Giuseppe Tripodi
For some days in Italy it is also available Disney +, which goes to shoulder Netflix is Prime Videos: however, among video streaming platforms, it is good not to forget RaiPlay. The national TV portal, in fact, has improved a lot in recent years and today offers a decidedly vast, but always catalog free.
Of course, there are many old glories of Italian cinema and TV that could result stale to the younger audience, but there are also a lot of contents that have nothing to envy to Netflix and all the others.
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We have therefore collected a list of 10 great movies to be seen free streaming on RaiPlay.
Italian superheroes and super villains, in one of the most innovative and brilliant films of recent years. Winner of 7 David di Donatello awards, 2 Silver Ribbons and a lot of other awards, They called him Jeeg Robot tells the story of Enzo Ceccotti (played by Claudio Santamaria), a small Roman criminal who, due to a radioactive substance, acquires superhuman strength. The strange relationship with Alessia (Ilenia Pastorelli), a girl with psychiatric problems who believes him Jeeg Robot, will lead Enzo to clash with the Zingaro (Luca Marinelli), a fantastic joker our own, eccentric boss of the Roman underworld with contacts with the Camorra.
One of Martin Scorsese’s most recent films, The Wolf of Wall Street recounts the rise and decline of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). From a small broker to a prominent figure in the high finance of New York in the 90s, Belfort’s life is full of money and excesses, made up of addiction to cocaine and alool, extreme sex and big parties where his capital is squandered .
Steven Spielberg’s penultimate film, The Post tells the true story of the Pentagon Papers, top secret Pentagon documents that were discovered and published in 1971 by journalists from the New York Times and from Washington Post. The events are narrated from the point of view of the Washington Post owner Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and the editor in chief of the newspaper, Benjamin Bradlee (Tom Hanks).
A film by Paolo Virzì, but quite different from the other films of the Livornese director: winner of 7 David di Donatello, Human capital is a thriller divided into 4 chapters, in which the stories of two families intertwine around the road accident in which a waiter lost his life, hit by an SUV while returning home after working at an exclusive party.
Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film is a violent and distressing western, played, among others, by Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russel, Jennifer Leigh, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. Eight peculiar characters, each with a difficult story behind them, who find themselves locked together in a hut to shelter from a snowstorm. Special mention to the splendid soundtrack of Ennio Morricone, winner of the Oscar Award.
The labyrinth of the faun is the film that has consecrated the international success of Guillermo del Toro: it tells the story of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) a little girl who, terrified by her stepfather, captain in the Francoist army, takes refuge in a fantasy world. The universe dark fantasy it is also an opportunity to tell Francoist Spain and the civil war.
In 1985 Texas, HIV-positive people are not well-liked: AIDS is associated exclusively with homosexuality and in a state (and an era) that tends to be homophobic, HIV is a social stigma. In those years Ron Woodrof (Matthew McConaughey) leads a wild life based on alcohol, drugs and sex: when he contracts HIV he finds himself isolated from his world and suddenly close to people he once would not even have considered, such as Rayon (Jared Leto), transgender woman and drug addict. When denied the possibility of accessing experimental therapies, Ron decides to illegally import the medicines and sell them to the other patients.
The celebrity tells two years of the life of Giulio Andreotti (Toni Servillo): from 1991 to 1992, at the turn of his seventh government and at the beginning of the production of Palermo for collusion with the mafia. Despite the potentially difficult topic, Paolo Sorrentino gave to The celebrity a pressing rhythm and brilliant dialogues, as it also testifies the spectacular intro of the filmēu
Last film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, A private matter it is based on the novel of the same name by Beppe Fenoglio. The film tells the story of Milton (Luca Marinelli), a Piedmontese partisan who, in the midst of the liberation fights against the Nazis, faces his clandestine love for Fulvia (Valentina Bellè) and the capture by the fascists of Giorgio (Lorenzo Richelmy ), partisan companion, longtime friend and rival in love.
2008 Oscar Award as Best foreign film, The forger tells the true story of theOperation Bernhard. Salomon Sorowitsch, a Jewish forger of Russian origin, is arrested and taken to the concentration camp of Mauthausen. To survive in the concentration camp, Salomon agrees to work for the Reich and print fake banknotes: counterfeit pounds and dollars to undermine the economy of the United Kingdom and the United States.
