Giovanni Capalbo
Actor
Movies23
Movie7.5DramaA graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
The Passion of the Christ
2004 · 5.3K votes
Movie5.8DramaThe filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him.
Mary
2005 · 44 votes
MovieDramaWounded at the Battle of Lepanto and recoverying in a Messina hospital, Miguel de Cervantes experiences a vision amidst fever and hallucinations. From the flames of burning books, Don Alonso Quijano is born—a man driven mad by tales of chivalry who transforms into the knight-errant Don Quixote. Accompanied by the simple Sancho Panza, lured by the promise of an island to rule, Quixote embarks on a quest where inns become castles and windmills turn into giants. Despite the cruel mockery of bored nobles and a series of crushing defeats, his madness reveals a disarming purity: he fights solely for justice and freedom, even as the world laughs. Betrayed and humiliated, he is eventually brought home in a cage, unable to survive without his ideals. As he dies, the scene shifts back to the Sicilian night: from the pain of war, Cervantes has forged a masterpiece—the stubborn dream of a more liberated humanity.
Don Chisciotte
2026 · 1 votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeOn 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 conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Movie4.9DramaHistoryIn 1271, the Seventh Crusade has failed. During their retreat, the troops transport the remains of King Louis IX, the Holy King, across the peninsula. A world has ended, and five young people with nothing in common set out to find the location of the Holy Shroud, stolen by traitors at the French court. Their journey will take them from the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to Thebes, where the sacred relic is hidden.
Movie5.9DramaThe life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.
Carnera: The Walking Mountain
2008 · 36 votes
Movie6.6HistoryDrama1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.
Movie5.0WarDramaA comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the final installment, Luper continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and the Cold War.
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2005 · 16 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCrimeFrancesco Cesena, a middle-aged policeman, while carrying out a routine operation, is involved in a firefight in which his colleague loses his life. Cesena, wounded, shoots and kills the convict and his wife. About a year later two young men, Fabrizio and Simonetta, are arrested for stealing a car. Cesena and his assistant Cane, the same age as the two boys, have the task of interrogating them. Partly out of boredom at the late hour, partly out of curiosity, Cesena makes the two believe they know far more serious things about them than car theft.
MovieHistoryWarMatera, 1943. Partisan Nichi has been wounded and is returning to her brigade's hideout, but her true concerns are focused on the fate of her husband, a prisoner of the German army. When she arrives at the hideout, however, she finds no one there except a young courier accompanied by a civilian woman who urgently needs to be escorted out of the city by nightfall.
La Terza Volta
2026
Movie5.8ComedyAlleluja
2019 · 6 votes
Movie3.6CrimeMysteryTony is a notorious gangster with a big problem. He has woken up in an abandoned farmhouse, with blood on his shirt, and no memory of how he got there. He stumbles into a small town and discovers he’s in an Italian village that seems to be lost in time.
Lords of London
2014 · 14 votes
Movie4.9DocumentaryWeaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
2010 · 8 votes
Movie5.5DramaHistoryOn the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens without sending any emergency signal. The aircraft, stabilized in cruise at 7.600 meters above sea level, sank into the Tyrrhenian Trench, between Ponza and Ustica. 81 people lost their lives, including 14 children. There are three hypotheses about the disaster, but none has ever been proven, until the analysis of the findings and documentary material reveals a fourth, chilling possible cause of the disaster.
Ustica: The Missing Paper
2016 · 46 votes
Movie9.0Science FictionDramaA middle aged American woman unexpectedly discovers her true origin after her parents died. Deeply moved, in the midst of an identity crisis, she decides to travel, hoping to find her birth mother whom she hads never known. She goes to a small and remote place in the South of Italy, Montedoro.
Montedoro
2016 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryThe first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!
Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente
2008 · 1 votes
Movie5.4DramaAfter having lived a few years in the USA as a stuntman, Francesco returns to his home town for the funeral of his elderly parents.
Movie9.0ThrillerHorrorFour employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing rights with the sullen, paranoid islanders who have good reason to be afraid. Soon after the arrival of the four, a mysterious force the islanders thought was chained forever in the dark basement of the foreboding old Counting House is once again on the loose, savagely killing its women. Caught in a power struggle between rival island factions over how to stop the killing, the mainlanders are jailed. They manage to break out, but with a vigilante mob on their heels, can they reach the boat in time? They do, only to confront the mysterious, terrifying force.
The Counting House
2007 · 1 votes
MovieComedyHorrorA group of friends on vacation are attacked by a swarm of killer horseflies. The situation worsens because the flies are attracted to blood and attack their victims, causing them to implode or cause serious injury to feed. The friends must use large amounts of cannabis to repel the insects, discovering that the THC in marijuana is the only substance capable of stopping their rampage.
Tafanos
2006
Movie7.4DramaHistoryThe life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends much of his life in and near Padua, a city run by usurers. Anthony offers protection and friendship to Folco, at one time a petty criminal and acolyte to the usurers, later falsely accused of murder. Anthony's teaching and his spiritual strength lead to changes in the character of Padua and an end to usury. He became its patron Saint soon after his death, and 32 years later, his casket is opened and his tongue remains intact.
Antonio, guerriero di Dio
2006 · 6 votes
Movie6.0MysteryThrillerAfter seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of bad money on account of the company. Under the threat of business and marriage. Mateo will go to jail. In order to prove his innocence, he turns out to be incarcerated ...
Movie5.0ComedyHorrorA group of friends are plagued by recurring nightmares set in the Middle Ages. In an attempt to bring peace to their nights, they decide to undergo a psychic seance. They soon find themselves in an unlikely Middle Ages, battling a swarm of accidentally released killer horseflies. To defeat the pesky insects, they must find and smoke the dried leaves of a magical herb.
Tafanos: L'Inizio
2002 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarAn expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.