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The Organizer

  Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in Read More

The Night Porter

  The Night Porter is a 1974 English-language Italian erotic psychological war drama film.  In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers Read More

Malena

  In 1941, Renato was 13 years old and although the world was at war, nothing ever happened in this sleepy village in Sicily until the day he discovered something Read More

The Wind Blows Round

  Philippe is a former teacher who left everything to become a shepherd in the French Pyrenees. After the construction of a nuclear power plant near his sheep, he decided Read More

Inspector Montalbano

  Based on a character created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories, each episode of ‘Inspector Montalbano‘ tells a stand-alone story of the Read More

Manual of Love

  Manual of Love is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. Each of the four episodes follows a different couple, focusing on a particular stage of a Read More

Many Wars Ago

  On the Italian-Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.  Time after time the Read More

Beauty and the Beast

  An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has Read More

Pocahontas

  Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical comedy romance-drama film released by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is the 33rd full-length animated feature film in the Disney Animated Canon Read More

The Marquis of Grillo

  A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious trouble when a practical joke ends badly and inadvertently ends up endangering the Pope. Rome, Year of our Lord Read More