 Amarcord 1973  R, 127 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Magali Noel, Nando Orfei, Ciccio Ingrassia, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli
Federico Fellini presents an insightful view of mid-1930s' Italy as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy. This is the picture of a changing Italy as fascism overtakes the country and received the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs 1966  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Vincent Price, Fabian, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Laura Antonelli, Moa Tahi
This sequel to "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" again stars Vincent Price as the weird doctor experimenting with the design of sexy women robots. With his improvements in place, the robots now explode when their navels are touched, and they are sent out to kill high-ranking NATO officers. Even Vincent can't make this interesting.
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Kaos 1984  R, 187 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: Chaos
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Omero Antonutti, Franco Franchi, Biagio Barone, Regina Bianchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Enrica Maria Modugno, Massimo Bonetti, Salvatore Rossi, Franco Scaldati, Pasquale Spadola, Carlo Cartier, Laura De Marchi, Carlo Cartier
This five-part series presents stories by Luigi Pirandello representing poverty stricken Sicilians. In "The Other Side," a peasant woman (Margarita Lozano) tries to contact her sons in America. "Moonstruck" involves a newlywed (Enrica Maria Modugno) who finds that the personality of her husband (Claudio Bigagli) changes during full moons. Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia are featured in "The Jar"–a story about a craftsman (Ingrassia) who gets trapped inside a jar that he is repairing. In "Requiem," villagers oppose a feudal landlord, the Baron (Pasquale Spadola). The epilogue, "Conversing with Mother," involves a son (Omero Anonutti) who talks to the spirit of his deceased mother (Regina Bianchi).
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Primitive Love 1964  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Luigi Scattini
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Luigi Scattini, Mickey Hargitay, Lucia Modugno, Carlo Kechler, Alfonso Sarlo, Eugenio Galadini
Hey, sure it's a bomb, but at least Jayne gave acting a try. Jayne (Jayne Mansfield) is an anthropologist who tries to convince a professor and two bellhops of the primitiveness of love through her documentary. Lots of excuses to show off sex-oriented material by Jayne and her husband, Mickey Hargitay.
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| 1. Amarcord (1973)
2. Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
3. Kaos (1984)
aka: Chaos
4. Primitive Love (1964)
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