The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
This animated version of Victor Hugo’s novel about a hunchback & a gypsy in medieval Paris emphasizes the theme of reaching out to outcasts.
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
An ordinary British couple vacationing in North Africa become involved with a Russian mafia money launderer desperate to save his family by defecting.