Ennio Morricone
#1
Luca
Synopsis:
Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Starring:
Maya Rudolph,
Jack Dylan Grazer,
Marco Barricelli
#2
Malena
Synopsis:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato g…
Starring:
Monica Bellucci,
Giuseppe Sulfaro,
Luciano Federico
#3
The Legend of 1900
Synopsis:
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Starring:
Pruitt Taylor Vince,
Tim Roth,
Bill Nunn
Plot:
ship,
piano,
pianist,
jazz,
year 1900,
foundling,
timeframe 1910s,
timeframe 1920s,
timeframe 1930s,
timeframe 19th century
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#4
Lolita
Synopsis:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Starring:
Jeremy Irons,
Dominique Swain,
Melanie Griffith
#5
In the Line of Fire
Synopsis:
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
John Malkovich,
Gary Cole
#6
Cinema Paradiso
Synopsis:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Starring:
Jacques Perrin,
Marco Leonardi,
Pupella Maggio
Plot:
film projectionist,
cinema,
flashback,
blind man,
nostalgia,
funeral,
movie director,
priest,
film reel,
first love
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#7
The Untouchables
Synopsis:
Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
Starring:
Charles Martin Smith,
Robert De Niro,
Andy García
#8
The Mission
Synopsis:
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Starring:
Liam Neeson,
Robert De Niro,
Jeremy Irons
Plot:
spanish,
jesuit,
mission,
slave,
jungle,
slave trader,
crucifix,
portuguese,
mercenary,
brazil
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#9
Once Upon a Time in America
Synopsis:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Starring:
Jennifer Connelly,
Robert De Niro,
James Woods
#10
The Thing
Synopsis:
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
Starring:
Keith David,
Kurt Russell,
Wilford Brimley
Plot:
antarctica,
isolation,
paranoia,
alien creature,
body horror,
shapeshifting,
cult film,
ambiguous ending,
1980s,
ancient astronaut
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#11
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Synopsis:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Starring:
Paolo Bonacelli,
Giorgio Cataldi,
Umberto P. Quintavalle
#12
Fear Over the City
Synopsis:
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Charles Denner,
Adalberto Maria Merli
Plot:
paris france,
car chase,
bank robbery,
actor performing own stunts,
strangulation,
neo noir,
serial murder,
murder,
europe,
france
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#13
My Name Is Nobody
Synopsis:
Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Starring:
R. G. Armstrong,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Henry Fonda
#14
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Synopsis:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone …
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Michael Brandon,
Mimsy Farmer
#15
Duck, You Sucker
Synopsis:
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the…
Starring:
James Coburn,
Romolo Valli,
Rod Steiger
#16
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Synopsis:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Starring:
Gian Maria Volonté,
Gino Pernice,
Salvo Randone
Plot:
years of lead,
exploitation,
italian politics,
left wing,
timeframe 1970s,
italy,
factory,
student,
revolutionary,
factory worker
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#17
The Decameron
Synopsis:
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attemp…
Starring:
Vincenzo Amato,
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Franco Citti
#18
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Synopsis:
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Starring:
Horst Frank,
Karl Malden,
James Franciscus
#19
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Synopsis:
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Starring:
Gian Maria Volonté,
Arturo Dominici,
Florinda Bolkan
#20
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Synopsis:
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Shirley MacLaine,
Manolo Fábregas