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Malena review by from London, England

wonderful! 17 August 2004
.... I have fallen in love with Italian cinema. And who can blame me? Having loved Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Cinema Paradiso' I decided to try another one of his films, and 'Malena' was... Read customer review

Giuseppe Tornatore - filmography

Baaria on DVD (2009)
Starring: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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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.

64% from 1,024 member

The Unknown Woman (2006)
Starring: Margherita Buy, Claudia Gerini, Clara Dossena
Director: Fabio Zamarion, Giuseppe Tornatore, Fabio Zama
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Irena is a beautiful young Eastern European woman who arrives in the Northern Italian city of Trieste looking for work. But there is a mysterious side to her visit as she rents out an apartment she cannot afford and begins to spy on the affluent couple opposite and their four year old daughter. ..read more »

67% from 475 members
Not currently released

Malena - Blu-ray (2000)
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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With MALENA, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily, the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the wife of a local soldier. One of the ..read more »

68% from 98 members

Malena on DVD (2000)
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certificate:
With MALENA, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spins a romantic coming-of-age yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village in Sicily, the film focuses on a group of 13-year-old boys who fall madly in love with Malena (Monica Bellucci), the wife of a local soldier. One of the ..read more »

67% from 6,276 members

Legend Of 1900 on DVD (1998)
Starring: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor, Clarence William III
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certificate:
Based on a dramatic monologue by Italian novelist Alessandro Baricco, The Legend of 1900 marks the first English language film for director Giuseppe Tornatore. The film stars Tim Roth in the title role and features a stunning score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An extraordinary tale of a ..read more »

68% from 1,415 member

The Star Maker (1995)
Starring: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is The Star Maker. Like the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso by the same writer-director, Guiseppe Tornatore, it's drenched in the filmmaker's love for cinema. In Sicily in the early 1950s, Joe Morelli (..read more »

60% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

A Pure Formality (1994)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Two legendary screen talents go head-to-head in this intriguing, utterly original psychological thriller, described by one critic as "Colombo meets Kafka." Gerard Depardieu stars as Onaff, a famed French novelist who is arrested in a small provincial town when he is found breathless and ..read more »

63% from 615 members
Not currently released

Cinema Paradiso (2 discs) on DVD (1989)
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Agnes Nano
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Set in a small Sicilian village, the story depicts three stages in the life of Salvatore, who leaves his village on the advice of his mentor as a boy and returns home many years later as a prominent Roman movie director. He returns to attend the funeral of the town's former film projectionist and ..read more »

77% from 24,689 members

Cinema Paradiso - Blu-ray (1989)
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Agnes Nano
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certificate:
A nostalgic look at a young boy's coming-of-age in postwar Italy and his fascination with a small local cinema, CINEMA PARADISO from director Giuseppe Tornatore is a famed and beloved classic.'Alfredo is dying'... those words jolt the successful filmmaker Salvatore (played as a child by Salvatore ..read more »

83% from 946 members

The Professor on DVD (1986)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Laura Del Sol, Luciano Bartoli
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Certificate:
Mafia thriller story of a man, condemned to prison for murder, where his coldblooded ruthlessness and brilliance earns him the nickname 'The Professor'. From his cell he sets out to take control of all the extortion rackets in Naples. The streets soon run red...

44% from 142 members

Giuseppe Tornatore facts

5 most recent films

Baaria - 3.0 stars
The Unknown Woman - 3.5 stars
Malena - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Malena - 3.5 stars
Legend Of 1900 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cinema Paradiso - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Cinema Paradiso - 4.0 stars
Malena - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Legend Of 1900 - 3.5 stars
Malena - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Star Maker - 3.0 stars
The Professor - 2.0 stars
A Pure Formality - 3.0 stars
Baaria - 3.0 stars
The Unknown Woman - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Leo Gullotta - 3 times - show films
Luciano Federico - 2 times - show films
Enrico Lo Verso - 2 times - show films
Matilde Piana - 2 times - show films
Jacques Perrin - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Fabio Zamarion - 1 times - show films
Fabio Zama - 1 times - show films