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see all genres ›One of the great centers of film production since cinema's earliest days, Italy has always juggled artistic prestige and the ever-shifting genre demands of the marketplace. Over the decades, Italy has exported trends in historical spectacle, neo-realism, sexploitation and violent shock value while also giving us the unalloyed genius of Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci and many more (including Mario Bava and a handful other remarkable Italian filmmakers that rarely get mentioned in the same company as the above but are certainly every bit as worthy).
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Le notti bianche
Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover's promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion. Luchino Visconti's LE NOTTI...Watch Movie
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Summertime
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome (but married) Italian man while vacationing in Venice. Katharine Hepburn's sensitive portrayal of the lonely heroine and Jack Hildyard's glorious Technicolor photography make SUMMERTIME an...Watch Movie
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The Conformist
One of the enduring masterpieces of the 1970s, Bertolucci's breakthrough film THE CONFORMIST is an elegant portrait of the death throes of Italian Fascism and a triumph of pure style. Adapted by Bernardo Bertolucci (an Academy Award®-nominated screenplay) from Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel, it...Watch Movie
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Slaughter Hotel
Fernando di Leo's Italian exploitation horror cult classic stars a terminally creepy doctor (Klaus Kinski) at an asylum for suicidal and disturbed women. There's a team of strange doctors, unprofessional nurses and even a hunky gardener at these ladies' service to help them recover. In classic...Watch Movie
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Seven Wonders of the World
Of the seven sites the ancient Greeks named the "wonders of the world," only one remains. SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD is a round-the-world adventure that picks up where the Greeks of antiquity left off. Released in 1956, this Cinerama spectacle follows 20th century adventurer...Watch Movie
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Syndicate Sadists
Umberto Lenzi was a notorious director of some of the most sadistic and brutal horror films to come out of Italy. But like so many of his fellow filmmakers, he was also fluent in the violent Italian cops and mobsters genre known as "poliziotteschi." SYNDICATE SADISTS is one of...Watch Movie
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They're Coming to Get You
Trapped in a feminist parable wrapped tightly within multiple layers of an Italian low-budget giallo, Jane, an English housewife, may or may not be 1) the victim of a conspiracy to kill her; 2) a central figure in an elaborate occult ritual; 3) prone to wild paranoid...Watch Movie
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Werewolf Woman
From notorious Italian exploitation filmmaker Rino Di Silvestro comes WEREWOLF WOMAN, a psychological, psychosexual, pseudo-shapeshiter shocker and a favorite of director Quentin Tarantino. In it, a mentally unstable young woman named Daniela fantasizes that she is the reincarnation of her...Watch Movie
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In the Folds of the Flesh
In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and just...Watch Movie
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Unrelated
Anna arrives in Italy to stay with her school friend Verena and her family in their rented villa in Tuscany. Her partner Alex was meant to accompany her, but Anna tells Verena (at the last minute) that he has to stay in London due to his work. Over the course of the film it become apparent that...Watch Movie
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The Lickerish Quartet
An aristocratic family becomes obsessed with a striking young blonde actress (Silvano Venturelli) while watching her in what appears to be a crude, silent stag film. After a visit to a local carnival they meet the girl in person and invite her back to their lavish seaside...Watch Movie
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The Sister of Ursula
In the wake of their father's death, two beautiful sisters, sensitive Ursula and promiscuous Dagmar, come to a seaside resort for a relaxing vacation. But their idyllic getaway will soon become a depraved nightmare of kinky exhibitionists, dope-sick lotharios, lust-crazed...Watch Movie
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Deep Red
An English jazz pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal hatchet murder of a renowned psychic and is quickly drawn into the savage crime. With the help of a tenacious female reporter, the pair track a twisted trail of deranged clues and relentless violence towards a shocking climax that has...Watch Movie
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Django
Franco Nero stars as the lone stranger who roams the West dragging a coffin filled with chaos towards a destiny ruled by vengeance. Co-writer/director Sergio Corbucci who directed THE GREAT SILENCE and COMPANEROS, packs his landmark classic with indelible images, unforgettable performances and...Watch Movie
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Reality
From acclaimed director Matteo Garrone, REALITY is a darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his...Watch Movie
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Papaya
Her name was Sirpa Lane, the succulent Finnish beauty who became an international sex symbol in Roger Vadim's CHARLOTTE, then shocked the world with her inhuman degradation in Walerian Borowczyk's THE BEAST. But perhaps her ultimate cinematic destiny was to star in this tropical sleaze-fest from...Watch Movie
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A Summer in Genoa
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Colin Firth turns in a riveting performance as a widower desperately trying to hold his family together after tragedy threatens to tear them apart. Searching for a fresh start, Joe moves with his two daughters from Chicago to the Italian town of...Watch Movie
