Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), I Vitelloni (1953), Breaking Away (1979), Italianamerican (1974), Bread and Tulips (2000), Mine vaganti (2010), Big Night (1996), Loose Cannons (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Italian Culture movies.
Storyline: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, italian cinema, anthology, modern love, relationships, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Warren has an extra room in his apartment (and is five months behind on the rent) after his lover moves out, so a friend places an ad on his behalf for a GWM roommate. Frankie, a pizza baker (and aspiring actor), decides to move out of his family's flat in The Bronx when he comes home one evening and walks in on his brother making love to Frankie's girlfriend. Frankie checks ads for roommates in "the city" (i.e., Manhattan), notices Warren's ad and decides to answer it, reasoning that GWM stands for "Guy With Money."—Dennis Lewis <dsl@sprynet.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, gay, new york, culture clash, identity, coming out ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young adults Nikki Angioli and Leo Campo were staunch competitors and best friends growing up in the Little Italy neighborhood of Toronto. Their respective fathers, friends Sal Angioli and Vince Campo, ran Pizza Napoli, which made the best pizza in the neighborhood due to the combination of Nikki's paternal nona Franca Angioli's secret marinara sauce, and Leo's paternal nono Carlo Campo's secret thin crust pizza dough recipe. While Leo has stayed in Toronto working part-time at his father's pizzeria with the secret hopes of one day opening his own pizzeria, Nikki, who loved Leo while they were growing up, ran off to London five years ago hoping never to return to Toronto to get away from her past, which includes Leo himself, who she believes has turned into a ladies man solely trying to put notches in his bedpost, and Sal and Vince now in a feud of an unspecified nature following they winning best pizza in Little Italy several years ago, each subsequently having opened competing pizzerias next door to each other, which would preclude Nikki and Leo getting together even if either wanted. Nikki is working toward being a chef in her own right of anything but pizza, she at the cooking school of famed Michelin starred chef, Corinne, who seemingly has nothing nice to say about anyone, especially her students. Nikki learns that it is between her and another student, Gareth, who Corinne will choose to work at her new London restaurant, the two who will compete to produce the best menu. First, Nikki further learns that she has to deal with a visa issue, meaning that, whether or not she likes it, she has to return to Toronto for a few weeks. In inevitably running in Leo, she finds that there is still a sexual tension that exists between the two. They will have the many existing hurdles to overcome to get together, they each having to realize that they are hurdles worth overcoming, while learning some of those issues are truly non-existent.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, food, light comedy, modern romance, cross-cultural, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their love can't be, because he is married and Italy has no divorce. So she persuades him to move to the U.S., and joins him four years later, bringing a Mortadella (sort of salami, processed pork anyway) as a present. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport but refuses to give in (she indeed is a very strong woman). In the meantime, she discovers the truth about Michele and a few things about the US.—<minavagante@ciaoweb.it>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, social commentary, political, immigration, cultural clash, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Famous film director Franco Elica (Sergio Castellitto) tries to keep a low profile while in Sicily to avoid his daughter's impending wedding. While there he meets the bankrupt prince of Gravina (Sami Frey) and is invited to his daughter Bona's (Donatella Finocchiaro) wedding. Franco realizes Bona was to star in his latest film and in the time leading up to the wedding, the filmmaker develops an intense longing for the lovely young woman and tries to sabotage her wedding.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, marriage, director, wedding, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family by surprise! Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father! They'll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father's favorite lake in Arizona! Accepting the challenge, these newfound family members ("mai stati uniti") set out on a journey full of hijinx and comic adventures in the Stati Uniti d'America. What a quintet! Antonio, the gambling addicted waiter; Angela, the panicky divorcee; Nino, an unemployed mechanic; Carmen, a shopaholic; and Michele, who grew up at a zoo.—r-potenza
Plot Keywords: comedy, italian, immigration, cultural clash, family, american dream, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italian opera star Giorgio Fini (Luciano Pavarotti) is on tour in the U.S. when he discovers that he has lost his voice. Seeking the help of a throat doctor, Giorgio is surprised that his physician, Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), happens to be a gorgeous woman. The unlikely couple begin a relationship, much to the chagrin of Giorgio's protective manager, Henry Pollack (Eddie Albert). As Giorgio and Pamela embark on a romance, can they bridge the cultural gap between them?
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, opera, love, comedy, italy, singer ...
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