A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

One Hundred Steps

2000

Italian

7.5

♡ 8

Action

based on a true story

Marco Tullio Giordana Director

Antonino Bruschetta as Cugino Anthony

Lucia Sardo as Felicia Impastato

Tony Sperandeo as Gaetano Badalamenti

Luigi Maria Burruano as Luigi Impastato

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Baaria

2009

Italian

6.9

♡ 4

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Monica Bellucci as Bricklayer's Girlfriend

Luigi Maria Burruano as Chemist

Leo Gullotta as Liborio

Raoul Bova as Roman journalist

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Divorce Italian Style

1961

Italian

7.9

♡ 9

Pietro Germi Director

Stefania Sandrelli as Angela

Maria Grazia Spadaro as Bit part

Marcello Mastroianni as Il barone Ferdinando Cefalù

Lando Buzzanca as Rosario Mulè

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Il prefetto di ferro

1977

Italian

7.0

♡ 2

29%

based on novel or book

Pasquale Squitieri Director

Claudia Cardinale as Anna Torrini

Vittorio Duse as Capostazione

Francisco Rabal as Il brigante Calogero Albanese

Angelo Boscariol as Sergente dei Carabineri

Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.

20 Million Miles to Earth

1957

English

6.3

♡ 12

75%

Nathan Juran Director

Noel Drayton as 1st Reuters News Correspondent

William Hopper as Col. Robert Calder

Arthur Space as Dr. Sharman

Thomas Browne Henry as Maj. Gen. A.D. McIntosh

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

The Leopard

1963

Italian

7.9

♡ 39

98%

Luchino Visconti Director

Terence Hill as Count Cavriaghi

Paolo Stoppa as Don Calogero Sedara

Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

Alain Delon as Tancredi Falconeri

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 pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.