Movies Produced in Italy
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Giallo
[ 2009, USA, Italy ] starting from $1.99Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Actors: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky, Robert Miano, Massimo Franceschi, Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Giuseppe Lo Console, Luis Molteni, Nicolò Morselli, Patrick Oldani, Lorenzo Pedrotti, Farhad Re, Andrea Redavid, Liam Riccardo, Taiyo Yamanouchi
Directors: Dario Argento
In Torino, Celine, an American model, is abducted by a taxi driver while en route home to meet her sister Linda, visiting at her apartment. The next morning, Linda reports that Celine is missing - the sergeant in charge directs her to F.B.I. agent Inspector Enzo Avolfi. He's from the Special New York City Department investigating a serial-killer that kidnaps foreigners to destroy their beauty. When a Japanese woman is found at nearby a fountain, Enzo and Linda find that the girl is calling the abductor's skin is "Yellow" in color and Linda concludes that the guy might have jaundice. They go to the Policlinic di Torino to find the killer.
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Tetro
[ 2009, USA, Italy, Spain, Argentina ] starting from $1.99Every Family Has a Secret
Genres: Drama
Actors: Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú, Alden Ehrenreich, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Carmen Maura, Rodrigo De la Serna, Leticia Brédice, Mike Amigorena, Sofía Castiglione, Francesca De Sapio, Adriana Mastrángelo, Silvia Pérez, Erica Rivas
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Fresh faced and naive, 17-year-old Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires to search for his older brother who has been missing for more than a decade. The family had emigrated from Italy to Argentina, but with the great musical success of their father Carlo, an acclaimed symphony conductor, the family moved from Argentina to New York. When Bennie finds his brother, the volatile and melancholy poet Tetro, he is not at all what he expected. In the course of staying with Tetro and his girlfriend Miranda, the two brothers grapple with the haunting experiences of their shared past.
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Looking for Eric
[ 2009, UK, France, Italy, Belgium ] starting from $1.99Actors: Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Dylan Williams, Matthew McNulty, Laura Ainsworth, Max Beesley, Kelly Bowland, Julie Brown, John Henshaw, Justin Moorhouse
Directors: Ken Loach
Eric Bishop, a middle-aged postman working for the Manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. For starters, his second life companion has not resurfaced although she was released from prison a few months ago. He is left alone with two stepsons to look after, which is no bed of roses since the two teens disrespect him and keep disobeying him. To make matters worse, Ryan, the older boy, fascinated by Zac, a dangerous gangster, has accepted to hide his gun in Eric's house. On the other hand, he is asked by Sam, his student daughter who has a newborn baby,to get back in touch with Lily, his separated wife. Now, Eric left her not long after she gave back to their daughter. As a result Eric panics... Having lost all his bearings, Eric Bishop soliloquizes face to the poster of his idol, another Eric, French footballer Eric Cantona, when the latter appears just like the genie out of Aladdin's lamp. Through a series of aphorisms peculiar to him, the footballer-philosopher will help remorse-ridden desperate Eric Bishop to get by.
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Antichrist
[ 2009, Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland ] starting from $1.99A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.
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The Case of Unfaithful Klara
[ 2009, Italy, Czech Republic ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: Claudio Santamaria, Iain Glen, Laura Chiatti, Kierston Wareing, Paulina Bakarova, Anna Geislerová, Miroslav Simunek, Yemi Akinyemi, Dorota Nvotová, Zuzana Fialová, Sabina Began, Matyás Valenta, Dinah Geiger, Daniela Merlo
Directors: Roberto Faenza
In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents, misunderstandings and traps culminating in an unusual Venice.
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Colour from the Dark
[ 2008, Italy ] starting from $1.99Sucks the Life Out
Genres: Horror
Actors: Debbie Rochon, Michael Segal, Marysia Kay, Gerry Shanahan, Eleanor James, Matteo Tosi, Alessandra Guerzoni, Emmet Scanlan
Directors: Ivan Zuccon
Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
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Miracle at St. Anna
[ 2008, USA, Italy ] starting from $1.99World War II has its heroes and its miracles.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Actors: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Matteo Sciabordi, John Turturro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Leguizamo, Kerry Washington, D.B. Sweeney, Robert John Burke, Omari Hardwick, Omero Antonutti
Directors: Spike Lee
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
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The Duchess
[ 2008, UK, Italy, France ] starting from $1.99There were three people in her marriage
Actors: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle, John Shrapnel, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Godfrey, Michael Medwin, Justin Edwards, Richard McCabe, Calvin Dean, Hannah Stokely
Directors: Saul Dibb
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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War and Peace
[ 2007, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Poland ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: Alexander Beyer, Clémence Poésy, Alessio Boni, Malcolm McDowell, Andrea Giordana, Brenda Blethyn, Violante Placido, Toni Bertorelli, Hannelore Elsner, Benjamin Sadler, Pilar Abella, Ken Duken, Hary Prinz, Vladimir Ilyin, Dmitri Isayev
Directors: Brendan Donnison
The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era.
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The Moon and the Stars
[ 2007, Hungary, Italy, UK ] starting from $1.99It's All Make Believe, Perhaps That's Why We Love It. The World Outside Is So Cruel.
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Alfred Molina, Catherine McCormack, András Bálint, Roberto Purvis, Rupert Friend, Joanna Scanlan, Surama De Castro, Ivano Marescotti, Niccolò Senni, Francesco De Vito
Directors: John Irvin
Together in Rome to shoot a film, a German actress (McCormack) and an English actor (Pryce) contend with forces that complicate their romance as well as the production itself.
