Donatella

Oggi a te... domani a me (2014)

Actors: Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Giancarlo Giannini (actor), Anna Falchi (actress), Cristina Serafini (actress), Diego Casale (actor), Piero Maggiò (actor), Alfredo Li Bassi (actor), Rita Rusciano (actress), Fabio Rossini (actor), Marco Limberti (director), Giada Mazzoleni (miscellaneous crew), Marco Limberti (writer), Omar Fantini (actor), Amedeo Visconti (writer),

Genres: Comedy,

Halina (2013)

Actors: Alessandro Marinelli (editor), Giorgia Sinicorni (actress), Lucrezia Piaggio (actress), Lorenzo De Angelis (actor), Michael Schermi (actor), Valerio Morigi (actor), Giovanna Di Rauso (actress), Francesco Ricci Lotteringi (writer), Francesco Ricci Lotteringi (producer), Neri Ricci Lotteringi (producer), Francesco Ricci Lotteringi (writer), Neri Ricci Lotteringi (writer), Neri Ricci Lotteringi (writer), Francesco Ricci Lotteringi (director), Neri Ricci Lotteringi (director),

Plot: Through the eyes of Halina, a little gypsy girl, we follow a day in the life of three characters. As the story unfolds, the paths of these individuals are fated to cross in unpredictable ways and each decision they make will prove critical to their destinies.

Keywords: gipsy
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Short,
Taglines: A Little Girl, Three Cards and Three Stories Share Their Faith.

Donatella (2011)

Actors: Josh Harp (actor), Pablo Secca (producer), Jason O'neil Hudson (actor), Pablo Secca (writer), Derek K. Milton (miscellaneous crew), Pablo Secca (editor), Pablo Secca (director), Emmanuel Afuwape (actor), David R. Knight (actor), Ben Poppel (producer), Stephanie Charles (actress), Jermaine L. Williams (actor), Peter Ngo (actor), John Dugan Barrett (miscellaneous crew), Adam Thayer (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short,

Letters to Juliet (2010)

Actors: Amanda Seyfried (actress), Ellen Barkin (producer), Remo Remotti (actor), Oliver Platt (actor), Milena Vukotic (actress), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Naeem Uzimann (actor), Franco Nero (actor), Gael García Bernal (actor), Giacomo Piperno (actor), Fabio Testi (actor), Angelo Infanti (actor), Sandro Dori (actor), Caroline Kaplan (producer), Mark Canton (producer),

Plot: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Keywords: american-abroad, balcony, business-trip, cemetery, character-name-in-title, chick-flick, englishman-abroad, englishwoman-abroad, female-protagonist, female-writer
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: What if you had a second chance to find true love? The greatest love story ever told... is your own

Quotes:

Victor: It's not a mushroom, okay. It's a truffle.

Sophie: So no "Lake Garda" today?::Victor: Well, "Lake Garda"'s been there for five hundred thousand years.

Sophie: [drily] I'm sorry, I didn't know love had an expiration date.

Claire: Charlie doesn't approve, which makes it all the more fun.

Charlie: [trying to convince Claire to leave] It's been a long day.::Claire: All right, darling, have a nice sleep.

Charlie: [as Sophie interrupts yet again] Oh-*here she comes!*

Sophie: I think it's a story worth telling.

Sophie: That's so romantic.::Charlie: What's so romantic about eating in the dirt?

Charlie: It's over! We're done! We've found Nemo!

Claire: [about Sophie] She's coming!::Charlie: [sarcastically] Oh, she's coming? Oh, *splendid!*

Ne te retourne pas (2009)

Actors: Jani Thiltges (actor), Monica Bellucci (actress), Sylvie Granotier (actress), Diana Elbaum (producer), Sophie Marceau (actress), Jani Thiltges (producer), Brigitte Catillon (actress), Didier Flamand (actor), Dominique Reymond (actress), Brigitte Catillon (actress), Pascal Bonitzer (actor), Patrick Sobelman (producer), Patrick Sobelman (actor), Augusto Zucchi (actor), Marina de Van (writer),

Plot: Jeanne a writer, married, with two children - starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place. A photograph at her mother's house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, RosaMaria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.

Keywords: car-crash, change-of-identity, dance, dead-child, dual-identity, eyes-different-color, family-crisis, female-nudity, haunted-by-the-past, hotel-room
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,

Il mio amico Babbo Natale (2005)

Actors: Fausto Brizzi (writer), Lino Banfi (actor), Andrea Guerra (composer), Pietro Valsecchi (producer), Marco Martani (writer), Valentina Girodo (editor), Vittoria Belvedere (actress), Roberto Accornero (actor), Stefania Spugnini (actress), Claudio Grassetti (producer), Emiliano Coltorti (actor), Camilla Nesbitt (producer), Gerry Scotti (actor), Franco Amurri (director), Simona Chiocca (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: At the North Pole there's isn't just one Santa Claus, but hundreds of them, each one responsible for a small area of the world.. and for the goodness of its inhabitants. The levels of goodness are dangerously low in Northern Italy, so the general assembly rules that Ezechiele must deal with the worst case on his territory, Mr. Achille Malerba, the man thought to be the reason for this downward plunge of the goodness "index". Ezechiele MUST make him a good man by midnight on Xmas eve, or he'll lose his job and be sent to make toys with the elves (who are very malevolent and nasty). Ezechiele appears to Mr. Malerba, a very rich industrialist (mayonaise) who callously refuses to understand the gravity - and reality - of his situation... Santa will use all his magic to try and make him understand, causing him to lose everything he has, but also helping him redeem himself through the relationship he develops with a former employee he had fired, and her fatherless 6 year old son.

