Posts Tagged ‘rome-italy’

Omen, The (1976)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Leo McKern | Peck, Gregory | Remick, Lee | Warner, David | Whitelaw, Billy | Stevens, Harvey | Troughton, Patrick | Benson, Martin | Rietty, Robert | Duggan, Tommy | Stride, John | Nicholls, Anthony | Palance, Holly | Boyd, Roy | Dowie, Freda | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Lane, Diane | Oh, Sandra | Duncan, Lindsay | Bova, Raoul | Riotta, Vincent | Monicelli, Mario | Nobile, Roberto | Zagaria, Anita | Gori, Evelina | Steigerwalt, Giulia | Szajda, Pawel | Pelka, Valentine | Vulicevic, Sasa | Sarchielli, Massimo | Gerini, Claudia
Directors: Wells, Audrey
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

Ocean’s Twelve (2004)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Cassel, Vincent | Mac, Bernie | Pitt, Brad | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Clooney, George | Kross, Ed | Roberts, Julia | Tiffany, Don | Jacques, Anne | Sontag, David | Sontag, Larry | Garcia, Andy | Affleck, Casey | Connolly, Dina | Caan, Scott | Peltz, Nelson | Anden, Mini
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
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Set three years after “Ocean’s 11,” this sequel shows us Danny Ocean gathering up his complete gang of con artists and thieves from the first film in New York City before they all jet off to Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris to pull off three seperate heists. All the while, the boys must deal with increasing pressure from a very mad Terry Benedict, a dedicated Europol agent with a link to Rusty’s past, and a mysterious French rival known as the “Night Fox.” Will Ocean’s crew reach their full potential and become the greatest thieves the world has ever known, or will they fall victim to Benedict’s revenge? All bets are off.

Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Bogart, Humphrey | Gardner, Ava | O'Brien, Edmond | Goring, Marius | Cortese, Valentina | Brazzi, Rossano | Sellars, Elizabeth | Stevens, Warren | Interlenghi, Franco | Aldon, Mari | Love, Bessie | Decker, Diana | Fraser, Bill | Rabagliati, Alberto | Staiola, Enzo
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella’s castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.

Stigmata (1999)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, Patricia | Byrne, Gabriel | Pryce, Jonathan | Long, Nia | Kopache, Thomas | Serbedzija, Rade | Colantoni, Enrico | Latessa, Dick | de Rossi, Portia | Muldoon, Patrick | Cusack, Ann | Toub, Shaun | Hodges, Tom | Hazan, Lydia | Duke, Shaun
Directors: Wainwright, Rupert
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A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.

Munich (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bana, Eric | Craig, Daniel | Hinds, Ciarán | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Zischler, Hanns | Zorer, Ayelet | Rush, Geoffrey | Almagor, Gila | Lonsdale, Michael | Amalric, Mathieu | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria | Becker, Meret | Croze, Marie-Josée | Attal, Yvan
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Rhames, Ving | Pegg, Simon | Berry Jr., Michael | Chase, Jeff
Directors: Abrams, J.J.
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Former spy Ethan Hunt is called back into action to recover a missing IMF Agent. But complications arise when his fiancée is captured and he must fight to get her back.

Independence Day (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | McDonnell, Mary | Goldblum, Jeff | Hirsch, Judd | Colin, Margaret | Smith, Will | Fox, Vivica A. | Quaid, Randy | Loggia, Robert | Rebhorn, James | Fierstein, Harvey | Baldwin, Adam | Spiner, Brent | Duval, James | Jakub, Lisa
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day…

Night on Earth (1991)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Rowlands, Gena | Ryder, Winona | Falk, Lisanne | Scott, Alan Randolph | Portillo, Anthony | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Esposito, Giancarlo | Perez, Rosie | Boes, Richard | De Bankolé, Isaach | Dalle, Béatrice | N'Zonzi, Pascal | Abossolo M'bo, Emile | Boucher, Stéphane | Kaufmann, Noel
Directors: Jarmusch, Jim
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A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver’s career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn’t understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.

EuroTrip (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Serbedzija, Rade | Lumley, Joanna | Mechlowicz, Scott | Pitts, Jacob | Kreuk, Kristin | Meils, Cathy | Iskhakov, Nial | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Wester, Travis | Damon, Matt | Adams, J. | Baird, Christopher | Cloutman, Nicholas J.M. | Fulford, Bruce | Schade, Molly | Degg, Jakki | Vomocilova, Lenka
Directors: Schaffer, Jeff | Berg, Alec | Mandel, David
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When Scotty’s German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she’s gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures.