A meeting of the world’s most powerful economists is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. One of the guests is a Continue reading Confessions (Le Confessioni)
Donatella and Beatrice reside in a psychiatric facility in Tuscany. They have very different life stories, but a chance to escape brings them together in Continue reading Like Crazy (La Pazza Gioia)
This is a “Commedia all’italiana”–films which, while being comedies, often have serious, even tragic, undertones. Our two protagonists are a Roman, and a Milanese (played Continue reading The Great War (La Grande Guerra)
A boat carrying a small acting company, together with a group of dangerous members of Camorra, wrecks on the shores of the island prison, Asinara, Continue reading The Stuff of Dreams (La stoffa dei sogni)
Vincenzo is a successful businessman. A widower, he suddenly finds himself solely in charge of his three twenty-something children–Matteo, Chiara, and Andrea–who keep him up Continue reading Daddy’s Beauties (Belli di Papa’)
Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small Sicilian Italian island for political reasons. A poor local, is hired to hand-deliver the Continue reading The Postman (Il Postino)
It is the 1950s. Pietro is a surly man in his fifties, working on a quarry in the Italian Dolomites. One night, while in a Continue reading On The Trail Of My Father (La Pelle dell’Orso)
The De Martino family have been putting together and racing cars for generations. Mario, the head of the family, is forced to make way for his Continue reading Italian Race (Veloce come il vento)
It’s 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora are in love, but she is promised in marriage Continue reading At War with Love (In guerra per amore)
Rosalba is an unappreciated housewife traveling by tourist bus on a family vacation. She is inadvertently left behind at a rest stop of the tourist Continue reading Bread and Tulips (Pane e tulipani)