Movies: Italian history

  • 1979
    Caligula

    Caligula (1979)

    Caligula

    61979HD

    After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity....

    Caligula
  • 2019
    The Traitor

    The Traitor (2019)

    The Traitor

    7.72019HD

    Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to It...

    The Traitor
  • 2020
    Rose Island

    Rose Island (2020)

    Rose Island

    72020HD

    In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it ...

    Rose Island
  • 2019
    Our Godfather

    Our Godfather (2019)

    Our Godfather

    6.52019HD

    The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in P...

    Our Godfather
  • 2008
    Il Divo

    Il Divo (2008)

    Il Divo

    7.62008HD

    Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repe...

    Il Divo
  • 2019
    Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be

    Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be (2019)

    Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be

    7.52019HD

    Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographe...

    Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be
  • 1999
    Excellent Cadavers

    Excellent Cadavers (1999)

    Excellent Cadavers

    61999HD

    Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare t...

    Excellent Cadavers
  • 1969
    The Conspirators

    The Conspirators (1969)

    The Conspirators

    7.51969HD

    Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions....

    The Conspirators
  • 2022
    The Bohemian

    The Bohemian (2022)

    The Bohemian

    6.22022HD

    The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes ...

    The Bohemian
  • 2017
    La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal

    La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal (2017)

    La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal

    6.62017HD

    The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she left communist Hungary and moved to Italy, where she found a fertile environment for a life dedicated to scandal....

    La Cicciolina: Godmother of Scandal
  • 2016
    Porn to Be Free

    Porn to Be Free (2016)

    Porn to Be Free

    5.62016HD

    Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are drea...

    Porn to Be Free
  • 2020
    Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter

    Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter (2020)

    Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter

    5.62020HD

    An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity....

    Artemisia Gentileschi, Warrior Painter
  • 2010
    We Believed

    We Believed (2010)

    We Believed

    6.52010HD

    1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inev...

    We Believed
  • 2022
    The March on Rome

    The March on Rome (2022)

    The March on Rome

    6.42022HD

    The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come....

    The March on Rome
  • 2019
    Shooting the Mafia

    Shooting the Mafia (2019)

    Shooting the Mafia

    7.22019HD

    Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the Italian Mafia, she was an unwavering witness to it...

    Shooting the Mafia
  • 1905
    The Capture of Roma

    The Capture of Roma (1905)

    The Capture of Roma

    5.61905HD

    The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870....

    The Capture of Roma
  • 2006
    Fascism in Colour

    Fascism in Colour (2006)

    Fascism in Colour

    7.52006HD

    After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, d...

    Fascism in Colour
  • 1977
    Forza Italia!

    Forza Italia! (1977)

    Forza Italia!

    71977HD

    Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage....

    Forza Italia!
  • 2017
    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

    6.52017HD

    The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful,...

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
  • 2021
    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)

    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

    7.32021HD

    Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position....

    Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita