Guido Celano – 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.

Arrivederci Roma

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle’s, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.

Il corsaro nero

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

Corsaro Nero (The Black Pirate) is a made-to-order vehicle for Italian Olympic fencing champion Ciro Verratti. The storyline is the usual Dumas-Sabatini melange concerning three virtuous brothers who are betrayed by a traitorous villain. One of the brothers is killed, and the other two swear revenge. Of these two, only one lives to see the bad guy get his just desserts — and that one, of course, is The Black Pirate, who prides himself on being a “gentleman buccaneer.” So impressive is Ciro Verratti in the dueling scenes that it hardly matters that he can’t act his way out of a wet paper bag.

Il disco volante

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

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant.

L’immortelle

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

French avant-garde novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, who previously wrote the screenplay for the ground-breaking L’Annee Derniere a Marienbad, made his directorial debut with this allegorical drama. A man known as N (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) encounters L (Francoise Brion), a mysterious woman who may or may not be involved with M (Guido Celano), a Turk who kidnaps women and forces them into prostitution. N finds himself falling in love with L, who suddenly disappears. When she reemerges, N persuades L to join him for a vacation; as they drive out of town, one of her dogs dashes into the road. Swerving in a desperate effort to save the dog, N loses control of the car and L is killed. N becomes obsessed with the accident, for which he cannot forgive himself. L’Immortelle was nominated for the Golden Bear award at the 1963 Berlin Film Festival.

Il vendicatore

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian- Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.

This Angry Age

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

Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family’s run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.

Don Camillo e l’on. Peppone

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

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.

La Mano dello straniero

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

Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn’t seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.

Never Take No for an Answer

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

It’s a story about a young Italian orphan boy taking his pet donkey to the Vatican to be blessed.