Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Italian comedy film in three segments

第二次世界大戦終結後のイタリア。出征したきり行方不明の夫の消息を求め、関係省庁へ日参する女性の姿があった。 戦時中、洋裁で生計を立てる陽気なナポリ娘ジョバンナとアフリカ戦線行きを控えた兵士・アントニオは海岸で出会い、すぐに恋に落ちた。12日間の結婚休暇を目当てに結婚式を挙げたふたりは幸せな新婚の日々を過ごす[2]が、休暇の12日間は瞬く間に過ぎてしまう。精神疾患による除隊を目論んだアントニオは首尾よく精神病院に入院するが、あえなく詐病が露見。懲罰の為、ソ連戦線へと送られてし…

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

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 f…

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.

あるインディアンの集落が突然、ダンカン率いる盗賊一味の襲撃を受け、住民はことごとく殺害されてしまった。生き残ったのは、ジョーという腕のたつ若者一人だけだった。ジョーは家族の仇であるダンカン一味を追い、たどり着いた町で一味が列車強盗を計画している事を知る。ジョーはこれを機会に復讐を果たそうとする。セルジオ・コルブッチ監督のセンスが光るスタイリッシュ・マカロニ・ウエスタン。クエンティン・タランティーノ監督が超リスペクトしている作品でもあり、本作のエンニオ・モリコーネの音楽は『キル…

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have th…

Misha and Sonia are left at home again without their parents, but this time with a nanny. Meanwhile, the bandits from the first film escape from the prison.

Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, c…

Set up by their boss to be knocked off following a final heist, soon-to-retire crooks Brian Hope and Charlie McManus get wind of their impending demise and run off with the spoils of their crime. Fleeing their boss, the drug dealers they ro…

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly a…

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

限定された状況をきわめて映画的なドラマに作り替える名人、E・スコラの、鮮やかな手並みが鑑賞できる作品である。ムッソリーニ支配下のローマで、アパートの住人全てがファシスト集会に出向いた後に残された主婦と、官憲に追われそこに忍んでいた反ファシストの男の、一日だけの恋を描く。ほとんど密室劇に近い内容だが、アパートの外観の取り入れ方が、ヒッチコックの「裏窓」を思わせて見事である。

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only conce…

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopo…

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of eccentric and strange characters.