Italian History

Morning Star

Morning Star

HD
HD
Morning Star
TV-14IMDb 2.72014 90 min

In time of war, a man must survive to make a journey to fulfill a promise made and discover the truth. After a terrible battle, he sees his great friend perish, leaving him one request - that he visit the king, father of the deceased, to give him the news of his death. Stuck to the promise, the warrior part to the meeting with the king, who lost his only heir.

Italy
Frequency

Frequency

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HD
Frequency
12IMDb 7.42000 118 min

A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again.

I Dreamed of Africa

I Dreamed of Africa

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HD
I Dreamed of Africa
12IMDb 5.52000 114 min

Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn't know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo's love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?

The Hornet's Nest

The Hornet's Nest

HD
HD
The Hornet's Nest
RIMDb 6.62014 93 min

Career Journalist Mike Boettcher takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts out as an effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all.

Just Visiting

Just Visiting

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HD
Just Visiting
6IMDb 5.72001 88 min

A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage, they make use of the services of a wizard. Something goes wrong and they're transported from the 12th century to the year 2000, where they meets some of the knight's family, and slowly learns what the future's like. In order to return to the 12th century and deal with the witch, they begin to look for a wizard.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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HD
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
12IMDb 5.92001 131 min

In 1941, Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.

The Memory Book

The Memory Book

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HD
The Memory Book
Not RatedIMDb 6.82014 84 min

Budding photographer Chloe (Ory) comes from a family of failed romances. At a local flea market, she stumbles upon an old photo album from the 1970s, chronicling the ideal romance of a happy couple (Hindle and Barbeau). Unable to find her own "true love," she sets out to find the couple in the album and prove that true love exists. Along the way, she meets Gabe Sinclair (Macfarlane), a mysterious, but charming bartender, who seizes the opportunity to join Chloe's mission and soon finds himself falling in love with her. With limited resources, the two go on an adventure, searching for clues that will lead them to the couple, and hopefully to true love. As the search continues, Chloe begins taking an interest in Gabe, but won't let these feelings distract her from her mission to find the couple. Will Chloe learn to give up her fear of falling in love and finally find true happiness?

Drama, Romance
Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

HD
HD
Bloody Sunday
12IMDb 7.62002 107 min

Documentary-style drama showing the events that led up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.

Drama, History, War
Ararat

Ararat

HD
HD
Ararat
12IMDb 6.32002 115 min

People tell stories. In Toronto, an art historian lectures on Arshile Gorky (1904 -1948), an Armenian painter who lived through the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. A director invites the historian to help him include Gorky's story in a film about the genocide and Turkish assault on the town of Van. The historian's family is under stress: her son is in love with his step-sister, who blames the historian for the death of her father. The daughter wants to revisit her father's death and change that story. An aging customs agent tells his son about his long interview with the historian's son, who has returned from Turkey with canisters of film. All the stories connect.

Drama, War
Canada, France
The Cut

The Cut

HD
HD
The Cut
12IMDb 6.22014 138 min

This film is based on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire 1915, which resulted in the forced migration and diaspora of the Armenian minority. One day, young family man Nazaret Manoogian gets deported by the Turkish authorities with all the other Armenian men from his native village of Mardin. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness, but loses his family, speech, and faith. One night the devastated Nazaret learns that his daughters may still be alive and didn't die like his wife from starvation, violence, or rape on death marches. Nazaret goes on a quest to find them and travels from his small village through the Mesopotamian deserts to the sea, always looking for clues that might lead him to his children. Nazaret's epic journey will take him from Asia to America, from the end to a new beginning.

Leopardi

Leopardi

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HD
Leopardi
IMDb 6.72014 143 min

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.pubic hairnudityflorence italyitalian literaturefemale full frontal nudity58 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Italy
The Master of Disguise

The Master of Disguise

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HD
The Master of Disguise
6IMDb 3.32002 80 min

A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped Fabbrizio's former arch-enemy, Devlin Bowman, a criminal mastermind in an attempt to steal the world's most precious treasures from around the world. And it's up to Pistachio to track down Bowman and save his family before Bowman kills them!

Nowhere Safe

Nowhere Safe

HD
HD
Nowhere Safe
IMDb 5.42014 92 min

After two girls cruelly impersonate her online in a "reverse cyber bullying" plot, Ashley's reputation is ruined and she and her mother flee a growing threat to their lives. Starting over at a new school, romantic interests and the poignant lessons from an eccentric history teacher draw them out of seclusion until they realize confronting a hurtful past is essential to ensure a brighter future.cyber bullyingdrama teacherhistory teacherhigh school cliquehigh school bullying12 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Gaslit

Gaslit

S01E03HD
HD
Gaslit
TV-MAIMDb 6.82022

A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.

