Death in Venice

Death in Venice 1971

7.30

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

1971

Amarcord

Amarcord 1973

7.91

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

1973

Round Midnight

Round Midnight 1986

7.10

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

1986

Day for Night

Day for Night 1973

7.80

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

1973

Double Murder

Double Murder 1977

2.00

Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.

1977

The Sleeping Car Murder

The Sleeping Car Murder 1965

6.90

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

1965

The Track

The Track 1975

7.20

Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.

1975

Symphony for a Massacre

Symphony for a Massacre 1963

6.71

A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.

1963

The Marseille Contract

The Marseille Contract 1974

5.80

An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

1974

The Priest's Wife

The Priest's Wife 1970

6.10

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.

1970

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

The Fuhrer Runs Amok 1974

3.40

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

1974

Class Trip

Class Trip 1998

6.05

A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.

1998

The Bastard

The Bastard 1968

6.07

A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.

1968

The Police Serve the Citizens?

The Police Serve the Citizens? 1973

6.20

In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.

1973

Male Companion

Male Companion 1964

4.40

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

1964

The Defector

The Defector 1966

5.50

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.

1966

Hail! Mafia

Hail! Mafia 1965

7.00

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

1965

Dear Louise

Dear Louise 1972

4.60

Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent death of her mother. Recently, she has moved to Annecy, a moderate-sized city, to take work as a schoolteacher. She encounters a much younger man, Luigi, an Italian who is down on his luck. Though he moved to France to find work, he was robbed of his money and papers and is stranded. When he helps her bury her dogs, which her neighbour has poisoned for barking, their relationship grows to a new level.

1972

The Voyeur

The Voyeur 1970

5.50

Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life.

1970