Movie List for "italian"

“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young Year 2000.

A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people’s movement, and leads Year 1947.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. Year 1950.

A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests. Year 1967.

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. Year 2005.

In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization. Year 1999.

The Madagascar animals fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African nature reserve, where they meet others of their own kind, and Alex especially discovers his royal heritage as prince of a lion pride. Year 2008.

A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution. Year 1971.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. Year 1952.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Year 1963.

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he’s come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named “Prisney” (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version Year 1976.

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don’t know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected. Year 1991.

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner. Year 1990.

Two priests have to find out if a young girl was attacked by an evil spirit or human molester in order to save her life. Year 2015.

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive. Year 1957.

Scampia Vele is the corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy. Year 2008.