Movies and TvShows featuring "olive-tree" theme.

Following the passing of their patriarch, Toula embarks on a journey to Greece in search of her father's childhood friends, aiming to bring them together for a family reunion.

Through the Olive Trees is a drama set in a rural area where a film crew is creating a movie. The crew members navigate their relationships and the challenges of filming, including an earthquake. The story explores themes of love, filmmaking, and the impact of natural disasters.

Private Property is a 1960 crime drama thriller film about a manipulative criminal who becomes obsessed with a housewife in 1950s Los Angeles. The film explores themes of manipulation, friendship, and the dark side of suburban life.

Padre Padrone (1977) is a biographical drama that tells the story of a young shepherd in Sardinia, Italy, who struggles with his abusive father and the challenges of growing up. The film explores themes of illiteracy, friendship, and the complexities of family relationships. Based on a book, it depicts the harsh reality of rural life, highlighting the social and cultural issues of the time.

When Pigs Have Wings is a hilarious comedy about a Palestinian fisherman who finds a pig washed ashore. With the help of an Israeli soldier, they embark on a mission to deliver the pig back to the Israelis in order to break the siege and values of both communities.

A single mother decides to return to her hometown after a long absence. As she reconnects with her family and friends, she must confront buried secrets and face the consequences of her choices. The story explores themes of redemption, forgiveness, and the power of homecoming.

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

The second volume of Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights trilogy tells the story of various individuals affected by the economic crisis in Portugal. With a mix of social commentary, fantasy elements, and intertwined narratives, it explores themes of poverty, misery, and the human experience.

In Monkeys, Go Home!, a family in southern France runs an olive farm while dealing with a mischievous monkey who causes trouble. The film explores the brother-sister relationship, as well as the challenges and humorous situations that arise on the farm. With elements of simian fiction, the story follows the antics of the monkey and the interactions with the local community, including a cobbler, a priest, and a bartender. The plot also includes a love interest, a vase, a bell, and a suitcase filled with laughter.

When a world-renowned author can’t find inspiration for her next fantasy book, her over-bearing mother takes her to a farmland retreat to get her creative juices flowing, but what she finds is even more magical…

The sea, often treacherous, is the only source of living of the people of Nazaré. The film tells the story of António and his family, where no dreams are allowed. There is also the mourning of the woman in black wailing silently on the beach or waiting for their children lost in the sea.

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) is a documentary that explores the life and struggles of people living in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict and ruins of war. It depicts the daily challenges faced by the residents, including hunger, limited access to resources, and the effects of bombings. The film also highlights the resilience and determination of the people to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances.

In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.

Olive farmer Pascual del Vecchio ends up in a coma due to the shock of seeing his wife Graciela’s infidelity. But when he awakes, he thinks he is a Sicilian mafia boss, and starts tasking his youngest son, Miguel, with carrying out his “criminal” orders. With Graciela out of town on a semi-permanent vacation, the situation comes to a head for Miguel: after a year of pretending to be a Sicilian mobster, his girlfriend Gina, whom he hasn't told about his father’s mental state, will visit the family farm for the first time. But Gina won’t be the only one arriving, as Miguel’s older brother Felipe, who’s also in the dark about Pascual’s new persona, unexpectedly returns with a business deal to run by his father. Miguel must find a way to save his family’s past life or get them to accept the new one.

A town mayor ends his life on Devil's Bridge.

After years of absence, Nica returns to her native village. Her grandmother’s olive trees are threatened by a bug infestation. Against her father’s will, she fights to preserve the trees and maintain family traditions.

With the bells of the campanile clanging in the background, people are congregating in St. Mark's Square in Venice. Some Venetians reminisce about their history with the piazza and the city as a whole: watching the little iron man strike the bell of the clock in the campanile, which was built in 1912, after the original crashed to the ground in 1902 from an earthquake; having a funeral procession through an adjacent canal for a grandmother on the day of the original campanile falling; seeing trees for the first time, which are scarce in the built-up area of the city; crossing some of the four hundred bridges in the city, the largest being the Rialto; working hard as a gondolier, a job made more lighthearted with a serenade; and living without automobile traffic. And today, some are making their own memories, one being a small child whose pants just won't stay up.

Pane e Olio is an Italian TV mvoie starring Bud Spencer