The best Massimo Foschi’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Massimo Foschi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Massimo Foschi.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8/10
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Last Cannibal World
5.9/10
An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
7.2/10
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
Be Sick… It's Free
7.1/10
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Holocaust 2000
5.5/10
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Lucrezia Giovane
4.8/10
In the early 16th century Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucrezia. In a ruthless power play, Cesare plots to have his sister’s husband murdered.
Otello
6.9/10
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa!
6.4/10
The pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British Empire and the ondeskefulla James Brooke, rahjan of Sarawak.
Vita di Dante
7.4/10
The Labyrinth of Sex
4.5/10
Take a trip into The Labyrinth of Sex with an insatiable nymphomaniac, a lovely lesbian and fetishists of every stripe.
Nine Guests for a Crime
6/10
Nine people sail a yacht to a deserted rocky island for a holiday in old Uberto's villa. The host is accompanied by a group of family members. The men's only thought seems to be having sex with anyone else's wife. One by one, the guests are killed by an unidentified assailant; Elisabetta, half-mad, claims it's the ghost of Charlie, her lover, who had been killed twenty years before by Uberto and his two sons. The survivors cannot leave the island ( the yacht has disappeared) and are easy prey for the murderer. Vincenzo, now the only one left, discovers the truth...
The Ideal City
6.4/10
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn.
In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
Notti e nebbie
8.1/10
Fall 1944, Milan, the last months of World War II. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.
The Persians
7.6/10
An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.
Tartarughe dal becco d'ascia
