The best Nicoletta Braschi’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Nicoletta Braschi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Nicoletta Braschi.
Life Is Beautiful
8.6/10
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Happy as Lazzaro
7.5/10
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Down by Law
7.7/10
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
The Tiger and the Snow
7/10
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
According to Pereira
7.2/10
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the "Lisboa," an unaffiliated evening paper. There is a civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power in Portugal, but he concerns himself only with his work – writing biographies of famous writers and translating French novels – and ignores what is going on around him. He hires Monteiro Rossi, an idealistic young man in love with a beautiful communist, as an assistant. He reluctantly helps them when they begin to get into trouble due to subversive activities. Eventually, events force him to take a stand.
The Sheltering Sky
6.7/10
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Ovosodo
7.3/10
The story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, set in the working-class neighborhood of Ovosodo, Livorno (Virzì's hometown).
Who Killed Pasolini?
6.9/10
1975: author and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini's dead body, brutally beaten and ran over by his own car, lays in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with the murder, 17-year-old thug Pino Pelosi confesses having acted in self-defense during a paid sexual encounter gone awry. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, suggesting that he didn't act alone. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?
