"There are two things that are infinite:
femininity and means to take advantage of it."
- Amande
Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Thierry Arbogast
Year: 1990
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | Italian
| English
Genre: Action | Crime
| Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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July 27, 2016 | Categories: 1990, 2.35:1, Action, Crime, Drama, France, Italy, Luc Besson, Thierry Arbogast, Thriller | Tags: Anne Parillaud, Color, English, French, Italian, Jean Reno | Leave a comment
"Ascilto... what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be
your last, so fill it up until you vomit... or something such?"
- Encolpio
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno
Year: 1969
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Latin
Genre: Drama | Family | History
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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July 12, 2016 | Categories: 1969, 2.35:1, Drama, Family, Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Rotunno, History, Italy | Tags: Color, Hiram Keller, Italian, Latin, Magali Noël, Martin Potter | Leave a comment
"There's a family with kids. Do the kids and
make the mother watch. Tell her you'll stop if
she can hold back her tears. I *owe* her that."
- Grace
Dir: Lars von Trier
DoP: Anthony Dod Mantle
Year: 2003
Country: Denmark | Sweden | UK
| France | Germany | Netherlands
| Norway | Finland | Italy
Language: English
Genre: Crime | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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July 9, 2016 | Categories: 2.35:1, 2003, Anthony Dod Mantle, Crime, Denmark, Drama, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lars von Trier, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK | Tags: Ben Gazzara, Color, English, Harriet Andersson, James Caan, Jeremy Davies, John Hurt, Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Patricia Clarkson, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier | Leave a comment
"Happy is a word that makes one sad."
- Elisabetta Recchi
Dir: Luca Guadagnino
DoP: Yorick Le Saux
Year: 2009
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Russian
| English
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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July 3, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 2009, Drama, Italy, Luca Guadagnino, Romance, Yorick Le Saux | Tags: Color, English, Flavio Parenti, Italian, Russian, Tilda Swinton | Leave a comment
"By my faith, I won't hide it longer, Sire. My name is Perceval of Wales."
- Perceval
Dir: Éric Rohmer
DoP: Néstor Almendros
Year: 1978
Country: France | Italy | West Germany
Language: French
Genre: Drama | Music | Romance | War
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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June 27, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1978, Éric Rohmer, Drama, France, Italy, Music, Néstor Almendros, Romance, War, West Germany | Tags: André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle, Color, Fabrice Luchini, French, Marie Rivière | Leave a comment
"The Fool is hurt."
- Gelsomina
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Otello Martelli (uncredited: Carlo Carlini)
Year: 1954
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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May 22, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1954, Carlo Carlini, Drama, Federico Fellini, Italy, Otello Martelli | Tags: Anthony Quinn, Black & White, Giulietta Masina, Italian, Richard Basehart | Leave a comment
"Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out."
- Thomas
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
DoP: Carlo Di Palma
Year: 1966
Country: UK | Italy | USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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May 18, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1966, Carlo Di Palma, Drama, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mystery, Thriller, UK, USA | Tags: Color, David Hemmings, English, Jane Birkin, John Castle, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave | Leave a comment
"Get three coffins ready."
- Joe
Dir: Sergio Leone
DoP: Massimo Dallamano
& Federico G. Larraya
Year: 1964
Country: Italy | Spain
| West Germany
Language: Italian | Spanish
| English
Genre: Action | Drama | Western
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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May 2, 2016 | Categories: 1964, 2.35:1, Action, Drama, Federico G. Larraya, Italy, Massimo Dallamano, Sergio Leone, Spain, West Germany, Western | Tags: Clint Eastwood, Color, English, Gian Maria Volonté, Italian, Marianne Koch, Spanish | Leave a comment
"Unhappiness is our own invention. At times I'm sad that I lack the imagination for it."
- Général André de...
Dir: Max Ophüls
DoP: Christian Matras
Year: 1953
Country: France | Italy
Language: French
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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April 13, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1953, Christian Matras, Drama, France, Italy, Max Ophüls, Romance | Tags: Black & White, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, French, Jean Debucourt, Vittorio De Sica | Leave a comment
"Remember, Fabrizio: one can't live without Rossellini."
- A friend
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
DoP: Aldo Scavarda
Year: 1964
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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April 6, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1964, Aldo Scavarda, Bernardo Bertolucci, Drama, Italy, Romance | Tags: Adriana Asti, Black & White, Francesco Barilli, Italian | Leave a comment
"A man who never speaks ill of women does not love them. For to
understand them and to love them one must suffer at their hands. Then
and only then can you find happiness at the lips of your beloved."
- Giacomo Casanova
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno
Year: 1976
Country: Italy | USA
Language: Italian | French
| German
Genre: Biography | Drama
| History | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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March 31, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1976, Biography, Drama, Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Rotunno, History, Italy, Romance, USA | Tags: Color, Donald Sutherland, French, German, Italian | Leave a comment
"This is the first time that we've been really alone ever since we married."
- Katherine Joyce
"Yes, I suppose it is."
- Alexander 'Alex' Joyce
Dir: Roberto Rossellini
DoP: Enzo Serafin
Year: 1954
Country: Italy | France
Language: English | Italian
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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March 27, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1954, Drama, Enzo Serafin, France, Italy, Roberto Rossellini, Romance | Tags: Black & White, English, George Sanders, Ingrid Bergman, Italian | Leave a comment
"What's it feel like when you dive?"
