Divorce Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style 1961

7.90

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.

1961

Black Sunday

Black Sunday 1960

7.45

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

1960

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

The Girl Who Knew Too Much 1963

7.00

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

1963

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath 1963

7.19

Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.

1963

Hands over the City

Hands over the City 1963

7.50

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

1963

Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano 1962

7.50

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.

1962

Hercules

Hercules 1958

5.10

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.

1958

Erik the Conqueror

Erik the Conqueror 1961

6.30

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

1961

Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained 1959

5.00

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.

1959

The Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz 1960

6.70

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

1960

Esther and the King

Esther and the King 1960

5.60

Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.

1960

Ghosts of Rome

Ghosts of Rome 1961

7.20

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

1961

Viva l'Italia!

Viva l'Italia! 1961

6.70

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.

1961

The Basilisks

The Basilisks 1963

7.50

The uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.

1963

The Reunion

The Reunion 1963

5.90

Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.

1963

Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat 1964

6.60

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

1964

A Day for Lionhearts

A Day for Lionhearts 1961

7.00

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.

1961