Al Pacino is Michael Corleone in the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business in the Oscar-winning trilogy based on the novel by Mario Puzo.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted his own stage play for this modern twist on the all-woman classic ‘The Women.’ Margit Carstensen and Hanna Schygulla star.
The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.
Fernando di Leo, Italy’s king of crime cinema, directs this thriller about a pimp on the run from a pair of New York hitmen for a crime he was framed for.
Billy Wilder was one of the great directors of classic American comedy. Avanti! (1972), based on the play by Samuel Taylor, is one of the director’s attempts to adapt his trademark mix of wit, romance, and sex to the more permissive era of the 1970s and one of the best films in the last act […]
