Renato Salvatori – MRQE

The Organizer

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

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle

La Luna

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

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo

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

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 the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.

Asso

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

Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the ‘final’ game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Armaguedon

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

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother’s death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, “Armaguedon”. A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

One Way or Another

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

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Le Gitan

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

Hugo Sennart is a French Gypsy, wanted by the police for theft. The same inspector who’s searching for him is also looking for a jewel thief, Yan Kuq, whose wife has died under suspicious circumstance just after a major burglary. The Gypsy needs to settle a few scores and make one more heist before going to ground, and, by coincidence, his path takes him close to Yan, who’s hiding in the hotel of a close friend and former lover, Ninie. The Gypsy lives by a code of honor, which puts him at risk on occasion; and he despises those who treat his people as worse than dogs. The police close in. Is there honor among thieves?

Flic Story

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

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France’s public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Il sospetto

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

Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.

Una breve vacanza

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

Clara (Florinda Bolkan) works a back-breaking factory job in a Milan slum to support her disabled husband, three children and carping mother-in-law. But when Clara is diagnosed as tubercular, she’s sent to a sanatorium in the Alps that proves the greatest vacation of her life. There she meets other patients who treat her with kindness, civility and an intellectual respect that is alien to her. When she falls for a handsome fellow patient (Daniel Quenaud), she wonders if she can ever return.