Italian Identity films
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- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoMichele PlacidoPiro MilkaniImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
- DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsTereza GroszmannováAntonio AlbaneseSilvio OrlandoA young Eastern European girl ditches the rest of her tour group to embark upon a new life in Italy. Though she writes friends and family glowing accounts of her fabulous adventures in her adopted home, the truth is much more tragic.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsAlessio BoniMichela CesconRodolfo CorsatoA coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsPascalBarbaraTinaThree episodes of everyday immigration in 90s Italy: a group of Nigerian prostitutes, one-day Albanian workers, an Egyptian worker at an oil station.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsFilippo PucilloDonatella FinocchiaroGiuseppe FiorelloA Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
- DirectorHaider RashidStarsLorenzo BaglioniMohamed HanifiGiulia RupiSaid Mahran fights for his right to remain in Italy, where he was born and raised from Algerian parents, after his visa expires.
- DirectorMark A. ReyesStarsJolina MagdangalRufa Mae QuintoDennis TrilloDestiny. Is it beyond our control? Or do we make our own? These questions and other musings about the past and the future set the tone as we sail into the year's most anticipated film about love and life. Six people are brought together on a seven-day cruise that will change their lives forever. A hopeless romantic searches for the right man for her, while dreaming of becoming a singer. A successful businessman searches for the truth about a woman from his past. A senior housekeeper finds out that it is never too late to find true love. A young waiter finds the woman of his dreams, but she is beyond his reach. A young brat finds out that love does not have to be as complicated as her love-hate relationship with her mother. And a sexy lounge singer searches for the perfect man who will keep his promises and who will never leave her. This comedy-romance-drama-musical will make you swoon, cry, laugh, and fall in love all over again. While it takes you to three continents around the world (Asia, Africa, and Europe), it is nevertheless an intimate film about searching for love, following your dreams, and making your own destiny.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsWalter ChiariClaire DunneChips RaffertyAn Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsGian Maria VolontèRiccardo CucciollaCyril CusackIn 1920s Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are scrutinized for their anarchist beliefs while on trial for robbery and murder.
- DirectorRicardo TrogiStarsJean-Carl BoucherClaudio ColangeloSandrine BissonFilmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
- DirectorLiz GillStarsKarl GearyJim BelushiIan HartLiam moves from Ireland to the USA, where he settles in the Bronx. There he works in a little bar owned by Italian Mario and lives with other illegal immigrants, including his cousin Des, who are afraid that they'll get thrown out of the country and are not sure of their place in his new life.
- DirectorJon AmielStarsVittorio DuseJoseph LongAnita ZagariaAn Italian couple defy both their families and marry for love. Four children later, they are running a diner in England. Humorous, dramatic, sad -- everything a movie should be.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsAlberto SordiClaudia CardinaleRiccardo GarroneAmedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their true identities and do not mention their hardships in their letters. Carmela is actually a prostitute seeking an opportunity to change her life style. Amedeo, embarrassed about his looks, sends a photograph to Carmela of his handsome friend Giuseppe.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsStephen MachtSharon GlessAimee EcclesA young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would come with wealth until he takes up with a young Chinese girl.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsStefania SandrelliMario AdorfJean-Claude BrialyAdriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaJosé WilkerMauro MendonçaIn a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCharles BlavetteCelia MontalvánJenny HéliaIn the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsFranco NeroVanessa RedgraveGigi ProiettiMary is a disillusioned English banker's wife who meets a troubled Italian immigrant, Bruno. Mary is captivated by Bruno and they set off on a voyage together. In the course of their voyage, they meet a series of society's dropouts.
- DirectorPeter HallStarsKevin AndersonBrad SullivanManning RedwoodVal Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
- DirectorRolf LyssyStarsEmil SteinbergerWalo LüöndBeatrice KesslerForeigners who apply to become Swiss citizens have no easy task - especially when the police lets Bodmer loose to check upon their background, their integration in the society, and the possible danger they represent to the orderliness and cleanliness of the country. Bodmer gets a new assistant to help him corner unsuitable applicants. Very soon, a couple of conformist German physicians, a pretty Eastern European dancer, and the inevitable (and politically troublesome) Italian immigrant and his family start shooting themselves in the foot in their attempts to get the red passport with a white cross.
- DirectorFábio BarretoStarsGlória PiresPatricia PillarAlexandre PaternostTwo Italian-immigrant couples are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.
- DirectorStephen C. ApostolofStarsMilton KayeDora LorberBunny GlaserAn old Italian dude runs the aptly named Quickie Motel where a variety of customers come for romantic romps, seedy sex and afternoon delights.
