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Here’s something different; director Aureliano Amadei’s autobiographical experience in Iraq is an Italian action movie, with blood, bombs, and explosions.
- This Must Be The Place
Sean Penn’s an aging star on a Nazi hunt in midwestern America. (Read My Review)
Pane e Tulipani – Bread and Tulips
Rosalba’s an unappreciated wife and mother who runs away from home and finds out who she was meant to be.
- Habemus Papam
Habemus Papaum – We Have A Pope
The new Pope has cold feet (Read My Review)
- Gianni e le Donne
Gianni e le Donne – The Salt of Life
Gianni retires and struggles to remain relevant. (Read my review)
- Io Sono L’Amore
The Recchi family hits a dysfunctional patch. (Read my review)
- Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano needed bodyguards after telling this story about organized crime.
- La Doppia Ora
La Doppia Ora – The Double Hour
A security guard meets a mysterious woman speed dating.
- Pranzo di Ferragosto
Pranzo di Ferragosto – Mid-August Lunch
Gianni gets cornered into babysitting all of the old ladies for the Ferragosto.
- La Sicilana Ribelle
La Siciliana Ribelle – The Sicilian Girl
Based on the real life story of Rita Atria, whose courageous testimony has put dozens of mafiosi in jail and provoked violence that rocked ( and continues to rock ) all of Italy.
- La Meglio Gioventu’
La Meglio Gioventù – The Best of Youth
Follows two brothers through three turbulent decades in Italy.
- Giorni e Nuvole
Giorni e Nuvole – Days and Clouds
An affluent couple falls from grace.
- Baaria
Giuseppe Tornatore’s semi-autobiographical and sentimental story or his hometown in Sicily.
- Caos Calmo
When a man loses his wife he spends his days working outside his daughter’s classroom.
- Vallanzasca – Gli angeli Del Male
Vallanzasca: Gli Angeli Del Male – Vallanzasca Angels of Evil
About Vallenzasca, the guy who is currently serving four consecutive life sentences with an additional 290 years in a Milanese prison but for a decade wreaking havoc in Italy.
- Io Non Ho Paura
Io Non Ho Paura – I’m Not Scared
A boy discovers another boy who has been kidnapped.
- La Stanza Del Figlio
La Stanza Del Figlio – The Son’s House
A family struggles from the loss of a child.
- L’Ultimo Bacio
L’Ultimo Bacio – The Last Kiss
Bad behaviour from when a man learns his girlfriend is pregnant.
- Le Fate Ignoranti
Le Fate Ignoranti – His Secret Life
A man dies and his wife learns that he had a secret life.
Middle-aged circus performer Patti finds 2-year-old Asia abandoned in a park on the outskirts of Rome. Patti and her German boyfriend, Walter, search for the child’s parents but can’t help falling in love with “la pivellina” (the little squirt).
- Corpo Celeste
When a young girl has lived most of her life in a more secular location in Switzerland and moves with her family back to her native Calabria she’s thrown into a Jesus Land that she is unfamiliar with.
Its promo ads banned by Italy’s state broadcasting agency, this film reveals how salacious television productions enable the ongoing reign of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and top media mogul.
This is the only Luigi Lo Cascio movies that I haven’t liked and didn’t even bother to review, but hey, it’s got Luigi Lo Cascio, so that’s something!
- Caterina Va in Città
Caterina leaves her peaceful little town and moves to Rome with her father, who has big ideas for himself.and for his family.
The true story of Ida, insisting to the end to be the real first wife of Benito Mussolini, even when he’s trying to pretend the whole thing never happened.
- Nuovomondo
A Sicilian family decides to move to the land of milk and honey, America.
- Luce Dei Miei Occhi
Luce Dei Miei Occhi – Light of my Eyes
An isolated man becomes infatuated with a woman with a lot of baggage.
Dillo Con Parole Mie – Ginger and Cinnamon
A girl and her aunt take a vacation, one hoping to find love and the other hoping to forget it.
Agata’s electric personality gets in the way of her love life.
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