Movies: Fausto Russo Alesi

  • 2023
    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped (2023)

    Kidnapped

    7.42023HD

    The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger pol...

    Kidnapped
  • 2024
    Cabrini

    Cabrini (2024)

    Cabrini

    7.72024HD

    Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vuln...

    Cabrini
  • 2012
    Twice Born

    Twice Born (2012)

    Twice Born

    7.32012HD

    Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago....

    Twice Born
  • 2019
    The Traitor

    The Traitor (2019)

    The Traitor

    7.62019HD

    Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to It...

    The Traitor
  • 2021
    The Catholic School

    The Catholic School (2021)

    The Catholic School

    6.22021HD

    Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captiva...

    The Catholic School
  • 2000
    Bread and Tulips

    Bread and Tulips (2000)

    Bread and Tulips

    7.22000HD

    An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family....

    Bread and Tulips
  • 2021
    The Bad Poet

    The Bad Poet (2021)

    The Bad Poet

    6.12021HD

    1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Ger...

    The Bad Poet
  • 2009
    Vincere

    Vincere (2009)

    Vincere

    6.72009HD

    The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws....

    Vincere
  • 2022
    Strangeness

    Strangeness (2022)

    Strangeness

    6.92022HD

    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...

    Strangeness
  • 2012
    Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

    Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

    Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

    7.12012HD

    On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a ...

    Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
  • 2009
    The Double Hour

    The Double Hour (2009)

    The Double Hour

    6.12009HD

    A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed....

    The Double Hour
  • 2015
    Blood of My Blood

    Blood of My Blood (2015)

    Blood of My Blood

    5.62015HD

    Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing temptation....

    Blood of My Blood
  • 2024
    Sicilian Letters

    Sicilian Letters (2024)

    Sicilian Letters

    6.62024HD

    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 person...

    Sicilian Letters
  • 2012
    Garibaldi's Lovers

    Garibaldi's Lovers (2012)

    Garibaldi's Lovers

    6.62012HD

    A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist....

    Garibaldi's Lovers
  • 2017
    The Order of Things

    The Order of Things (2017)

    The Order of Things

    6.52017HD

    An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity....

    The Order of Things
  • 2004
    Agatha and the Storm

    Agatha and the Storm (2004)

    Agatha and the Storm

    6.12004HD

    The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and com...

    Agatha and the Storm
  • 2022
    Esterno Notte (part I)

    Esterno Notte (part I) (2022)

    Esterno Notte (part I)

    7.82022HD

    The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...

    Esterno Notte (part I)
  • 2022
    Esterno Notte (part II)

    Esterno Notte (part II) (2022)

    Esterno Notte (part II)

    7.92022HD

    The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...

    Esterno Notte (part II)
  • 2010
    La passione

    La passione (2010)

    La passione

    6.42010HD

    To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town....

    La passione
  • 2007
    In Memory of Me

    In Memory of Me (2007)

    In Memory of Me

    6.62007HD

    Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordination....

    In Memory of Me