The best Paolo Briguglia’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Paolo Briguglia’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 Paolo Briguglia.
Julius Caesar
6.6/10
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
Baarìa
6.9/10
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Good Morning, Night
7.1/10
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
El Alamein
7.1/10
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
One Hundred Steps
7.5/10
The true story of Peppino Impastato, a young political activist who opposed the Mafia in the small town of Cinisi, Sicily. "One hundred steps" was the distance between Impastato's house and the house of Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.
Caravaggio
6.8/10
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
Basilicata coast to coast
6.6/10
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
Paz!
6.6/10
Composed and inspired by several comics by Italian underground prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in an apartment in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political militancy.
Don't Think About It
6.8/10
Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.
The Complexity of Happiness
6/10
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.
The Sicilian Girl
6.9/10
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
The Protagonists
5.7/10
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
Workers - Pronti a tutto
5.4/10
The Prince's Manuscript
6.6/10
The film is a biography of Giuseppe Tomasi (Bouquet), the prince of Lampedusa, who is the author of Il gattopardo, one of the most influential Italian novel of XX century and is adapted on screen by Visconti, THE LEOPARD (1963, 8/10). Directed by Roberto Andò, a native from Palermo, stars two French cinema icons Bouquet and Moreau (as the princess Licy).
Il tunnel della libertà
7.6/10
Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the second half of the twentieth century: the repression of Bucharest in 1956, the Prague Spring and the Berlin Wall. The first, and only time delivery of this trilogy, is THE TUNNEL OF FREEDOM. A tunnel that allowed 36 people to circumvent the strict and repressive surveillance of newly erected Berlin Wall.
Il figlio della luna
7.2/10
L'abbuffata
5.3/10
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius in Milan
7.2/10
An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.
La terra
6.9/10
Luigi Di Santo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is a professor of philosophy and teaches in Milan. Of Apulian origins, he returns to his hometown to complete the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by the violent stepbrother Aldo (Massimo Venturiello). Things degenerate when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder.
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