Giancarlo Giannini

Lina Wertmuller became the first woman ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in this picaresque film about an Italian small-time crook whose ill-fated pursuits land him in jail, then a psych ward, then the army, and finally a German prison camp. "Seven Beauties" was also nominated for three more Academy Awards as well as received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film.

Directed by Lina Wertmuller, the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, "Swept Away" is her famously controversial film about sex, love, and politics set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean. Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini star as an unlikely duo stranded at sea, leading to an unexpected and contentious love affair.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller, LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.

Giancarlo Giannini shines in this satirical comedy directed by Lina Wertmüller. Mimi, a Sicilian laborer, gets caught between communism, mafia, and his own romantic entanglements. A biting critique of political hypocrisy and masculinity, the film earned Wertmüller acclaim at Cannes and cemented her status as a leading voice in 1970s European cinema.

After witnessing his father killing a woman during an S&M session, a boy grows into a disturbed young man tormented by images of violence and madness.

A policeman hunts a serial killer who paralyzes his victims before slaying them.

In 1862, Francis II of Bourbon, the last king of the Two Sicilies, lives in exile in Rome with his wife Maria Sophie. The king has lost his throne after the conquest of his kingdom by the forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Piedmontese Army. Maria Sophie tries to recover the Kingdom of Naples, supporting the uprising of patriots, rebels and outlaws but Francesco is demoralized...

In 1957, a large and lustful Italian family leaves the old country for a packed Toronto boardinghouse under the watchful eye of their 8-year-old boy.

An American actress vacationing in Italy finds herself in a complicated love triangle when she falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

When villagers hear that the retreating Nazis will be coming through their town, they hide 1 million bottles of wine in an old Roman cave. When the SS arrive, they threaten death to anyone who withholds the wine.

From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of Sound of Freedom, comes the story of Francesca Cabrini, who embarks on a daring journey to persuade the mayor of New York City to provide housing and healthcare for orphaned children.

In pre-World War II Sicily, while fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman as political upheaval lands all three in New York.

In this epic true story set in the 1800s, a Spanish secret agent and an English aristocrat share a passionate love affair that upsets the Middle East.

Leo is a man who is unhappy in his job. But there's an even bigger problem...Leo is the Pope! When Leo XIV accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican, he embarks upon an adventure that will reconnect him with his people, his faith and himself.

A cockroach bred to eradicate a deadly disease soon becomes a monstrous threat to mankind in this thriller starring Mira Sorvino.

Unrated Version. A remote rural house with a bloody past threatens to destroy its latest inhabitants - a teen girl and her family are horrified when the home takes on a deadly life of its own.

At large ten years after his escape, the cannibal shrink lures a disgraced Agent Starling to Italy while a disfigured ex-patient plots his revenge.

A possible second coming of Christ shakes up the rural town of Auburn in the form of a kind carpenter who seems capable of performing miracles.