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Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alessandro Haber
Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore returns to the helm for this suspenseful thriller concerning a young Ukrainian prostitute-turned-cleaning woman named Irina (Kseniya Rappoport). Years ago, Irina was drawn into an international prostitution ring before being brutalized by a man named Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Agnese Nano, Pupella Maggio
Actors: Adele Daniele, Giovanna Litrico, Gianluca Guarrera, Michel Bramanti, Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni, Gaetano Aronica, Gilberto Idonea
Synopsis: A young man's infatuation for a beautiful older woman blooms amidst the outbreak of World War II in this bittersweet comedy-drama from Italy. Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) is a 13-year-old boy growing up in a small Sicilian community. Mussolini has risen to power and has declared war upon England and Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jeanne Moreau, Paolo Briguglia, Laurent Terzieff
Synopsis: Roberto Ando directs this biopic about Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- who gained posthumous fame with his novel The Leopard later made into a film by Luchino Visconti -- and his relationship with two young proteges. Set in Palermo during the 1950s, the film centers on Marco Read More
Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn
Synopsis: On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep him. Nicknamed Novecento (1900), the boy grows up on the ship hidden from everyone. His presence is revealed when Read More
Crew: Director
Synopsis: Like the first anthology series, this Italian documentary is comprised of eight interviews with some of Italy's best directors. This version features those who specialize in specific genres. They include exploitation filmmaker turned notorious pornographer Joe D'Amato (known for his ribald and Read More
Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter
Actors: Sergio Castellitto
Synopsis: This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is The Star Maker. Like the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso by the same writer-director, Guiseppe Tornatore, it's drenched in the filmmaker's love for cinema. In Sicily in the early 1950s, Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto Read More
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola di Pinto, Paolo Lombardi
Synopsis: The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe Tornatore's international hit Cinema Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Roberto Nobile, Norma Martelli
Synopsis: In this sentimental, tragicomic drama, Matteo Scuro (Marcello Mastroianni) is an old widower living in Sicily. His five grown children have scattered all over Italy, and he has heard nothing but glowing reports from them about their lives and careers. One day he takes it into his head to visit Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Chiara Caselli, Ivano Marescotti, Ornella Muti
Synopsis: Three very odd relationships provide the basis for this thought-provoking Italian anthology that is overseen by director Bernardo Bertolucci. The first tale, "The Blue Dog" centers on a barber who becomes the fixation of a mysteriously devoted dog with an unusual blue spot upon his head. In Read More
Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano
Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in this Italian comedy drama that is based on the life and times of screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Read More
Actors: Ben Gazzara, Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta
Synopsis: Gradually picking up dramatic steam as it moves through its 2 1/2 hour running time, this gangster film is loosely based on the career of one of Naples' most sadistic crime bosses, Raffaele Cutolo. Here, the mobster (played by Ben Gazzara) is simply called "The Professor" and is first introduced Read More
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