 Cinema Paradiso 1988  PG, 123 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano, Leopoldo Trieste, Nino Terzo, Roberta Lena, Nicola Di Pinto, Pupella Maggio
In this winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Salvatore Devitto (Jacques Perrin) succeeds in the professional world of filmmaking, but when he finally returns to his hometown, he finds the secret to happiness.
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The Legend of 1900 1998  R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Melanie Thierry, Clarence Williams III, Bill Nunn, Peter Vaughan, Niall O'Brien, Alberto Vasquez, Cory Buck, Easton Gage
The Virginian is an ocean liner on which a worker finds an abandoned baby on 1 January 1900; he keeps the baby and names him Novecento/Nineteen Hundred. Nineteen Hundred (Tim Roth) grows to adulthood aboard the ship and becomes a fine musician–according to Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who tells the story. Now, as the ship is scheduled for destruction by explosives, Nineteen Hundred must make one final decision: stay aboard or start a new life ashore.
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Malena 2000 R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni, Gaetano Aronica, Gilberto Idonea, Angelo Pellegrino, Gabriella Di Luzio, Pippo Provvidenti
This offering by Giuseppe Tornatore begins during the summer of 1940; 12-year-old Renato (Guiseppi Sulfaro) joins with other boys in town who ogle the beautiful Malena (Monica Bellucci) whenever she passes by. But two years later, Malena has suffered a run of bad luck: her husband is killed in the war, and she turns to prostitution in order to survive. Young Renato realizes that Malena is not the woman of his dreams, but he remains her defender.
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The Star Maker 1995 R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste, Clelia Rondinella, Tano Cimarosa, Nicola Di Pinto, Costantino Carrozza, Jane(2) Alexander, Tony Sperandeo
The ravages of World War II are still apparent in Sicily in the early 1950s as con man Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto) goes from one poor village to another pretending to be a cinama scout. For a fee, he will give a screen test to the people, and they flock to his tent, pouring out their life stories and dreams in hopes escaping their current situations. Then a poor, but beautiful, woman (Tiziana Lodate) arrives and wants Joe to take her with him. Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
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| 1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
2. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
3. Malena (2000)
4. The Star Maker (1995)
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