Posts Tagged ‘Italy’

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Julie Christie | Donald Sutherland | Hilary Mason | Clelia Matania | Massimo Serato | Renato Scarpa | Giorgio Trestini | Leopoldo Trieste | David Tree | Ann Rye | Nicholas Salter | Sharon Williams | Bruno Cattaneo | Adelina Poerio
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Oscar (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Riegert | Chazz Palminteri | Joey Travolta | Paul Greco | Sylvester Stallone | Richard Foronjy | Yvonne De Carlo | Don Ameche | Richard Romanus | Arleen Sorkin | Eddie Bracken | Tony Munafo | Robert Lesser | Art LaFleur | Kurtwood Smith
Directors: John Landis
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Angelo “Snaps” Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Jay Mohr | Billy Burke | Christina Applegate | Pamela Gidley | Olympia Dukakis | Lloyd Bridges | Jason Fuchs | Joe Viterelli | Tony Lo Bianco | Blake Hammond | Philip Suriano | Vincent Pastore | Marisol Nichols | Carol Ann Susi | Gregory Sierra
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Young Vincenzo Cortino, son of a Sicilian postman, delivers a package for his father and accidentally sees something he should not see. In a donkey’s, well, he is smuggled out of town, where he tries to reach a ship headed for America. There, Vincenzo works his way up to the top of the Mafia. One day, his youngest son makes a mistake and has to leave town. A little later, he ends up as a casino boss in Las Vegas. But the heads of the other families want old Don Cortino out of the way. So, they shoot him 47 times and send a *very* attractive woman to distract his son from his casino work. Will he fall for her or will he return to Diane, who, by the way, had run for President successfully in the meantime?

Secret Passage (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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Countries: Italy | Luxembourg | Portugal
Actors: John Turturro | Richard Harrington
Directors: Ademir Kenovic
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Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into exile or face trial and execution. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. It is in this great maritime empire, where opulence rhymes with tolerance, that Isabel organizes secret passages for refugees fleeing the Inquisition while Clara falls in love with a Venetian noble, Paolo Zane. Isabel intends for her family to go to Istanbul, the only place where Jews can live freely, but Clara is reluctant to leave. She challenges Isabel’s authority and is prepared to break her family ties and sacrifice her faith for love. Caught in this battle of wills is Clara’s daughter, Victoria, who finds she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her father.

The Life of David Gale (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Cleo King | Constance Jones | Kevin Spacey | Laura Linney | Lee Ritchey | Gabriel Mann | Matt Craven | Brandy Little | Cindy Waite | Jim Beaver | Leon Rippy | Jesse De Luna | Vernon Grote | Rhona Mitra
Directors: Alan Parker
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

The 4th Tenor (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rodney Dangerfield | Anita De Simone | Annabelle Gurwitch | Charles Fleischer | Robert Davi | Hamilton Camp | Elsa Raven | Jacob Urrutia | Richard Libertini | Dom Irrera | Patrick Cupo | Anney Giobbe | Vincent Schiavelli | Pierrino Mascarino | Marty Belafsky
Directors: Harry Basil
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Eternal bachelor Lupo plays the comical presenter to the musical acts in his own Italian restaurant ‘Serenade Café’ in New York, but operatic singer Gina is not amused, she throws him out of her dressing room- the more she insults him, the crazier the old fool gets about her. To keep him off she insists her husband must be an opera singer, so he is easily duped by Ierra, who hits on with Gina himself and ships Lupo off to his Italian cahoot, musical teacher Marcello, for lessons- actually he is so bad that even the dog runs off, and after they bribe the local opera to give him a tiny part, the sound-tortured audience chases him for his life. He passes out but is found and taken in by a winegrowers family, which gives him confidence and a killer voice…

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Gwyneth Paltrow | Jude Law | Cate Blanchett | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jack Davenport | James Rebhorn | Sergio Rubini | Philip Baker Hall | Celia Weston | Fiorello | Stefania Rocca | Ivano Marescotti | Anna Longhi | Alessandro Fabrizi
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.

The Godfather (1972)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | James Caan | Richard S. Castellano | Robert Duvall | Sterling Hayden | Richard Conte | Al Lettieri | Diane Keaton | Abe Vigoda | Talia Shire | Gianni Russo | John Marley | Rudy Bond
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Double Team (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Dennis Rodman | Mickey Rourke | Paul Freeman | Natacha Lindinger | Valeria Cavalli | Jay Benedict | Joëlle Devaux-Vullion | Bruno Bilotta | Mario Opinato | Grant Russell | William Dunn | Asher Tzarfati | Rob Diem | Ken Samuels
Directors: Hark Tsui
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Having retiring from the CIA, where he was an anti-terrorist operative, Jack Paul Quinn spends his days poolside at his house in Nice, France with his pregnant wife Katherine Rose Quinn. But international terrorist Stavros, an old enemy of Quinn’s, has resurfaced, and the CIA wants Quinn to come out of retirement, and go after Stavros. Quinn reluctantly accepts the assignment. Quinn goes to Antwerp, Belgium and hooks up with flamboyant arms dealer Yaz, who has the newest fully-automatic weapons. With Quinn’s assembled delta-force, an ambush is set for Stavros at a local amusement park. Stavros arrives, and greets his girlfriend…and his son. Quinn finds himself unable to shoot Stavros with his son. This moment of hesitation is costly, and Quinn’s entire team is killed off in a shoot-out with Stavros’ men — a shoot-out in which Stavros’s son and girlfriend are both killed. Quinn chases Stavros into a nearby hospital, and they battle it out in a nursery full of newborn babies. Quinn is knocked out cold, and Stavros escapes, vowing revenge on Quinn for the deaths of his son and girlfriend, not knowing that Quinn was not the agent who killed them. When Quinn comes to, he finds himself in “The Colony,” a place where “those who are too valuable to kill and too dangerous to set free” use their special skills around the world as “the last line of defense against global terrorism.” Using virtual reality and mouseless-graphical-user-interfaces, they solve all the world’s bombings, hijackings, and terrorist attacks. The only problem is that no one can ever leave The Colony. That’s why Quinn’s superiors tell Katherine that Quinn is dead. Not long after his arrival, Quinn finds evidence that Katherine is being targeted by Stavros, and so Quinn hatches an elaborate plan to escape from the Colony so he can protect Katherine. Once out of The Colony, Quinn hooks up with Yaz, and they learn that Stavros has kidnapped Katherine and taken her to Rome, planning to get revenge on Quinn through the baby, which Katherine has given birth to. Quinn and Yaz set out for Rome to rescue Katherine. It all comes to a head in a Roman coliseum in a showdown featuring a tiger, land mines…and the baby.