Riccardo Cucciolla

A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety (imdb)

Bank robbery in small town ends with one of the robbers being wounded. The loot from the robbery is just a asset for the even more spectacular heist. Simon, gang leader and Paris night club owner, must also deal with police comissaire Edouard Colemane, who happens to be his good friend. (imdb)

After retirement, Professor James Anders presents criminal Mark Milford an elaborate plan to rob a diamond company in Brazil with a crew of professionals. The men assemble in Rio de Janeiro and run in to an unanticipated problem: a new alarm system called Grand Slam 70. (imdb)

The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions. (imdb)

An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead. (imdb)

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943 (imdb)

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

Very graphic mondo film showing funeral and burial rites, coming of age and fertility ceremonies etc.

Seeking redress for the death of his partner, Roch (Delon) disposes of his enemies in a variety of novel (and gruesome) methods. (allmovie.com)

Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia. (imdb)

Based on a tour of 20 African countries, this film provides scenes of African male and female circumcision, pet massacres, scarification rituals and sexual practices, among other things.

The story of the killing of socialist Giacomo Matteotti, ordered by Benito Mussolini, and its consequences on Italian politics during the fascist era.

The true story of the seven Cervi brothers, Italian farmers who joined the resistance movement against nazi-fascism.

Deals with the conflict between justice and the citizen's civic responsibilities. (imdb)

Sex comedy: The inhabitants of a little Italian town are disturbed by the arrival of Sonya the uninhibited niece of the bigoted classics professor. She proceeds to seduce the sexually repressed son, leaving the villa before her relatives can question her. (bfi)

Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites. (imdb)

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)

Antonio Gramsci, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the courts fascists, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the founding of the Communist Party, the futile resistance to the offensive of the Right, the marriage, the arrest, the conflict with Togliatti. Discharged from prison for health reasons, died in 1937 at a clinic in Rome. Portrait often didactic, but almost always convincing, one of the fathers of modern socialism. (mubi.com)

Italian documentary from the 70s about everything sex and gender, with talking heads, serious science, as well as every chance it gets to exploit nudity and show graphic surgery. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

The series follows the journey of oil, from the extraction wells of Zagros Mountains, in Iran, to the transport through Suez Channel and Mediterrnean sea, till the arrive to Genoa's pipeline that leads to the refineries of Ingolstadt, in Germany.

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organized crime in the business and political life of Sicily. (imdb)

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

In the year 2250 the universe is divided into two: on the one hand the world of the rectangle and on the other the world of the triangle. During a deportation on Saturn, the two give life to a last disastrous battle, which will lead to the destruction of the world. The "Fantarca" spaceship remains isolated in space and its surviving crew is faced with the difficult choice of whether to continue the journey towards Saturn, or return to Earth and build a new civilization there. (groups.google)

14 people of different ages - 7 men and 7 women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to perform an experiment inspired by the theories of Wilhelm Reich. (imdb)

Report on a region in southern Italy, described as a land still inhabited by those who "live as at the beginning of time" and where modernisation has been "the great disappointed hope".

Shot in San Nicandro Garganic, a wretched and backward city close to the Lesina lake, the movie follows the vicissitudes of some fishermen’s families, as they try to come up with different ways to survive. Their condition is so different from the northern cities that are enjoying the economic boom. (Mubi)