Movies: Piero Tosi

  • 1963
    The Leopard

    The Leopard (1963)

    The Leopard

    7.71963HD

    As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero neph...

    The Leopard
  • 1963
    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    7.41963HD

    Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want....

    Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • 1971
    Death in Venice

    Death in Venice (1971)

    Death in Venice

    7.21971HD

    Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenba...

    Death in Venice
  • 1960
    Rocco and His Brothers

    Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

    Rocco and His Brothers

    8.01960HD

    When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results....

    Rocco and His Brothers
  • 1962
    Boccaccio '70

    Boccaccio '70 (1962)

    Boccaccio '70

    6.91962HD

    An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very publ...

    Boccaccio '70
  • 1968
    Spirits of the Dead

    Spirits of the Dead (1968)

    Spirits of the Dead

    6.21968HD

    Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil....

    Spirits of the Dead
  • 1976
    The Innocent

    The Innocent (1976)

    The Innocent

    6.81976HD

    Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again....

    The Innocent
  • 1974
    The Night Porter

    The Night Porter (1974)

    The Night Porter

    6.81974HD

    A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them....

    The Night Porter
  • 1957
    Le Notti Bianche

    Le Notti Bianche (1957)

    Le Notti Bianche

    7.41957HD

    A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return....

    Le Notti Bianche
  • 1964
    Marriage Italian Style

    Marriage Italian Style (1964)

    Marriage Italian Style

    7.71964HD

    During World War II, a man falls for a woman in Naples, leading to a two-decade affair. When she learns he plans to marry someone else, she schemes to make him marry her, having secretly borne his children....

    Marriage Italian Style
  • 1969
    The Damned

    The Damned (1969)

    The Damned

    7.31969HD

    In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime....

    The Damned
  • 1974
    Conversation Piece

    Conversation Piece (1974)

    Conversation Piece

    7.31974HD

    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 ...

    Conversation Piece
  • 1970
    Medea

    Medea (1970)

    Medea

    6.51970HD

    Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman....

    Medea
  • 1954
    Senso

    Senso (1954)

    Senso

    7.21954HD

    A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant....

    Senso
  • 1973
    Ludwig

    Ludwig (1973)

    Ludwig

    7.41973HD

    Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexua...

    Ludwig
  • 1952
    Bellissima

    Bellissima (1952)

    Bellissima

    7.71952HD

    Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria....

    Bellissima
  • 1964
    The Ape Woman

    The Ape Woman (1964)

    The Ape Woman

    7.31964HD

    A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager....

    The Ape Woman
  • 1967
    The Witches

    The Witches (1967)

    The Witches

    6.11967HD

    Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and ...

    The Witches
  • 1981
    The Skin

    The Skin (1981)

    The Skin

    6.31981HD

    Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian forces after the defeat of the Nazis in Italy, The Skin follows the collapse of Italian society under the US occupation and the desperate measures requ...

    The Skin
  • 1967
    The Stranger

    The Stranger (1967)

    The Stranger

    6.81967HD

    Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder....

    The Stranger