Vincenzo Amato
Biography: Vincenzo Amato (born 30 March 1966) is an Italian actor and sculptor. He has two daughters (11 and 12) Born in Palermo as the son of the stage director and folk musician Emma Muzzi Loffredo, after high school Amato moved to Rome, where his mother lived. Always dedicated to painting, he finished university focused on iron sculpting. After a couple of exhibitions at the art gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome, he moved to Manhattan, New York and began to exhibit with some success at the Earl McGrath Gallery in New York. In the US, Amato became friends with the director Emanuele Crialese, who directed his debut as an actor in the film Once We Were Strangers. His career as an actor had a breakthrough with the role of the fisherman Pietro in Crialise's next film, Respiro. In 2007, he was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Actor for his performance in Nuovomondo.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 30, 1966
Deathday: N/A
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Golden Door
2006-09-22
Golden Door
Overview: The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009-12-17
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Overview: New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-17
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Respiro
2002-05-18
Respiro
Overview: Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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Red Notice
2021-11-04
Red Notice
Overview: An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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L'immensità
2022-09-15
L'immensità
Overview: Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara (a deeply dissatisfied expatriate Spaniard) and Felice (an abusive businessman cheating on Clara with his secretary) and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria; he rejects girlhood and instead goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a Roma girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-15
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Girl on a Bicycle
2013-03-04
Girl on a Bicycle
Overview: Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-04
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Einstein
2008-10-26
Einstein
Overview: The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-26
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The Volcano Exiles
2013-09-22
The Volcano Exiles
Overview: She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-09-22
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War Story
2014-01-19
War Story
Overview: Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-19
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Darker Than Midnight
2014-05-15
Darker Than Midnight
Overview: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a world of the marginalized, to which the rest of the city turns a blind eye. But one day the past catches up and Davide has to face the most difficult choice, this time alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Vinodentro
2013-12-12
Vinodentro
Overview: For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy bank clerk and faithful husband became director, tombeur de femmes and the most revered and respected expert on wine in Italy. Just as he had predicted the enigmatic "Professor" who had convinced him to taste his first glass of wine. The only event that the "Professor" with his accent and his piercing blue eyes, had not predicted was that he would soon be charged with the murder of his wife Adele. While being put under pressure by the Commissioner Sanfelice, John is to reflect on the last three years of his life, dominated by a single and mad passion: wine.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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Maestro
2023-11-22
Maestro
Overview: A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Unbroken
2014-12-25
Unbroken
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-25
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Once We Were Strangers
1997-08-29
Once We Were Strangers
Overview: Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree romantic tryst with a wealthy art dealer. When he falls in love with Ellen, a strong-willed radio talk-show host who is set to move to Paris within a few days, he decides he must find a way to keep her from leaving.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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The Wannabe
2015-12-04
The Wannabe
Overview: Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-04
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La scuola è finita
2010-11-12
La scuola è finita
Overview: Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
2015-06-25
Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-06-25
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Through the Waves
2022-12-07
Through the Waves
Overview: Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an opportunity to discuss their abruptly interrupted relationship. Suspended between a past that made them happy and a present that oscillates between resentment and a desire for love, Salvo and Lea travel on a night that seems to have no end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-07
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Smoke Signals
2024-05-01
Smoke Signals
Overview: 2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-01
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Abbraccialo per me
2016-04-21
Abbraccialo per me
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
2016-04-21
Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
Overview: An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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It’s the Law
2017-01-19
It’s the Law
Overview: A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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The Habit of Beauty
2017-06-22
The Habit of Beauty
Overview: Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped loving one another other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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Sicilian Ghost Story
2017-11-18
Sicilian Ghost Story
Overview: In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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Veleni
2017-10-24
Veleni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-24
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018-09-14
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
Overview: Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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Ciao America
2002-01-01
Ciao America
Overview: Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Tornare
2019-10-26
Tornare
Overview: Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who returns to Italy from the US to attend the funeral of her late father, an American admiral living in Naples. Here she meets a man who seems to know too many things about her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-26
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Storia di Nilde
2019-12-05
Storia di Nilde
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-05
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Light in the Tropics
2020-02-25
Light in the Tropics
Overview: A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-02-25
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Caught by a Wave
2021-03-25
Caught by a Wave
Overview: A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-03-25
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Breathless
2021-08-11
Breathless
Overview: In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction worker who's unwittingly gotten embroiled in the drug cartel's dealings.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-11
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La bocca dell'anima
2024-09-26
La bocca dell'anima
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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Prison Song
2001-04-27
Prison Song
Overview: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-27
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