Soundtrack: Luis Bacalov

Direction Katsuhito Ishii · Shou Tajima

Cast Uma Thurman

Synopsis As "The Bride" takes time to recover feeling on her lower body after waking up from a four-year coma, she reminisces the life of O-Ren Ishii, one of Bill's assassins who was involved in the wedding chapel incident that nearly...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Enrique Irazoqui · Margherite Caruso · Marcello Morante · Luigi Barbini

Synopsis Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's in a hurry, moving from place to place near the...

Direction Michael Radford

Cast Philippe Noiret · Massimo Troisi · María Grazia Cucinotta · Linda Moretti

Synopsis A simple postman’s eyes are opened to a world of amorous possibilities when he delivers letters to one of the most romantic poets of the 20th century in this lyrical tale. The film was inspired by an incident in the...

Direction Damian Pettigrew

Cast Federico Fellini · Roberto Benigni · Rinaldo Geleng · Donald Sutherland

Synopsis A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with...

Direction Fernando Di Leo

Cast Gastone Moschin · Barbara Bouchet · Mario Adorf · Frank Wolff

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Miou-Miou · Isabelle Huppert · Guy Marchand · Jean-Pierre Bacri

Synopsis In 1942, a young Jewish woman, Léna, marries a French soldier, Michel, to avoid being deported to Germany. Meanwhile, another young woman, Madeleine gets married to an artist, Raymond, who is subsequently killed by a Resistance sniper. During the Liberation,...

Direction Sergio Corbucci

Cast Franco Nero · Loredana Nusciak · José Bódalo · Ángel Álvarez

Synopsis Along with Sergio Leone's Clint Eastwood trilogy, Sergio Corbucci's Django, starring Belgian hunk Franco Nero as the gritty mercenary who drags a coffin behind him, was one of the most influential spaghetti Westerns. After mowing down armies of bad guys...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Anna Prucnal · Bernice Stegers · Iole Silvani

Synopsis A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Horst Buchholz · Catherine Spaak · Bette Davis · Isa Miranda

Synopsis The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marry him--even after...

Direction Fernando Di Leo

Cast Henry Silva · Richard Conte · Gianni Garko · Antonia Santilli

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Irene Papas · Gabriele Ferzetti · Salvo Randone

Synopsis A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast John Turturro · Rade Serbedzija · Massimo Ghini · Roberto Citran

Synopsis John Turturro stars as an Auschwitz survivor returning to Italy after the war in director Franceso Rosi's new adaptation of Primo Levi's autobiographical "La Tregua" ("The Truce"). The film, an official selection appearing in competition at the 1997 Cannes Film...

Direction Maurizio Lucidi

Cast Tomas Milian · Pierre Clémenti · Katia Christine · Luigi Casellato

Synopsis A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant wife. Now the playboy finds he cannot keep his end of the...

Direction Andrea Frazzi · Antonio Frazzi

Cast Isabella Rossellini · Jeroen Krabbé · Barbara Enrichi · Gianna Giachetti

Synopsis 1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Klaus Kinski · Martine Beswick · Lou Castel

Synopsis 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...

Direction Theresa Connelly

Cast Claire Danes · Gabriel Byrne · Lena Olin · Jon Bradford

Synopsis The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young...

Direction Diane Kurys

Cast Juliette Binoche · Benoît Magimel · Stefano Dionisi · Robin Renucci

Synopsis Paris, year 1832. This is the true tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice,...

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Nino Manfredi · Senta Berger · Virna Lisi · Irene Papas

Synopsis Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings....

Direction Giancarlo Santi

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Alberto Dentice · Jess Hahn · Horst Frank

Synopsis A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Nicoletta Machiavelli · Bernard Blier · Franco Fabrizi