Italy:T certified movies
Cemetery Man (1994)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the “sclavian philosophy” diffused by the most succesful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian “dellamore” means “of love” and “dellamorte” means “of death”), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don’t know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them. Dellamorte seems not to ask to himself why this happen, he shoots and loves. But at the end he wants to leave Buffalora… |
Cutaway (2000)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper (Stephen Baldwin) is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line (Tom Berenger), a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he “disconnects” from his position of infiltrated agent, “connecting” with the team. |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)Monday, March 1st, 2010 |
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Four turtles and a rat are transformed into a humanized state by a mutagenetic gel in a sewer. The rat becomes their mentor, and teaches them all he knows regarding Jinjitsu. The turtles use their newfound skills to combat the crime in New York City. But when their mentor is captured by an enemy from the past, can they hold true to what they’ve learned, and stay together as a brotherhood? Search keywords |
Date Movie (2006)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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Julia Jones has found the perfect guy, the very-British and very-unfortunately-named Grant Fockyerdoder. But before they can have their Big Fat Greek Wedding, they must Meet the Parents, hook up with The Wedding Planner, and contend with Grant’s friend Andy who wants to put an end to her Best Friend’s Wedding. Search keywords |
Dave (1993)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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President Bill Mitchell is not exactly an ideal President. He looks after those who helped get him into office than the people, and he is a philanderer. One of the ways that he keeps his little dalliances a secret is to hire a lookalike to impersonate him and when he is at a function at a hotel, his double is the one the press and media see leaving the hotel, while he stays behind for his little rendezvous. Now the man whom they have hired is Dave Kovic, a goodhearted man who likes to help people find jobs. Normally after making his little exit that would be that but Mitchell suffers a stroke. Now he is completely incapacitated, and by law the Vice President will assume his duties but Bob Alexander, Mitchell’s Chief of Staff who is just as corrupt and ammoral as Mitchell maybe even more, fears that the Vice President who is boy scout, will probably not play ball with him or not keep him around, tells Dave that it’s in the country’s best interest that the Vice President not take over. So he agrees to continue pretending to be the President. But in reality Alexander is planning to smear the Vice President into resigning thus paving the way for him to be President. But when Dave becomes infatuated with the First Lady, and when Bob acting in Mitchell’s place, cuts off funding to one of her projects, she assumes that it was Dave as Mitchell, who did it. And so to make it up to her, he restores the funding, which infuriates Alexander. Which means that Dave and Alexander are headed for a clash. Search keywords |
The Good Shepherd (2006)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father’s suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family. Search keywords |
Titus (1999)Friday, February 19th, 2010 |
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War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor’s crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler’s venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus’s daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus’s sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There’s irony in which two sons survive. Search keywords |
Taxi (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can’t drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn’t lose his license and his dream job. |
La fidanzata di papà (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Massimo (‘Massimo Boldi’ (qv)) è un vedovo un pò stralunato, titolare di un albergo a Cortina, il cui figlio sta per avere un bambino dalla figlia di Angela (‘Simona Ventura’ (qv)) grintosa proprietaria di una catena di ristoranti tra Miami, Los Angeles e New York. I due consuoceri si conoscono quando i figli, che vivono a Miami, dove gestiscono un ristorante sul mare, decidono di non tornare in Italia per la nascita del bimbo. I rispettivi genitori li raggiungono proprio mentre tra i due giovani scoppia anche una crisi sentimentale. Attorno a loro ruota tutta una serie di personaggi tra fratelli, cognati, l’ex marito di Angela (‘Nino Frassica’ (qv)), la sua segretaria, che è in realtà è un uomo (‘Biagio Izzo’ (qv)), costretto al travestimento per non perdere il posto e due improbabili poliziotti americani (‘Max Cavallari’ (qv) ‘Bruno Arena’ (qv)). |
Prom Night (1980)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an old abandoned convent. The foursome kept secret how they taunted Robin – backed her into a corner until, frightened, she stood on a window ledge… and fell to her death. Though an accident, the then-twelve-year-olds feared they’d be held responsible and vowed never to tell. But someone else was there that day… watching. And now, that someone is ready to exact murderous revenge-on prom night. |
The Straight Story (1999)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles, just to see again his brother, even if it’s the last thing he will ever do… Based on a real story. |
Pranzo di ferragosto (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Caché (2005)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Guilt. Anne and Georges Laurant have a book-lined Paris townhouse, jobs at a publishing house and as the host of a high-brow talk show, and a teenage son, Pierrot, who’s on the swim team. Their dinner parties sparkle, but there’s tension. They have little to say to each other: Anne may be on the verge of an affair with a close family friend, and Pierrot is monosyllabic and out with friends some evenings. There’s new strain when they begin to receive tapes of their home under surveillance—tapes accompanied by childlike drawings of a boy and blood. Anne and Georges are unnerved, dreams give Georges a clue, but he shares little with Anne. What part of himself and his past has he kept hidden? |
Malèna (2000)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna, a beautiful, silent outsider who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nico who promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato grows toward manhood, he watches Malèna suffer and prove her mettle: her loneliness, then grief when Nico is reported dead, the effects of slander on her relationship with her father, her poverty and search for work, and final humiliations. Will Renato learn courage from Malèna and stand up for her? |
Ultimi della classe (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Dopo aver conseguito l’ennesima imbarazzante pagella, i genitori di Michele decidono di ritirarlo da scuola e fargli dare lezioni da un’insegnante privata per cercare di recuperare l’anno scolastico. L’unico passatempo per Michele é il suo blog, dove fa credere di essere ciò che nella realtà non é, ossia un grande conquistatore, ma quando viene smascherato diventa lo zimbello di tutti. Per rimediare alla figuraccia, escogita un piano; dopo aver scoperto che la sua affascinante insegnante privata, aveva posato nuda per un calendario, le propone un patto: lui s’impegnerà nello studio se, quando saranno tangibili i primi risultati, lei si spoglierà replicando le pose dei dodici mesi del suo calendario. Sorprendentemente l’insegnante accetta; considerando una sfida per se stessa la promozione del ragazzo é disposta a spronarlo in ogni modo. La vera intenzione di Michele, però, é quella di filmarla per riscattarsi sul blog. Alla fine, come si dice, il fine giustifica i mezzi, e Michele per la prima volta nella sua vita si mette davvero a studiare e forse riesce ad indirizzare la sua vita nella direzione giusta. Parallelamente a questa storia, sfilano quelle delle persone che stanno vicine ai due protagonisti, a modo loro anch’esse, “ultimi della classe”. |
The Odd Couple II (1998)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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It has been seventeen years now since Oscar and Felix saw each other for the last time. Oscar is living in Florida, Felix in New York. One day, Oscar is called by his son Brucey who invites him to his wedding to Felix’ daughter Hannah next Sunday in California. Oscar and Felix meet again at Los Angeles International Airport and take a rental car in order to go to San Malina for the wedding. The trip develops into an odyssey, starting with Oscar forgetting Felix’ suitcase at the Budget station, going over to the complete loss of the directions (and the car), several difficulties with the police, a dead person, a toupet, underwear and revenge-hungry Cowboys and ending up with Felix meeting the “one and only” woman. But the wedding has to be reached on time. |
The Hundred Steps (2000)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about Mafia, and several politicians maintained that Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio station, with the arm of irony. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this thesis. Note: This is a true story. More than wenty years after Peppino’s death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in USA for drug traffic. |
Il divo (2008)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The story of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has been elected to Parliament seven times since is was established in 1946. |
The Lives of Others (2006)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don’t always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more… |
Spanglish (2004)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! |



















