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From Sergio Leone, the acclaimed director of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West comes his final Western, A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker! and released in some territories as Once Upon A Time... the Revolution). Starring acting giants Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) as Juan Miranda, an amoral peasant-turned-outlaw, and James Coburn (Pat Garret..
Veronica Pivetti directs and stars in this gay-themed Italian comedy drama. The film chronicles the coming of age of 16-year-old Rocco Bordin (Andrea Amato) who, after an unfortunate incident at school, tells his divorced parents he's gay. Fortunately, his two best friends, Maria (Carolina Pavone) and Mauri (Francesco De Miranda), are there to pick him back up and the trio run away together in Rocco's parents' car on an adventure to see..
The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or: The 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life – and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism.On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone’s eponymous pimp (pla..
Nanni Moretti presents a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in fatherhood, beginning when his wife Silvia's announces her pregnancy. Family, work and politics mingle in a charming light-hearted tale with a large helping of irony and humour. Following the general election of 1994, won by the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, Moretti is encouraged by a journalist friend to make a documentary about the current ..
Nanni Moretti presents a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in fatherhood, beginning when his wife Silvia's announces her pregnancy. Family, work and politics mingle in a charming light-hearted tale with a large helping of irony and humour. Following the general election of 1994, won by the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, Moretti is encouraged by a journalist friend to make a documentary about the current ..
Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, De Sica’s seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming the film as a direct influence on their own.Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employme..
Heralded as the greatest film ever made on release, winning an Oscar in 1949 and topping the Sight & Sound film poll in 1952, De Sica’s seminal work of Italian neorealism has had an impact on cinema worldwide from release to the present day, with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach claiming the film as a direct influence on their own.Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, a long unemployed man who finally finds employme..
Set within a Catholic community deep in the south of Italy, Corpo Celeste is the story of 13 year-old Marta and her struggle to settle in an unfamiliar city after ten years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed, restless and feeling very much an outsider, she clashes with her family and Sunday School teacher as she begins to question the catechism of the Catholic Church and shape her own life for the first time. Marta's journey is trac..
Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood reconstructs with brutal and shocking realism, the events during the last day of the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, when more than 300 police officers stormed the Diaz school, looking for black bloc demonstrators. The result was an explosion of raw, uncontrolled violence.Special Features Andreassi's Testimony, Art Director & Visual Effects, Backstage..
Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood reconstructs with brutal and shocking realism, the events during the last day of the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, when more than 300 police officers stormed the Diaz school, looking for black bloc demonstrators. The result was an explosion of raw, uncontrolled violence...
Alice de Luca and Giacomo Raffaelli co-write and direct this Italian gay-themed drama that follows the life of an adolescent in Rome.The film follows Ernesto (Federico Russo) as he wanders the city's streets in search of meaningful connections while also exploring his own identity...
Italian erotic drama written and directed by Simon Scafidi.The film follows Pier (Andrea Riva), a very rich and powerful man, who is in the business of trading sex for success.Romy (Susanna Giaroli), his one-time girlfriend, brings ambitious young men and women to Pier who are willing to do anything to gain his support and realise their dreams.But will Pier's decadent lifestyle and numerous scandals finally catch up with him in th..
Italian family drama about a rotten loan shark horning his way into a young couple's wedding. This critically beloved third film by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is said by many to be his best work to date. Geremia De Geremei (Giacomo Rizzo) is sleazy and thoroughly disagreeable old loan shark who lives with his bedridden harridan of a mum. Friendless and socially inept, he horns in on a young couple whose parents are forced to borr..
It's been 15 years sinplaywright, Vittorio Visconti. The community is stalked by a psychopath bent on cleaning the city of impure and damned souls. Moretti and Succo are the detectives in charge of finding the killer of these Dantesque crimes. Francesca has returned, but she is not be the same girl who everyone knew.Specil Features Trailer..
Another two episodes from the Italian crime drama based on the novels by Andrea Camilleri.Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) plays a key role maintaining law and order in the town of Vigata in Sicily, where two major crime families are battling for control.Navigating his way around the fraught terrain of the Italian justice system isn't the only issue faced by Montalbano - his dual indulgences, food and his girlfriend, Livia (Sonia ..
All six episodes from the third series of the detective drama set in the small Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.The show follows respected local vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) as he finds himself assisting the gruff northern police officer Geordie Keating (Robson Green) in a number of murder investigations.In this series, the pair investigate the murders of many respected members of the local community, while Geordie fac..
Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) - a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in St. Tropez - agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancee come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted French farce about the importance of nonconformit..
