Lou Castel

Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer in Hamburg is diagnosed as having leukemia. Ripley, an American art dealer who deals in forgeries... (imdb)

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation (imdb)

Tiresia is at the same time woman and man, according to Greek Mythology. Here, Tiresia is a Brazilian transexual living with her brother in the outskirts of Paris. Terranova, an admirer of aesthetics, is a dreamer. His obsession with Tiresia leads him to kidnapping her. (imdb)

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions. (imdb)

A gang of criminals, headed by the gang's mastermind, his hot girlfriend and their companion, rob a coach and get away with the government money. They hide out in a ghost town to sit out whatever might happen to them. But things are eating away their loyalty. (spaghetti-western.net)

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government (imdb)

A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences. (imdb)

Paris today. Simon works as psychologist in human resources department of petrochemical corporation. When Management gets him to investigate one of the factory's executives, Simon'perception goes disturbingly chaotic and cloudy. The experience affects his body, his mind, his personal life and his sensibility. The calm assurance that made him such a rigorous technician starts to falter. (imdb)

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband... (imdb)

A rich and lonely American widow befriends two young people whose motives become suspect. (imdb)

French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict. (imdb)

Using extended, extreme close-ups that visually isolate the characters from their environment and also serve to reinforce their intimate, yet emotionally dissociated encounters, the film illustrates the ambiguous and indeterminate structure of Paul and Markus' lives as they struggle to reconcile with an idle intellectualism that has replaced their once determined, youthful idealism. (Acquarello - Strictly Film School)

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her. (imdb)

Short experimental film

"Faccia di spia" focuses on events surrounding the C.I.A.

This post-"Exorcist" and "Omen" possession film is quite odd. It has some typical Giallo elements and until the second half of the movie, it is left unclear whether there is something supernatural going on or not.

The son of a Mexican bandit comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged former Confederate officer, who is--among other things--stealing land from the locals with phony land grants. (imdb)

A seventeen-year-old boy, Jose Maria (played by Victoria Abril) leaves his small village and machismo father to become transsexual nightclub entertainer Maria Jose in the big city of Barcelona. There, she falls in love with the club's owner, causing even greater gender questions to arise, while continuing on her journey of self-discovery.

Described as an answer to Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun, Fraulein tells the story of a German woman and a former French prisoner of war living in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role in rebuilding her country, Haneke's heroine remains preoccupied with her personal affairs. Shot predominantly in black and white (with a color sequence added toward the end), Fraulein asserts Haneke's place alongside the masters of the New German Cinema. (worldcinema.com)

Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, updated to the twentieth century.

It's 1958, the year of the death of Pius XII, the most clerical and authoritarian of modern pontiffs. In a boarding school, the handsome, rich and rebellious Angelo Transeunti arrives. He is a devotee of the "overman". With his arrival, the school life is shattered - the boy puts into action plan to deride and destroy the institution against the deputy rector, Father Corazza. (mubi.com)

With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed in Italy, Mr. Mean certainly fulfills audience expectations. (allrovi.com)

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means. (imdb)

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them. (imdb)

Taddeu, a Sardinian outlaw, organizes fake kidnappings for the tourists who go for strong emotions. The police, however, are informed, step in, and a shootout begins. (imdb)

A villa by the sea in Tuscany between the 1950s and the late 70s. The film follows the development of Isabella and her relationship with her father and family. (bfi)

Michael, the younger son of a middle-class family, is off in a distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael's girlfriend Mara (Mariangela Melato), the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael's increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives. (allmovie)

France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music who longs to live in society. She is at a loss when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. (mubi.com)

After the death of his brother Pippo, Giovanni meets Vanda, Pippo's widow, at his funeral. They soon become atracted and start a new relationship, surrounded by the ghost of Pippo.

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the Seventies, but for her it is not just something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her. (mubi)

Carlo Colnaghi, a severely looking performer, plays Carlo, a middle-aged, out-of work actor, in and out of psychiatric hospitals. Living on welfare, but still dreaming of better life and career, Carlo plans a grand comeback with a new, highly personal monologue. (MUBI)

Rome '70s. Rocco and Antonia, college students, meet during a political rally organized by extra-parliamentary groups. The two young people share age and political ideas.

An American gangster arrives in a small town in the south of Sweden. He establishes himself as a kind of politician/preacher, promising great changes in the community. Only a few people suspect that his intentions are evil. (imdb)

Nino is a glamour photographer who witnesses a murder of a prosecutor being constructed to look like an automobile accident. (imdb)

Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school. The lessons are given in the classroom of an elementary class by a teacher named Etienne. (imdb)

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta. (imdb)

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

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda. (imdb)

Renato, a man with murderous intentions, meets Monica, a young university student who lives in a dismal house in the Lombard suburbs. (imdb)