Italy movies

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Cecchi, Carlo | Cusack, Sinéad | Fiennes, Joseph | Flemyng, Jason | Gherardi, Anna-Maria | Irons, Jeremy | Marais, Jean | McCann, Donal | Moffett, D.W. | Oliva, Ignazio | Sandrelli, Stefania | Siciliano, Francesco | Sorgani, Mary Jo | Treviglio, Leonardo | Tyler, Liv
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Pitt, Michael | Vogel, Tony | Bertorelli, Toni | Welsh, Kenneth | Molina, Alfred | Golding, Michael | Cecchi, Carlo | Fiorini, Marc | Csuth, Leslie | Tezuka, Toru | Morita, Hiroya | Ando, Akinori | Kunimura, Jun | Hongô, Kanata | Yakusho, Kôji
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Funny Games U.S. (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Austria | France | Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Roth, Tim | Pitt, Michael | Corbet, Brady | Gearhart, Devon | Gaines, Boyd | LuPone, Robert
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Whiting, Leonard | Hussey, Olivia | McEnery, John | O'Shea, Milo | Heywood, Pat | Stephens, Robert | York, Michael | Robinson, Bruce | Hardwick, Paul | Parry, Natasha | Pierfederici, Antonio | Ruspoli, Esmeralda | Bisacco, Roberto | Holder, Roy | Skinner, Keith
Directors: Zeffirelli, Franco
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Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet’s daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts.

Return of Sabata (1971)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Western
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Van Cleef, Lee | Schöne, Reiner | Albertini, Giampiero | Spalla, Ignazio | Canti, Aldo | Karis, Vassili | Zacharias, Steffen | Bartha, John | Stoll, Günther | Reale, Carmelo | Fantasia, Franco | Cona, Dante | Boucaron, Gérard | Fanfoni, Vittorio | Rizzo, Gianni
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Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that’s what McIntock says he’ll do with the money…

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | USA
Actors: Roth, Tim | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Bruno Ganz | Hennicke, André | Iures, Marcel | Pintea, Adrian | Pirici, Alexandra | Piersic Jr., Florin | Butuc, Zoltan | Titieni, Adriana | Albulescu, Mircea | Astileanu, Dan | Balint, Cristian | Bucur, Dragos | Damon, Matt
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

Donkey Xote (2007)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Genres: Animation
Countries: Italy | Spain
Actors: Buenafuente, Andreu | Fernández, David | Gil, José Luis | González, Jordi | Gracia, Sancho | Posada, Luis
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Follows Don Quixote, his “squire”, Sancho Panza (Quixote’s best friend and the wealthiest man in town), Sancho’s donkey, Rucio (who wants to be a horse) and a real horse, Quixote’s faithful steed, Rocinante (who hates leaving his stable) on their adventure to duel the “Knight of the Moon” where, if Quixote wins the duel the true identity of Dulcinea will be revealed.

Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Argento, Asia | Solimeno, Cristian | James, Adam | Atias, Moran | Cavalli, Valeria | Leroy, Philippe | Nicolodi, Daria | Cataldi-Tassoni, Coralina | Kier, Udo | Madison, Robert | Ichikawa, Jun | Banfi, Tommaso | Leo, Franco | Riche, Clive | Sarchielli, Massimo
Directors: Argento, Dario
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The final installment of Dario Argento’s “Three Mothers” trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who “unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world’s most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the ‘Mother of Tears’ before her evil conquers the world.”

King of New York (1990)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Walken, Christopher | Caruso, David | Fishburne, Laurence | Argo, Victor | Snipes, Wesley | Julian, Janet | Chin, Joey | Esposito, Giancarlo | Calderon, Paul | Buscemi, Steve | Randle, Theresa | Thomas, Leonard L. | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Nygren, Carrie | Abuba, Ernest
Directors: Ferrara, Abel
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Drug lord Frank White (Chrstiopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the murderous Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal female bodyguards Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Ngyen), and his lover/legal annalist Jennifer (Janet Julien). After seeing his old neighborhood more dilapidated and depressing than ever, Frank decides to do good by eliminating his competitors whom filled the void left by his incarceration, then steal their money and drugs to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. But Frank’s past won’t let go of him when a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo), frustrated at the lack of clues to nail Frank on for the current street killings, decide to take matters into their own hands.

Odyssey, The (1997)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Greece | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Assante, Armand | Scacchi, Greta | Rossellini, Isabella | Peters, Bernadette | Roberts, Eric | Papas, Irene | Krabbé, Jeroen | Chaplin, Geraldine | Lee, Christopher | Williams, Vanessa | Clay, Nicholas | Anastassopoulos, Adoni | Baeza, Paloma | Cook, Ron | Asato, Reid
Directors: Konchalovsky, Andrei
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic—replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat—chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!