Movie | United Kingdom | 05/15/2014 | Drama | Artists
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Movie | Spain | 01/09/2011 | Drama | Artists
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.
Movie | Italy | 12/20/1997 | Drama | Holocaust
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Movie | Italy | 03/25/1999 | Drama | Holocaust
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Movie | Italy | 12/07/1994 | Drama | Music
Farinelli is a 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Movie | Italy | 10/28/1998 | Drama | Musicians
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Movie | Italy | 02/13/1991 | Drama | sex
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. \Paprika\ is the name given to her by the madam.
Movie | Italy | 05/31/1990 | Drama | Dramedy
Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
Movie | Italy | 07/18/1990 | Drama | Gangsters
Movie | Italy | 04/30/1990 | Drama
Movie | Italy | 06/11/1999 | Drama
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Movie | Italy | 05/16/1999 | Drama
A beautiful Argentine activist receives preferential treatment from a man supposed to torture her.