La vacanza che non ricordo piu (2012)

Actors: Jeff McGary (writer), Jeff McGary (editor), Jeff McGary (director), Luigi Pulcini (composer), Margherita Romeo (writer), Raffaella Pontarelli (writer), Raffaella Pontarelli (actress), Margherita Romeo (actress), Valentina Gadaleta (writer), Valentina Gadaleta (actor), Simona Pace (actor), Chiara Cimmino (writer), Chiara Cimmino (actor), Simona Pace (writer), Mischel Thomas (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Piede di dio (2009)

Actors: Antonio Catania (actor), Luis Molteni (actor), Enzo Porcelli (producer), Grazia Colombini (costume designer), Emilio Solfrizzi (actor), Bruno Sarandrea (editor), Paolo Gasparini (producer), Paolo Gasparini (actor), Elena Bouryka (actress), Daniele Esposito (miscellaneous crew), Antonio Stornaiolo (actor), Guido Quintozzi (actor), Rosaria Russo (actress), Filippo Pucillo (actor), Luigi Sardiello (writer),

Plot: Elia has a talent. He has never missed a penalty. He has a magic foot... Very few people play football like he does. Elia's got a problem, though. He is 18 years old but he acts like a 12 year old: his father had left him and his mother when he was that age, to go back to Rome and work as a manager. Michele's got a problem. When he was young he had an accident and had to give up the dream of becoming a football player. Now he works for local football teams looking for new talents: he goes around, lives high, wheeling and dealing, lying to himself and the others. However Michele has a talent too: he is able to recognize a champion. During one of his trips to the South of Italy, Michele meets Elia by chance on the beach, and he is struck by his talent. Cynically, the boy is the solution to all his problems. Thanks to his persuasive skills, he talks to his mother and become the manager of the boy. So, the odd couple starts a journey of hope through the big city and the football world, with its arrogant agents and all-powerful managers. One day, at last, there is the trial match to enter a great football team...

Genres: Comedy,

La tigre e la neve (2005)

Actors: Roberto Benigni (actor), Jean Reno (actor), Nicola Piovani (composer), Roberto Benigni (writer), Vincenzo Cerami (writer), Dale Dye (miscellaneous crew), Tom Waits (actor), Jorge Luis Borges (actor), Roberto Benigni (director), Emilia Fox (actress), Giuseppe Battiston (actor), Massimo Fiocchi (editor), Mariella Valentini (actress), Bruno Di Bartolomei (miscellaneous crew), Martin Sherman (actor),

Plot: Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

Keywords: 2000s, american-soldier, arab, baghdad-iraq, barber-chair, basra-iraq, bazaar, bombardment, bombed-convoy, camel
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War,

Quotes:

Vittoria: Oh my beloved all creation overflows with passion, and like a golden comet in the sky, from my mouth bursts forth this cry: I love you.::Vittoria: I want to make love to you now.::Attilio de Giovanni: That's the best line I ever heard in my life.

Attilio de Giovanni: I told myself: "There must be people whose job it is to use the right words, put things in a way... who when their heart beats, can get other people's hearts to beat."::Attilio de Giovanni: That day I decided to become a poet.

Fuad: He was a real poet. He was young, fell in love with a woman and married her. A few years later, while he was fighting in some war, he heard his wife had contracted smallpox and had been disfigured. So Al-Giumeili said, "My eyes hurt." And then: "I've gone blind." When his wife died, 12 years later, he opened his eyes again.::Attilio de Giovanni: So as not to upset his wife, he pretended to be blind for 12 years?::Fuad: Every person is a chasm. It makes you dizzy to look down.

Attilio de Giovanni: If she dies, they can close this whole show of a world... they can cart it off, unscrew the stars, roll up the sky and put it on a truck, they can turn off this sunlight I love so much. Do you know why I love it so much? Because I love her when the sun shines on her. They can take everything away, these carpets, columns, houses, sand, wind, frogs, ripe watermelons, hail, seven in the evening, May, June, July, basil, bees, the sea, courgettes...

Attilio de Giovanni: [in broken English] Tell him to stay calm! He's very nervous... he's going to shoot me; he's shaking! Stay calm! Molto calmo! Stay calm, I am having heart attack! [breathes heavy]

Attilio de Giovanni: Allah, the only prayer I know is the Lord's Prayer in Italian. Do you understand Italian? It's a beautiful prayer.