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Nympha
[ 2007, Italy ] starting from $1.99Same Lord. New Messiah.
Genres: Horror
Actors: Tiffany Shepis, Francesco Primavera, Michael Segal, Alessandra Guerzoni
Directors: Ivan Zuccon
Nympha is the story of Sarah, an American who goes to Italy to take vows needed to become a cloister nun of the "New Order" Convent. The rules of the convent are very strict, so strict that they are often considered a form of torture. Sarah's path is divided into four steps, "hear" the Lord, "see" the Lord, "touch" the Lord and "talk" with the Lord, Each step will be painful for both Sarah's physical and mental self. During Sarah's journey, she has visions of the Convents past - visions of a young woman whose life was ruined by the religious fanaticism of her violent grandfather. Her grandfather believes he can talk directly with God but, in reality, he is utterly mad. This madness is now present today - within the walls of the convent where Sarah lives.
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Hannibal Rising
[ 2007, UK, Czech Republic, France, Italy ] starting from $1.99It Started With Revenge
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Actors: Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Helena-Lia Tachovská, Richard Leaf, Dominic West, Rhys Ifans, Michele Wade, Richard Brake, Martin Hub, Kevin McKidd, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Joerg Stadler, Stephen Walters, Ivan Marevich
Directors: Peter Webber
Based on Thomas Harris' book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.
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Silk
[ 2007, Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan ] starting from $1.99Love knows no borders
Actors: Michael Pitt, Tony Vogel, Toni Bertorelli, Kenneth Welsh, Alfred Molina, Michael Golding, Carlo Cecchi, Marc Fiorini, Leslie Csuth, Toru Tezuka, Hiroya Morita, Akinori Ando, Jun Kunimura, Kanata Hongô, Kôji Yakusho
Based on the Alessandro Baricco's novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
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Funny Games U.S.
[ 2007, USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy ] starting from $1.99Shall we begin?
Actors: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon, Robert LuPone, Susanne C. Hanke, Linda Moran
Directors: Michael Haneke
In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.
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Donkey Xote
[ 2007, Spain, Italy ] starting from $1.99Genres: Animation
Actors: Andreu Buenafuente, David Fernández, José Luis Gil, Jordi González, Sancho Gracia, Luis Posada, Sonia Ferrer
Directors: Jose Pozo
Follows Don Quixote, his "squire", Sancho Panza (Quixote's best friend and the wealthiest man in town), Sancho's donkey, Rucio (who wants to be a horse) and a real horse, Quixote's faithful steed, Rocinante (who hates leaving his stable) on their adventure to duel the "Knight of the Moon" where, if Quixote wins the duel the true identity of Dulcinea will be revealed.
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Youth Without Youth
[ 2007, USA, Germany, Italy, France, Romania ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Actors: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke, Marcel Iures, Adrian Pintea, Alexandra Pirici, Florin Piersic Jr., Zoltan Butuc, Adriana Titieni, Mircea Albulescu, Dan Astileanu, Cristian Balint, Dragos Bucur, Matt Damon
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand?
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Mother of Tears: The Third Mother
[ 2007, Italy, USA ] starting from $1.99What you see does not exist. What you cannot see is truth.
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Actors: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias, Valeria Cavalli, Philippe Leroy, Daria Nicolodi, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Udo Kier, Robert Madison, Jun Ichikawa, Tommaso Banfi, Franco Leo, Clive Riche, Massimo Sarchielli
Directors: Dario Argento
The final installment of Dario Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy. The film centers on a young American art student, Sarah, who "unwittingly opens an ancient urn that unleashes the demonic power of the world's most powerful witch. As a scourge of suicides plague the city and witches from all over the world converge on Rome to pay homage, Sarah must use all her own psychic powers to stop the 'Mother of Tears' before her evil conquers the world."
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Two Tigers
[ 2007, Italy ] starting from $1.99The tiger must be killed with a single shot; because there is nothing so deadly as a wounded tiger.
Genres: Action
Actors: Jay Natelle, Olivier Pagès, Selena Khoo, Andrea Osvárt
Directors: Sandro Cecca
Two Tigers is an action film about two beautiful, tough women, from different countries whose lives are destined to meet in the far east modern city of Shanghai and form a tight bond. One, a professional killer from Hungary, discovers that she has a heart. The other, a high-class call girl from China, is betrayed by the man who promised her a fairytale ending she could never have. Both these women's lives cross in the exciting 'Paris of the Orient' and a friendship is sealed forever as they help each other overcome obstacles in their path to true happiness.
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Goodbye Bafana
[ 2007, Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, UK, Luxembourg ] starting from $1.99Based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela's prison guard
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Shiloh Henderson, Patrick Lyster, Faith Ndukwana, Mehboob Bawa, Adrian Galley, Warrick Grier, Leslie Mongezi, Sizwe Msutu, Matthew Roberts, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Terry Pheto, Giulia Troiano
Directors: Bille August
GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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It's a Free World...
[ 2007, UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama
Actors: Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek, Joe Siffleet, Colin Caughlin, Maggie Russell, Raymond Mearns, Davoud Rastagou, Mahin Aminnia, Sheera Kavousian, Frank Gilhooley, David Doyle, Johnny Palmiero
Directors: Ken Loach
Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.
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