Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.

There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia

2017

Italian

6.5

♡ 1

Fabio Mollo Director

Alessio Lapice as

Federica De Cola as Assistente sociale

Anna Ferruzzo as Nunzia

Luca Marinelli as Paolo

Paolo is a sceptical 30-year-old who works unwillingly as a sales clerk in a Turin department store. Mia is a back-up singer in a band and lives her life haphazardly, which leads her to being practically homeless. One night, they bump into each other by chance, in a gay club in Turin. It will be the beginning of an emotional adventure and a journey across the country looking for the father of Mia’s baby.

A Night Full of Rain

1978

English

5.8

♡ 7

29%

Drama

Romance

woman director

Lina Wertmüller Director

West Buchanan as (as John West Buchanan)

Flora Carabella as Friend

Candice Bergen as Lizzy

Giancarlo Giannini as Paolo

Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.

Tea with Mussolini

1999

English

6.9

♡ 19

64%

Franco Zeffirelli Director Cher

Cher as Elsa

Lily Tomlin as Georgie

Maggie Smith as Lady Hester

Massimo Ghini as Paolo

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972

Italian

7.2

♡ 7

42%

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Peter Firth as

Leigh Lawson as Bernardo

Kenneth Cranham as Paolo

Carlo Pisacane as San Damiano Priest

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.

The Flesh

1991

Italian

5.5

♡ 5

50%

Drama

italian

Romance

Marco Ferreri Director

Clelia Piscitello as

Pino Tosca as

Francesca Dellera as Francesca

Sergio Castellitto as Paolo

A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…

Too Bad She's Bad

1954

Italian

6.8

♡ 2

Comedy

criminal

father daughter relationship

Romance

taxi driver

thief

Alessandro Blasetti Director

Sophia Loren as Lina Stroppiani

Piero Pastore as L'infermiere

Marcello Mastroianni as Paolo

Vittorio De Sica as Vittorio Stroppiani

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

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Steam: The Turkish Bath

There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia

A Night Full of Rain

Tea with Mussolini

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

The Flesh

Too Bad She's Bad