John Francis Lane
Actor · 1928 – 2018 · Whitstable, Kent, England, UK
Movies20
Movie8.0ComedyDramaEpisodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
La dolce vita
1960 · 2.1K votes
Movie6.1ComedyHistoryGlimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Movie8.2DramaComedyRoberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Il sorpasso
1962 · 868 votes
Movie6.1DramaHorrorAn Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Movie5.7HistoryThe epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. This is the edited-down version for theatrical release.
Moses the Lawgiver
1976 · 11 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaLucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Lucky Luciano
1973 · 73 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryA former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
Movie6.9ComedyOn New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Movie4.6DramaRomanceSet in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
Another Time, Another Place
1983 · 14 votes
Movie6.1RomanceHistoryAfter the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood, designing sets for D.W. Griffith, and marry beautiful actresses. However, tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...
Movie6.6DramaHistoryThe life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.
Francesco
1989 · 61 votes
Movie8.0DramaOn June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
Movie6.5DramaComedyA forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Movie7.2Comedy4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
I 4 moschettieri
1963 · 5 votes
Movie5.1DramaComedyThe trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
Movie6.3DramaHistoryGreek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
El Greco
1966 · 4 votes
Movie5.4RomanceDramaIn this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart’s opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan".
Don Giovanni
1970 · 8 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryPresented by the late literary critic Edward Said, this thirty-seven minute 1992 documentary reflects on director Gillo Pontecorvo's youth and politics in an attempt to understand his approach to filmmaking.
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992 · 4 votes
Movie7.0CrimeThe boss has come up with something: Ed, outwardly a brave London citizen, attacks with a well-trained accomplice a van of the British Central Bank. The gangsters capture a million pounds sterling and can escape unrecognized. Scotland Yard is the target of the mockery, it comes to a government crisis. Only the hint of a child, who happened to witness the coup, brings the genre law enforcers on the right track.
L'oro di Londra
1968 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ActionCrimeThe attempt to kill a guy connected to the mob fails when he and his assassins get trapped in a mountain tunnel.
Black Tunnel
1986 · 1 votes