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Lucia's Grace (2018)

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This is the story of Lucia, a young woman who has to take care of her teenager daughter all by herself working for an architectural firm. When she has to do an evaluation of a land, she finds out there is something off. This is a movie about a sensitive heroic woman who is brave enough to fight for her principles and won't ever stop until she saves the beautiful valley in which she grew up.

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Lord of the Ants (2022)

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Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.

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Eight Miles High (2007)

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Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.

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The Odyssey (2016)

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Biopic of the great French ocean-going adventurer and filmmaker.

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Lucky Miles (2007)

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It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arrest, begin an epic journey into the heart of Australia.

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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary (2004)

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Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.

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I Can Speak (2017)

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A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.

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We Accept Miracles (2015)

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Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.

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A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

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The National Lampoon name became globally recognized after the monumental success of Animal House—but before the glory days, it was a scrappy yet divinely subversive magazine and radio show that introduced the world to comedic geniuses like Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner. The driving force behind National Lampoon was Doug Kenney (Will Forte), and his truly wild and crazy story unfolds in A Futile and Stupid Gesture from Harvard to Hollywood to Caddyshack and beyond.

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On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)

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The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)

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Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

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The Jokes (2004)

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In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.

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Loro (2018)

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"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)

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A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.

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Swept Away (1974)

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Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue. He is stood up.

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Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000)

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The poor Italian peasant boy Francesco already has visions of Jesus and Mary as a child, but the Devil visits him too. He, Francesco, is quite certain that he will become a priest. After entering the Capuchin Order it becomes clear that Padre Pio (his new name) has powers which can not be explained rationally: he heals the sick, knows the names, problems and future of complete strangers.

IMDB Rating: 7.8

IMDB Votes: 967

Genere: Biography, Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 202 min

Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, saga