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.

  7.9

La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano

1998, Italy

• Actors: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Clarence Williams III, Mélanie Thierry, Gabriele Lavia, Peter Vaughan, Niall O'Brien, Alberto Vazquez, Luigi De Luca, Femi Elufowojo, Nigel Fan, Roger Monk, Leonid Zaslavski, Bernard Padden, Wilson Di Bois, Easton Gage, Cory Buck, Norman Chancer, Sidney Cole, Harry Ditson, Andrew Dunford, Eamon Geoghegan, Steven Luotto, Gianluigi Molteni, Noriko Aida, Vernon Nurse, Bryan Pringle, Ivan Truol Troncoso, Heathcote Williams
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Giuseppe Tornatore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition. This chance discovery prompts a story from Max, which he relates both to the shopkeeper and later to the official responsible for the doomed vessel, for Max is a born storyteller. Though now down on his luck and disillusioned by his wartime experiences, the New Orleans-born Max was once an enthusiastic and gifted young jazz musician, whose longest gig was several years with the house band aboard the Virginian, a posh cruise ship. While gaining his sea legs, he was befriended by another young man, the pianist in the same band, whose long unlikely name was Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, though everyone just called him 1900, the year of his birth. Abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents, 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms, learning to read by reading horseracing reports to his adoptive dad. After Danny's death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship. Increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom, he eventually became a gifted pianist, a great jazz improvisationist, a composer of rich modern music inspired by his intense observation of the life around him, the stories passengers on all levels of the ship trusted him enough to tell. He also grew up to be a charming, iconoclastic young man, at once shrewd and oddly innocent. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, and bested Jelly Roll Morton in an intense piano duel that had poor Max chewing paper on the sofa in agonies of suspense. And yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once, in the aftermath of his infatuation with a beautiful young woman immigrant who inspired the music committed to the master Max discovers in the pawnshop. Max realizes that 1900 must still be on the ship, and determines to find him, and to find out once and for all why he has so consistently refused to leave.

  6.7

Inferno

1980, Italy

• Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoëff, Alida Valli, Veronica Lazar, Gabriele Lavia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Leopoldo Mastelloni, Ania Pieroni, James Fleetwood, Rosario Rigutini, Ryan Hilliard, Paolo Paoloni, Fulvio Mingozzi, Luigi Lodoli, Rodolfo Lodi, Dario Argento
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Dario Argento
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark's friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister's murder.

  7.6

Profondo rosso

1974, Italy

• Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra, Piero Mazzinghi, Glauco Mauri, Clara Calamai, Aldo Bonamano, Liana Del Balzo, Vittorio Fanfoni, Dante Fioretti, Geraldine Hooper, Jacopo Mariani, Furio Meniconi, Fulvio Mingozzi, Lorenzo Piani, Salvatore Puntillo, Piero Vida, Nicoletta Elmi, Dario Argento, Salvatore Baccaro, Bruno Di Luia, Attilio Dottesio, Tom Felleghy, Glauco Onorato, Franco Vaccaro
• Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Dario Argento
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely.