teaches him to communicate and helps him find a place among a group of deaf-mutes. He meets and falls in love with Elena, leaving the "official" girlfriend picked by his mother, and the two plan to go to Washington to study at a special university for deaf-mutes. (L.H. Wong)

A group of friends meet up every year at a villa for a birthday party. This year, they discover there may be only a few hours left before the end of the world. (imdb)

Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz): youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of the historical nucleus of Fraternitas and the departure for the Holy Land up to the writing of rules and death, addressing the problem of the legacy of his message in the different interpretation that Chiara (Sara Serraiocco) and Elia (Vinicio Marchioni) will give it. (imdb)