Movies: Romano Scavolini

This almost silent film has been censored and rejected for his violent scenes, even if it was well received at the Pesaro New Cinema in 1966. It contains a quotation from Beckett off-screen at the critical moment. The story sometimes seems like a puz...

Four stories with teenagers as the protagonists: Young Blood - The Sardinian Drummer - The Little Look-out - The Nurse of the Father (Sangue romagnolo - Il tamburino sardo - La piccola vedetta lombarda - L'infermiere di Tata)...

A woman, who witnessed her father kill himself as a child, invites several friends to her husband's secluded castle. Unbeknownst to them, she has a sinister motive for the invitation....

A young man somewhat embarrassed and distressed by a rather aggressive girlfriend, a vaudeville actress, and a newly married couple with an odd contract: all become involved, whether they intended to or not, in a scam involving a villa....

A young man struggles to escape from the ties of his Mafia family upbringing....

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documen...

A lonely school teacher is kidnapped by the mob to carry out an important hit....

An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder....

Gunman Slim joins the Italian Pizza baker Geremia and his two daughters to try in various disguises to get a hidden treasure from a respectable banker....

A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( “Hands have no tears to shed”)...

A rich industrialist disapproves of the relationship between his son Fabrizio and the beautiful Antonella, who poses naked for men's magazines....

A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree....

POW's rescued from tiger cages in Vietnam are brought into a secret mission by an Army Captain. However when the group finds a cache of gold, greed sets in and the mission goes awry....

An American photographer unwittingly brings footage of torture by the Greek military junta into the USA along with proof of America's involvement in it.He's pursued by inept and heavy handed henchmen leaving a trail of bloody and brutal murders in th...

An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....

Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis....

A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a prologue featuring unused footage from Bertolucci's Partner, contributed by Pierre Clementi....

A sort of documentary that follows the advent of the LSD in New York and in the of the world....

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The story of a man from Verona countryside who devoted his life to his communist ideals to the point he challenged NATO. Along with him thousands of other people who tried to radically change Italy and the world during the 70s....