Movies & TV Shows/Series by Vides Cinematografica at a glance

80 movies and TV shows/series found (page 1/3):

Murmur of the Heart(1971)

3.6/5 (with 72 votes)

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Benoît Ferreux, Gila von Weitershausen, ...

Up to His Ears(1965)

1h 44min | Comedy, Adventure

3.7/5 (with 71 votes)

A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.

Directed by Philippe de Broca - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Jean Rochefort, Mario David, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Darry Cowl, ...

Marco Polo(1982-1983)

50min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Marco Polo is an American-Italian television miniseries originally broadcast by NBC in the United States, by Antenne 2 in France and by RAI in Italy in 1982. It starred Kenneth Marshall as Marco Polo, the 13th-century Venetian merchant and explorer. The series also featured appearances by Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy, and others. It was originally broadcast in four episodes, where episodes 1 and 4 were twice as long as episodes 2 and 3. The series is sometimes divided into six equally long episodes.

Directed by Giuliano Montaldo - With Kenneth Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, F. Murray Abraham, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, ...

Le Notti Bianche(1957)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 85 votes)

A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl, haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, ...

And the Ship Sails On(1983)

2h 8min | Music, Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi, Paolo Paoloni, Vittorio Zarfati, ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street(1958)

1h 46min | Comedy, Crime

4.1/5 (with 299 votes)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Memmo Carotenuto, ...

Divorce Italian Style(1961)

1h 44min | Comedy

4.0/5 (with 179 votes)

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Directed by Pietro Germi, Renzo Marignano - With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Lando Buzzanca, ...

Kapo(1960)

2h | Drama, History, War

3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo - With Susan Strasberg, Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Gianni Garko, Paola Pitagora, ...

Seduced and Abandoned(1964)

1h 55min | Drama, Comedy

3.8/5 (with 60 votes)

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.

Directed by Pietro Germi - With Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca, Lola Braccini, Leopoldo Trieste, ...

Salvatore Giuliano(1962)

1h 59min | Crime, Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Nando Cicero, Sennuccio Benelli, Max Cartier

The Legend of Frenchie King(1971)

1h 34min | Comedy, Western

2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

Directed by Christian-Jaque, Guy Casaril - With Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard, Micheline Presle, Patty Shepard, Georges Beller, ...

Lacombe, Lucien(1974)

2h 18min | Drama, War, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Ave Ninchi, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler, Jacqueline Staup, ...

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The Organizer(1963)

2h 10min | Crime, Drama

3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, ...

The Burglars(1971)

2h | Action, Crime, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 47 votes)

In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Robert Hossein, Dyan Cannon, Renato Salvatori, Alice Arno, ...

Lucky Luciano(1973)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Gian Maria Volonté, Rod Steiger, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi, Magda Konopka, ...

Mr. Robinson(1976)

1h 47min | Adventure, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 34 votes)

A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case.

Directed by Sergio Corbucci - With Paolo Villaggio, Zeudi Araya

The Mattei Affair(1972)

1h 56min | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Edda Ferronao, Accursio Di Leo, Furio Colombo, Peter Baldwin, ...

Viva Maria!(1965)

2h | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love, Western

3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman also named Marie, a singer in a traveling circus. The new friends start a vaudeville act that grows exponentially more popular after they incorporate striptease into their routine. When the singer Maria falls for a charismatic rebel, the girls leave the circus behind and recreate themselves as wild-eyed revolutionaries.

Directed by Louis Malle - With Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost, Claudio Brook, Carlos López Moctezuma, Poldo Bendandi, ...

Sandra(1965)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Michael Craig, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Renzo Ricci, Fred Williams, Renato Moretti, ...

Fiasco in Milan(1959)

1h 45min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.

Directed by Nanni Loy - With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Nino Manfredi, Carlo Pisacane, ...

Christ Stopped at Eboli(1979)

3h 40min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Gian Maria Volonté, Lea Massari, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas, Paolo Bonacelli, Antonio Allocca, ...

Bebo's Girl(1964)

1h 46min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.

Directed by Luigi Comencini - With Claudia Cardinale, George Chakiris, Dany París, Carla Calò, Ugo Chiti, Gabriella Giorgelli, ...

The Red Tent(1969)

2h 38min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov - With Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis, ...

Omicron(1963)

1h 42min | Science Fiction, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.

Directed by Ugo Gregoretti - With Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Mara Carisi, Calisto Calisti, Fausto De Luca, Ugo Gregoretti, ...

Wifemistress(1977)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.

Directed by Marco Vicario - With Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Leonard Mann, William Berger, Gastone Moschin, Olga Karlatos, ...

The Assassin(1961)

1h 37min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?

Directed by Elio Petri - With Marcello Mastroianni, Salvo Randone, Cristina Gaioni, Micheline Presle, Andrea Checchi, Paolo Panelli, ...

Di che segno sei?(1975)

2h 10min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.

Directed by Sergio Corbucci - With Alberto Sordi, Mariangela Melato, Adriano Celentano, Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Massimo Boldi, ...

The Swindlers(1959)

2h 12min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Alberto Sordi, Belinda Lee, Renato Salvatori, Nino Vingelli, Aldo Giuffrè, Aldo Bufi Landi, ...

Nero's Mistress(1956)

1h 28min | Comedy, History

2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Gloria Swanson, Brigitte Bardot, Ciccio Barbi, Arturo Bragaglia, ...

The Baron of the Locks(1960)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.

Directed by Jean Delannoy - With Aimée Mortimer, Albert Michel, Alexandre Rignault, Bernard Musson, Blanchette Brunoy, Bruno Balp, ...

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