Bocca d'Inferno

A soldier who died in World War I. A photographer who, over a hundred years later, finds his autographed diary and decides to follow its trail from Avellino in southern Italy to the hills of the Karst in the northeast. B

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorious Titanus Film from 1947 to 1962.

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

The Man With the Flower in His Mouth

A train station in Sicily. There are two people in the waiting room: one is “the man with the flower in his mouth” in the film's title, who has confronted and threatened a mysterious woman outside the station. The other

The Early Bird Catches the Worm

Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling addiction, that slowly consumes his life, his relationship with his girlfriend

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

Someplace in Your Mouth

Some Place in Your Mouth is shot in the Forum car park on the edge of Palermo. Young men sit on bouncing mopeds; cars overloaded with sub-woofers pound with base. The camera registers male posture. But it also captures m

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

The dialogue takes place in a night bar between a man sentenced to death for epithelioma ("the flower in his mouth") and a "peaceful customer" who has missed his train; that is, between someone who lives intensely the li

The Dead Remain with Their Mouths Open

Central Apennines, 1944. The snowy landscape witnesses the escape of four hunted partisans. As they wander through the blizzard in search of a shelter, they meet a young girl.

L'Occhio L'Orecchio La Bocca

A short documentary about a 70s Roman film club.

Wondrous Boccaccio

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandon

Nights of Boccaccio

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of deriv

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to Verdi’s setting of this story of searing conflict between public duty and priv

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Power struggles among rival families in 14th-century Genoa, a story of tragic love, a young girl gone missing… Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra combines the perfect ingredients for gripping dramatic opera with a strong political

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century lan

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century lan

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter. The child has disappeared from her foster-home. Boccanegra returns to Genoa to

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats th

Swing it, Boccaccio

The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same