Released Date:
1996-03-08
Languages:
Italian, Sicilian, Spanish
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3503 Reviews)
Director:
Giuseppe TornatoreGiuseppe Tornatore (story)
Fabio Rinaudo (screenplay)
Giuseppe Tornatore (screenplay)
"Dottore" Joe Moretti travels round Sicily doing screen tests for the big Roman studios. He's a conman and takes money or favours for his efforts. Beata, a young illiterate convent girl desperately wants to change her life and falls for him, belatedly he realises his feelings for her. Their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.
Released Date:
2002-11-07
Languages:
German, Italian
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (4037 Reviews)
Director:
Fatih AkinIn the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both children get used to Germany. 10 years later the brothers fall in love with the same woman; they break tie with each other in anger and Gigi returns to Solino with his mother. A decade later both meet again and have a retrospect on their lives.
Released Date:
2014-11-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
IMDB Ratings:
(281 Reviews)
Genres:
ComedyValentino and Salvo, unemployed in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for a small country called Monteforte, where Valentino was born and have broke up the woman of his dreams. The situation in Monteforte is not promising: people whispered among square, church, bars and barber. The mature age of the villagers, inspire Salvo to live with the retirement of his mother in law, trying to involve every aunt and uncle that own a pension. Welcomed and forced to a strict diet, which keeps them healthy and alive, the Retired delegate life and the withdrawal of the pension to Salvo and Valentino, who buy the first new car and try to enjoy their life finally. But one after another the old guests die, leaving Salvo and Valentino in complete despair. The two do not give up and they invent new solutions to combat the lack of money. The epilogue is bitter and claims the urgency of a generational change of the ruling classes in Italy.
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