Patrizia Sacchi

Intervista (1987)

Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Sergio Rubini  •  Antonella Ponziani  •  Maurizio Mein

Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Federico Fellini
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Sergio Rubini  •  Antonella Ponziani  •  Maurizio Mein

Arcane Sorcerer (1996)

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Carlo Cecchi  •  Stefano Dionisi  •  Arnaldo Ninchi  •  Andrea Scorzoni

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Carlo Cecchi  •  Stefano Dionisi  •  Arnaldo Ninchi  •  Andrea Scorzoni

The Second Wedding Night (2005)

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Antonio Albanese  •  Neri Marcorè  •  Katia Ricciarelli  •  Angela Luce

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Antonio Albanese  •  Neri Marcorè  •  Katia Ricciarelli  •  Angela Luce

The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)

St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the terrorist plot and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giuliano Montaldo
CAST:  Miki Manojlović  •  Carolina Crescentini  •  Anita Caprioli  •  Roberto Herlitzka

St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Fëdor Michajlovic Dostoevskij meets with Gusiev, a young man committed to a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he took part in the terrorist plot and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giuliano Montaldo
CAST:  Miki Manojlović  •  Carolina Crescentini  •  Anita Caprioli  •  Roberto Herlitzka

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990)

Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ettore Scola
CAST:  Massimo Troisi  •  Ornella Muti  •  Vincent Perez  •  Emmanuelle Béart

Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ettore Scola
CAST:  Massimo Troisi  •  Ornella Muti  •  Vincent Perez  •  Emmanuelle Béart

Sister Emanuelle (1977)

Emanuelle has renounced her life of lust to become a cloistered nun. But when she is assigned to a remote convent school for wayward girls, this delectable Bride Of Christ will face temptations that include a teenage nymphomaniac, a horny escaped criminal, and a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giuseppe Vari
CAST:  Laura Gemser  •  Mónica Zanchi  •  Gabriele Tinti  •  Rik Battaglia

Emanuelle has renounced her life of lust to become a cloistered nun. But when she is assigned to a remote convent school for wayward girls, this delectable Bride Of Christ will face temptations that include a teenage nymphomaniac, a horny escaped criminal, and a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giuseppe Vari
CAST:  Laura Gemser  •  Mónica Zanchi  •  Gabriele Tinti  •  Rik Battaglia

Macaroni (1985)

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ettore Scola
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Patrizia Sacchi

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ettore Scola
CAST:  Jack Lemmon  •  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Patrizia Sacchi

Al cuore si comanda (2003)

Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband "for rent".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giovanni Morricone
CAST:  Claudia Gerini  •  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Sabrina Impacciatore  •  Pierre Cosso

Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband "for rent".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giovanni Morricone
CAST:  Claudia Gerini  •  Pierfrancesco Favino  •  Sabrina Impacciatore  •  Pierre Cosso

Zora la vampira (2000)

Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Manetti  •  Marco Manetti
CAST:  Toni Bertorelli  •  Micaela Ramazzotti  •  Raffaele Vannoli  •  Chef Ragoo

Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Manetti  •  Marco Manetti
CAST:  Toni Bertorelli  •  Micaela Ramazzotti  •  Raffaele Vannoli  •  Chef Ragoo

DeGenerazione (1994)

Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking material, only that all of the stories have a horror/suspense/surreal theme. The stories are diverse, ranging from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Asia Argento  •  Alex Infascelli  •  Pier Giorgio Bellocchio  •  Antonio Manetti  •  Marco Manetti  •  Andrea Prandstraller  •  Alessandro Valori  •  Alberto Taraglio  •  Andrea Maulà  •  Eleonora Fiorini
CAST:  Asia Argento  •  Stefano Abbati  •  Corrado Guzzanti  •  Alessandro Haber

Very rare Italian horror anthology from 1994, starring amongst many others, Asia Argento. This Italian movie is an anthology based with no linking material, only that all of the stories have a horror/suspense/surreal theme. The stories are diverse, ranging from ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Asia Argento  •  Alex Infascelli  •  Pier Giorgio Bellocchio  •  Antonio Manetti  •  Marco Manetti  •  Andrea Prandstraller  •  Alessandro Valori  •  Alberto Taraglio  •  Andrea Maulà  •  Eleonora Fiorini
CAST:  Asia Argento  •  Stefano Abbati  •  Corrado Guzzanti  •  Alessandro Haber

Dante (2022)

Based on the life and times of the poet Dante Alighieri.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Sergio Castellitto  •  Alessandro Sperduti  •  Carlotta Gamba  •  Giulio Pizzirani

Based on the life and times of the poet Dante Alighieri.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pupi Avati
CAST:  Sergio Castellitto  •  Alessandro Sperduti  •  Carlotta Gamba  •  Giulio Pizzirani

Raul - Right to Kill (2005)

In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrea Bolognini
CAST:  Stefano Dionisi  •  Violante Placido  •  Nicola Farron  •  Ernesto Mahieux

In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrea Bolognini
CAST:  Stefano Dionisi  •  Violante Placido  •  Nicola Farron  •  Ernesto Mahieux