Movies
Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes. Stars: Marisa Solinas Germano Gilioli Anita Ekberg Peppino De Filippo Tomas Milian Sophia Loren Vittorio De Sica Suso Cecchi D'Amico
An English professor falls for a minor , and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Lois Maxwell, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Jerry Stovin, Stanley Kubrick, Nelson Riddle
After an unsuccessful assassination, a terrorist and his wife hide on a remote island in the house of a friend who doesn't suspect anything.
Stars: Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre, Robert Bousquet, Diane Lepvrier, Maurice Garrel, Alain Cavalier, Serge Nigg
An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, David Lean, Robert Bolt, Maurice Jarre
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway. Along the way we are treated to sea battles, blood-thirsty cannibals, and wall-to-wall action.
Stars: Michèle Mercier, Richard Harrison, Roldano Lupi, Paul Muller, Walter Barnes, Domenico Paolella, Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiandr can live underwater. This gives him certain advantages, but creates a lot of problems.
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars. Stars: Ivan Pereverzev Aleksandr Shovorin Linda Barrett Konstantin Bartashevich Larysa Borysenko Viktor Dobrovolsky Francis Ford Coppola Aleksey Sazonov
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Stars: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Jerome Robbins, Ernest Lehman, Leonard Bernstein
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way. Stars: Audrey Hepburn George Peppard Buddy Ebsen Patricia Neal Martin Balsam John McGiver Blake Edwards Truman Edwards Franz Planer
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Shug, a rich old man, throws out his longtime live-in mistress and moves in his young, sexy niece, who's just returned home after making a living as a stripper in New Orleans. The mistress doesn't intend to go without a fight, however, and while Shug tries to make peace between the two women, he doesn't realize that his niece has her own plans for him. Stars: Annabelle Weenick George Edgley Max W. Anderson Bert Masters Lacey Kelly Larry Buchanan
Young Marius dreams of leaving his dull provincial life and seeing the world. When the beautiful Fanny declares her adoration for him, Marius must choose between an adventurous life at sea and the grandest adventure of all: love.
Stars: Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Lionel Jeffries, Paul Bonifas, Joshua Logan, Harold Rome
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Stars: Antone Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Esther Sandoval, Karl Lukas Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith, Fred Katz
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., George DeNormand, Roy Glenn, Daniel Petrie, Lorraine Hansberry, Laurence Rosenthal
A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. Stars: David Niven Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn Anthony Quayle Stanley Baker Richard Harris J. Lee Thompson Carl Foreman Dimitri Tiomkin
A warrior chieftain dashes between his barbaric allies and a beleaguered city that's being defended by embattled women warriors.
Stars: Louis Jourdan, Sylvia Syms, Jean Chevrier, Nicole Courcel, Ettore Manni, Michel Piccoli, Corrado Pani, Carlo Giustini, Jacques Dufilho, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Vittorio Cottafavi, Peter O'Cord, Luigi Emmanuele, Léo Joannon, Gaetano Loffredo
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Stars: Jean-Paul Delmondo Jean Seberg Daniel Boulanger Jean-Pierre Melville Henri-Jacques Huet Van Doude Jean-Luc Godard Francois Truffaut
Animas Trujano is a colorful but irresponsible Indian in a small Mexican village. He hopes above all things someday to be chosen mayordomio of his village, a place of great honor usually conferred upon the wealthiest and most respected citizens. Animas has a loyal wife, but cheats on her and gambles away every cent they raise. Chances arise for Animas to turn over a new leaf and even hope realistically for the honor of mayordomio. But will Animas behave responsibly enough to take advantage of these opportunities?
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre, Pepe Romay, Titina Romay, David Reynoso, Eduardo Fajardo, Ismael Rodríguez, Rogelio Barriga Rivas, Raúl Lavista
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
The true life's story of Juana Gallo. A woman who rose to become one of the leaders of the Mexican revolution.
Stars: Maria Felix, Luis Aguilar (I), Noe Murayama, Rene Cardona, Sonia Infante, Miguel Zacarias, Manuel Esperon
Herod, King of Judea, is made a prisoner by the Romans. Convinced the King is dead, his faithful lieutenant, Aaron, is nevertheless unable to keep his promise to kill the Queen if something untoward happened to the King. He leads the young woman out into the desert. Herod's pleas to Augustus are successful and he returns to his palace. His son, Antipater, informs Herod that Aaron has betrayed him.
Stars: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti, Viktor Tourjansky
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Woody Strode, Stanley Kubrick, Dalton Trumbo, Alex North