After the Fox 1966  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature, Paolo Stoppa, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff, Lydia Brazzi, Maurice Denham
This Neil Simon vehicle follows a lovable crook who manages to get caught and imprisoned every time he attempts a crime. He escapes and begins his next caper of smuggling $3 million via an Italian seashore by pretending to be making a movie. Though not one of Neil Simon's best, it still has some good laughs. Mature, as an over-the-hill actor, is great.
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Becket 1964  N/R, 148 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Glenville
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Donald Wolfit, John Gielgud, Pamela Brown, Martita Hunt, Sian Phillips, Paolo Stoppa, Gino Cervi, Felix Aylmer, David Weston, Percy Herbert, Christopher Rhodes, Inigo Jackson, Niall MacGinnis
Twelfth-century England is the setting for this insightful story. It involves the long friendship between King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Richard Burton). Their friendship reaches a crisis when Becket must choose between his duties to God as Archbishop and his loyalties to the King. Among the several Academy Award nominations were Best Picture, Director, Actor (both Burton and O'Toole), and Supporting Actor (John Gielgud for his role as King Louis VII of France).
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Behold a Pale Horse 1964  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Raymond Pellegrin, Paolo Stoppa, Mildred Dunnock, Christian Marguand, Daniela Rocca, Michael Lonsdale, Rosalie Crutchley
A Spanish Civil War guerilla fighter, Manuel Artiguez (Gregory Peck), continues to fight for the Loyalist cause after Franco's victory–until he runs into corrupt police officer Captain Vinolas (Anthony Quinn) who decides to put an end to Artiguez's efforts.
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La Matriarca 1968 X, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Libertine
Director: Pasquale F Campanile
Cast: Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Luigi Pistilli, Renzo Montagnani, Nora Ricci, Fabienne Dali, Luigi Proietti, Edda Ferronao, Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio Caprioli
After her husband's death, Mimi (Catherine Spaak) finds a hidden room where he had carried out sexual fantasies with other women. Since the room is well-equipped with sex tools, Mimi decides to pick up where he had left off.
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The Leopard 1963  N/R, 205 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Clementi, Terence Hill, Lucilla Morlacchi, Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Ottavia Piccolo
Based on the novel by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, this is the story of Sicilian aristocrat Prince Don Fabrizio Salino (Burt Lancaster) and how he handles the changes in life brought on by the Garibaldi Revolution in the 1860s. Knowing that the class system is changing and that the aristocratic society is doomed, Salino reluctantly arranges the marriage of his nephew Tancredi (Alain Delon) and Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant who has been appointed the town's mayor Don Calogero Sedara (Paolo Stoppa). The highlight of this film, performed on a beautiful set, is the 40-minute scene at the grand ball.
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 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 PG, 165 min.
Genre: Western / Action / Drama
Director: Sergio Leone
Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Keenan Wynn, Lionel Stander, Paolo Stoppa, Frank Wolff, Gabriele Ferzetti, Frank Brana, Benito Stefanelli, Aldo Sambrell
This movie is a classic, telling the story of the railroad's effect on the American West and how great wealth could be attained by owning land around it. The owner of a railroad, Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), hires Frank (Henry Fonda) to kill any landowners around the railroad line who threaten the railroad's completion. Frank does what he was hired to do and murders landowner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff). Now Brett's widow (Claudia Cardinale) arrives on the scene to ensure that the family's land remains in her name. She is also out for revenge and hires two killers of her own choice, Harmonica and Cheyenne (Charles Bronson and Jason Robards), to kill Frank. And the quest to get even begins.
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Rocco and His Brothers 1960  N/R, 175 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair, Claudia Cardinale, Spiros Focas, Max Cartier, Alessandra Panaro, Corrado Pani, Claudia Mori, Adriana Asti
Hoping for a better life, widow Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves with her son Rocco (Alain Delon ) and his three brothers to Milano where the family joins a fifth son, Vincenzo (Spiros Focas). When a feud erupts between two of the brothers, each meets a tragic end.
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Terminal Station 1953 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Indiscretion of an American Wife
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer, Paolo Stoppa, Nando Bruno, Clelia Matania, Enrico Viarisio, Giuseppe Porelli, Maria-Pia Casilio, Patti Page, Gigi Reder
American housewife Mary Forbes (Jennifer Jones) is enjoying her stay in Rome–complete with Italian lover Giovanni Doria (Montgomery Clift)–when they are caught making love in an empty railroad car and are arrested. Now comes the probability that word of the indiscretion will get back to Mary's husband. What is Mary to do?
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The Visit 1964 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick, Claude Dauphin, Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli, Valentina Cortese, Eduardo Ciannelli, Fausto Tozzi, Jacques Dufilho
Based on Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, this is the story of Karla's (Ingrid Bergman) return to her hometown to seek vengeance against Serge (Anthony Quinn) who jilted her in the distant past.
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| 1. After the Fox (1966)
2. Becket (1964)
3. Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
4. La Matriarca (1968)
aka: The Libertine
5. The Leopard (1963)
6. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
7. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
8. Terminal Station (1953)
aka: Indiscretion of an American Wife
9. The Visit (1964)
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