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)
Southerner Checco dreams of entering the military police, but he has failed the entrance exam three times but his connections get him a security job Continue reading What a Beautiful Day
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to become uninhabited. But its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic, do not give up. Continue reading An Almost Perfect Town (Un paese quasi perfetto)
Nino is a Southern Italian waiter who goes to Switzerland to try out for a restaurant job and tries desperately to fit in. However he Continue reading Bread and Chocolate
On July 25, 1956, the luxury passenger ship Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, when Continue reading Andrea Doria – Are the passengers saved?
Salvo and Valentino, unemployed for two years, decide to leave their beloved adopted hometown of Palermo and move back to their tiny Sicilian village. The Continue reading Back To The Nest