Tony Vilar, a southern Italian, moved to Argentina as a child and became one of the most successful South American singers of the 1960’s. He Continue reading The Legend of Tony Vilar (La leggenda di Tony Vilar)
Ferro and Cate are a young carefree couple whose world is turned upside down by an unexpected event. Suddenly they must face the most difficult Continue reading The Feather (La Piuma)
Based on a true story, the film recounts the life of Italo, an extraordinary dog who arrived in the small Sicilian town of Scicli and Continue reading Italo Barocco
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)