Giancarlo Giannini
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away).
Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato),...
3) Swept Away
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is Lina Wertmuller's most famous and controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht cruising off the coast of Sardinia, Raffaella (Mariangela Melato), a rich and stunning capitalist, enjoys tormenting Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a Communist sailor. Fate weaves a different scenario and roles become reversed when the two find themselves stranded together on...
4) L'innocente
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Gabrielle d'Annunzio's passionate novel is brought to life in the final masterpiece from acclaimed director Luchino Visconti. In late-nineteenth century Italy, Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini), an insatiable aristocrat, grows bored with his timid wife Giuliana (Laura Antonelli) and neglects her for his more exciting mistress, the wealthy widow Countess Teresa Raffo (Jennifer O'Neill). After learning that Giuliana is having a torrid affair of her own, he...
6) Hannibal
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
One of Dr. Hannibal Lecter's surviving victims is poised to enact sweet revenge on the world's most feared cannibal. FBI agent Clarice Starling is brought back on the case when Lecter decides to come out of retirement to face his adversary.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book dub to Italy for the fun girl's trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
8) Cabrini
Publisher
Lodigiano Film Development, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the life and times of Francesca Cabrini, recounting Cabrini's experiences arriving as an Italian immigrant in New York City in 1889, witnessing the living conditions of the city's poor, and taking on the city's mayor to improve living and healthcare conditions for all.
11) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
13) Casino royale
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Bond receives his licence to kill, 'M' sends him on a mission to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless and cunning financier who will teach Bond his most important lesson: Trust no one.
14) Mimic 3 film set
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mimic: A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease, only to find three years later that something has gone terribly wrong! Their creation is able to mimic and destroy its every predator - even man!
Mimic 2: A cockroach spiced with DNA from termites is on the loose and wanting to mate with Remy, a school teacher-entomologist, who is suspected of the gruesome murders of her ex-boyfriends.
Mimic 3: When residents...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The war lover: In England during World War II, bomber pilots fall for the same girl, but only one will make it through the war to ask for her hand. Hellcats of the Navy: Highlights the daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II. This is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's only screen appearance together. Anzio: A war correspondent paints a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest...
16) Man on fire
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life. That is until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, and ultimately presumed to be dead, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible.
18) Hannibal
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, HANNIBAL continues the story begun in Silence of the Lambs. Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests, savoring the scents, the essences of the unguarded...
Author
Language
English
Description
What do you get when you combine four bumbling American tourists, a puppy and a dead body? Inspired lunacy! Sean Young and Richard Lewis are two down-and-out Americans attempting to return a lost dog to its Monte Carlo socialite owner for a $5000 reward. But when the owner is murdered, they become the prime suspects. But who's the real killer? The roulette loser? The gigolo? Or could it possibly be... the dog? John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd...
20) New York Stories
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of cinematic short stories directed by three of America's premier directors: Woody Allen, Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese. . "Oedipus Wrecks" - Sheldon Mills, a successful but desperate New York attorney, begins an unusual search to discover what became of his mother who mysteriously disappeared. Sheldon is aided by his girlfriend, Lisa and his hard-of-hearing, Aunt Ceil. . "Life Without Zoe" - an irrepressible Manhattan teenager...