Cast: Folco Lulli

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Yves Montand · Charles Vanel · Véra Clouzot · Peter van Eyck

Synopsis The Wages of Fear (1953) follows four desperate men in a South American town who accept a perilous job to transport highly unstable nitroglycerin across treacherous terrain. Hired by an American oil company, they must drive two trucks loaded with...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Folco Lulli

Synopsis 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...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

Direction Mario Soldati

Cast Folco Lulli · Enrico Olivieri · Rosi Mirafiore · Pietro Germi

Direction Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast Yvonne Sanson · Amedeo Nazzari · Françoise Rosay · Folco Lulli

Synopsis The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Catherine Spaak · Gian Maria Volonté · Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Synopsis In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and pretense according to the “logic of a cinema of direct...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Roldano Lupi · Yvonne Sanson · Ave Ninchi

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean Gabin · Arletty · Roland Lesaffre · Marie Daëms

Direction Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Carla del Poggio · Giulietta Masina · John Kitzmiller

Synopsis Variety Lights is a bittersweet drama about a group of second-rate theatrical performers on tour. The actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make money from town to town, playing to minimal crowds, while the ageing manager of the company falls...

Direction José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast Alberto Closas · Folco Lulli · Ferdinand Anton · Lida Baarova

Synopsis After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation...

Direction Duilio Coletti

Cast Van Heflin · Charles Laughton · Mylène Demongeot · John Ericson

Synopsis In London in 1941, Adm. Russell struggles to locate and destroy the German raider Atlantis , which has been blowing up Allied warships in the Pacific Ocean. At sea, the Atlantis , led by Cmdr. Reger, is employing its customary...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Carla del Poggio · John Kitzmiller · Pierre Claudé · Giulietta Masina

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Lucía Bosé · Folco Lulli · Maria Grazia Francia

Synopsis Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock of sheep have been stolen by the area thuggish big-shot landlord Agostino Bonfiglio. Francesco decides to steal back what is rightfully his,...

Direction Ettore Giannini

Cast Sophia Loren · Maria Fiore · Paolo Stoppa · Tina Pica

Synopsis Napoli, anni cinquanta. Un cantastorie, che abita con la numerosa famiglia in una misera catapecchia, viene sfrattato e se ne va coi suoi familiari per le strade, spingendo il pianino di Barberia, cui sono appese delle canzoni. Un colpo di...

Direction Claude Autant-Lara · José María Forqué · Giancarlo Zagni

Cast Sylvie · Pierre Brasseur · Jean Richard · Emma Penella

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Joan Collins · Richard Egan · Denis O'Dea · Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis After the King’s wife is murdered, Esther, a Jewish woman, comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The king has been trying to stifle and defeat the campaign of hatred against the Jews by his evil minister...

Direction Jacques Besnard

Cast Louis de Funès · Bernard Blier · María-Rosa Rodriguez · Venantino Venantini

Synopsis De Funés plays Septime, the despotic owner of a high class Paris restaurant, one which entertains the Paris glitterati as well as ministers of the French government. Once a foreign president disappears in the middle of Septime's grand number of...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Alda Mangini · Marisa Merlini · Lia Amanda

Synopsis It is hardly necessary to note that the star of Totò cerca casa is popular Italian farceur Toto. Nor does it require a PhD to figure out the film's plotline. That's right: Totò wants to find a place to hang...

Direction Vicente Escrivá

Cast Millie Perkins · Folco Lulli · Walter Santesso · Vittoria Prada