- Johanna
Dir: Luc Besson
DoP: Carlo Varini
Year: 1988
Country: France | USA | Italy
Language: English | French
| Italian
Genre: Action | Adventure
| Drama | Romance | Sport
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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March 20, 2016 | Categories: 1988, 2.35:1, Action, Adventure, Carlo Varini, Drama, France, Italy, Luc Besson, Romance, Sport, USA | Tags: Color, English, French, Griffin Dunne, Italian, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette | Leave a comment
"Oh beware, my lord, of jealousy. It is the green-eyed
monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
- Iago
Dir: Orson Welles
DoP: G.R. Aldo
Year: 1953
Country: USA | Italy
| Morocco | France
Language: English
Genre: Drama | Romance
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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March 19, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1953, Drama, France, G.R. Aldo, Italy, Morocco, Orson Welles, Romance, USA | Tags: Black & White, English, Orson Welles, Suzanne Cloutier | Leave a comment
""A house without a woman", they say in my parts, "is
like the Sea without a Siren". Don't you agree with me?"
- Old Lady
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Giuseppe Rotunno
Year: 1980
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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March 12, 2016 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1980, Comedy, Drama, Federico Fellini, France, Giuseppe Rotunno, Italy | Tags: Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Color, Donatella Damiani, Ettore Manni, Italian, Marcello Mastroianni | Leave a comment
"Faith doesn't come to us through reason but through the heart"
- Rodolphe
Dir: Luis Buñuel
DoP: Christian Matras
Year: 1969
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | Italian
| Latin
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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March 7, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1969, Christian Matras, Comedy, Drama, France, Italy, Luis Buñuel | Tags: Alain Cuny, Édith Scob, Color, Delphine Seyrig, French, Italian, Latin, Michel Piccoli | Leave a comment
"But you won't understand me, you'll never understand
me! You're too stupid! Quack! Quack! Quack!"
- The Ripper
Dir: Lucio Fulci
DoP: Luigi Kuveiller
Year: 1982
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | Spanish
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
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March 3, 2016 | Categories: 1982, 2.35:1, Horror, Italy, Lucio Fulci, Luigi Kuveiller, Mystery, Thriller | Tags: Barbara Cupisti, Color, Italian, Jack Hedly, Spanish | Leave a comment
"All men are guilty. They're born innocent, but it doesn't last."
- La chef de la police
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville
DoP: Henri Decaë
Year: 1970
Country: France | Italy
Language: French
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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February 15, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1970, Crime, Drama, France, Henri Decaë, Italy, Jean-Pierre Melville, Thriller | Tags: Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Color, Gian Maria Volonté, Paul Crauchet, Rench, Yves Montand | Leave a comment
"It's too late! It's over! I'm not your romantic hero!"
- Lieutenant Franz Mahler
Dir: Luchino Visconti
DoP: G.R. Aldo & Robert Krasker
Year: 1954
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | German
Genre: Drama | History | Romance | War
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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February 3, 2016 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1954, Drama, G.R. Aldo, History, Italy, Luchino Visconti, Robert Krasker, Romance, War | Tags: Alida Valli, Christian Marquand, Color, Farley Granger, German, Italian, Rina Morelli | Leave a comment
"I'm sure Ferrand is wrong. Life is more important than films."
- Alphonse
Dir: François Truffaut
DoP: Pierre-William Glenn
Year: 1973
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | English
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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January 9, 2016 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1973, Comedy, Drama, François Truffaut, France, Italy, Pierre-William Glenn, Romance | Tags: Color, English, François Truffaut, French, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Valentina Cortese | Leave a comment
"If you didn't see him... he's there."
- Diabolik
Dir: Mario Bava
DoP: Antonio Rinaldi
Year: 1968
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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December 20, 2015 | Categories: 1.85:1, 1968, Action, Antonio Rinaldi, Comedy, Crime, France, Italy, Mario Bava | Tags: Adolfo Celi, Color, heist, Italian, John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli | Leave a comment
"My name is Robin. Jan Robin. I'm going to tell
you my story. ...or at least, I'm going to try."
- Jan Robin
Dir: Alain Robbe-Grillet
DoP: Igor Luther
Year: 1968
Country: France | Italy | Czechoslovakia
Language: French
Genre: Drama | War
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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December 7, 2015 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1968, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Czechoslovakia, Drama, France, Igor Luther, Italy, War | Tags: Black & White, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, French, hero, identity crisis, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sylvie Bréal, Sylvie Turbová, Zuzana Kocúriková | Leave a comment
"If you shake his hand, make sure to count your
fingers. There might be a couple missing."
- Augusto
Dir: Federico Fellini
DoP: Otello Martelli
Year: 1955
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Color: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
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December 2, 2015 | Categories: 1.37:1, 1955, Comedy, Drama, Federico Fellini, France, Italy, Otello Martelli | Tags: Black & White, Broderick Crawford, father-daughter relationship, Giulietta Masina, Italian, Richard Basehart | Leave a comment
"Progress always comes late."
- Alfredo
Dir: Giuseepe Tornatore
DoP: Blasco Giurato
Year: 1988
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian | English
| Portuguese
Genre: Drama
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
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November 25, 2015 | Categories: 1.66:1, 1988, Blasco Giurato, Drama, France, Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy | Tags: Brigitte Fossey, Color, English, Italian, Jacques Perrin, Philippe Noiret | Leave a comment