Lina Wertmuller

Swept Away -- A rich woman and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean during the summer. On board isa Communist sailor who doesn't like this woman but has to deal with her shortcomings. One day, she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where everyone had gone earlier. The sailor sets up a boat, but during the trip it breaks down. They spend the night in the middle of the s...

Madonna and Adriano Giannini star in director/screenwriter Guy Ritchie's contemporary adaptation of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 romantic comedy, "Swept Away," a story of love, sex and too much money - all set against the backdrop of a spectacular Mediterranean island paradise. A rich, spoiled socialite (Madonna) and a handsome Italian fisherman (Giannini) find themselves stranded on a deserted island where matters of material wealth and class disparity are meaningless. And in their struggle to survive and coexist in their paradise found, they soon discover that their dramatic differences are suddenly the source of a fierce, passionate and sometimes hilarious animal attraction.

A rich, spoiled socialite and a handsome Italian fisherman find themselves stranded on a deserted island where matters of material wealth and class disparity are meaningless.

A rich woman and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean during the summer. On board isa Communist sailor who doesn't like this woman but has to deal with her shortcomings. One day, she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where everyone had gone earlier. The sailor sets up a boat, but during the trip it breaks down. They spend the night in the middle of the s...

A rich, spoiled socialite and a handsome Italian fisherman find themselves stranded on a deserted island where matters of material wealth and class disparity are meaningless. And in their struggle to survive and coexist in their paradise found, they soon discover that their dramatic differences are suddenly the source of a fierce, passionate and sometimes hilarious animal attraction.

Four college students are stranded in the wrong part of town. Attacked by vampires the kids are saved by a mysterious man named Abraham Darke. Will they survive to see the sunrise or become more victims of a very old blood feud?

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York.

Four college students are stranded in the wrong part of town. Attacked by vampires the kids are saved by a mysterious man named Abraham Darke. Will they survive to see the sunrise or become more victims of a very old blood feud?

Titina (Sophia Loren) is a happily married Sicilian housewife. But like so many others, she is widowed early in life when her husband is brutally murdered by the Mafia. The young widow dons black mourning clothes, and nurtures the ugly seeds of revenge. After spending ten years away, Spallone (Marcello Mastroianni) returns home and falls in love with Titina. Also, returning to avenge his cousin's death is Nick (Giancarlo Giannini), a small time crook, who also falls for his cousin's widow. Jeb finally comes face to face with the killer, and confronts the ultimate test of his skills in a running gun battle through the woods.

A California fruit picker inadvertently leads a union movement for farm workers in this astute satire on the plight of the working class.

A seriocomic tale of love, seduction and betrayal in the strife-torn farm country of central California, Which Way Is Up? is one of Richard Pryor's best and most underrated films. Pryor plays several roles here, most significantly a migrant orange picker who works his way up in the ranks of an agricultural company -- first becoming a labor union hero and then a corporate womanizing flunky.

Richard Pryor plays three roles--a farm worker named Leroy Jones; his father, Rufus; and the preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas--in this outrageous comedy about too many women and too little time.