Don't Tell 2005  R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Cristina Comencini
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca, Angela Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Battiston, Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco, Francesca Inaudi, Lucy Akhurst, Lewis Lemperuer Palmer, Jeke-Omer Boyayanlar, Simona Nasi
Sabina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) begins to suspect that events in her long-forgotten past are triggering nightmares that have been bothering her recently. In search of answers, she leaves Rome and visits her university professor brother, Daniele (Luigi Lo Cascio), in the U.S. to confront the demons so long ignored.
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Facing Windows 2003  R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yilmaz, Maria Grazia Bon, Massimo Poggio, Ivan Bacchi, Olimpia Carlisi, Elisabeth Kaza
Although her marriage to Filippo (Filippo Nigro) is in trouble, 29-year-old Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and Filippo are devoted to their two young children. They meet a Holocaust survivor (Massimo Girotti) and bring him home where they learn of his sacrifices during World War II. Meanwhile, Giovanna is considering her own sacrifice: a forbidden love for next-door neighbor Lorenzo (Raoul Bova) on whom she spends her time spying. Once the two stories are told, past and present interact in this interesting story from Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek.
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The Last Kiss 2001 R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli, Marco Cocci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Regina Orioli, Giorgio Pasotti, Daniela Piazza, Claudio Santamaria, Vittorio Amandola, Martina Stella, Luigi Diberti, Piero Natoli, Silvio Muccino
This multi-faceted story involves 30-year-old friends who are not quite sure of how to deal with the fact that they are now at the age when others are settling down and raising families. Carlo (Stefano Accorsi) learns that his girlfriend Giulia (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) is pregnant and is not sure that he wants to marry her. Paolo (Claudio Santamaria) has problems about joining his father in business. Meanwhile, Adriano (Giorgio Pasotti) and his wife Livia (Sabrina Impacciatore) have a new baby, and Adriano is having trouble adjusting to fatherhood. And then there is Alberto (Marco Cocci) whose only ties to women are sexual. They all find their own unique answers to their dilemmas.
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 Love in the Time of Cholera 2007 R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, John Leguizamo, Hector Elizondo, Fernanda Montenegro, Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, Angie Cepeda, Marcela Mar, Juan Angel
Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1998 novel, this story is set in Colombia where Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) dies falling out of a mango tree. The day of the funeral, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) arrives and delivers a message to the widow, Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), informing her that he has been in love with her for the past 51 years. The film then flashes back to their long-ago, ill-fated courtship and continues through their lives over the last half-century.
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| 1. Don't Tell (2005)
2. Facing Windows (2003)
3. The Last Kiss (2001)
4. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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