La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)
Year: 1997
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Roberto Benigni
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
A Jewish-Italian man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humor, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
* Winner of 3 Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Foreign Language Film
Year: 1997
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Roberto Benigni
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
A Jewish-Italian man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humor, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
* Winner of 3 Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Foreign Language Film
Cinema Paradiso (Paradise Cinema)
* Original title: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (New Paradise Cinema)
Year: 1988
Genre: Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
* Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
* Original title: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (New Paradise Cinema)
Year: 1988
Genre: Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
* Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film
Il Postino (The Postman)
Year: 1994
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
A simple Italian postman delivers mail to the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who teaches him to write and love poetry to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Year: 1994
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
A simple Italian postman delivers mail to the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who teaches him to write and love poetry to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Notte prima degli esami (Night Before the Exams)
Year: 2006
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Stars: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
A teenage boy and his friends are about to leave high school, as long as they pass their exams! Fully expecting never having to put up with his horrid literature professor, he decides to tell the professor exactly what he thinks of him. But the professor informs the teenager that due to his colleague's illness, he will now be in charge of the exams.
Year: 2006
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fausto Brizzi
Stars: Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
A teenage boy and his friends are about to leave high school, as long as they pass their exams! Fully expecting never having to put up with his horrid literature professor, he decides to tell the professor exactly what he thinks of him. But the professor informs the teenager that due to his colleague's illness, he will now be in charge of the exams.
Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared)
Year: 2003
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Year: 2003
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
La ragazza del lago (The Girl by the Lake)
Year: 2007
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director: Andrea Molaioli
Stars: Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia
The body of a young woman is found in the lake of a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.
Year: 2007
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director: Andrea Molaioli
Stars: Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia
The body of a young woman is found in the lake of a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.
* More to be added soon