Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema... Read full bio →
Nitrato d'argento
This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...).
La casa del sorriso
A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
La carne
A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
I Love You
A heartwarming South African romantic comedy starring Kurt Darren, Ilse de Vis, Christina Storm and Andre Frauenstein.
Il futuro è donna
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.
Storia di Piera
This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla).
Storie di ordinaria follia
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
Chiedo asilo
A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school. Leading to varied reactions from the students and the parents.
Ciao maschio
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.
La dernière femme
Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.
Touche pas à la femme blanche
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
La grande bouffe
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
Liza
En croisiere sur un yacht avec des amis, Liza eprouve l'envie de tout quitter et nage jusqu'a l'ile la plus proche. Elle fait la connaissance du proprietaire des lieux, Giorgio, qui vit seul dans une boule de pierre. Ils passent la nuit ensemble. Giorgio la ramene a terre mais Liza revient, tue le chien et prend sa place.
L'udienza
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Il seme dell'uomo
A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.
Dillinger è morto
Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache. She has left him dinner but it is cold and Glauco decides to prepare himself a gourmet meal...
L'uomo dei cinque palloni
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
L'harem
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Italian comedy film in three segments
La donna scimmia
Antonio Focaccia è un imbroglione che vive di raggiri e che scopre, per caso, all'interno di un convento di monache, una giovane donna il cui corpo è fittamente coperto di peli.
L'ape regina
A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies.
Mafioso
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
El cochecito
El Cochecito is a 1960 Spanish black comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. The film is based on Rafael Azcona's novel who co-wrote the script with Ferreri. The film was a huge flop when it was released in Spain, but nowadays is a cult classic. The film had troubles with Spanish censorship, that forced to change and cut the original ending.
El pisito
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in.
L'amore in città
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.