Lou Castel

Amanda, a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi, a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion. However...

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his...

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les...

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde.

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa....

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a...

A major work of the celebrated Berlin School, the debut of Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) is a mesmerizing portrait of a young German soldier named...

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the...

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon...

A gang of cattle thieves rescue a criminal from the gallows, and later rob a stagecoach loaded with gold. When they get the loot, he is betrayed and...

A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical...

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction...

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a...

A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.

The daughter of a known filmaker finds herself in her father's family home, with the whole family.

A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and...

During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the...

With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former...

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the...

Merle follows the invitation of her lover to spend the summer in the South of France. She is surprised to find only his children in the summer house....

The tragic story of a runaway girl in the 1970s in Verona.

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there....

Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d'Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it...

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.

After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return....

After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best...

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the...

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a...

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated...

Three terrorists—a rebel girl from an upper-class family, a teacher who despises capitalism, and an ex-con with a taste for violence—come...

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent...

The film centers on young revolutionary student Gilberto who is being sought by the police. To avoid arrest, he boards a train and travels home. The...

An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of...

Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortunately, her tendency to express their unhappiness...

Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without...

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore.

The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an...

Cesare used to be a star, a long time ago. The venues have become smaller and the audiences more cruel. Cesare is on his way to his next performance...

A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War...

Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house by the sea.

When I wake will I be someone else?

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill...

Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife who feigns an entire pregnancy in hopes of...

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by...

A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medical practice in the Belgian countryside. During...

Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome...

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is...

Set in a distant and unknown land, the film follows the journey of a young woman named Yssabeau and ventures deep into a culture full of unknown...

The story of certain "wayfarers", whose origin is linked to each of the four elements. Lucas Belvaux (Triton) is a creature of the sea and does not...

A German woman and a former French prisoner of war live in 1950s Germany. Instead of playing a role in rebuilding her country, the heroine remains...

Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot...

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points...

The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really...

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers...

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed...

A young Swiss woman on vacation in Italy, has a relationship with an Italian writer and is struggling with decisions on what to do with her life

Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'.

This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage...

In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung...

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two...

Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can...

Renato, a depressed man with a troubled past, thinks his luck has finally changed when he meets the wonderful Monica. Unfortunately, Monica currently...

A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her...

In a future present, a rebellious Veronique finds herself working for an inventor who has dedicated himself to the cause of a positive darkness; he...

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.

Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school....

A young filmmaker becomes involved with a gangster in Berlin. Based on the Ulf Miehe novel Ich hab' noch einen Toten in Berlin.

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or...

The ensemble film THE GENITAL WARRIORS takes a look at the common past of the three main characters as their memories meet and overlap. The...

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes...

Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.

During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He decides to venture to the next roof to have a...

William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion...

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman...

"Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal to step outside the theater, set in motion by Aldo...

Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and...

A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker.

Kogo, a Japanese filmmaker, has come to spend a few days in Pantin with an old friend. He is avoiding work. An incorrect address, the Romainville...

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends...

The head of a gang of criminals in Arizona tries to kidnap a girl, but is hindered in his intentions by a handsome mining engineer and a federal...

He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline...

Despite the stress and anguish associated with living in the city, as a place it remains a inexhaustible source of inspiration for those who take the...

Couple is a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes.

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they...

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

"What I like about the journey, is the surprise you find when your back. It is not me who said it, it is Stendhal. And it's a pity that I am not...

Fiction-documentary about the short life of the photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) who used to photograph herself, mostly naked in strange...

Mr. Rorret is the owner of a cinema called "The Peeping Tom" which shows a constant stream of horror films. Rorret dates women from the audience and...

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car...

American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a...

Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the...

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing,...

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through...

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think...

A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him...

Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and...

We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.

La Sposa Di San Paolo a.k.a. Tarantula, a.k.a. Viaggio A Galatina (1990) directed by Gabriella Rosaleva