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Italian cinema: Fantasy

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...   [More...]

Fantasma d'amore (1981)
Dino Risi

Whilst travelling in a bus in his home town of Pavia, Nino Monti, a successful lawyer, encounters an old woman who bears a striking resemblance to Anna Brigatti, a woman he was once madly in love with...   [More...]

Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Mario Bava

Dr Eswai arrives in a remote Transylvanian village to perform an autopsy on a young woman who has recently died, apparently by impaling herself on railing spikes...   [More...]

The Mask of Satan (1960)
Mario Bava

Moldavia, in the early 1600s. Princess Asa Vajda is sentenced to death, along with her lover Javuto, for consorting with the Devil...   [More...]

Miracolo a Milano (1951)
Vittorio De Sica

One day, an old woman finds a baby boy in her cabbage patch and decides to adopt him, christening him Toto. When the old woman later dies, Toto enters an orphanage, where he stays until he is 18...   [More...]

Teorema (1968)
Pier Paolo Pasolini

A comfortable middle class family is visited by an enigmatic dark-haired young man. One by one, the members of their family - the husband, the wife, their daughter, their son, and their maid - succumb to the seductive charms of the stranger as he unleashes their innermost desires...   [More...]

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