Italy:VM14 certified movies

Dead of Winter (1987)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Dead of Winter
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Mary Steenburgen | Roddy McDowall | Jan Rubes | William Russ | Ken Pogue | Wayne Robson | Mark Malone | Michael Copeman | Sam Malkin | Pamela Moller | Dwayne McLean | Paul Welsh
Directors: Arthur Penn
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An actress is told that she is being considered to take over a movie role that was being played by someone else who greatly resembles her. The first actress, they say, had a breakdown and ran away from the set. She is taken to a country house in upstate New York… and soon learns that what is really going on is much more dangerous than filmmaking.

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The Nun aka La monja (2005)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Nun aka La monja
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Anita Briem | Belén Blanco | Manu Fullola | Alistair Freeland | Cristina Piaget | Paulina Gálvez | Natalia Dicenta | Lola Marceli | Teté Delgado | Oriana Bonet | Katrine Romming | Maia Jenkinson | Joana Rañé | Gemma Martínez | Meritxell Santamaria
Directors: Luis de la Madrid
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In 1988, the abusive and deranged Nun Ursula is the principal of a Catholic boarding school in Barcelona. When she finds that the teenage student Mary is pregnant, she decides “to purify” the girl with water, almost killing her. Her class and dorm mates Joanna, Christine, Eulalia, Zoe and Susan fight with the nun and drown her in a bathtub. The six teenagers dump her body in a lake with holy water and make a pact of silence. Eighteen years later, the spirit of the nun is released from the lake and possesses the daughter of Mary, Eve, seeking revenge against the former students and killing each one of them like their saint patrons did to achieve the forgiveness of God through punishment and penitence, pain and sacrifice.

Door to Door (2002)

Friday, February 19th, 2010
Door to Door
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: William H. Macy | Kyra Sedgwick | Kathy Baker | Joel Brooks | Woody Jeffreys | Nancy Lenehan | Romy Rosemont | Eric Keenleyside | Daryl Shuttleworth | Helen Mirren | Bill Dow | Michael Shanks | Michael P. Northey | Laurie Murdoch
Directors: Steven Schachter
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A man with cerebral palsy is determined to become a salesman.

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Monster’s Ball (2001)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Monster’s Ball
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Mos Def | Billy Bob Thornton | Taylor Simpson | Gabrielle Witcher | Heath Ledger | Amber Rules | Peter Boyle | Charles Cowan Jr. | Taylor LaGrange | Anthony Bean | Francine Segal | John McConnell | Marcus Lyle Brown | Milo Addica | Leah Loftin
Directors: Marc Forster
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Hank Grotowski is a prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny, and lives at home with his racist father, Buck. Lawrence Musgrove has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia, a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other’s pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove’s widow…

Red Road (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Red Road
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Kate Dickie | Tony Curran | Martin Compston | Natalie Press | Paul Higgins | Andrew Armour | Carolyn Calder | John Comerford | Jessica Angus | Martin McCardie | Martin O'Neill | Cora Bisset | Charles Brown | Annie Bain | Frances Kelly
Directors: Andrea Arnold
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Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

Rabid (1977)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Rabid
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
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A woman named Rose is involved in a motorcycle accident, and has experimental surgery performed in order to save her life. However, as a result of the surgery, she develops a taste for blood. Her victims grow in number as well as madness, turning the city into chaos.

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pan’s Labyrinth
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Ivana Baquero | Sergi López | Maribel Verdú | Doug Jones | Ariadna Gil | Álex Angulo | Manolo Solo | César Vea | Roger Casamajor | Ivan Massagué | Gonzalo Uriarte | Eusebio Lázaro | Francisco Vidal | Juanjo Cucalón
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
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“Pan’s Labyrinth” is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother’s new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco’s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Fascist repression during the first years of Franco’s dictatorship is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.

Cat In The Brain, A (1990)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Cat In The Brain, A
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
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Dr. Lucio Fulci is a director of splatterfilms. He stages a gestapo-orgy like it was any other movie scene. But he is influenced by these things more than he likes. He is hunted by bloody visions day by day. Is Fulci still normal? He asks a psychatrist. He doesn’t know that the psychatrist has much bigger problems than Fulci himself. The psychatrist uses Fulci’s visions for brutal murders in real life…

Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Faust: Love of the Damned
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Mark Frost | Isabel Brook | Jennifer Rope | Jeffrey Combs | Mònica Van Campen | Fermí Reixach | Leslie Charles | Junix Inocian | Robert Paterson | Marc Martínez | Andrew Divoff | Clare Leach | Francisco Maestre | Ronny Svensson | Alex Sarr
Directors: Brian Yuzna
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An artist, John Jaspers (Mark frost) sells his soul to the mysterious “M” (Andrew Divoff)in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realizes everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing. He learns that M plans to release the Homunculus, a giant Lizard-like monster onto the earth, opening the gate to hell. Now, Jaspers must stop M before he can let the apocalypse begin…

Marnie (1964)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Marnie
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Tippi Hedren | Sean Connery | Diane Baker | Martin Gabel | Louise Latham | Bob Sweeney | Milton Selzer | Mariette Hartley | Alan Napier | Bruce Dern | Henry Beckman | S. John Launer | Edith Evanson | Meg Wyllie | John Alvin
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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The beautiful Marnie Edgar is a first-class bookkeeper and the apple of her employers’ eyes. She happens also to be a compulsive thief who has taken her last employer, Sidney Strutt, to the cleaners before disappearing into thin air. But with Mark Rutland she attempts robbery once too often. He forces her to marry him, and out of love for her uncovers the mysteries of her past that contribute to her penchant for taking other people’s money.

