Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow? (Here)

A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure. He's happy to be a kid, so he tries to find out who her father is; his wife knows something is up; his daughter, who's Francesca's age and is pregnant, encourages the affair. Should he tell Francesca his fears that it might be incest? If he tells her and she doesn't care, what next? And what of his wife, who still wants to be married? Francesca takes control.(Here)

Stay As You Are (Italian: Così come sei) is a 1978 erotic-drama film, directed by Alberto Lattuada, starring Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara De Rossi and Ania Pieroni.[1] It is also known as Stay the Way You Are in some countries. It follows a May-December romance between an old working man and a young girl he meets.New Line Cinema gave this film a limited US theatrical release on December 21, 1979. However, this film's DVD has not yet been released in the United States.This film received positive reviews, especially for Nastassja Kinski's performance. According to the United States poster of this film, Bruce Williamson of Playboy called it "A truly sexy film".[2] TIME magazine also praised Kinski's performance: "Kinski is simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it."[3] Mr. Skin gave the film four stars (out of four)(Here)

Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labour of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie) they find employment on a farm in the Panhandle, Texas. When the harvest is over the young, rich and handsome farmer invites them to stay because he has fallen in love with Abby. When Bill and Abby discover that the farmer is seriously ill and has only got a year left to live they decide that Abby will accept his wedding proposal in order to make some benefit out of the situation. When the expected death fails to come, jealousy and impatience are slowly setting in and accidents become eventually inevitable.(Here)

Days of Heaven is a 1978 U.S. romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in 1916, it tells the story of two poor lovers, Bill and Abby, as they travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops for a wealthy farmer. Bill encourages Abby to claim the fortune of the dying farmer by tricking him into a false marriage. This results in an unstable love triangle and a series of unfortunate events.

Days of Heaven was Malick's second feature film, after the enthusiastically received Badlands (1973), and was produced on a budget of $3,000,000. Production was particularly troublesome, with a tight shooting schedule and significant budget restraints. Additionally, editing took Malick a lengthy three years, due to difficulty with achieving a general flow and assembly of the scenes. This was eventually solved with an added narration by Linda Manz. The film was scored by Ennio Morricone and photographed by Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler.

The film was not warmly received on its original theatrical release, with many critics finding only the imagery worthy of praise. It was not a significant commercial success, although it did win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography with an additional three nominations for the score, costume design and sound. Malick himself won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Despite initially unfavorable reviews, Days of Heaven has since become one of the most acclaimed films of all time, particularly noted for the beauty of the cinematography. In 2007, Days of Heaven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".（Here)

In a trio of stories, Italians (Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Paolo Villaggio) deal with the perils and pitfalls of vacations. (Here)

Three shorter comedies: In "Saro Tutta Per Te" (I Will Be All Yours), Tognazzi is Enrico, a dentist who has agreed to vacation with his ex-wife at her lover's villa. In "Si Buana" (Yes, Buana), Villaggio is Wilson, a man in charge of a group of tourists in Kenya. In the final episode, "La Vacanze Intelligenti" (Intelligent Vacation), Alberto Sordi is Remo, a greengrocer who, along with his wife, gets sent on a vacation by their well-meaning children who want to "improve" their parents' minds by sending them off to see Etruscan tombs, hear performances of atonal modern music, and appreciate the wonders of avant-garde modern art.(Here)

编者附: 关于意大利著名喜剧明星阿尔巴托 苏迪 Add: About Alberto Sordi (1920-2003) One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent the finest of post-war Italian cinema history... (here)

The main protagonist of the story is an Italian intellectual who is sent to political exile at the dawn of the Second World War.
The reason of this measure is not due to his anti-fascism, but to his relationship with the wife of one of Mussolini's party-leaders.(Here)

Ispirato molto liberamente al Duello di Anton Cechov. Protagonista è un intellettuale italiano che viene inviato al confino alla vigilia della seconda guerra mondiale. La ragione del provvedimento non è il suo antifascismo, ma la relazione che ha con la moglie di un gerarca mussoliniano. (Here)

Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.(Here)

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructable automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.(Here)

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.(Here)

Made for the televison. Based on the Jean Paul Sartre book with the same title. Hugo, giovane intellettuale appena uscito di prigione dove ha scontato due anni per la morte del capo di partito Hoederer, ottiene di poter dimostrare la vera ragione per cui ha ucciso: assassinio politico, un banale incidente o un delitto passionale? (Here)

Dirty Hands (French: Les Mains sales) is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. It was first performed on 2 April 1948 at the Theatre Antoine in Paris, starring Fran?ois Périer, Marie Olivier and André Luguet. The director was Simone Berriau.
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician.
The play is told mainly in flashback with the killer telling of how he carried out his mission. The killer's identity is established from the beginning, but the question is whether his motivations were political or personal. Thus the play's main theme is not on who did it but on why it was done.....(More)

In uno Stato dell'Europa centrale durante la guerra un giovane si introduce come segretario in casa di un uomo politico di sinistra. Per ordine del partito comunista, il giovane deve uccidere il politico, sospettato di una strategia di compromessi con altri partiti. E il giovane uccide, ma perché ha scoperto sua moglie a letto con la vittima designata. Unica prova televisiva di Petri, che tenta l'impossibile impresa di far sembrare comunista ortodossa una pièce teatrale che è tutto l'opposto. Superiore al previsto la prova di Mastroianni in un ruolo alla Jean Gabin.(Here)

The action takes place in Illyria, a fictional East European country in the latter stages of World War II. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc.
A young Communist, Hugo Barine, is told that Hoederer, a party leader, has proposed talks with the other non-Socialist groups, including the Fascist government and the Liberal and Nationalist-led resistance. The idea is to set up a joint resistance group opposing the Germans, and a post-war coalition government. Hugo feels that Hoederer's policy smacks of treachery. Louis, another party leader, has decided that Hoederer must die. He grudgingly agrees to let Hugo, who has more commitment than experience, do the job.
Hugo and his wife Jessica move in with Hoederer, a man with a charming and trusting nature. Hugo is his secretary. Although he tries to convince Jessica that he is in earnest about the murder, she treats the whole thing as a game. Indeed, at first she sees the gun not as a murder weapon but as a metaphor for a phallus as Hugo perhaps suffers from erectile dysfunction and is unable to please her. Ten days pass and then the negotiations begin with the other parties. With Hoederer coming close to a deal with the members of the class that he loathes, Hugo is on the point of reaching for his gun when a bomb explodes.
Nobody is killed but Hugo is furious. This attack shows that those who sent him do not trust him to do the job. He gets drunk and almost gives the game up to Hoederer's bodyguards. Jessica covers up for him by claiming to be pregnant.
Olga Lorame, one of those who sent Hugo to commit the murder, discreetly visits him and Jessica. It was she who threw the bomb and warns Hugo to get on with killing Hoederer since the others are getting impatient.
So far Jessica has taken the whole killing thing as a game, but the bomb convinces her that things are in earnest and that Hugo will kill Hoederer. She persuades the two of them to argue their points out in order to prevent any killing.....(More)