Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
In the first episode, Carlo is on vacation in South Africa with his beloved Susanna, his second wife. Everything seems to be going well until, by a strange trick of fate, he meets his younger brother Giorgio and his wife Marta…
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:
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:
Intermediate
Italy
Here is the trailer for a biopic about Oriana Fallaci, one of the most famous reporters in the world, who dedicated her life to her passions.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Carolina Raspanti plays Dafne, a girl of 35 who leads a regular life until she loses her mother and has to take care of her father suffering from depression. Dafne has Down syndrome, as does the actress who portrays her.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Here is a comedy about a group of friends who have been living together in the same house during their studies at the University of Pisa. As this period comes to an end, they think about the future and about the past, the best time of their lives (so far). The title Fino a qui tutto bene translates as "so far, so good."
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
This is an excerpt from a play written by a trio of Italian comedians: Massimo Lopez, Anna Marchesini, and Tullio Solenghi. It pokes fun at a series of very common clichés used by Italians all over the country.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Here are some more clichés to learn, as Solenghi, Marchesini, and Lopez complain about modern life.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
What does it mean to be a European? Is the variety of languages in Europe an obstacle to actual unification? Umberto Eco explores these questions and offers some interesting insight.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Un figlio a tutti i costi, (a child at all costs), whose English language title is Right on Target, Baby, is an Italian comedy about an over-forty couple trying very hard to have a baby.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
We discover what the emergency was that brought Orazio home in a rush. They go to a pranotherapist for some help with a problem they are having.
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