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One Hundred Steps

  “I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Read More

The Unknown Woman

  A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple’s trusted maid and the beloved Read More

Goodfellas

  A young man grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious Read More

The Godfather

  When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, Read More

Cinema Paradiso

  A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He returns home to his Sicilian village Read More

Vincere

  The story of Ida Dalser, who fell in love with the future Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, supported him while he was unemployed in the early 1910s, and married Read More

Reality

  Reality is a dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show “Grande Fratello” Read More

Don’t Tell

  Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. However, recurring nightmares have begun to disturb her, and at around the same Read More

I Am Love

  At a dinner — during which her husband, Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), learns that he and his son Edoardo Recchi Jr. (Flavio Parenti) are about to assume control of the Read More

Giulia Doesn’t Date at Night

  Guido (Valerio Mastandrea) is a writer short-listed for an Italian book award, father of an adolescent girl and husband to a beautiful woman. He lives a good life, if Read More