Olimpia Carlisi

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jennifer Connelly

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roberto Benigni

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for...

Genre:

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

Genre:

Cast: Michael Lonsdale

Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher, is gay. Heartbroken and determined to flee as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francesca Neri

Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roberto Benigni

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Juliet Berto

'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alain Noury

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does...

Genre:

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lambert Wilson

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Aprà

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Massimo Girotti

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give...

Genre:

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alain Cuny

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day...

Genre:

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franco Citti

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giulia Salerno

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia’s daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother Daniel attempt to relieve...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierluigi Aprà

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a...

Genre: War

Cast: Alan Arkin

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Woods

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is...

Genre: History

Cast: Donald Sutherland

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation of a dead man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudine Auger

Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tobias Moretti

Vipera is the wife of a Sicilian smithy. She meets a man who shows her that life can be better and promptly leaves her husband and her little...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harvey Keitel

Inspired by the writings by Robert Musil. Won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1968.

Genre:

Cast: Pierluigi Aprà

Beatrice discovers the affair between her husband and the young wife of Ciampa, a man advanced in years and secretly resigned to that infidelity...

Genre:

Cast: Salvo Randone

At the beginning of the twentieth century, two friends, one a homosexual and the other a writer, fall in love with a young divorced woman.

Genre:

Cast: Olimpia Carlisi