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Omar Mukhtar This film directed by the little known Syrian-American Moustapha Akkad depicts a freedom fighter who struggled against Moussolini’s brutal colonial forces between the two worlds wars in Libya in 1929 to 1931. The funding came from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, so Akkad was able to hire Anthony Quinn to portray the Arab Muslim leader …
(Edda) I have now watched two films centering on events that took place during Italain dicttor Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime. Both are available on YouTube—2005’s Mussolini’s Daughter and and 1980’s The Lion in the Desert. Both are longer than usual but well worth watching for their historicity. The first film is an Italian TV production …
Director Michael Mohel combines horror with religion in this tale of twisted religious fanaticism joined with male chauvinism. It is so bloody that potential viewers need to steel themselves as the climax looms ahead. Postulant nun Cecilia ( Sydney Sweeney), just off the plane at Rome, is delayed by two leering customs officers who state …
This animated film about Lonardo da Vinci focuses upon the last few years of his life when King Francis I became his patron.
Feminists repelled by the apostle Paul’s sexist views will enjoy the six-part Italian series based loosely on the life of Italy’s first woman lawyer Lidia Poët. As played by Matilda DeAngelis, she is a self-confident woman with a clever mind a knowledge of advances in criminology, such as the value of fingerprints, unknown to the …
17th century Italian nun Sr. Benedetta, claiming to have visions of Christ & Mary & stigmata, is convicted of lesbianism & fakery.
The rise & fall of a gold digger whose scheming leads to murder & the Gucci family losing control of their famous brand.
Daniel Craig brings humanity to James Bond’s in this thriller turned star-crossed lover tale set in the frozen north, Italy, Jamaica, Cuba, a remote island & Great Britain.
When an a former streetwalker is persuaded by her doctor to take in an orphan from Africa, the woman & boy’s mutual hostility changes into acceptance and love, enriching her final days.
The story of Francis of Assisi is retold, from his youth days through his conversion & friendship with Claire to his stigmata & death, with many embelishments & Scripture reference