Le streghe, 1967: A collection of five short films, ranging from drama to comedy. They revolve around women and the roles that people feel they play in society.
Teorema, 1968: A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family.
Morte a Venezia by Visconti, 1971: While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Oci ciornie, 1987: An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Silvana Mangano was an Italian actress. Raised in poverty during WW II, she trained as a dancer and worked as a model before winning a Miss Rome beauty pageant in 1946. This led to work in films; she achieved success in Bitter Rice and continued working in films for almost four decades.
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