Ennio(EM Retro)
Ennio Morricone — the legendary maestro, who composed music for more than 500 film and television productions, experimentally incorporated different musical genres, struck the world with his…
The Mission(EM Retro)
In the 18th century, the Jesuit missionary went into the Argentine jungle to preach to the indigenous people. The film portrays the story of the missionaries, played by Robert De Niro and Jeremy…
THE LEGEND OF 1900(EM Retro)
A baby boy is found abandoned on an ocean liner and raised by the shipwrights in the cradle of the ocean. He never sets foot on land but his prodigious talent for piano draws people from land to the…
Days of Heaven(EM Retro)
Bill travels to Texas to work for a prosperous farm owner. He plots a plan to claim a fortune by persuading his lover to marry the dying owner. The sheaves of wheat sway and dazzle under the sunshine…
Once Upon a Time in America(EM Retro)
Leone brings his camera from the West to the New York underworld and reflects the dark side of the glamorous American dream through the lives of a group of Jewish gangsters. As the solemn sound of the…
Sacco & Vanzetti(EM Retro)
Based on a real-life American case of injustice in the 1920s, two Italian immigrants are sentenced to death because of their political stance after being falsely accused of murder. A tragedy bred by…
Allonsanfan(EM Retro)
After the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the feudal dynasty, Italy is torn apart. Marcello Mastroianni plays a dispirited middle-aged revolutionary who yearns to return to the idle…
The Desert of the Tartars(EM Retro)
The young lieutenant is stationed in a remote desert fortress to defend against the invasion of the ferocious Tartars who eventually realises that the enemies awaiting them are absurdity and…
The Battle of Algiers(EM Retro)
In the vein of Italian Neorealism, Gillo Pontecorvo, who worked as a journalist and documentary director, adopted the hand-held camera style, with a group of non-professional actors and Casbah as the…
Once Upon a time in the West(EM Retro)
The endless desert stretches out the years, yet the steam train gives the force driving the wheel of history forward. The film unfolds the stories of the last generation of the American Frontier as…
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(EM Retro)
A promising police officer kills his mistress out of anger. Being caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare, he deliberately leaves a trail of clues for his fellow inspectors to prove that he is “a citizen…
Before the Revolution(EM Retro)
A young middle-class intellectual who dreams of communist revolution defies arranged marriage fiercely, but feels helpless facing his best friend's suicide and an illicit love; he wanders between the…
Fists in the Pocket(EM Retro)
A dysfunctional family lives in a tranquil suburban mansion: an absent father, a blind mother, three children with epilepsy, and a breadwinner son who wants to move to the city with his girlfriend.…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(EM Retro)
The final film of the Dollars Trilogy presented by the trio of Ennio Morricone, Sergio Leone, and Clint Eastwood is considered to be one of the best Westerns ever made; the good, the bad, and the ugly…