Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece 1974

7.30

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

1974

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday

To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday 1974

5.90

Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.

1974

Year One

Year One 1974

2.50

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.

1974

White Horses of Summer

White Horses of Summer 1975

2.00

The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with their impressionable young son.

1975