6.8

Baarìa

2009, Italy, France

• Actors: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova, Giorgio Faletti, Leo Gullotta, Nicole Grimaudo, Gabriele Lavia, Ángela Molina, Enrico Lo Verso, Nino Frassica, Aldo, Ficarra, Picone, Marcello Mazzarella, Luigi Lo Cascio, Beppe Fiorello, Donatella Finocchiaro, Enrico Salimbeni, Lina Sastri, Gaetano Aronica, Alfio Sorbello, Laura Chiatti, Michele Placido, Vincenzo Salemme, Corrado Fortuna, Paolo Briguglia, Luigi Maria Burruano, Franco Scaldati, Monica Bellucci, Sebastiano Lo Monaco
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Giuseppe Tornatore
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

The film begins in the 1920's, in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (a.k.a. Baaria) where Giuseppe "Peppino" Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next 50 years Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl (Mannina), has children and forges a political career for himself.

  4.7

Melissa P.

2005, Italy, Spain

• Actors: María Valverde, Letizia Ciampa, Primo Reggiani, Fabrizia Sacchi, Geraldine Chaplin, Nilo Mur, Claudio Santamaria, Carlo Antonelli, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Marcello Mazzarella, Elio Germano, Alba Rohrwacher, Davide Pasti, Francesca Madaro, Esmeralda Prete, Roberta Bray, Maria Teresa Bagardo, Giulio Berruti, Antonella Bizzarro, Vania Cadura, Rosma Delgado, Giacomo Fazi, Domenica Gennaro, Giampiero Judica, Alessandro Leo, Giuseppe Manca, Eleonora Manganaro, Massimiliano Mevoli, Antonella Pinto, Bianca Maria Quarto Colosso
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Luca Guadagnino
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

Melissa lives with her mother and her grandmother in Sicily. She has a close relationship with her grandmother, a heavy smoker, who seems to be the only person in the world who understands Melissa. Melissa's father lives in another country. One day Melissa and her friend go to a party at a school friend's home. While there, Melissa meets Daniele, a boy from the school, and has her first sexual experience. The experience is far from being what Melissa always has dreamed it would be, because Daniele forces her and later forgets her. However, Melissa has fallen in love with Daniele. Back at school, when Melissa tries to get Daniele's attention, he barely remembers her. He takes advantage of Melissa's feelings for him, convincing her to have sex with him whenever he wants. When Melissa discovers Daniele's true motivations, she takes revenge by having even wilder sexual experiences with him and other boys. She even begins keeping a diary to document her sexual experiences. Melissa's mother is worried and tries to approach her distant daughter, while her grandmother is sent off to a rest home.