Filippo Luna
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Department: Acting
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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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The Bone Breakers
Overview: Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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Sicilian Letters
Overview: Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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The Purple Sea
Overview: Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-15
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Strangeness
Overview: During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Hidden Identity
Overview: A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in a way or another, will stay unscathed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-11-23
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The Illusion
Overview: 1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out, that of Palermo Colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini. Among the many militiamen recruited were two Sicilians, Domenico Tricò, a farmer who had emigrated to the North, and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. Having landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin fighting with the Bourbon army, whose numerical preponderance is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it appears almost impossible for the general to breach the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-01-16
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Lo Scuru
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
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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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La mossa del cavallo
Overview: Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-02-26
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Epicentro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-01
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Terraferma
Overview: A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-07
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The Stolen Caravaggio
Overview: Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-20
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La trattativa
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Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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31 Gradi Kelvin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Stolen Caravaggio
Overview: Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-20
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Salvo
Overview: Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-06-27
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