Francesco (1989) more movies like this

directed by Liliana Cavani
featuring Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Paolo Bonacelli, Andréa Ferréol, Hanns Zischler

Told in flashback, the film relates Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and eventually to full-fledged saint. Francesco was based on Hermann Hesse's Francis of Assisi, which director Liliana Cavani had previously filmed in 1966. The Saint and founder of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor is played by ...

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Johnny Stecchino (1992) more movies like this

directed by Roberto Benigni
featuring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi

Comedian Roberto Benigni wrote and directed this Italian farce, in which he stars as Dante, a bus driver who is the exact double of the infamous gangster Johnny Toothpick (Benigni again). After Dante meets Johnny's girlfriend Maria (Nicoletta Braschi), he travels to her Palermo villa, where it quickly becomes apparent that Maria is setting up ...

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Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) more movies like this

directed by Francesco Rosi
featuring Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari

Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent anti-fascist author and artist who, during Mussolini's regime was exiled to Eboli, a tiny village in Southern Italy. The government believed Levi's controversial views would fall on deaf ears, but as he spent time in the ...

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Mille Bolle Blu (1993) more movies like this

directed by Leone Pompucci
featuring Paolo Bonacelli

In this light drama, the lives of a disparate group of people struggling with fairly laughable situations come together during a total eclipse of the sun in 1961. All the people involved live in a single apartment building in Rome. One family has gathered together in preparation for a funeral: they are not so much in mourning for the dead person ...

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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976) more movies like this

directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
featuring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange

The final work of notorious Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, this film updates the Marquis de Sade's most extreme novel to fascist Italy in the final days of WW II. Dispensing with the novel's meditations on sexual liberation and the search for truth, Pasolini presents four decadents who kidnap dozens of young men and women and subject them ...

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