Ugo Pirro

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife. (imdb)

A kafkian story: a fascistoid police inspector kills his mistress, and deliberately leaves clues just to find out how big is his reputation of "a citizen above suspicion" (imdb)

Lulù is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulù doesn't agree till he cuts, by accident, one of his own fingers. Now, after he understood the worker's conditions, he agrees the unions and participates to the strike... (imdb)

Italian Director Elio Petri, best known for his film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion, here tells a complicated tale about a bank clerk who is literally allergic to money. (All Movie Guide)

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer is a lone, swaggering sergeant whom the partisans briskly emasculate. Escorted out of town by the sheepish Nazis, the forlorn ladies link up, patriotically and romantically, with a band of tough mountain guerrillas. Directed by Martin Ritt ("Norma Rae"). (imdb)

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence. (imdb)

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself. (Answers.com)

It is WW2 on the outskirts of Naples. Miluzza, a naive 15 year-old girl subjected to repeated abuse by the men around her is unable to escape the confines of her small village. (Koch Lorber Films)

Short political documentary that shows the discrepancies in the Italian police's official versions about the events that led to the alleged suicide of the anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli, who is said to have thrown himself out of a window while he was interrogated in a police station in Milano after the Piazza Fontana bombing.

In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love, then marry, her co-worker. Soon after her wedding, she dies as a result of industrial pollution from her job. (allmovie.com)

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)

Movie, one of the most exepensive in the history of former Yugoslavia, is made for the 30th anniversary of Battle of Sutjeska - the toughest battle Yugoslav Partizans had to fight in WWII. (imdb)

Comedy in which a sophisticated mother's boy from Milan goes to teach at an elementary school in the Sicilian city of Catalina. (bfi)

Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to contact the police, but is persuaded not to by Francesco's best friend, Gambino. Together they try to find the kidnappers, but she becomes suspicious of everyone including Gambino. Confused and paranoid, she sets out alone to contact the police. (imdb)

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.

Gramigna and his father are robbed of their field by Baron Nardò. The Baron let the field to Assunta and Gemma that is secretly beloved of Gramigna. (imdb)

The story of Funes, an enigmatic piano player for a tango orchestra in a brothel.

Film based on the real life of Luciano Lutring, an Italian criminal known as "the machine-gun soloist". (Wikipedia)

A vengeful stranger goes to work for a mad czarist landowner.

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. (imdb)

This film tell the story (invented but based on the real situation) of a group of partisan near Genova during the nazi occupation of Northern Italy that have to recover some weapons in a factory (with the help of the workers) and the dilemma of a group of italian "Alpini" soldier (mountain special troops) that was in doubt if is better to follow the order of the nazi ally/occupants or to join the partisan Resistance and fight for the freedom of Italy. (imdb)

The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' by the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization. (Alessio F. Bragadini)