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1) Sin
Language
Italiano
Description
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti (Alberto Testone) is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Julius II dies, Michelangelo becomes obsessed with sourcing the finest marble to complete his tomb. The artist’s loyalty is tested when Leo X, of the rival Medici...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Story of a love affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that would later make him famous in films like Il Grido, L'Avventura and Blow-up.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains is a cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental. Adapting an award-winning novel by Paolo Cognetti, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch portray, through observant detail and stunning landscape photography, the profound relationship between Pietro and Bruno, who first meet as children in an Alpine village. Years later, the estranged...
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Italiano
Description
Alba Rohrwacher plays Alice, a Swiss woman who moved to Beirut in the 1950s and falls in love with a Lebanese astrophysicist with dreams of sending his fellow citizens into space, and who is the object of Alice’s affection. Joseph and Alice appear to lead the perfect life until their bliss is ripped apart by the civil war and nothing will be the same again.
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Davide is unlike most teenagers his age and his father constantly berates him over these differences. Finally, feeling driven from home, 14-year-old Davide takes to the streets and finds a hidden world the rest of the city has turned its back on. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Naples, 1904: Eduardo Scarpetta risked everything by staging a parody of the great Italian poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio. Despite legal troubles and familial strife, Scarpetta fought for his legacy as one of the greats of Italian theater.
8) Nostalgia
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
9) A Chiara
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this furiously paced drama, Chiara, a teenager living in Calabria with her close-knit family, investigates her father’s disappearance just one day after her oldest sister’s birthday. As she gets closer to the difficult truth about her mysteriously missing father – and the crime syndicates that control her region – Chiara is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
10) We Have a Pope
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
A comic and fictional exploration of the emotional struggles of a newly-elected pope coming to terms with the demands of his position.
12) A bay of blood
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
One of the most influential horror films of all time, Mario Bava's A bay of blood (1971, aka Twitch of the death nerve) is the spurting artery from which all future slasher films would flow. When crippled Countess Federica is murdered at her isolated mansion, a gruesome battle ensues to secure the rights to her valuable property around the bay. Everyone, from illegitimate children to shady real estate agents, stakes a claim, only to be killed in increasingly...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the code of silence and collusion that surrounds her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance. Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back along.
14) Loro
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
Sex, drugs, power, and vice: a dazzling, audacious plunge into the scandalous world of Silvio Berlusconi.
15) The Dive
Publisher
Stray Dogs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Italiano
Description
It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. The youngest is to go to war two days later. While he seeks guidance from his older brothers, who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control. Winner of a Jury Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Winner for Best Israeli Debut Film at the **Jerusalem...
16) Tori and Lokita
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Italiano
Description
From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants—from Cameroon and Benin, respectively—whose sibling-like bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The inseparable pair work as performers in a trattoria, dealing drugs on the side for the restaurant’s abusive cook, while balancing the demands of an indifferent...
18) Bell'Antonio
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Italiano
Description
A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
19) Casanova '70
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Casanova '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. Packed with bed-hopping hijinks, a parade of gorgeous actresses, and Mastroianni's hilariously dry wit, Casanova '70 is a colorfully ribald gem from the Golden Age of Italian comedy.
20) The Boom
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanni lives far beyond his means to provide for his wife's bodily needs. In return, she fully satisfies his sexual desires. Nearly insolvent and terribly worried at the idea of losing his wife, he thinks of committing suicide when an ad gives him hope again : a rich man offers anyone able to give him one of his eyes a big amount of money...
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