Marco Ferreri's greatest international success La Grande Bouffe scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food call girls and a hefty lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collaps
Tales Of Ordinary Madness (1981): Based on stories by Charles Bukowski like much of his work there's an overtly autobiographical feel throughout. Ben Gazzara stars as Charles Serking the archetypal Bukowski protagonist; moving through a variety of drunken scenarios bedding a bevy of increasingly bizarre women in the process... Don't Touch The White Woman! (1974): Marcello Mastroianni stars as General George Armstrong Custer in this bizarre French farce where Nixon i
After a bull dies in an arena, its remains are transported throughout Belgium, France, and Spain, where various characters cross its path.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in London, England, gives viewers a tour of the city, including her birthplace, the Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, Battersea Park and an East End church that was damaged in the infamous blitz air raids during World War II. She also recites several famous English poems and speeches by notable English figures.
Argent Films presents a collection of distinctive heroic World War II action headed by Hollywood superstars Mel Gibson and Richard Burton in authentic action drama finely crafted by the likes of RAMBO director George Cosmatos.Very rarely shown on TV, these Wartime accounts of Heroes fighting against the WWII Axis, from the Pacific to the African desert, are now brought together in one must-have collector's set.Attack Force Z: Mel Gibson leads a Special Forces Commando (including Sam Neil) to locate and rescue a defecting Japanese Officer who has crashed in the dense jungle of a Japan occupied Pacific Island. Based on a real mission by Z Force, a forerunner of the S.A.S., made up mostly from Australian and British volunteers, their daring missions changed the course of the war and remains secret to this day.Massacre In Rome: Nerve-wracking dramatization by RAMBO director George P. Cosmatos, and accentuated by an electrifying score by Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, of one of the worst atrocities of the War. Richard Burton (in a career best) plays Kapler, the German Officer whose human conscience gets pitted against the sadistic might of the Reich after Hitler directly orders him to execute 335 civilians as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi soldiers by Italian Partisans. Casablanca Express: At the height of WW2, British PM Winston Churchill is covertly on his way to the then-secret Casablanca Conference with US President Roosevelt and France's General DeGaulle. To confuse the Nazis trailing him, the PM gets off his plane in Algiers and boards the Casablanca Express. When he gets kidnapped by a crack unit of Nazi Sturmtruppen, halfway across the Moroccan desert, it is down to a few, fearless, unsung heroes from the British SIS and a U.S. Marine Platoon to rescue Churchill, preventing a devastating Nazi Victory that would have changed the course of the War and the world as we know it.
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbour Mastroianni. As the day segues into night Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.
Irene is a shy reserved girl who starts working in an isolated mountain hotel. Her employers seem obsessed with cleanliness but she's not fazed by that. But she soon discovers that her predecessor has mysteriously disappeared and whenever she tries talking about it to the other employees or even the police she's met with indifference. And what are the connections to the cave nearby with its connections to witchcraft?
Ursula Andress, voted the greatest Bond Girl ever, sports another iconic bikini, and this time it literally kills! Set in the near future, the film opens with Andress killing her penultimate victim in 'The Big Hunt', a reality-TV style game show which selects both 'Hunter' and 'Victim' from participants; the two then chase one another around the globe: kill your 10th victim and you win millions! Andress' final victim is the cool, sun-loving Italian Marcello (Mastroianni) who also needs to no...
An Italian sex comedy in which Marcello Mastroianni plays a Major who is impotent unless an element of danger is present in his wooing. When his lecherous psychiatrist tries to convince him to give up women it becomes obvious that the doctor has an agenda of his own.
This is the film which features the - literally - epoch-making, iconic, striptease by Sophia Loren! Presented for the very 1st time in its English spoken version (also optional original Italian with revised subtiles) for the 1st time restored in its longer original version from new HD materials with faithful filmic look. Director DeSica (Two Women, Umberto D, Bicycle Thieves) tells three rambunctious stories celebrating beautiful women (all played by Loren) and suave Latin lovers (all played by Mastroianni), his joyous YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW made La Dolce Vita, the sweet-life, attainable for all - less cerebral than Fellini.. and more fun! Time to get on our scooters and go Ciao Bella! Extras: Sophia, yesterday, today and tomorrow: a candid intimate interview with of Loren with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others Vittorio D: Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With participations from the likes of Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh,etc
Rich shop owner Don Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) meets 17-year old Filumena Maturano (Sophia Loren) in a Naples brothel during a Second World War air raid. He rescues her, sets her up as his mistress, and over the years exploits her ... She loves him dearly but is disillusioned when she finds he is having an affair with the shop's young cashier. To win him back, she stages her own death! and when this doesn't work, she admits that she's the mother of three sons, one of whom is Domenico's; but she refuses to say which one! At long last he gives in and they finally get married. Loren gets her man! Extras: TWO SPECIAL DOCUMENTARIES: Sophia, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: a candid, intimate interview with Sophia Loren, with exclusive footage of her family, close friends and collaborators such as Woody Allen, Giorgio Armani and others Vittorio D: Tribute to multi-awarded maestro filmmaker De Sica, a milestone of Cinema history. With interviews with Clint Eastwood, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh etc Separate Italian audio with new improved subtitles Exclusive Documentary on Sophia Loren Exclusive Documentary on Vittorio De Sica
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