The Orchid Villa

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003 · ★ 6.9

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.

Chase a Crooked Shadow

1958 · ★ 7.1

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Come September

1961 · ★ 6.8

Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.

L'Âge d'or

1930 · ★ 6.8

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Utz

1992 · ★ 5.8

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.

To Catch a Thief

1955 · ★ 7.3

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

Contempt

1963 · ★ 7

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Bulunmaz Uşak

1963 · ★ 9

Goksel is a butler at the mansion of the wealthy Mr. Kadri. As Mr. Kadri and his family go on a three-month trip to Europe, Goksel sends all the staff on vacation -except the cook and driver. Goksel introduces himself to the society as the landlord. In the meantime Fatma, daughter of a rich family doesn't accept her parents' intentions of having her married to someone she doesn't want and runs away from her home. She starts working at Goksel's residence as a maid. Goksel is dating with Aysel who is already engaged. Fatma has an affection for Goksel but he wants to have someone rich. Mr. Kadri returns from his trip earlier than expected and all the lies are revealed. Aysel leaves Goksel and Fatma confesses him her love. Goksel soon comes to know who Fatma really is. The lovers start a brilliant life together.

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers

1973 · ★ 3.5

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

La Dolce Villa

2025 · ★ 6.3

When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.

The Silhouette of a Woman

A weary mother seeking solace retreats to a serene Tuscan villa, where the adorable Italian innkeeper and a handsome novelist with writer's block, draw her into a story of unexpected connection and renewal.

The Sentimentalists

2014 · ★ 5.5

An aged, above suspicion, bourgeois man known as ‘The Master’ lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter. In reality, however, he is involved in an illicit trade in antiquities, acts as a loan shark, and trades antiquities on the black market. The ‘Master’ has two henchmen, Mercury and John, who both commit fatal mistakes. Mercury falls for the daughter of ‘Master’, while John becomes obsessed with a prostitute. Both of them, as ‘sentimentalists’, must be eliminated.