Fellini is one of the most original and creative minds of the 20th Century, unanimously ranked one of the greatest directors of all time, his iconic masterpiece, La Dolce Vita is always at the very top of polls. It's a spectacular and acutely relevant soul-searching portrait of celebrity-obsessed culture in which Mastroianni plays a tabloid journalist who yearns to write seriously, but gets his sensationalist gossip stories by non-stop ..
One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni’s “Twilight of the Gods”, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot, it’s a sprawling study of Italy’s upper middle-class; seen in close-up..
The film that took last year's Cannes by surprise, Le Quattro Volte explores the cycles of life in a wordless portrait of a Calabrian village that progresses through life-forms from man to animals (goats and a star turn from a dog) to a tree. It works both as a simple celebration of nature and as an exploration of our place in the world, and an extraordinary piece of pure and often very funny cinema.Special Features Blu-ray Includes E..
Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino directs this deceptively simple and playfully philosophical study of life through the four seasons in a tiny Italian village high in the Calabrian hills in southern Italy. A majestic pine tree is cut down by the villagers to be used first as a maypole for the town festival and later turned into charcoal. An elderly, ailing goatherd (Giuseppe Fuda) quietly lives out his last days, believing in t..
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L'avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and best friend (Monica Vitti, in her breakout role). Antonioni's controversial international sen..
All eight episodes from the first season of the historical drama focusing on the powerful Medici family in 15th-century Florence. The show focuses on patriarch Cosimo de' Medici (Richard Madden) who assumes control of the Bank of Medici following the death of his father Giovanni (Dustin Hoffman). As he tries to maintain a grip on power in Florence, flashbacks reveal Cosimo's relationship with his brother Lorenzo (Stuart Martin). The epi..
Margherita is a film director who quickly finds out that her lead Hollywood actor (John Turturro) is rather difficult to work with. If his demands weren't enough, her mother's health has recently declined and Margherita struggles to find the balance and harmony between work and family life. Palme d'Or winning director, Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room, The Caiman) returns with another reflective, thoughtful and touching drama that highligh..
Italian gay-themed drama co-written and directed by Karole Di Tommaso. The film follows two women as they attempt to have a baby together. The experience proves more complicated than they had imagined, with many unexpected challenges along the way, but their love for one another never wanes and they remain determined to start a family together despite the obstacles in their path...
All eight episodes from the second series of the Italian drama based on Elena Ferrante's novel. The drama follows two young girls, Elena (Elisa Del Genio/Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Ludovica Nasti/Gaia Girace), as they come of age in an impoverished and violent district of 1950s Naples. In their dangerous and male-dominated neighbourhood, the girls forge an enduring friendship that continues into their teenage years, as they each str..
"Based on the acclaimed novel by William Trevor, My House in Umbria is a charming, evocative drama about a group of travellers in Italy who find solace and friendship after being thrown together by tragedy. It was supposed to be a routine shopping trip to Milan by train. Emily Delahunty, a successful romance author and lonely eccentric, shares her railway journey with eight strangers and, with a novelist's eye, observes her fellow passe..
Originally banned in the UK as a video nasty , under its VHS-era title of DON T RIDE ON LATE NIGHT TRAINS, this tense thriller is a malevolent mix of hair-raising Hitchcockian suspense and contemporary splatter movie shocks. Released in 1975 to a suitably disorientated audience, NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS tells of two young female travellers, including Irene Miracle from INFERNO, who are kidnapped and tormented by a gang of thugs (led by an ol..
After the international firestorm of Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci went on to create one of the grandest and most legendary epics in modern cinema, 1900 (Novecento). A stunning five-hour saga following the intertwined fates of two childhood friends born on the same day in 1900 at opposite ends of the social scale through five decades of class struggle. Described by Pauline Kael as making most other films “look like something ..
Three years after The Gospel According To Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with a savage, highly personal take on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re). As his first colour feature, Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.The film is divi..
Ivan Cotroneo writes and directs this Italian teenage drama.After being adopted, Lorenzo (Rimau Grillo Ritzberger) prepares to start his life over in a new school, in a new town.Ostracised by most of his classmates for his outrageous and flamboyant behaviour, Lorenzo soon befriends Blu (Valentina Romani), who has also been shunned by her peers after an end-of-term scandal.Surprisingly, the pair also befriend basketball player Anto..
Moving slice-of-life drama from writer Nanni Moretti ('The Son's Room', 'Dear Diary') and director Antonello Grimaldi, based on the novel by Sandro Veronesi, about how a man learns to cope with bereavement. While visiting the beach one morning, film executive Pietro Paladini (Moretti) jumps into the waves to save Eleonora (Isabella Ferrari) from drowning. When he returns home, Pietro finds out the devastating news that his wife Lara has..