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsGian Maria VolontèMagali NoëlHeinz BennentThe tragic accident of an Italian laborer ,working on the Mont Blanc tunnel.
- DirectorAmasi DamianiStarsGianni DeiAndrea ThompsonAris IliopulosItalians Johnny and Rudy are two friends looking for work as actors in New York City. They meet beautiful model and actress Leslie and start a sexual relationship with her as a threesome. However, she's actually also secretly working on the side as a sex performer for voyeurs, and she convinces them to join her in this somewhat shady and controversial but highly lucrative business endeavor. However, things don't go as planned.
- DirectorJavier SetóStarsJeffrey HunterGuglielmo SpoletiniMargaret LeeIn the 1930s, Italian immigrant from Sicily Frank Mannata, his brother Salvatore and sister Rosella run the Chicago Outfit for the mafia. The Italian-Irish O'Connor-Messina gang challenges them, which leads to a devastating gang war.
- StarsJack ThompsonGreta ScacchiWarren MitchellAustralian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsMegan FollowsPascale MontpetitTerry SimpsonThe story of a bizarre bequest of a wealthy late Canadian lawyer: the woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression.
- DirectorFrank CiotaStarsEddie MalavarcaMaurizio NichettiViolante PlacidoAn Italian-American travels back to his ancestors' land to coach a colorful team in Italy's fledgling American Football League. A beautiful young girl forces him to face the same decision as his immigrant grandfather had, 70 years earlier.
- DirectorPhilip BottiStarsHeather DonahueGiampiero JudicaDan FoglerThree different stories. One unique and satirical film set on the New Jersey Shore. Home-Charlie is a tollbooth collector who wants to move out of his parent's house. Field-Albo is an Asbury Park cab driver who sets his sights on a Graceland pilgrimage. Advantage-Ettore is a bumbling Italian immigrant who seeks a better life in America.
- DirectorFederico FerroneMichele ManzoliniFrancesco Ragazzi25 million Brazilians are of Italian origin. Almost all of them are the descendants of the Italians who left poor rural Italy at the end of the 1800's for a continent which promised riches and a better life. After only a century however, the direction of migration has been completely reversed. Italy, a century ago the place to escape from, has in time taken its place in the first world, the longed for final destination of immigrants throughout the world. The only thing which does not seem to change is the plight of those forced to migrate.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenzo MarignanoClaudio GoraMarina BertiA group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the untidiness and poor service. An elegant lady in her splendid Ferrari is accosted by an Italian and imagines a flirtation, but he's all eyes--for the car. An Italian wife finds her husband in bed with another woman, but he's so smooth with his explanation that she blames herself for not spending enough time with him lately.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsEleanor ParkerRichard CarlsonPatricia MedinaItalian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
- DirectorAgata De SantisAs the daughter of Italian immigrants to Montreal, filmmaker Agata De Santis turns the camera on her family and community as she seeks to articulate the effects a half-century of adaptation and integration has had on the immigrant experience. What are the venues, ventures and values the community holds dear? What is it ready to let go? TERRA MIA examines how Italians living in Quebec navigate their duality.
- DirectorJulius TelmerStarsFrank FazioChloe KingLawson Reeves1940 In Western Australia around 4000 Italian men over the age of 18 were taken from their families and put into camps. This is one man's story.
- DirectorGiuseppe GagliardiStarsTotonno ChiappettaDario de LucaSaverio La RuinaTony Vilar came from Southern Italy to Argentina as a child and became one of the most successful South American singers of the 1960's. The first song for which he garnered worldwide acclaim was Cuando calienta el sol. At the height of his career Tony Vilar disappeared. The True Legend of Tony Vilar is the story of an Italian singer Peppe's quest to find Tony Vilar, as he traces Tony's steps from Italy to Buenos Aires and finally New York. The True Legend of Tony Vilar is a musical mockumentary, a road-movie in which we encounter many eccentric and unforgettable characters who lead us to uncover the mystery of Tony Vilar.
- DirectorLauro EscorelIn the beginning of the Twentieth Century, many immigrants (Italian mainly, Portuguese and Spanish) arrive in São Paulo looking for better conditions of life. They try to settle in the field, but the landlords do not sell lands for them. They are hired to work in the agriculture (coffee, cotton etc.) in horrible working conditions and very low salaries. They move to the city of São Paulo to work in the industry (Crespi, Votorantin, Matarazzo) and leaded by anarchists, they form the working class in Brazil, organizing strikes and fighting for better working conditions and salaries.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsGeorge BebanClara WilliamsJ. Frank BurkeAn Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.