Movies and TvShows featuring "calabria-italy" theme.
After inheriting her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy, an American mom hilariously defies expectations as she takes on the role of leader for Calabria's most formidable mafia family.
The Ruthless is a crime drama set in 1980s Calabria, Italy. It follows the story of a man who becomes a powerful drug lord and rises to the top of the Italian Mafia. The movie explores themes of violence, power, and betrayal as the protagonist navigates the dangerous world of organized crime.
Black Souls follows the story of a Calabrian family deeply connected to the mafia. When a new generation begins to question their involvement, a violent conflict emerges between brothers and against an oppressive criminal world. The movie explores themes of family relationships, drug smuggling, revenge, and the struggle to escape the mafia's grip.
In 1961, a young speleologist ventures into a cave in southern Italy. With very little dialogue, the film explores the darkness and the unknown of the cave, reflecting the protagonist's journey into self-discovery.
The Four Times is a movie with no dialogue that follows the lives of an old shepherd, a goat, a tree, and a dog in a small village in Calabria, Italy. The film explores themes of birth, death, nature, and the interconnectedness of all living things. Through beautiful long takes and minimal dialogue, it invites the audience to contemplate the cycles of life and the passage of time.
Marina is a biographical drama film based on the life of Rocco Granata, a Belgian singer and accordionist of Italian descent. The movie follows his journey as an immigrant and his struggle against xenophobia. Marina explores themes of love, music, and the challenges faced by immigrants in a new country. It showcases Rocco's rise to fame as a musician and his experiences navigating different cultures.
The Ciambra follows 14-year-old Pio, a young boy coming of age in a small Romani community in Calabria, Italy. Pio is eager to grow up fast and become a man like his older brother, but when his brother disappears, Pio is left to navigate the challenges of poverty, crime, and the complexities of his Romani heritage.
Sofia is the black sheep of her family. She is a 28-year-old gay girl who can’t help but cheat on her partner and struggles to find a stable job. She has left a little town in Calabria, her homeland in Southern Italy, to move to Milan, where she lives with her roommate Alessandro. Mauro is Sofia's brother. Reliable and loving, unlike Sofia with whom he has a troubled relationship, Mauro has never left Calabria and runs the family winery. Despite their opposite attitudes, Sofia and Mauro has one thing in common. Michela is Sofia's first and only love, but she is Mauro’s bride-to-be. When Sofia realizes that she is about to lose the woman of her life, she decides to go back home to Calabria and win back her true love. This unexpected return will break the delicate balance of Mauro and Sofia’s family and will force the two siblings to a showdown, when they will choose who they really want to be when they grow up. A story of rekindled loves, friendship, growth, and family.
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
There are many funny ways to park a car. This is number eleven.
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
Relaxing by the sea, a couple discusses the true meaning of dreams. The spiritually minded of the two argues that dreams are more real than reality itself, her partner argues the opposite. When they bet on it, things start to get haywire.
An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
The powers of love are always at work. But when they do so in an ancient southern Italian town at sunset, they seem just a little more magical.
A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. After a few years he discovers that the woman was married to an invalid and that the meeting had been organized to ensure an heir for the family
The millennia-old myth and tradition of St. Lucy's fire told through the eyes of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.
Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. But when he arrived in Rome, the only thing waiting for the young man was a life of homelessness and unemployment – which meant no money to send home. Drissa and Sekou share a similar fate, waiting in Italian asylum centres for a residence permit. Then there’s Bubu, who, forced to move from job to job, is unable to settle down. And lastly comes Alassane, who lives without identity papers in a state of constant uncertainty in a refugee camp near Rome. They all have one thing in common: after a gruelling odyssey, none of them has found the Italy they were hoping for when they arrived. Disillusioned, they find themselves in a vacuum of waiting, reflecting on the time they live in and the time that lies ahead.
A documentary set in Paola, in Calabria, about the fight to occupy housing.
Daniel Kemény returns twenty years later to the place of his childhood, the village of Pietrapaola in Calabria. In search of lost time, the filmmaker collects musical accounts, brings together their protagonists and gives these memories a new life, thus playing the generous transmitter who helps keep alive the oral history of a world whose popular traditions are dying off.
