Last updated March 28, 2024
As the Italian holiday of Pranzo di Ferragosto approaches, cash-strapped Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) gets help from his landlord, his friend and his doctor, who offer financial relief in exchange for Gianni looking after their elderly relatives over the holiday. Four mismatched Italian mamas at the same table make for an awkward, hilarious and touching mid-August lunch in this film festival favorite from Di Gregorio, who also writes and directs.
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Michele, a 10-year-old boy growing up in a southern Italian village, discovers another youngster, Filippo, chained up in a small hole dug in the yard of an abandoned house. Michele soon learns from watching the news that the boy has been kidnapped.
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Primo Levi's bittersweet memoir (&NFi;The Reawakening&NFi_;) of his Herculean trek home to Italy after being liberated from Auschwitz by the Russian Army gets a respectful mounting. Levi (John Turturro), along with survivors of various nationalities, is taken to a transition camp run by Soviet medical personnel. Here, the survivors recover from their ordeal, rebuilding their strength for the long picaresque journey home.
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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).
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Mere days after marrying Giovanna, Italian newlywed Antonio is dispatched to the Russian front. Years after he's reported missing in action, Giovanna travels to Russia to search for him and discovers he's alive -- but married to another woman.
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While recovering from the shock of her husband's death, an Italian woman discovers that her husband had had a secret lover for the last 7 years. But she's even more surprised to discover that he and his lover were part of an extended "family" of gays, transgenders and other social outcasts a family she finds herself drifting toward as she overcomes the emotions of her husband's passing.
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Giovanni, a successful psychoanalyst, enjoys a peaceful, happy life with his loving wife and their two bright teenagers. But when one son drowns in a diving accident, the family's tight emotional bond is put to the test.
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Armed with new knowledge that his estranged Jewish father suffered mercilessly at the hands of a sadistic SS officer in the 1940s, a now-retired rock star travels to America, where the ex-Nazi war criminal remains alive.
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Screen icons Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni -- each playing three different roles -- team up for a trio of stories about sex and social mores in this Academy Award-winning Italian comedy.
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The acclaimed director of Cinema Paradiso follows three generations of a family facing tumultuous personal and political events in this intimate comedy based on his own experiences growing up in a Sicilian village.
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Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni stars as a romantic poet who vows to follow his love (Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi) to the ends of the earth -- even if that means going to Iraq at the dawn of the American invasion. Borrowing a bit from the plot of Benigni's Oscar-winning film Life Is Beautiful, this whimsical comedy presents a world in which all camps are absurd. French actor Jean Reno co-stars.
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When the mob calls in a favor, factory executive Antonio Badalamenti finds himself in an unlikely role. Tapped to carry out a hit, the inexperienced Antonio must execute his mission while keeping his criminal connections hidden from his family.
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The intertwining tales of a delivery boy, a tailor, a businessman and two cocky teenagers form the fabric of this gritty and lyrical examination of the influential Neapolitan mob known as the Camorra.
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In this reimagining of the last days of opera diva Maria Callas, her ex-manager reenters her life and persuades the reclusive soprano to star in a movie version of "Carmen," in which she would lip-sync to her old recordings.
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Family dissension, unbidden desire and other tensions bubble to the surface during a patriarch's birthday party. When the seemingly picture-perfect Recchi clan gathers to celebrate the man, the veneer of civility quickly falls away.
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Lending his stunning voice to Verdi's opera and Shakespeare's tragedy, Placido Domingo plays the Moor Otello, whose conniving ensign, Iago (Justino Diaz), plants the seed that drives Otello to murderous jealousy against his wife, Desdemona (Katia Ricciarelli). Director Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo & Juliet, Tea with Mussolini) shot the emotionally wrenching tale on location in Italy and Crete. Opulent costumes add to the visual splendor.
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A wife, a child, a house ... it all seems like too much for a guy who's afraid to grow up! But Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) is not alone. All of his buddies are suffering their own growing pains, and none of them seem ready to settle down without a fight. As the romantic entanglements tighten, this self-centered group of guys struggles to learn the complicated, age-old lessons of life and love.
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When Santa's helper Granny Rose falls ill and must take off on Christmas Eve, she recruits Mr. Grimm to help deliver all the toys. What no one but the toys knows is that Mr. Grimm plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder!
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After four years, American teenager Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) returns to the artist's colony in Tuscany where her recently deceased mother was once the resident poet. Lucy has arrived to learn more about her mother's past and does not anticipate the emotional and sexual revelations that await her in the pastoral paradise. Rachel Weisz, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes co-star in this drama from director Bernardo Bertolucci.
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After years of putting it off, Elsa (Margherita Buy) finally returns to school to pursue her art history degree. But her newfound academic bliss crumbles when her husband, Michele (Antonio Albanese), loses his job and the duo is forced to sell their gorgeous flat. The ensuing financial strain soon takes a surprising toll on their marriage in director Silvio Soldini's intimate domestic drama, shot in beautiful Genoa.
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This action-packed crime thriller profiles the bloody career of Renato Vallanzasca, a daring and handsome outlaw who gained fame -- and celebrity-style adoration by many -- during the 1970s with a brazen string of robberies, kidnappings and murders.
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Taratabong is a wonderful place inhabited by musical creatures known as the Meloditties. Communicating through sound and rhythm, these characters create a new melody in every episode, introducing preschoolers to the magical world of music.
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The pope has died, and the congress of cardinals has chosen his successor. But what happens if the newly elected pontiff doesn't want the job? This comedy follows the Vatican's travails as it strives to make one cardinal accept his destiny.
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Taratabong is a wonderful place inhabited by musical creatures known as the Meloditties. Communicating through sound and rhythm, these characters create a new melody in every episode, introducing preschoolers to the magical world of music.
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The pleasant life of a middle-aged bookstore owner is turned topsy-turvy when she begins an uncertain affair with a man 13 years her junior. Meanwhile, life is equally turbulent for her adopted brother, who sets off to find his biological brother.
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