From Luchino Visconti - the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard - comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La dolce vita and Antonioni's L'avventura, Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid to confront head-on the hypocrisies of the ruling class, the squalor in urban living, and the collision between generations. When..
From Luchino Visconti - the master director of such classics as La terra trema, Bellissima, and The Leopard - comes this epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La dolce vita and Antonioni's L'avventura, Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid to confront head-on the hypocrisies of the ruling class, the squalor in urban living, and the collision between generations. A ti..
A theater director picks up a young homeless woman off the street, and she becomes the object of his desire. Soon, his ex-girlfriend finds out about the new lover in his life and decides to seduce her...
Adult Italian drama. Marla (Nataly Beck'S) and Simone (Francesco Maccarinelli) share a passionate, romantic relationship and an unbreakable bond, but when they reach breaking point in their struggle to make ends meet they turn to making pornography to survive...
Returning from a devastating tour of duty in Iran, David decides to go on a mountain biking adventure in the Alps to put his horrific memories of war behind him. High in the Alpine forest he meets pretty young Angeline and together they explore their idyllic surroundings. They discover a local legend about a lost Nazi experiment camp - a discovery that will force David to endure horrors more terrifying than anything he encountered on th..
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGIn a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Best remembered for his gothic horror movies, for his final featu..
Andrea Segre's tender, subtle, award-winning drama tells the story of Shun Li, a Chinese immigrant working in a bar on a small island in the Veneto lagoon. Though lonely at first Shun Li slowly strikes up a rapport with Bepi, a Slavic fisherman nicknamed 'The Poet', and the pair forge an unlikely yet intimate bond. However, both the local Italian community and Chinese immigrant population object to the relationship and they soon find th..
Nanni Moretti ('Dear Diary') writes, directs and stars in this story of family grief and bereavement. Psychiatrist Giovanni (Moretti) lives happily with his family in a small Italian coastal town. One Sunday he is due to spend time with his son Andrea (Giuseppe Sanfelice), when he receives an anguished call from Oscar, one of his patients, and feels he must go and see him instead; however later that afternoon Andrea accidentally drowns ..
Spasmo (Stars: Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall, Ivan Rassimov Directed by: Umberto Lenzi) From the most controversial of all the Italian horror directors, CANNIBAL FEROX man Umberto Lenzi, comes SPASMO – a slick and sick psycho-thriller that stands tall as one of the giallo genre’s most colourful crime-capers. Starring a cast of Euro-shock veterans, such as sexy Suzy Kendall (THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE) and the chiselled-chinned Iv..
Italian drama from award-winning director Michelangelo Antonioni. Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido (Massimo Girotti), with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their r..
Considered the most famous Italian horror film of all time for its vivid, groundbreaking style and jaw-dropping bloodshed, now, to celebrate SUSPIRIA’s Fortieth Anniversary, CultFilms is proud to terrify audiences once again with the dazzling 4K restoration of Dario Argento's groundbreaking horror masterpiece.Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome ..
The Ape Woman is inspired by a true story of the cruel exploitation of a young carnival performer, Julia Pastrana, whose body was completely covered in hair. She is brought to life here by an extraordinary Annie Girardot - France’s highest-paid actress at the time - in a natural measured and elegant performance from which emanates the ambiguous emotion of being alluring yet devastatingly poignant as “the ape woman”.An unscrupulous hu..
The canals of Venice might have been the basis for a red-coated killer in the classic Don't Look Now but that feels like a mere warm-up for the knife-play of Bloodstained Shadow, a certified giallo masterpiece! Directed by Antonio Bido (Watch Me When I Kill), and starring the sensational Stefania Casini (Suspiria), the story focuses on a slew of slayings that all point towards someone harbouring some particularly horrifying past secrets..
Coming-of-age drama which follows teenage Romani boy Pio (Pio Amato) as he navigates adulthood and the dichotomy of opposing communities in his home of Calabria. Determined to prove that he is becoming a man, Pio partakes in drinking, smoking and criminal activity in an attempt to gain the respect of his elder brother and to integrate himself into his surrounding communities. But when Pio's brother Cosimo (Damiano Amato) goes missing, h..
LIMITED EDITION BOOKLET (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (BOOKLET) ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGAfter her uncle dies unexpectedly, Elizabeth Balljanon inherits his sprawling castle. The walls are crumbling, the electricity doesn't work and there's a fully equipped torture chamber in the cellars but interior decoration is the least of her worries: a black-gl..
Legendary director (and avowed atheist) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According To Matthew (Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo) is one of the great retellings of the story of Christ - a cinematic rendering (filmed by invitation from the Pope) at once both passionate and poetic. With stunning black-and-white photography, an eclectic soundtrack (Odetta, Bach, A Congolese Mass, etc), and using a cast of non-professionals who voice dialogue drawn..
Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, spends his easy life among Rome's decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife - a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old - his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes... A dazzling, dizzying and entrancing cinematic tour-de-force, built around a..
Inspired by a true story. In a Nazi prisoner of war camp, a group of WWII prisoners join together to plan a symbolic Olympic tournament behind the guards back to regain their human dignity that the Nazis have tried to trample out of them on a daily basis. Discovered by their tormentors, the prisoners are now forced to consider the impossible challenge posed by the German Commander which is to take on the local German garrison in a film..
Michael (Braff) is about to turn 30 and everything's going well in his life. He has a fantastic job, a great group of friends and is living with the girl of his dreams. But when he meets Kim (Bilson), a young college student, he starts to doubt where he is going and whether he's read to commit to this life. Funny and romantic. The Last Kiss is about love, lust, fidelity and ultimately growing up.Special Features Two Feature Commentary..
Director Lucio Fulci is widely regarded as the ‘Godfather of Gore’. But being famous for his gore-artistry is - somewhat unfairly - to the detriment of the magistral filmmaker that he was. Fulci is revered by Tarantino (who borrowed the tune of The Psychic in his Kill Bill) and other Hollywood mavericks as their avowed influence. This new edition of THE PSYCHIC is exclusive as it has been extensively further restored from new 2K-scanned..
The Traitor tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian po..
While researching time movement, a father and son on discover their machine enables them to move through Time. Whilst testing they get trapped in a Time Loop, where their actions in the past have grave consequences for the present and the future...
This masterpiece by the acclaimed Italian director Marco Bellocchio (Good Morning, Night) tells the extraordinary story of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's secret mistress and her struggle for recognition. Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Love in the Time of Cholera) gives a raw and powerful performance as Ida Dalser, the woman loved by Mussolini and who bore him a son, only to be denied and erased from Il Duce's official biography. Rising star..
He cut his teeth as an assistant on some of the greatest films in cinema history: Visconti's Obsession, Rossellini's Rome, Open City De Sica's Bicycle Thieves. His eye for black-and-white film was masterful, but it was his innovations in colour with Antonioni's Red Desert and Blow-Up, in the mid-1960s, that set him apart as a genius of the medium.Special Features Trailer..
At an international swim meet in St. Petersburg, Massimo, a young and sexy Italian swimmer catches the eye of Vladimir, a handsome Russian reporter. A relationship is soon formed and the men fall in love at almost breakneck speed. Things begin to get complicated, however, as the two men are challenged by strong cultural differences, and plagued by the backdrop of Russia's newly passed Anti-gay laws. Will their love survive all of these ..
The 1970s were a time of intense uncertainty and instability in Italy. Political corruption and widespread acts of left and right-wing terrorism, alongside a breakdown in social cohesion and a loss of trust in public institutions such as the government and police, created a febrile atmosphere of cynicism, paranoia and unexploded rage. Throughout this period, these sentiments found expression in a series of brutal, often morally ambiguou..
The 1970s were a time of intense uncertainty and instability in Italy. Political corruption and widespread acts of left and right-wing terrorism, alongside a breakdown in social cohesion and a loss of trust in public institutions such as the government and police, created a febrile atmosphere of cynicism, paranoia and unexploded rage. Throughout this period, these sentiments found expression in a series of brutal, often morally ambiguou..
Inspector Montalbano is back – as you’ve never seen him before. These are the tales of the young Inspector Montalbano, with all the integrity but less of the experience of his older, possibly wiser, self. Exhausted by the neverending hillsides of his rural Sicilian beat, the Deputy Inspector – in the midst of investigating a murder - finds himself promoted to Inspector and dispatched to his childhood home of Vigata. There he will be cal..
Meet the Young Inspector Montalbano - Italy's favourite detective, in twelve exciting, richly Sicilian episodes drawing on the novels and short stories of Andrea Camilleri. Operating in his childhood home of Vigata, the young inspector is joined by the characters that will support him all his life: Fazio Senior and Fazio Junior, Domenico Mimi Augello and the young and exceedingly eager Officer Catarella. In a Sicilian world of close-kni..
Inspector Montalbano is back - with six all new, richly Sicilian episodes drawing on the novels and short stories of Andrea Camilleri. These are the tales of the young Inspector Montalbano, learning from experience and building the man who will, in later series, be so much older and somewhat wiser. Operating in his childhood home of Vigata, the young Inspector is joined by the characters that will support him all his life: Fazio Senior ..
