Enrico Glori – MRQE

Barabba

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Epic biblical tale about the criminal who was released by Pontius Pilate in preference to Jesus, prior to the Crucifixion. The action follows Barabbas after his lucky escape, his return to crime and his subsequent recapture and imprisonment in the sulphur mines. Based on the novel by Swedish writer Par Lagerkvist.

Maciste, l’uomo più forte del mondo

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city’s queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can’t follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the “world above.” If Katar can marry her…

Nuits de Raspoutine, Les

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.

Stazione Termini

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American woman tries to break off her relationship with her Italian lover at Rome’s Stazione Termini train station. This is Vittorio De Sica’s original 89-minute “Terminal Station” which was released first in April 1953 as “Stazione Termini,” the Italian title of Cesare Zavattini’s story. A year later in May 1954, Columbia Pictures released a different version with the alternative title “Indiscretion of an American Wife” which producer David O. Selznick had re-edited and cut to a shortened 64 minutes, dramatically altering characterization by removing its establishing shots and neorealist touches.

La Signora senza camelie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

By a twist of fate, the photogenic Milanese shop assistant, Clara Manni, gets the leading role in Italian movie producer Gianni Franchi’s romantic drama, “Addio Signora”, and becomes an overnight sensation in Rome.

Sperduti nel buio

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.

Perles de la couronne, Les

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937; three of them missing.