Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Roman
The Youngest Son, written and directed by the director Pupi Avati, was released in 2010. The main character, Luciano Baietti (Christian De Sica), is an entrepreneur without scruples. In order to succeed, he will stop at nothing, and this includes using his youngest son Baldo (Nicola Nocella).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paparazzi follows five “paparazzi” (free-lance photographers) who run "Magica Press" (The Magic Press). The goal of the photographers is to catch Italian screen stars in private moments. This time it's the President of the USA they catch.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Judge Antonio Servilio comes down to ancient Rome from Mediolanum [Roman name for Milan], to fight corruption. The disconcerting message of the film is that little has changed since 71 BC. Romantic entanglements, nepotism, references to current politics, and sexy ladies.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This is a kind of trailer, not for a movie, but for a book about the Calabrian mafia-like organization called the 'Ndrangheta, and the investigation into its crimes, called Operazione Crimine-Infinito (Operation Infinite Crime). Coming soon: the author reading some extracts from the book.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Baciami ancora (Kiss Me Again) is the sequel to L’ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss), directed by Muccino and released ten years ago. It follows the same group of friends as they face infidelity, midlife crises, new love...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 film directed by Federico Fellini, with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina. The film was partly shot at the famous Saltanò Circus, with actors and extras taken from that circus. Fellini changed the name of Anthony Quinn’s character from Saltanò into Zampanò, maybe for copyright reasons. The picture won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1957. It was the year the foreign prize was instituted and it allowed Fellini to break out from national boundaries.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Salentino
Lecce, in the 1990s. Ignazio is an esteemed judge who has recently returned to the city after working for many years in the north. He meets Lucia again, the woman he has secretly loved since childhood. The woman works as a perfumes representative, but this is just a front. In reality, Lucia has become the right hand woman of the boss Carmine Za, one of the heads of Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred Heart), the new criminal organization that in 90s reached its apex of power and ferocity.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The story of four young women, aged seventeen, who were born into upper middle class families in a provincial Italian city. Their perfect lives, their high profile families, their shopping, their sports activities, their boyfriends, and their exclusive parties are all a huge bore for them. Elena, the group’s leader, finds herself in a strange situation when their newly arrived teacher, Mario Landi, enters unknowingly into their adolescent games.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
Alberto, a manager with the postal service in a small town, is ready to do anything to get transferred to Milan. His tricks don't work out, however, and as punishment he's transferred to a small town near Naples. A nightmare for Alberto, but he is in for a few surprises.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Paola Savinelli tells the viewer about her candidacy for the project of the La civica (The Civic) party, a party whose central mission is the safeguarding of the environment.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Luca Zingaretti, known for his playing Salvo Montalbano in the TV series based on Camilleri's detective novels, makes an appeal to prevent drilling in the Mediterranean. The World Wildlife Fund message was prepared for the 2016 referendum. Voters chose to ban drilling.
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