Keywords: christmas, italy, north-pole, reference-to-charles-dickens, santa-claus
Genres: Family, Fantasy,

Italiani (1996)

Actors: Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Roberto Citran (actor), Sergio Montanari (editor), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (actress), Maurizio Ponzi (director), Claudio Saraceni (producer), Bruno Zambrini (composer), Maurizio Ponzi (writer), Luigi Maria Burruano (actor), Claudio Bigagli (actor), Ivano Marescotti (actor), Aldo Massasso (actor), Bruno Altissimi (producer), Claudio Botosso (actor), Marco Leonardi (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (1989)

Actors: Anna Bonaiuto (actress), Pupi Avati (director), Pupi Avati (writer), Riz Ortolani (composer), Roberto Nobile (actor), Pupi Avati (producer), Antonio Avati (producer), Felice Andreasi (actor), Massimo Sarchielli (actor), Mattia Sbragia (actor), Alessandro Haber (actor), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (actress), Massimo Bonetti (actor), Amedeo Salfa (editor), Stefania Orsola Garello (actress),

Plot: At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

Keywords: 1930s, abyssinian, accordion, adultery, angel, anticipating-death, aunt-niece-relationship, banquet, bath, bicycle
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A feast for lovers by Pupi Avati.

Domingo de Verão à italiana (1962)

Actors: Françoise Fabian (actress), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Sergio Amidei (writer), Franco Fabrizi (actor), Jimmy il Fenomeno (actor), Gina Rovere (actress), Bruno Scipioni (actor), Ugo Tognazzi (actor), Raimondo Vianello (actor), Rosita Pisano (actress), Karin Baal (actress), Anna Maria Ferrero (actress), Dominique Boschero (actress), Gina Mascetti (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Mafioso (1962)

Actors: Norma Bengell (actress), Nino Baragli (editor), Alberto Lattuada (director), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Tonino Cervi (producer), Piero Piccioni (composer), Furio Scarpelli (writer), Agenore Incrocci (writer), Alberto Sordi (actor), Marco Ferreri (writer), Rafael Azcona (writer), Cinzia Bruno (actress), Hugh Hurd (actor), Ugo Attanasio (actor), Angela Sammaciccia (costume designer),

Plot: Antonio is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians. He even dispels stereotypes about the mafia, saying that being a mafioso as a teen amounted to just being a messenger boy. But as Antonio reconnects with his past in Sicily, he finds out that there are more sides to being a Sicilian than he remembers.

Keywords: airplane, airplane-trip, auto-plant, automobile, automobile-factory, barber-shop, beach, black-cat, blood-relations, boat
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Marta: [seeing a dead person in a bed surrounded by people eating] Look!::Antonio Badalamenti: It's nothing. A man died. It's an old custom. His friends are throwing a party for him.::Antonio Badalamenti: [to one of the mourners with a plate of food] Cumbari. How'd he die?::Man at wake: [matter-of-factly] Two bullets.::Antonio Badalamenti: [with urgency to the driver] Right. Let's go!

Don Vincenzo: The lies of a woman when softened by grace and courtesy are always welcome.

Antonio Badalamenti: Why do you say Sicily's uncivilized? It's very civilized and we have to live up to that.::Nino's father: No, we have to act like men - and that snake was right - you are a woman!::Antonio Badalamenti: No, Papa! Please don't say that!::Nino's father: [contemptuously] Fuck off!

Marta: Your mother hasn't said a word to me since we arrived. She stares at me as if I was some kind of exotic animal.

Don Liborio: [passing a street vendor] Now, a nice cap for the gentleman. What color do you want... black or checked?::Antonio Badalamenti: Black.::Don Liborio: Want to try it on? [Nino looks at himself in a mirror.] Now you're really one of us.

Lagosi: Thinking fully dressed or half naked is still thinking.

Don Calogero: The only way to go back is to go forward. It's stupid to be scared.

Antonio Badalamenti: [looking ahead on the ferry] Look over there! [enthusiastically] Sicily! Island of the sun and Cyclops! The inspiration to all the poets! [noticing his wife's lack of enthusiasm] What's the matter, Marta?::Marta: [wistfully] Nothing. I was just watching Italy fade away.

Antonio Badalamenti: I may live in Milan, but I'm still Sicilian.

Antonio Badalamenti: Remember when I said there were four hares. I bagged two of them. But if I'd had a Winch... a Winchester, I'd have bagged them all.