Film Index
Italian cinema: 1970s
Amarcord (1973)
Federico Fellini
Italy in the 1930s. In an ordinary seaside town, the locals are celebrating the end of winter and the arrival of spring. The rise of Mussolini's fascist party is welcomed as a sign of rebirth and the townsfolk happily prostrate themselves before the image of Il Duce...
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Federico Fellini
L'Aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972)
Claude Lelouch
Realising that times have changed, five unscrupulous crooks decide it is time for a reappraisal of their line of business...
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Claude Lelouch
Blaise Pascal (1972)
Roberto Rossellini
Blaise Pascal is 16 years old when his family moves to Rouen in 1639 so that his father Étienne can take up his new position as the king's commissioner of taxes...
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Roberto Rossellini
Borsalino (1970)
Jacques Deray
Marseille, 1930. After completing a six month stretch in prison, Roch Siffredi returns to his girlfriend to find her in the company of another man, François Capella...
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Jacques Deray
Cadaveri eccellenti (1976)
Francesco Rosi
Investigating the murder of two important magistrates, Varga and Sanza, in a small town in the south of Italy, Inspector Rogas soon has good reason to belief that the two crimes are connected...
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Francesco Rosi
Cartesius [TV] (1974)
Roberto Rossellini
By the time he leaves the Jesuit school he has attended since childhood, René Descartes has a keen fascination for mathematics and philosophy... [More...]
Roberto Rossellini
By the time he leaves the Jesuit school he has attended since childhood, René Descartes has a keen fascination for mathematics and philosophy... [More...]
Le Désert des Tartares (1976)
Valerio Zurlini
A young soldier, Lieutenant Drogo, is assigned to a remote desert fortress, which is manned by a small army against the possibility of an invasion from Tartar nomads... [More...]
Valerio Zurlini
A young soldier, Lieutenant Drogo, is assigned to a remote desert fortress, which is manned by a small army against the possibility of an invasion from Tartar nomads... [More...]
Don't Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg
John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home... [More...]
Nicolas Roeg
John and Laura Baxter are a young couple who are both profoundly traumatised when their five-year-old daughter Christine drowns accidentally at their home... [More...]
La Grande bouffe (1973)
Marco Ferreri
One winter, four well-off middle-aged men who have grown tired of life decide to kill themselves. For Marcello, an Italian airline pilot with an over-developed libido, life has become intolerable now that he is impotent... [More...]
Marco Ferreri
One winter, four well-off middle-aged men who have grown tired of life decide to kill themselves. For Marcello, an Italian airline pilot with an over-developed libido, life has become intolerable now that he is impotent... [More...]
L'Héritier (1973)
Philippe Labro
When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire... [More...]
Philippe Labro
When his father, an incredibly wealthy magnate, dies in an aeroplane crash, Bart Cordell finds himself at the head a vast business empire... [More...]
I Guappi (1974)
Pasquale Squitieri
In 1891, Nicola Bellizzi arrives in Naples with ambitions of becoming a lawyer but his plans change when his path crosses that of the feared racketeer Don Gaetano Frungillo... [More...]
Pasquale Squitieri
In 1891, Nicola Bellizzi arrives in Naples with ambitions of becoming a lawyer but his plans change when his path crosses that of the feared racketeer Don Gaetano Frungillo... [More...]
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]
Federico Fellini
The debauched life of Giacomo Casanova is legendary, a succession of erotic adventures with women who are no more to him than instruments of pleasure... [More...]
Il Conformista (1970)
Bernardo Bertolucci
In 1930s Italy, Marcello Clerici makes the decision to join the Fascist secret police. Eager to prove himself, Clerici agrees to assassinate his former teacher Professor Quadri, an anti-Fascist intellectual who is now living in exile in Paris... [More...]
Bernardo Bertolucci
In 1930s Italy, Marcello Clerici makes the decision to join the Fascist secret police. Eager to prove himself, Clerici agrees to assassinate his former teacher Professor Quadri, an anti-Fascist intellectual who is now living in exile in Paris... [More...]
L'Innocente (1976)
Luchino Visconti
In Italy towards the end of the 19th century, the wealthy Tullio Hermil pursues a passionate love affair with his aristocratic mistress Teresa Raffo whilst keeping up the impression that he is happily married... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
In Italy towards the end of the 19th century, the wealthy Tullio Hermil pursues a passionate love affair with his aristocratic mistress Teresa Raffo whilst keeping up the impression that he is happily married... [More...]
Ludwig (1972)
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Luchino Visconti
Ludwig II is a mere youth of nineteen when he ascends to the throne of Bavaria in 1864. A sensitive and idealistic young man, he shows far more interest in the arts and architecture than he does in matters of state... [More...]
Tony Arzenta (1973)
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Duccio Tessari
Tony Arzenta is more than just a regular hit-man. He is one of the Mafia's most prized professional killers, valued for his skill, his courage and his unswerving loyalty... [More...]
Zorro (1975)
Duccio Tessari
Don Diego de la Vega is a young man who has set his heart on returning to Spain after a sojourn in the New World. Before his departure, he renews his acquaintance with an old friend, Miguel de la Serna, who is about to step into the shoes of his recently deceased uncle and become the new governor of Nueva Aragón... [More...]
Duccio Tessari
Don Diego de la Vega is a young man who has set his heart on returning to Spain after a sojourn in the New World. Before his departure, he renews his acquaintance with an old friend, Miguel de la Serna, who is about to step into the shoes of his recently deceased uncle and become the new governor of Nueva Aragón... [More...]