List of the best Giuseppe Tornatore movies: The Legend of 1900(1998), The Best Offer(2013), A Pure Formality(1994), Everybody's Fine(1990), The Star Maker(1995), Baarìa(2009), Nuovo Cinema Paradiso(1988), Correspondence(2016) ... ...
Drama
Italy
1998
116 Minutes
Director
Tim Roth Pruitt Taylor Vince Mélanie Thierry Bill Nunn Peter Vaughan Niall O'Brien Alberto Vázquez Clarence Williams III Gabriele Lavia Cory Buck Norman Chancer
pianist trumpeter mechanic jazz musician beautiful woman shopkeeper tender calm emotional fascinating music store ocean liner musicians outsider's life friendship orphans seafaring talent underdog discovery
A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
Drama, Romance
Italy
2013
124 Minutes
Director
Jim Sturgess Geoffrey Rush Donald Sutherland Sylvia Hoeks Dermot Crowley Liya Kebede Philip Jackson Kiruna Stamell
auctioneer heiress art expert friend suspenseful thrilling emotional auction house villa collection women unintended consequences confinement obsession may-december romance mystery love 2010s
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
Mystery & Thriller
Italy|France
1994
108 Minutes
Director
Gérard Depardieu Roman Polanski Sergio Rubini Nicola Di Pinto Paolo Lombardi Gaetano Cimarosa Maria Rosa Spagnolo Alberto Sironi
author recluse police officer inspector victim intense dark powerful eerie france police station crime scene interrogation room countryside mind games amnesia interrogation murder investigation mystery rivalry
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1990
112 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Michèle Morgan Marino Cenna Roberto Nobile Valeria Cavalli Norma Martelli Antonella Attili Salvatore Cascio
bureaucrat family patriarch son daughter missing person touching melodramatic sicily train italy family secrets opera old age journey reunion quest mystery discovery 1980s
Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.
Drama
Italy
1995
113 Minutes
Director
Sergio Castellitto Tiziana Lodato Franco Scaldati Leopoldo Trieste Clelia Rondinella Gaetano Cimarosa Nicola Di Pinto Constantino Carrozza Jane Alexander Tony Sperandeo Leo Gullotta
A photographer and the types of people he encounters.
History, Biography, War, Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
2009
150 Minutes
Director
Francesco Scianna Margareth Madè Raoul Bova Giorgio Faletti Leo Gullotta Nicole Grimaudo Gabriele Lavia Ángela Molina Enrico Lo Verso Nino Frassica Aldo Baglio
shepherd powerful emotional sicily biography discovery growing up 1960s
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
Drama
1988
123 Minutes
Director
Salvatore Cascio Philippe Noiret Marco Leonardi Jacques Perrin Agnese Nano Leopoldo Trieste Isa Danieli Roberta Lena
child mother girlfriend projectionist emotional inspiring witty italy small town rome cinema church filmmaking friendship death fire world war ii growing up discovery love
A Sicilian boy (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the movies with his local theater's projectionist (Philippe Noiret).
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2016
116 Minutes
Director
Jeremy Irons Olga Kurylenko James Warren Shauna MacDonald Simon Johns Oscar Sanders Paolo Calabresi Anna Savva
An aging astrophysics professor begins a passionate affair with a young and beautiful Ph.D. student. Although he abruptly and mysteriously ends their romance, she continues to receive gifts and messages.