Meltdown: Three Mile Island

Meltdown: Three Mile Island

S01E04HD
HD
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
TV-14IMDb 7.02022 172 min

MELTDOWN: THREE MILE ISLAND tackles the near catastrophe at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant and the whistleblower who spoke up to protect the community. Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the worst nuclear incident in U.S. history.tv mini serieshistory documentarypost apocalypsePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Five Moons Plaza

Five Moons Plaza

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HD
Five Moons Plaza
IMDb 6.12003 90 min

One of the main players in Italian politics, Aldo Moro, gets kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. One judge finds evidence that sheds dangerous new light on the case.controversialaldo morofalse flagdeceptionitalian secret service12 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano

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HD
Mambo Italiano
6IMDb 6.72003 88 min

Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents by moving out on his own without getting married, and shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend, policeman Nino Paventi isn't as ready to come out of the closet -- especially not to his busybody mother, Lina.

Canada
Woman in Gold

Woman in Gold

HD
HD
Woman in Gold
6IMDb 7.32015 109 min

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Uncle Nino

Uncle Nino

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HD
Uncle Nino
PGIMDb 6.52003 104 min

A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.character name as titleuncleviolinitalian americanindependent filmPlot summaryAdd synopsis

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

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HD
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
TV-PGIMDb 7.72004 99 min

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

1915

1915

HD
HD
1915
IMDb 3.62015 82 min

Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.

Drama
Plainsong

Plainsong

HD
HD
Plainsong
PGIMDb 6.52004 97 min

Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support.

Drama
Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead

Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead

HD
HD
Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead
18IMDb 2.62015 84 min

Set in the WWII it tells the story of a bunch of american soldiers fighting against a horde of zombies created by the Nazis using the prisoners of the camps... They have only one night to save their own lives but the enemy is stronger and stronger...naziploitationitalian exploitationexploitation filmeuro trashtrash movie6 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Horror, War
Canada, Italy
Only the Dead

Only the Dead

HD
HD
Only the Dead
TV-MAIMDb 7.62015 77 min

Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. Ware handpicked and given a shattering video tape by the most feared, most hated terrorists on the planet to announce his arrival of the world stage sets out on an epic journey into the deepest recesses of the conflict as he seeks answers. Answers that he thinks will lead him to the Truth.iraq warmilitary historyaustralian abroadexplosivedanger5 morePlot summaryAdd synopsis

Australia, Iraq
April and the Extraordinary World

April and the Extraordinary World

HD
HD
April and the Extraordinary World
12IMDb 7.22015 105 min

In 1941, the world is radically different from the one we know from history books. Geopolitics has developed strangely: Napoleon V rules France and, for the last 70 years, scholars have been mysteriously disappearing, depriving mankind of their inventions. Without radio, television, electricity, aviation, and the combustion engine, the world is mired in outdated technology, dozing in the previous century's knowhow dominated by coal and steam. In this bizarre universe, Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, Darwin (Philippe Katerine), her talking cat, Pops (Jean Rochefort), her grandfather, and Julius (Marc-André Grondin), a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World.

Casanova

Casanova

HD
HD
Casanova
6IMDb 6.52005 112 min

Casanova is in love with Francesca, who thinks he is a friend of himself even though he is engaged to Victoria, who is the love of Giovanni, Francesca's brother. Francesca is betrothed to Paprizzio who thinks Casanova is the feminist writer Guardi, who is really Francessca's nomme de plume. Amidst all these secret identities and misunderstandings, the Catholic Church sends Pucci to bring Casanova and Guardi to trial for heresy.

10th & Wolf

10th & Wolf

HD
HD
10th & Wolf
16IMDb 6.32006 107 min

February, 1991. Tommy, a Desert Storm marine dismayed that the US isn't taking out Saddam, breaks some rules and faces hard labor. An FBI agent offers him an out: go home to his gritty, dockside home in Pennsylvania and help get the goods on an Italian heroin dealer; in return, no prison time and no arrest of Tommy's brother Vincent and cousin Joey. Loyalty to family conflicts with loyalty to the code of the street. Can Tommy sort it out, protect his brother and cousin, and stay true? Do young men die - in the sands of the Middle East and on the mean streets of the US - for no reason?

Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts

HD
HD
Goya's Ghosts
12IMDb 6.92006 113 min

The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.

An Almost Perfect Country

An Almost Perfect Country

HD
HD
An Almost Perfect Country
IMDb 6.02016 92 min

Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful. An Italian remake of canadian "The Grand Seduction (2013)" which is also a remake of french-canadian "La grande séduction (2003)"

Comedy
Italy
Air Strike

Air Strike

HD
HD
Air Strike
16IMDb 3.22018 120 min

During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940.

China
Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie

HD
HD
Stan & Ollie
IMDb 7.22018 98 min

The true story of Hollywood's greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, is brought to the big screen for the first time. Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the inimitable movie icons, Stan and Ollie is the heart-warming story of what would become the pair's triumphant farewell tour. With their golden era long behind them, the pair embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille (Shirley Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda) - a formidable double act in their own right - the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public.