History of Violence, A (2005)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
History of Violence, A
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Maria Bello | Ed Harris | William Hurt | Ashton Holmes | Peter MacNeill | Stephen McHattie | Greg Bryk | Sumela Kay | Kyle Schmid | Deborah Drakeford | Gerry Quigley | Heidi Hayes | Aidan Devine | Bill MacDonald
Directors: David Cronenberg
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The tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they’ve been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone’s about to find out if there’s a history of violence.

The Black Dahlia (2006)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Black Dahlia, The
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Scarlett Johansson | Aaron Eckhart | Hilary Swank | Mia Kirshner | Mike Starr | Fiona Shaw | Patrick Fischler | James Otis | John Kavanagh | Troy Evans | Anthony Russell | Pepe Serna | Angus MacInnes | Rachel Miner
Directors: Brian De Palma
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The Black Dahlia is set in 1940s Los Angeles. Two cops, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and his partner, Lee Blanchard, investigate the death of Elizabeth Short, a young woman found brutally murdered. Bucky soon realizes that his girlfriend had ties to the deceased, and soon after that, he begins uncovering corruption and conspiracy within the police department.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Land of the Dead
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Simon Baker | John Leguizamo | Dennis Hopper | Asia Argento | Robert Joy | Eugene Clark | Joanne Boland | Tony Nappo | Jennifer Baxter | Boyd Banks | Jasmin Geljo | Max McCabe | Tony Munch | Shawn Roberts | Pedro Miguel Arce
Directors: George A. Romero
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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead “normal” lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Shining, The
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Elliott Gould | Rebecca De Mornay
Directors: Mick Garris
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Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack’s son Danny – who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers – discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty…

The Exorcist (1973)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Exorcist, The
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Ellen Burstyn | Max von Sydow | Jason Miller | Lee J. Cobb | Kitty Winn | Jack MacGowran | Linda Blair | Reverend William O'Malley | Barton Heyman | Peter Masterson | Rudolf Schündler | Gina Petrushka | Robert Symonds | Arthur Storch | Reverend Thomas Bermingham
Directors: William Friedkin
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Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time.

Showgirls (1995)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Showgirls
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Elizabeth Berkley | Kyle MacLachlan | Gina Gershon | Glenn Plummer | Robert Davi | Alan Rachins | Gina Ravera | Lin Tucci | Greg Travis | Al Ruscio | Patrick Bristow | William Shockley | Michelle Johnston | Dewey Weber | Rena Riffel
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) travel to Las Vages to become an exotic dancer- a showgirl. She is doing very well at the beginning, and striding step by step towards the top of the stripper’s clubs in Las Vegas. But when she meets a new lead showgirl, named Cristal Conners (Gina Gershon) and they have to work and show together, the competition between those two best showgirls begin. Enthralled by the glamorous life of Las Vegas, Nomi Malone is prepared to do everything to be the leading showgirl, also if some very dirty steps must be taken from her side.

Oldboy (2003)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Oldboy
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Min-sik Choi | Ji-tae Yu | Hye-jeong Kang | Dae-han Ji | Dal-su Oh | Byeong-ok Kim | Seung-Shin Lee | Jin-seo Yun | Dae-yeon Lee | Kwang-rok Oh | Tae-kyung Oh | Yeon-suk Ahn | Il-han Oo
Directors: Chan-wook Park
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An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment.

Festen (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Festen
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen | Henning Moritzen | Thomas Bo Larsen | Paprika Steen | Birthe Neumann | Trine Dyrholm | Helle Dolleris | Therese Glahn | Klaus Bondam | Bjarne Henriksen | Gbatokai Dakinah | Lasse Lunderskov | Lars Brygmann | Lene Laub Oksen | Linda Laursen
Directors: Thomas Vinterberg
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The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply…or do they? The Youngest Son is trying to live up to The Father’s expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a lawyer. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without arguments. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself.

End of Days (1999)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
End of Days
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Gabriel Byrne | Robin Tunney | Kevin Pollak | CCH Pounder | Derrick O'Connor | David Weisenberg | Rainer Judd | Miriam Margolyes | Udo Kier | Victor Varnado | Michael O'Hagan | Mark Margolis | Jack Shearer | Rod Steiger
Directors: Peter Hyams
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On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil (Byrne) decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man’s body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York (Tunney). If he bears her child between 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year’s Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger), who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter.

Scarlet Diva (2000)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Scarlet Diva
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Jean Shepard | Herbert Fritsch | Gianluca Arcopinto | Joe Coleman
Directors: Asia Argento
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Anna Battista is a young, popular, 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress who engages herself on a hectic and self-destructive spree which takes her across Europe and to America to shed her “boy-toy” image to become an “artist” in order to write and direct herself in a semi-biography movie of herself titled “Scarlet Diva.” After working in Rome, and winning a presigious film award in Milan, Anna travels to Paris to save her best friend from an abusive relationship, then avoids sleazy film producers in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with a rock star who abandons her, finds out later that she’s pregnant, and begins using drugs to numb her pain at this predictament she’s gotten herself into.