San Pietro

2005

Italian

6.9

♡ 4

Giulio Base Director

Johannes Brandrup as Gesù

Fabrizio Bucci as Giovanni

Marco Leonardi as Marco

Omar Sharif as San Pietro

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.

Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad

1985

Japanese

7.0

♡ 10

Action

Adventure

Animation

based on novel or book

Gisaburô Sugii Director

Chikao Ohtsuka as Birdcatcher

Gorô Naya as Dr. Bulganillo, Campanella's Father

Mayumi Tanaka as Giovanni

Shun Yashiro as (voice)

Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from society becomes unbearable, he suddenly finds himself on a train heading far away from his miserable home. Accompanied by Campanella, an acquaintance from school, Giovanni embarks on a journey that will define the rest of his life.

Taranta on the road

6.4

Salvatore Allocca Director

Nabiha Akkari as Amira

Giandomenico Cupaiuolo as Giovanni

Emmanuele Aita as Matteo

Bianca Nappi as Teresa

A man and a woman, illegal immigrants with nothing in common, find themselves to traveling together just landed in Italy from North Africa and having to pretend to be a married couple in the eyes of three Italian musicians in crisis whom have decided to help them to reach Paris.—S

The Fiances

1963

Italian

7.5

♡ 7

100%

87%

Action

Drama

long distance relationship

Ermanno Olmi Director

Carlo Cabrini as Giovanni

Anna Canzi as Liliana

A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two.

Granada Nights

2021

English

5.1

♡ 1

63%

Drama

Abid Khan Director

Quintessa Swindell as Amelia

Antonio Aakeel as Ben

Giovanni Battaglia as Giovanni

Óscar Casas as Lucas

Set in Granada, Spain, an uncultured British tourist struggles to mend his broken heart; with his new foreign friends he crashes into the heart of the international student scene.

Smile Before Death

1972

Italian

6.1

♡ 6

Silvio Amadio Director

Fabio Garriba as

Luigi Antonio Guerra as Giovanni

Dana Ghia as Magda

Barbara Bouchet as Party guest

After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved.

A Blade in the Dark

1983

Italian

5.9

♡ 16

39%

Lamberto Bava Director

Andrea Occhipinti as Bruno

Stanko Molnar as Giovanni

Valéria Cavalli as Katia

Giovanni Frezza as Little Blond Boy in Film

Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.

Two Women

1960

Italian

7.7

♡ 13

88%

parent child relationship

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sophia Loren as Cesira

Carlo Ninchi as Filippo, il padre di Michele

Raf Vallone as Giovanni

Curt Lowens as Ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Mean Streets

1973

English

7.2

♡ 90

92%

Martin Scorsese Director

Harvey Keitel as Charlie

Cesare Danova as Giovanni

Martin Scorsese as Jimmy Shorts

Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy

Victor Argo as Mario

Vincent Price as Verden Fell

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

La Dolce Villa

2025

English

6.0

♡ 15

75%

Mark Waters Director

Scott Foley as Eric

Violante Placido as Francesca

Giuseppe Futia as Giovanni

Giuseppe Russo as Italian Constructor Worker

When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.