Gianni Amico Movies

In a story about a wobbly love triangle with less emphasis on emotion than quirky behavior, a young couple find an apartment to stay in after they have been evicted from their home -- but then there is a falling out between the two and the woman goes to stay with Tina, their next-door neighbor. Eventually, the two women move the wall out into the former couple's apartment to have more space -- until the man gets interested in Tina and an affair starts up -- then the wall is moved back. The two woman fluctuate back and forth in the man's affections, and the wall fluctuates back and forth, with all three heading toward some disastrous consequences if their love life and the wall are not stabilized soon. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a shadowy operative is stripped naked, thrown in a cage and crucified by the sinful and sadistic spiritual scum. The guerilla eventually escapes to exact revenge on the enemy. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

A poor Brazilian family leaves the arid cattle country behind for a better life in the city of Sao Paulo. Trucks slowly move down the hot, dusty dirt roads as family and friends bid the travelers good luck and goodbye. Done in a documentary style, the family passes through hordes of homeless and jobless souls who wander the countryside in search of any kind of work to sustain their meager existence. Although hopes are high, there is no guarantee the move to the big city will alleviate their poverty and suffering. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Future director Francesco Barilli stars in this film about a young radical torn between his rebellious political views and the easy middle-class lifestyle to which he has become accustomed. Barilli rebels in another way as well, engaging in a love affair with his pretty aunt (Adriana Asti), but soon becomes conflicted in that area as well, choosing in the end to conform to traditional expectations. This early Bernardo Bertolucci film makes a bit too much of its protagonist's philosophical underpinnings, but is filled with amusing allusions to various films and literary works in its attempt to explore themes of man's surrender to societal pressures. Bertolucci later explored the same themes on a much larger canvas in his controversial classic 1900. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi