Movies: Gianni Di Venanzo

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and vis...

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love....

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing....

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In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently....

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it....

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo....

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation....

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter....

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½...

After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensu...

Two young men try to make it big as musicians....

An Italian WWII documentary by a group of neorealists....

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband....

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the P...

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office....

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Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into th...

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend....

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 passiona...