Released Date:
2007-11-23
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (637 Reviews)
Director:
Claudio CupelliniGenres:
ComedyFabio Bonifacci
Christian Poli (screenplay)
Mattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
Released Date:
2008-11-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (278 Reviews)
Director:
Luca LuciniGiulia Calenda (story)
Nick Earls (novel)
Maddalena Ravagli (story)
Released Date:
2012-11-22
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.6 (179 Reviews)
Director:
Paolo FranchiGenres:
DramaPaolo Franchi (story)
Paolo Franchi (screenplay)
Daniela Ceselli (screenplay)
Rinaldo Rocco (screenplay)
Heidrun Schleef (screenplay)
Dino is forty years old and an immense love for Anna, who is unable to touch and consume in an embrace. Anesthetist by day, compulsive lover at night, seeking satisfaction with prostitutes and swingers. The early death of his brother and mother left him deeply marked and lead to sexual addiction. Rejected the loving care and the gentle advances of Anna, Dino recovers and meets the former partner's, asking them to get back with her or appagarne the pleasure he denies. Dismissed or looked with compassion, the man asks Anna to find a passionate lover. Anna, first reluctant, he ends up giving, while doing a night of sex with a stranger. But the feeling he has for Dino is more powerful than any physical pleasure and frustration. Return home but maybe for her and Dino is really too late to start.
Released Date:
2013-04-04
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (641 Reviews)
Director:
Giacomo CampiottiFabio Bonifacci
Alessandro D'Avenia
The story takes place in the italian city of Turin. A roman boy loses his mind for a cancer-sick girl. He will do everything as possible to make her fall in love with him and save her life.
Released Date:
2013-06-20
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (206 Reviews)
Director:
Marco RisiMarco Risi
Andrea Purgatori
James Carrington
A teenage boy dies in what appears to be a traffic accident but Corso believes otherwise.
Released Date:
2015-02-19
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (454 Reviews)
Director:
Edoardo LeoGenres:
ComedyFabio Bartolomei (book)
Marco Bonini (screenplay)
Edoardo Leo (story)
Diego, Claudio and Fausto don't know each other, but they are all looking for a turning point in their lives, each one for a different reason. The occasion comes with an offer for an abandoned agritourism, for which they decide to build a society being for them impossible to afford the buying price by itself. The project is joined by Sergio, a communist-nostalgic middle-aged. But some trouble with the local Camorra will made them sort it out in a dangerous way.
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