Italy movies

Golden Door (2006)

Friday, June 25th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Gainsbourg, Charlotte | Amato, Vincenzo | Schiavelli, Vincent | Quattrocchi, Aurora | Casisa, Francesco | Pucillo, Filippo | De Cola, Federica | Ragonese, Isabella | Luna, Filippo | Prodan, Andrea | Mahieux, Ernesto | Benassi, Marcelo | Sangiorgi, Giuseppe | Fazzino, Alessandra | Culino, Giuseppe
Directors: Crialese, Emanuele
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The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Barbarella (1968)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Fonda, Jane | Law, John Phillip | Pallenberg, Anita | O'Shea, Milo | Marceau, Marcel | Dauphin, Claude | Vendell, Véronique | Cobelli, Giancarlo | Marquand, Serge | Musco, Nino | Gulà, Franco | Chevallier, Catherine | Chevallier, Marie Therese | Di Grazia, Umberto
Directors: Vadim, Roger
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The year is 40,000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Durand Durand, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn’t possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing.

Lenin: The Train (1988)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
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Countries: Austria | France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Kingsley, Ben | Caron, Leslie | Sanda, Dominique | West, Timothy | Whitman, Peter | Elorriaga, Xabier | Connery, Jason | Bonacelli, Paolo | Sbragia, Mattia | Lermitte, Robin | Halmer, Günther Maria | Schwarz, Dagmar | Mestre, Jeannine | Kraemer, Hans | Aichhorn, Michael
Directors: Damiani, Damiano
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March/April 1917. the first world war is already a couple year old. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zurich through Germany and Sweden to Saint-Petersburg. The bolsheviks on the train are lead by Vladimir J. Lenin (Kingsley). There are some unpleasant collisions taking place between enthusiastic Socialists and workers concerned about the war. During the train travel time Lenin’s affair with the gracious Inessa comes to an end, and his Nadja is prepared to take him back. The triumphant arrival in Saint-Petersburg exceeds all expectations.

Django (1966)

Monday, June 14th, 2010
Genres: Western
Countries: Italy | Spain
Actors: Nero, Franco | Bódalo, José | Nusciak, Loredana | Álvarez, Ángel | Pernice, Gino | Arriaga, Simón | Scratuglia, Giovanni Ivan | De Angelis, Remo | Albaicín, Rafael | Canalejas, José | Fajardo, Eduardo | De Santis, Lucio | Huerta, Cris | Méndez, Guillermo | Rossi, Luciano
Directors: Corbucci, Sergio
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While walking through the desert dragging a coffin, the lonely Django rescues Maria from a group of bandits and arrives in a not-quite ghost town, where only the saloon and the brothel, owned by Nataniele, are open. Soon, Major Jackson, who charges protection fees from the dwellers, rounds his gang up to face Django, but he kills all the bandits but Jackson using a machine gun. Then a mercenary and acquaintance of Django, Gen. Hugo Rodriguez, arrives in town, and Django proposes a bold plan to steal the gold from Jackson and split between them. When Django is betrayed, he steals the gold from Hugo and is helped by Maria. They are chased by Hugo and his men, while Jackson organizes with the Mexican army to trap Hugo.

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Friday, June 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror
Countries: Italy
Actors: Kerman, Robert | Ciardi, Francesca | Pirkanen, Perry | Barbareschi, Luca | Basile, Salvatore | Fuentes, Ricardo | Yorke, Carl Gabriel | Paoloni, Paolo | Di Savoia, Lionello Pio | Rocchi, Luigina | Mannix, Edward | Papa, Enrico | Snegoff, Gregory | Costantini, Lucia
Directors: Deodato, Ruggero
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The director Alan Yates and his crew, formed by Faye Daniels, Jack Anders and Mark Tomaso, head to a rain forest in Amazonas called Green Inferno to shoot a documentary about the primitive tribes of cannibals that live in the area. They vanish and the American anthropologist Professor Harold Monroe travels to the area with the experienced guide Chaco Losojos and his assistant Miguel to seek the team out. The trio is received first by the Yacumo tribe of warriors and then they approach to the wild Yamamomo that is in a permanent war against the Shamatari. They find the remains of the documentary team and their reels, and they successfully negotiate with the savages. Back in New York, Professor Monroe watches the disturbing footage and discovers the fate of the team.

Chaplin (1992)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Chaplin, Geraldine | Rhys, Paul | Thaw, John | Kelly, Moira | Hopkins, Anthony | Aykroyd, Dan | Tomei, Marisa | Miller, Penelope Ann | Kline, Kevin | Pitillo, Maria | Jovovich, Milla | Dunn, Kevin | Moore, Deborah
Directors: Attenborough, Richard
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The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formitive years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie’s life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind “The Little Tramp” was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Countries: Italy | South Africa | UK | USA
Actors: Mali, Xolani | Cheadle, Don | Dube, Desmond | Kae-Kazim, Hakeem | Kgoroge, Tony | Motene, Rosie | McCarthy, Neil | Sithole, Mabutho 'Kid' | Nolte, Nick | Mokoena, Fana | Ndlovu, Jeremiah | Okonedo, Sophie | Mashile, Lebo | Lyons, Antonio David | Khumalo, Leleti
Directors: George, Terry
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda—and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

They Died with Their Boots On (1978)

Friday, March 19th, 2010
Genres: Action | Western
Countries: Italy
Actors: Gemma, Giuliano | Valsecchi, Sven | Manni, Ettore | De Luigi, Gianni | Monreale, Cinzia | Lentini, Licinia | O'Brien, Donald | Sambrell, Aldo | Hersent, Philippe | Leonardi, Sergio | Stampfer, Karine | Kalpagos, Agnes | Tinelli, Maria | Lewis, Geoffrey | Rubio, Juan Antonio
Directors: Fulci, Lucio
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Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past…

Cemetery Man (1994)

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance
Countries: France | Germany | Italy
Actors: Everett, Rupert | Hadji-Lazaro, François | Falchi, Anna | Knox, Mickey | Formica, Fabiana | Riche, Clive | Anton, Katja | Cupisti, Barbara | Alexander, Anton | Genuardi, Pietro | Punzo, Patrizia | Masciarelli, Stefano | Passeri, Vito | Zamattio, Alessandro | Koopman, Marijn
Directors: Soavi, Michele
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This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the “sclavian philosophy” diffused by the most succesful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian “dellamore” means “of love” and “dellamorte” means “of death”), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don’t know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them. Dellamorte seems not to ask to himself why this happen, he shoots and loves. But at the end he wants to leave Buffalora…

Little Buddha (1993)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Italy | Liechtenstein | UK
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Ying, Ruocheng | Isaak, Chris | Fonda, Bridget | Wiesendanger, Alex | Lal, Raju | Singh, Greishma Makar | Rinpoche, Sogyal | Rinpoche, Ven. Khyongla Rato | Gyelsen, Ven. Geshe Tsultim | Champa, Jo | Kunsang, Jigme | Jampa, Thubtem | Sikri, Surekha | Lama, T.K.
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the true reincarnation. Interspersed with this, is the story of Siddharta, later known as the Buddha. It traces his spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment.