Movie List for "italy"

La spiaggia (1954) Comedy Drama Movie

Annamaria, an ex-prostitute, takes her young daughter from convent school with her on a summer vacation. She introduces herself like a widow just to be accepted by people in the Italy of the ’50s. She is surrounded by new friends and Year 1954.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Alberto Lattuada
Writer: Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Malerba, Rodolfo Sonego
Actors: Martine Carol, Raf Vallone, Mario Carotenuto

L’innocente (1976) Drama Romance Movie

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again. Year 1976.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Luchino Visconti
Writer: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Enrico Medioli
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Rina Morelli

Goodbye Bafana (2007) Biography Drama History Movie

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela. Year 2007.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Bille August
Writer: Bille August, Bob Graham, James Gregory
Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

Le fate ignoranti (2001) Drama Romance Movie

After a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband’s friends and finds the truth about his life. Year 2001.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Writer: Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Ozpetek
Actors: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz

Il gattopardo (1963) Drama History Movie

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. Year 1963.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Luchino Visconti
Writer: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale

State buoni se potete (1983) Comedy Drama History Movie

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is Year 1983.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, History
Director: Luigi Magni
Writer: Luigi Magni, Bernardino Zapponi
Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Philippe Leroy, Rodolfo Bigotti

Les yeux sans visage (1960) Drama Horror Movie

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face. Year 1960.

Generes: Drama, Horror
Director: Georges Franju
Writer: Jean Redon, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel

The Taming of the Shrew (1967) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina. Year 1967.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Writer: William Shakespeare, Paul Dehn, Suso Cecchi D’Amico
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack

Profumo di donna (1974) Comedy Drama Movie

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio (“Babyfat”), Year 1974.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Dino Risi
Writer: Giovanni Arpino, Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli

Medea (1969) Drama Fantasy Movie

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it’s only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath? Year 1969.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Euripides
Actors: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff

Lo scopone scientifico (1972) Comedy Drama Movie

Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Luigi Comencini
Writer: Rodolfo Sonego
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten

A Comédia de Deus (1995) Comedy Drama Movie

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and purity to attain heaven. The surrounding wo Year 1995.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: João César Monteiro
Writer: João César Monteiro, Luís Vaz de Camões
Actors: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas

Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) Biography Drama History Movie

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew. Year 1964.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Actors: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini

L’arte di arrangiarsi (1954) Comedy Movie

Rosario Scimoni is twenty years old and lives in Catania at the beginning of this century. He loves two things in life: women and money and he is the secretary of the mayor who is his uncle, and the lover of the mayor’s wife, but, un Year 1954.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Luigi Zampa
Writer: Vitaliano Brancati
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Marco Guglielmi, Franco Coop

Plein soleil (1960) Crime Drama Thriller Movie

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there’s more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. Year 1960.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: René Clément
Writer: Patricia Highsmith, René Clément, Paul Gégauff
Actors: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

Nessuno mi può giudicare (2011) Comedy Movie

Alice lives in a beautiful villa. She has a husband who makes a lot of money, a nine-year-old son, and three servants who happen to be immigrants. She is superficial, haughty, and racist. But everything changes the day her husband ge Year 2011.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Massimiliano Bruno
Writer: Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Maria Falcone, Fausto Brizzi
Actors: Paola Cortellesi, Raoul Bova, Rocco Papaleo