Pierfrancesco Favino

After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of state treason, Edmond Dants returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him.

The night before his retirement, Franco Amore, a police lieutenant, is called to investigate a crime scene where his best friend and long-time partner, Dino, was killed during a diamond heist.

The story of Italy is explored through the life and times of four friends, Giulio, Gemma, Paolo and Riccardo, over the course of four decades.

Moe Berg, a professional baseball player turned spy, must go behind enemy lines and assassinate the Nazi`s chief nuclear scientist before the Germans develop an atomic bomb.

An Italian woman flies across the Atlantic to New York City in search of her husband and finds him married to another woman. Now two wives, four children, and one husband must find a way to survive--together. An Italian female shoemaker follows her husband to America with their son and daughter. She can't find him at first, then finally she discovers that he is married to an American wife who is expecting. After some wrangling they manage to live under the same roof for some time. —Hesham Tito This hilarious romantic comedy stars the ever-popular Brooke Shields as Charlene, the American wife of Vincenzo, a struggling Italian artist who wants to make a name for himself in New York's cutting-edge art scene. Just one problem: He's already married. When Maria, Vincenzo's Italian wife, crosses the Atlantic with two her kids, she's less than thrilled to find her husband living with the very pregnant Charlene, whose fury matches anything Maria can dish out. The personal and cultural clashes between Vincenzo's two families make for an extremely tense environment, but they soon find themselves united against Paul Parmesan, a self-serving home-shopping magnate who tries to exploit both Maria and Charlene while lining his own pockets. Love takes a beating and comes back fighting in this unconventional comedy about a very unconventional family. —Anonymous

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? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>