Movies: Italy

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city....

Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous private assembly of manuscript scores grew into the greatest music collection of the age....

At the end of a brilliant career across the most prominent courts of late medieval Italy, legendary master at arms, Fiore dei Liberi, reminisces about some key episodes of his action packed life and teaches a skeptical young scribe a valuable lesson ...

After surviving a heart attack, bus company owner Marianne Toeplitz should actually be more concerned about her health than her ailing business. But she only does this after an argument with her daughter Susanne, who wants to merge with the competiti...

Set in 1850s Naples, Italy, two sisters are getting ready for a wedding, but neither of them wants to acknowledge their inevitable parting of ways....

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited....

An Italian teacher who revalidated her title in Argentina is assigned to a school in Jujuy....

A fascinating journey through the natural beauties and artistic masterpieces of Italy: the treasure houses of art, world-famous locations, great archaeological sites, festivals, folklore and dozens of other famous and not-so famous places in "the mos...

During the women's demonstration on March 8, 1972, Mariasilvia SPOLATO was there with a placard: Liberazione omosessuale. A month later, Simone de Beauvoir came to Rome to give an interview, and this placard illustrated her article. Mariasilvia could...

Lydia is stuck: unable to finisher her MBA thesis, commit to her long-term relationship, and find a job she actually wants. Lydia's mother calls and informs her that a long-lost family friend has died, sending Lydia reeling for a person she used to k...

Nero is accused of having "fiddled while Rome burned" and remembered for executing his mother and burning Christians alive. History has sided against him on all counts, but could there be another side to ancient Rome's notorious emperor? National Ge...

Two sisters head to Italy on a career saving mission to retrieve a lost painting. But the plan goes askew when they find the roguish painter instead of the painting, leading them on a wild adventure of self-discovery....

A Slovenian mother takes her addicted and self-destructive daughter with her to a remote Italian village. Isolation as attempted salvation. Inspired by Proust, Skafar turns this theme into a gentle and beautiful film, a poem about two souls in which ...

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This is the story of the 1920s, shortly after mankind woke up from the nightmare of World War I, a time haunted by death like never before in history. Late at night, a car is speeding along a mountain road in northern Italy. In the car is the family ...

In a moment captured in time, die-hard Italian fascists conduct reprisal executions of civilians in Lombardy during World War II....

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In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind their social life and their families in order to make the revolution the center and the aim of their e...

Piazza Fontana bombing in December 12, 1969....

A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind....