The Blood Stained Shadow 1978  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Antonio Bido
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Stefania Casini, Craig Hill, Massimo Serato, Juliette Mayniel, Laura Nucci, Attilio Duse, Gianfranco Bullo, Sonia Viviani, Luigi Casellato, Alfredo Zammi, Alina De Simone
Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) travels to visit his brother, Don Paolo (Craig Hill), a priest. Don Paolo talks about the shady characters in town and how he has made enemies of some of them. When murders occur, Don Paolo begins to receive threatening notes. Stefano's flashbacks from his childhood may provide a clue to the solution.
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Fiorile 1993  PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Romance
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast: Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Lino Capolicchio, Constanze Engelbrecht, Athina Cenci, Giovanni Guidelli, Norma Martelli, Pier Paolo Capponi, Laurent Schilling, Chiara Caselli, Renato Carpentieri, Carlo Luca De Ruggieri, Paul Muller, Dominique Proust
In the late 18th century, Elisabetta Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) puts a curse on the Benedetti family after her lover Jean (Michael Vartan) is executed for a crime committed by her brother Corrado (Claudio Bigagli). Over the next two centuries, the family has gained and lost wealth and is hated by their neighbors. Now, Luigi (Lino Capolicchio), his wife Juliette (Constanze Engelbrecht), and their children visit Luigi's father Massimo (also played by Vartan) who has frittered away the family fortune. Massimo relates the story of the family's misfortunes to the children, and he just may hold the key to removing the curse, or will he pass it on to them?
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971 R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Raffaele Curi, Camillo Cesarei, Inna Alexeievna, Katina Morisani, Cinzia Bruno, Barbara Pilaven
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the story of the wealthy Jewish family, Finzi-Continis, who ignored the dangers of fascism in the late 1930s that overtook Italy–until it was too late. While many Jewish families left Italy, the Finzi-Continis family remained believing that their sprawling estate would protect them from fascism. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is invited to their home to do research for his school studies and falls in love with Micol Finzi-Contini (Dominique Sanda). Giorgio tries to draw Micol away from Italy, but she refuses, and now the politics of war close in on them.
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House with the Windows That Laugh 1976 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Pupi Avati
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani, Vanna Busoni, Andrea Matteuzzi, Bob Tonelli, Pietro Brambilla, Ferdinando Orlandi, Ines Ciaschetti
A small, Italian village was the home of a painter of macabre works of art. One of his paintings–a man being murdered–is on a church wall and needs restoring. A young artist, Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), is hired to restore it. Stefano becomes interested in the artist's life, and as he investigates more and more secrets are revealed, building to a startling conclusion. A well-paced thriller that will keep the viewer's interest throughout.
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Last Days of Mussolini 1974 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mussolini: Ultimo Atto
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Cast: Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Henry Fonda, Bruno Corazzari, Manfred Freyberger, Lino Capolicchio, Marco Guglielmi, Tom Felleghy, Luciano Pigozzi, John Stacy, Giuseppe Addobbati, Andrea Aureli, Umberto Raho
The last days of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Rod Steiger) are the focus of this violent drama. Mussolini realizes that the Italian people are turning against him, and, with his mistress Claretta Petacci (Lisa Gastoni) by his side, he attempts an escape to Switzerland. At the same time, he is trying to hide from the Nazis, the Allies, the Italian government, and Italian freedom fighters–all of whom are on his trail.
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Traveling Companions 1996  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Peter Del Monte
Cast: Asia Argento, Michel Piccoli, Lino Capolicchio, Silvia Cohen, Max Malatesta, Petrizia Pezza, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Chantal Ughi, Sebastiano Colla, Silvia Gasparini
Waitress Cora (Asia Argento) also performs odd jobs. She has become cynical of the world around her after her mother's suicide and having to deal with her mentally ill brother. Cosimo (Michel Piccoli) has become forgetful in his old age and wanders through the town and countryside enjoying himself. His daughter (Silvia Cohen), fearful that Cosimo will come to harm, hires Cora to follow him. As time passes, Cora is drawn to Cosimo and starts learning things about herself.
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| 1. The Blood Stained Shadow (1978)
2. Fiorile (1993)
3. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
4. House with the Windows That Laugh (1976)
5. Last Days of Mussolini (1974)
aka: Mussolini: Ultimo Atto
6. Traveling Companions (1996)
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