Films like One Hundred Steps
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his...
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Salvatore Giuliano
Film · 1962 · also drama and historySicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international pre...
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The Escort
Film · 1993 · also dramaThe film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-i...
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The Great Ambition
Film · 2024 · also drama and historySecretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to gover...
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The Most Beautiful Wife
Film · 1970 · also dramaA 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
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The Last Four Days
Film · 1974 · also drama and historyIn 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with h...
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Pump Up the Volume
Film · 1990 · also dramaMark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing su...
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Film · 1971 · also drama and historyBoston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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Good Morning, Night
Film · 2003 · also drama and historyThe 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of o...
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La Terra Trema
Film · 1949 · also dramaIn rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
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Paisan
Film · 1946 · also dramaSix stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months...
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