The best Lea Padovani’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Lea Padovani’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Lea Padovani.
The Lovers of Montparnasse
7.4/10
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
The Naked Maja
5.5/10
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Angels of Darkness
6.8/10
Tells the story of various Roman prostitutes.
The Empty Canvas
6.8/10
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship
Black Dossier
6.9/10
The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young investigator who comes to work in a small French town. He is soon involved in a mysterious case incriminating a town notable. Arnaud devotes himself to the case but the upshot of this is rather surprising to all concerned, not to mention the audience. Like Cayatte's previous efforts, Le Dossier Noir is based on the proposition that the phrase "French justice" can at times be oxymoronic.
Mid-Century Loves
5.7/10
The Reluctant Saint
7.3/10
The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino who was sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy because his mother believed him too simple for anything else.
Rome 11:00
7.8/10
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
Guai ai vinti
6.4/10
So Long Gulliver
5.8/10
Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swift's hero Gulliver.
Give Us This Day
7.3/10
On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
The Contessa's Secret
6/10
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
The Intruder
5.7/10
Almost a Man
7.1/10
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
Three Steps North
6.2/10
An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
Outcry
7.1/10
A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Una lettera all'alba
6.7/10
Fiamme sulla laguna
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
Solo Dio mi fermerà
The Accusation
6.6/10
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.
