Classic, landmark films in cinematic history.
La Prima Notte di Quiete storyline. Daniele Dominici is the new substitute teacher at a classical high school in Rimini. During his first lesson he assigns the children two tracks of their choice.
La Prima Notte di Quiete (1972) Read More
L’Avventura movie storyline. One summery Saturday afternoon, a group of friends living in Rome departs on a yachting trip out to a local island. Two of the group, Anna (Lea Massari) and Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), young lovers considering marriage, have a dispute; that afternoon, Sandro announces that Anna is missing. A thorough search of the island is made on Anna’s behalf, but she is never found, and Sandro, who remains relatively unconcerned, is never questioned.
L’Avventura (1960) Read More
Made in Italy movie storyline. A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden – but among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, ‘La Trattoria’, and are disgusted by the poor service and its untidiness.
Made in Italy (1965) Read More
The Colossus of Rhodes movie storyline. A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia which would be hostile to Greece.
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) Read More
Le Souffle au Cœur movie storyline. Dijon, 1954. France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, or the so-called “dirty” war, and the open-minded fifteen-year-old son of a wealthy gynaecologist, Laurent, enjoys a normal life.
Le Souffle au Cœur (1971) Read More
A Difficult Life movie synopsis. Silvio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian partisan. He and his companions belong to the Italian resistance movement and are fighting against the fascists and the Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari). He spends three months hiding in Elena’s grandfather’s mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, probably communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war.
A Difficult Life (1961) Read More