Mauro Bolognini

This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive", "Civic Sense", "The Earth As Seen From The Moon", "The Girl From Sicily", and "A Night Like Any Other". (All Movie Guide)

A collection of sketches on prostitution through the ages. (imdb)

Six short films. "What are the clouds" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Totò is a puppet painted green is thrown ina landfill with a second puppet (Ninetto Davoli) at the endof a play. Will they still find a reason for watching an extraordinarily magical sky. "Monster of Sunday" Directed by Steno starring Totò.Antonio De Curtis is a monster obsessed by 60's youths with long hair... (antoniodecurtis.org)

Women love handsome Antonio because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when they are married. When the town learns about his trouble they start laughing at him... (imdb)

Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts. (imdb)

Alphonsine, growing up motherless in absolute poverty, goes alone to Paris and finds work as a seamstress. In the evening most of the girls she works with are whores but one is a cloakroom attendant at the opera house and takes her there to help. Seeing high society on display fills her with the desire to join their world. (Wikipedia)

Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband. (imdb)

ealthy patriarch Gregorio Ferramonte (Anthony Quinn) openly lusts after his new daughter-in-law Irene (Dominique Sanda). Seemingly resistant at first to the lecherous Quinn, Irene rapidly succumbs to his crude charms. There's a little more to the story than that: Sanda knows that Quinn is dying and that he hasn't yet chosen anyone to inherit his fortune. (allmovie.com)

In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel. (imdb)

The husbands in question rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they're committed for life, our immature heroes return to their home town for one last fling. In the course of their final hours of bachelorhood, they come to the sobering conclusion that their carefree youth is not only past, it's already long past. Somewhat reminiscent of Fellini's I Vitelloni. (allmovie.com)

Mlle de Maupin, an Hungarian young woman, escapes from her country under the guise of a monk. A strict army officer forces Theodore the 'monk', to enlist in the King's army, for the times are of war, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. (imdb)

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is ruled over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. (imdb)

The four vignettes on secrets of love and secret lovers - The Telephone Call (La Telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il Trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La Minestra) and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido) are based on stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. (Wikipédia)

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities. (imdb)

Two young unenployed men, Scintillone and Ruggeretto, pick up a couple of prostitutes. They hope their company will help them sell some rifles they have stolen. On their way they meet Bella Bella, who also aids them in selling the goods...

Director Mauro Bolognini inserts this story in Fascist Italy, with careful attention to details. The couple formed by Matteo Zannoni (Bruno Cirino) and Libera Valente (Cardinale) can't bear fascism. They move constantly between cities, settling down in Modena, where Libera quickly collides with the fascist political commissar Franco Testa (Philippe Leroy). Libera has to suffer awful moments due to her attachment to the resistance, and to the political and sexual harassment from Testa.

Metello is the son of an anarchist who shares his father's passion for justice. After he is introduced to love by the young widow Viola, he falls in love and marries Ersilia. He tries to balance his family life and remain true to his ideals in the changing political climate. (allmovie.com)

In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.

Based on Italo Svevo's great novel so admired by James Joyce, this atmospherically photographed film is set in old Trieste and centers on a middle-aged public official and his unrequited love for a flirtatious but unpossessable girl who blithely betrays him. (SurrealMoviez)

The plot is based on the real life case of Leonarda Cianciulli who murdered 3 women between 1939 - 1940 and turned their bodies into soap. However, in the film version many details have been changed and interestingly the 3 female victims are all played by male actors in drag. (theitalywiki)

Gardenio, an old and unlucky artist, organizes little tours in small towns. By chance he discovers Caterina's vocal talent, hires her, and shortly after marries her. She turns into a true star but Gardenio, feeling useless, decides to seek success on his own. Finally his talent is understood, but when he finds out that Caterina had secretly financed the show... he thanks her publicly and the two return together! (movie-time)

The film is about some youths' love stories: Franco and his hairdresser girlfriend Adriana, Otello another hairdresser who is hopelessly in love with Adriana. The youths usually meet in a restaurant whose owner, Ines, seduces Franco making Adriana very jealous. In turn the girl decides to accept Otello's courting. (imdb)

Comedy narrating the adventures of a group of Police officers. (bfi)

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

Four episodes satirising Italian women, their manners and their morals. (imdb)

Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, the film narrates the coming of age of a young boy, Agostino, who is on vacation with his attractive and eligible mother. Mother and son enjoy a close relationship, but trouble soon begins when another man begins to gain her attention. Jealously emerges as Agostino struggles to comes to terms with his feelings for his mother.

"The Screen Test," functions as a prolog to the other two. Directed by Antonioni, it presents a view of Soraya on the night of her screen test for this picture. "Famous Lovers" casts Soraya as a married woman having an affair with a struggling writer, Harris. The final episode has her playing an executive on a trip to Rome who is entertained by Sordi, a gigolo hired by her travel agency. (KG)

In the1970s, during violent protest, a policeman and a student eventually die. A just and honest judge discovers that his own son was responsible for the death of the policeman.

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's country-bumpkin nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for the city and meets prostitute Bianca. (allmovie.com)

The erotic exploits of a large Sicilian family in which the father lectures about morality and self-control, but pursues lovemaking with reckless abandon. (imdb)

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 ... (imdb)

Marisa is a provocative, flirtatious girl who is much sought-after. She falls in love with a sailor called Angelo and the two become engaged but during Angelo's absence, Marisa ruins everything. (surffilm.com)

Ida Nudel, a dissident scientist, becomes frustrated with the antisemitism in her country, and decides to expatriate, but her visa is denied by the authorities.

The son of a rich Italian industrial finds out how tough is to leave the path the society has for him (imdb)

A young man's sensual adventures based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

After years of black plague, Venice shines again. Angela and Valeria, two women from noble families, set their heart on a man in the Venetian crowd and decide to seduce him.

"La Donna è Una Cosa Meravigliosa" is split in two long episodes (approx 40' each), both explaining the ironical meaning of the title. In the first episode, "La Balena Bianca" (White Whale), a circus midget married with the local Cannon Lady has an affair with a colleague midget girl, and tries to kill in many ways his colossal wife.... The second episode, "Una donna dolce dolce" (A Sweet Sweet Woman) has a childless wife (Sandra Milo) treating her husband (Vittorio Caprioli) as a little kid.