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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

The Leopard

  As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but Read More

The Pilgrim of Love

  A mature countess and a pseudo-specialist have rented a villa by the sea and, avoiding police surveillance, run a clandestine gambling den.  Two suitors at the gambling house which Read More

Amarcord

  In an Italian seaside town, young Titta (Bruno Zanin) gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing Read More

Follow Your Heart

  A grandmother writes a diary for her nephew.  Her grandson finds the diary after her death and discovers the family’s true story.  Written by his grandmother (Olga) as she Read More

Marriage Italian Style

  When handsome, successful Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) first meets the sexy young waif Filomena (Sophia Loren) in Naples during World War II, he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the Read More