The Gondoliers (1997)

Actors: William S. Gilbert (writer), Peter Maniura (producer), Richard Suart (actor), Donald Maxwell (actor), Jonathan Haswell (director), Felicity Palmer (actress), Caroline Speed (producer), David Willcock (producer), James Naughtie (actor), Mary Hegarty (actress), Rosemary Joshua (actress), Penelope Walker (actress), Timothy Robinson (actor), Jacqueline Fox (actress), Pamela Helen Stephen (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Bed & Breakfast (1995)

Actors: Anthony Crane (actor), Jon Dough (actor), Rocco Siffredi (actor), Tony Tedeschi (actor), Asia Carrera (actress), Melissa Hill (actress), Nicole Lace (actress), Jordan Lee (actress), Cash Markman (writer), Toni English (director),

Genres: Adult, Drama,

The Gondoliers (1990)

Actors: William S. Gilbert (writer), Arthur Sullivan (composer), Darren Jonusas (editor), Peter Butler (producer), David Hobson (actor), Martin Coombes (director), Dennis Olsen (actor), Graeme Ewer (actor), Jennifer Bermingham (actress), Brian Macdonald (miscellaneous crew), Suzanne Johnston (actress), Robert Gard (actor), Neil Kirkby (actor), Lois Strike (actress), Roger Lemke (actor),

Plot: After gondoliers, Marco and Giuseppe, marry their sweethearts Gianetta and Tessa, they are informed that one of them is really the King of Barataria. However, there is a problem - nobody knows which is the King and which is the gondolier. Gianetta and Tessa are delighted with the idea of one of them being Queen, but later discover, to their horror, that the King was married, in babyhood, to somebody else - and that neither of them will be a queen.

Keywords: classical, comic-opera, gilbert-and-sullivan, independent-film, live, live-audience, live-entertainment, live-performance, live-recording, opera
Genres: Comedy, Music,

Le vie del Signore sono finite (1987)

Actors: Nino Baragli (editor), Marco Messeri (actor), Massimo Bonetti (actor), Enzo Cannavale (actor), Marco Messeri (writer), Anna Orso (actress), Giulio Massimini (actor), Marco Mattei (miscellaneous crew), Donald Hodson (actor), Massimo Troisi (actor), Mauro Berardi (producer), Massimo Troisi (director), Massimo Troisi (writer), Jo Champa (actress), Gaetano Daniele (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Camillo: I never read books, because they are millions and I can't keep up. Besides, I'm only one reading, while they, the writers, are millions, writing: while I read one, they have written one million...

The Gondoliers (1972)

Actors: William S. Gilbert (writer), Thomas Allen (actor), Bill Hays (director), Heather Begg (actress), Cynthia Buchan (actress), Michael Langdon (actor), John Brecknock (actor), Laureen Livingstone (actress), Edith Coats (actress), Dennis Dowling (actor), Alan Charles (actor), Sara De Javelin (actress), Sara de Javelin (actress), Beverly Bergen (actress), Delia Wallis (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Das Kaffeehaus (1970)

Actors: Harry Baer (actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer), Carlo Goldoni (writer), Peer Raben (composer), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director), Kurt Raab (actor), Peer Raben (actor), Ingrid Caven (actress), Hanna Schygulla (actress), Günther Kaufmann (actor), Margit Carstensen (actress), Peter Moland (actor), Hans Hirschmüller (actor),

Genres: ,

Prince of Foxes (1949)

Actors: Henry King (director), Marina Berti (actress), Vittorio Nino Novarese (costume designer), Antonella Lualdi (actress), Felix Aylmer (actor), Alfred Newman (composer), Ariadna Welter (actress), Sol C. Siegel (producer), Orson Welles (actor), Leslie Bradley (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Tyrone Power (actor), Franco Corsaro (actor), Enzo Musumeci Greco (miscellaneous crew), Barbara McLean (editor),

Plot: In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte (Borgia's next intended conquest); and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...

Keywords: adventurer, armor, assassination, based-on-novel, battle, battlefield, belly-dancer, betrayal, borgia, brawl
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History,

Quotes:

Andrea Orsini: [looking at the dead body of Lucrezia Borgia's husband] Would you say the dead man made a reluctant corpse?::Don Esteban: A loose tongue soon loses its mouth, Captain Orsini.::Andrea Orsini: A wise tongue never needs to repeat itself, Don Esteban, nor does a competent assassin.

Cesare Borgia: It is my belief that everything, even death, can be turned into profit.

Cesare Borgia: [to Orsini] The great know only one law: the outcome justifies the act. Have you the stomach for greatness? The stomach and the appetite?

Mario Belli: I never cut a throat without knowing whose it is or why I'm cutting it.

Mona Constanza Zoppo: [responding to a noise outside her cottage which has disturbed her dog] Mice, rabbits, cats - a widow's dog never rests.

Don Esteban: [after getting a shove from behind from Borgia] My Lord!::Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!::Don Esteban: I was thinking.::Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect. [Walking away] You should listen though. You may learn something.

Camilla Verano: I promise you I know how to hate.::Andrea Orsini: Or love, the twin of hate.

Andrea Orsini: I believe that I was born and that I must die, and that I must make the best of what lies between the two extremes.

Andrea Orsini: Heroism is a shallow thing, Madonna, if it isn't rooted in wisdom.::Camilla Verano: I don't intend to be wise; I can only be what I am.

Andrea Orsini: I asked to be taken to Duke Cesare Borgia.::Don Esteban: By his orders I sit in his seat.::Andrea Orsini: Well, sit lightly, my friend, lest you damage your brains.