Lou Castel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1943-05-28
Locus Natus: Bogotá, Colombia
Et ut:
Obscene Desire
Amanda, a beautiful American girl is soon to be married to Andrea Orsomandi, a wealthy nobleman who lives in an extravagant Gothic mansion. However...
release : 1978.12.04popularis : 2.514
The Nada Gang
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...
release : 1974.02.06popularis : 5.064
Galileo
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
release : 1968.09.07popularis : 4.588
The Cassandra Crossing
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
release : 1976.12.18popularis : 12.128
Irma Vep
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...
release : 1996.10.01popularis : 12.237
Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
release : 1971.08.28popularis : 5.44
About Special Effects
This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde.
release : 2001.09.04popularis : 0.72
Heartbeat Detector
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
release : 2007.09.12popularis : 2.829
Paranoia
Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa....
release : 1969.02.07popularis : 5.053
Fists in the Pocket
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
release : 1965.12.10popularis : 6.349
Dear Michele
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...
release : 1976.10.01popularis : 2.432
Bungalow
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...
release : 2002.05.24popularis : 4.229
Clement
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...
release : 2001.06.06popularis : 5.297
Come Play With Me
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...
release : 1968.04.30popularis : 7.031
Mátalo!
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...
release : 1970.10.22popularis : 2.521
What Time Is It?
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...
release : 1989.09.27popularis : 6.958
Pigs Have Wings
Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 2.944
Kill and Pray
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...
release : 1967.03.10popularis : 4.939
Change of Sex
A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
release : 1977.03.13popularis : 4.569
Fish Soup
The daughter of a known filmaker finds herself in her father's family home, with the whole family.
release : 1992.02.27popularis : 0.666
La rabbia
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and...
release : 2008.02.28popularis : 5.995
Eye of the Astronomer
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...
release : 2012.02.21popularis : 1.34
Mr. Mean
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...
release : 1977.12.01popularis : 1.899
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
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...
release : 1985.10.09popularis : 2.442
Everyday Objects
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....
release : 2013.08.01popularis : 2.37
Perduta
The tragic story of a runaway girl in the 1970s in Verona.
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 1.803
La lapidation de Saint Étienne
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....
release : 2013.06.21popularis : 0.89
Francis of Assisi
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...
release : 1966.09.01popularis : 0.483
The Eyes, the Mouth
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
release : 1982.09.10popularis : 2.038
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
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....
release : 1974.03.06popularis : 0.301
With What Love, With What Love
After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andrea discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best...
release : 1970.01.29popularis : 1.703
Le Petit Chaperon rouge
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...
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 1.172
Man on Fire
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...
release : 1987.09.04popularis : 5.007
Marx Can Wait
"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...
release : 2021.07.15popularis : 4.687
Could It Happen Here?
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...
release : 1977.11.24popularis : 0.587
The Scarlet Letter
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...
release : 1973.03.13popularis : 3.75
Love Is the Beginning of All Terror
Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...
release : 1984.03.07popularis : 2.243
The Protagonists
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent...
release : 1968.06.07popularis : 1.91
Stress
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...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 1.264
A Stranger Came by Train
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...
release : 1974.10.28popularis : 1.225
Parano
Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortunately, her tendency to express their unhappiness...
release : 1981.03.18popularis : 1.588
Dr. Ketel
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...
release : 2011.09.17popularis : 5.771
The Birth of Love
The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore.
release : 1993.09.22popularis : 7.537
Louise (Take 2)
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...
release : 1999.01.20popularis : 3.04
Love
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...
release : 1999.10.21popularis : 1.435
Sweet War, Farewell
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...
release : 1991.09.11popularis : 0.949
Trauma
Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house by the sea.
release : 1984.05.12popularis : 1.689
Earth
When I wake will I be someone else?
release : 2015.06.26popularis : 1.078
A Bullet for the General
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...
release : 1967.01.13popularis : 15.607
Sinon, oui
Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife who feigns an entire pregnancy in hopes of...
release : 1997.11.28popularis : 0.449
The American Friend
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...
release : 1977.06.24popularis : 12.331
High Grounds
A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medical practice in the Belgian countryside. During...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.677
Planet Venus
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...
release : 1972.08.27popularis : 0.304
Killer Nun
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is...
release : 1979.05.09popularis : 7.479
A Girl Named Yssabeau
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...
release : 2012.02.10popularis : 0.697
Sorrisi asmatici: fiori del destino
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...
