Ripley's Game

Ripley's Game 2002

6.40

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?

2002

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress 1957

7.20

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.

1957

Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers 1960

8.00

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

1960

Somewhere

Somewhere 2010

6.10

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

2010

I Am Love

I Am Love 2010

6.80

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

2010

Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots 2005

6.74

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

2005

Attila Scourge of God

Attila Scourge of God 1982

5.95

The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano

1982

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy 2012

7.20

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

2012

La Notte

La Notte 1961

7.95

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.

1961

Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan 1951

7.30

An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in post-war Milan, helping them build a shanty town. When they discover oil, he receives a magical dove from a vision of his adoptive mother that grants wishes.

1951

Ödipussi

Ödipussi 1988

7.00

Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.

1988

Little Italy

Little Italy 1978

6.00

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

1978

Death Walks at Midnight

Death Walks at Midnight 1972

6.30

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

1972

A Dragonfly for Each Corpse

A Dragonfly for Each Corpse 1975

6.10

A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.

1975

A Woman's Name

A Woman's Name 2018

5.60

A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace.

2018

The Pacifist

The Pacifist 1970

4.80

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination.

1970

Arcana

Arcana 1972

5.70

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.

1972

Passion

Passion 1996

7.20

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and unattractive Fosca, who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with it's original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season thirteen, episode six).

1996

Plot of Fear

Plot of Fear 1976

5.40

Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.

1976

What Scoundrels Men Are!

What Scoundrels Men Are! 1932

6.90

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…

1932

Blocco 181

Blocco 181 2022

5.50

Set in the multi-ethnic communities on the outskirts of Milan, three teenagers grow up and deal with love, generational conflicts, female emancipation and, above all, power struggles.

2022