Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre film directors. Starting out as Sergio Leone's assist...

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A self-taught culinary virtuoso, Francesco Bracali is one of Italy's top chefs. He and his brothe...

The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar...

The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario B...

Since their heyday, comics (or fumetti as they are called in Italy) had a vital part in Italy’s c...

Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one of the most commercially successful and critically revered Italian...

Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word gi...

Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he...

From its birth in 1913 to its abolition in 2021, film censorship marked the history of Italian ci...

With more than 180 films during a career spanning several decades, Jesus Franco (1930-2013) was a...