release : 1997.11.10popularis : 0.255
Fraulein
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...
release : 1986.04.06popularis : 0.472
The Nun
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...
release : 2013.03.20popularis : 8.112
C.I.A. Secret Story
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...
release : 1975.08.21popularis : 3.095
Encore
The mid-life crisis of a middle-aged, depressive college professor/author provides the center of this French character study. Abel Vichac has really...
release : 1996.09.25popularis : 2.045
Three Lives and Only One Death
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...
release : 1996.05.15popularis : 3.766
Closet Children
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...
release : 1977.10.12popularis : 1.844
Campo Europa
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
release : 1984.08.13popularis : 0.493
A Need for Change: The Making of 'Fists in the Pocket'
Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'.
release : 2005.07.07popularis : 2.015
Flesh Color
This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.
release : 1978.09.12popularis : 1.009
Violanta
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
release : 1978.02.22popularis : 1.249
Treasure Island
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...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.617
Little Girls
Inès, Stella, Marion and Emilie are four young women who become friends and never leave each other. They band together during their teenage...
release : 1997.01.15popularis : 1.417
I Want Something And I Do Not Know What
In 1941, Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam, starts a psychoanalysis with Julius Spiers, a disciple of Jung...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 1.94
Flight from Paradise
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...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.206
Pure as a Lily
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...
release : 1976.03.11popularis : 1.563
Shadow
Renato, a depressed man with a troubled past, thinks his luck has finally changed when he meets the wonderful Monica. Unfortunately, Monica currently...
release : 1980.06.26popularis : 1.288
Nanou
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...
release : 1987.02.27popularis : 0.982
1, 2, 3, Whiteout
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...
release : 2007.01.26popularis : 1.823
Lucrezia
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
release : 1968.07.07popularis : 1.318
Jean-Jacques
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....
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 2.922
Output
A young filmmaker becomes involved with a gangster in Berlin. Based on the Ulf Miehe novel Ich hab' noch einen Toten in Berlin.
release : 1974.12.19popularis : 1.009
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or...
release : 1992.04.17popularis : 1.177
Die Geschlechtskriegerinnen
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...
release : 2015.12.18popularis : 1.85
The Leopard
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes...
release : 1963.03.27popularis : 21.584
Amours décolorées
Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.
release : 1998.02.02popularis : 0.275
Look Up
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...
release : 2018.10.18popularis : 1.042
El Cantor
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...
release : 2006.03.15popularis : 1.189
Paradise Hotel
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...
release : 1986.04.15popularis : 1.991
Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia
"Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal to step outside the theater, set in motion by Aldo...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.82
Paris Is Us
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
release : 2019.02.22popularis : 5.23
In the Name of the Father
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...
release : 1971.10.12popularis : 8.075
Nailed Lips
A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker.
release : 1970.02.12popularis : 1.04
Les rues de Pantin
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...
release : 2016.11.23popularis : 0.227
Medea Miracle
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...
release : 2011.03.30popularis : 1.644
Arizona Road
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...
release : 1991.05.24popularis : 3.471
I Feel Good
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...
release : 2018.09.26popularis : 7.202
Promenaux
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...
release : 2002.04.06popularis : 0.479
Couple
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.
release : 1986.01.18popularis : 1.127
Drive Me Home
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...
release : 2019.09.26popularis : 3.893
Nuits transparentes
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
release : 2011.04.14popularis : 0.615
L'Opération de la dernière chance
"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...
release : 2006.06.16popularis : 0.845
Le corps sublime
Fiction-documentary about the short life of the photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) who used to photograph herself, mostly naked in strange...
release : 2007.05.16popularis : 1.203
Rorret
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...
release : 1988.01.01popularis : 1.3
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
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...
release : 1972.04.15popularis : 4.013
Year of the Gun
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a...
release : 1991.09.10popularis : 5.402
1968 The Braibanti Trial
Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the...
release : 2020.09.01popularis : 1.811
Cinématon XIII
Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
release : 1981.11.08popularis : 0.815
Gare du Nord
Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing,...
release : 2013.09.04popularis : 2.012
Jour et nuit, delle donne e degli uomini perduti
Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think...
release : 2014.11.25popularis : 0.334
Home Sweet Home
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...
release : 2012.11.26popularis : 2.422
Hotel de l'Univers
“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through...
release : 2013.11.25popularis : 0.832
Tiresia
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...
release : 2003.05.20popularis : 4.164
Life Doesn't Scare Me
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.093