Movie List for "italy"

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Year 1961.

“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.

Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest’s Year 1956.

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

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. Year 1960.

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.

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish. Year 2005.

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.

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.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, the immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr Klein clear his n Year 1976.

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.

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory. Year 1963.