Are you feeling tired and depressed? It’s best to look for a little lightness that can distract you from the thousand thoughts tormenting your head. That’s why, in our weekend viewing recommendations, we want to focus in particular on comedies like Borotalco, one of the gems of Carlo Verdone’s filmography, which is always a pleasure to watch again.
However, there are also some new features, especially on streaming platforms, such as “Bridesmaids 2 – Neverland” with an all-female cast (which also features singer Enula, a former member of Amici), Old Dads (starring, among other), Bobby Cannavale) and “80 I Want Brady” (with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda).
Movie streaming for free
“Interstellar” – Friday, October 20 (21:20), Italy 1
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Topher Grace
Year: 2014
Plot: We find ourselves in an uncertain future, with dramatic climate change hitting agriculture hard. A group of scientists, using a wormhole (space-time tunnel) to overcome the physical limitations of space travel and overcome the vast distances of interstellar travel, are trying to explore new dimensions. Since corn is the only crop that can still grow (and thus feed humanity), the goal is to find new places suitable for growing it.
Perfect – Friday, October 20 (21:10), Rai Movie
Director: James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ramey Ellis, John Napierala.
Year: 1985
Plot: We are in Los Angeles, the 80s. Adam Lawrence, a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, begins a relationship with aerobics teacher Jessie. Is he using her for an article or is he really in love with her?
Murder on the Orient Express – Saturday, October 21 (21:45), Rai3
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley
Year: 2017
Plot: A luxurious trip aboard the Orient Express turns into a race against time when a murder is committed. Among the passengers on the famous train is detective Hercule Poirot, who immediately gets to work interrogating suspects during a long stop in the mountains of Yugoslavia.
Borotalko – Saturday, October 21 (21:15), Cine34
Director: Carlo Verdone
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Eleonora Giorgi, Angelo Infanti, Christian De Sica, Enrico Papa
Year: 1981
Plot: Sergio Benvenuti is a naive and rather clumsy young man who gets a job as a salesman in a music publishing house. This should be a turning point for him, capable of securing his career and finally allowing him to marry his historical girlfriend. His dreams are shattered when he finds himself selling encyclopedia houses. However, during one of his visits, one of his colleagues mistakes him for an experienced playboy, and his point of view changes.
(Almost) Prince Charming – Sunday, October 22 (21:10), Rai Movie
Director: Philippe Lelouch
Starring: Vincent Perez, Vahina Giocante, Jacques Weber, Com Levin
year 2013
Plot: Jean Marc is a forty-year-old man who is at the head of a large company and is focused exclusively on his work. Meeting Marie, a woman associated with a sense of justice and freedom, will change his life forever.
Pride and Prejudice – In Miss Bennett’s Shoes – Sunday, October 22 (21:10), La5
Director: Michael Campa
Cast: Lexi Giovagnoli, David Witts, James Nitti, Hannah Grace Hayes, Arianna America, Hamish Briggs, Justina Bios, Karan Sagu, Hannah Whiteock
Year: 2019
Plot: Kate runs the very popular Watch It vlog and was the main character in a series that was a huge hit online. For this she gets the role of Lizzie Bennett in the new film version of Pride and Prejudice. Not being a professional actress, her diction is not perfect and not everyone loses.
opportunity to point this out to him. Philippa, the film’s financier, and some of the actors, especially Liam, who plays Mr. Darcy, do not like the young woman at all. The only one who becomes her friend is Yulia, also a debutante, but with a solid theatrical background. Although Liam seems to despise her the most, in the end he is the one who will help her become a better person and overcome the traps that others have set for her to get fired.
Movies on satellite
Sun at midnight – Midnight Sun – Friday, October 20 (21:00), Sky Cinema Romance
Director: Scott Speer
Cast: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shepard
Year: 2018
Plot: A plane crash returns to Russia a famous dancer who fled to the West ten years earlier. The KGB takes advantage of this and does everything to convince him to stay: forcing him to meet his old love Galina again and connecting him with Raymond, an American tap dance ace who sought in Russia the dignity that was denied him in America.
Dampier – Saturday 21 October (9.15pm), Sky Cinema Uno
Director: Riccardo Chemello
Cast: Wade Briggs, Stuart Martin, Frida Gustafsson, David Morrissey, Sebastian Croft, Luke Roberts
Year: 2022
Plot: We are in the early 90s, during the Balkan War. Harlan, haunted by terrible nightmares, makes ends meet by posing as a Dampir (half-human, half-vampire in Slavic mythology), able to free the villages from what the superstitious villagers naively believe to be the terrible curses associated with them. world of vampires. But when he is called in by soldiers who are under attack by bloodthirsty creatures, Harlan learns the truth: he really is a Dhampir. Trying to fight the terrible “Master of the Night”, Harlan will have to learn to control his powers and discover his origins. He is accompanied by a renegade vampire and a soldier seeking revenge.
The Mexican – Love Without Security – Sunday 22 October (9pm), Sky Cinema Romance
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman.
Year: 2001
Plot: Jerry is tasked by his boss, a powerful crime boss, with recovering a valuable old weapon called “The Mexican.” Despite the contrary opinion of his girlfriend Samantha, the boy leaves for Mexico and goes in search of weapons. He cleverly manages to find her, but just when things seem to be going well, he discovers that Samantha has been kidnapped by, among other things, one of her boss’s men.
Streaming movies
Old Dads – Netflix
Director: Bill Burr
Cast: Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine, Katrina Bowden
Year: 2023
Plot: Three best friends grow up to become fathers and argue with daycare directors, millennial CEOs, and everything post-1987.
Bachelorette 2 – Neverland – Prime Video
Director: Francesco Apolloni
Cast: Laura Chiatti, Chiara Franchini, Antonia Liskova, Jun Ichikawa, Enula, Fabrizio Tardi
Year: 2023
Plot: When Eleanor is abandoned at the altar, her honeymoon turns into a journey of hope. He will have to travel from north to south to fulfill his father’s last request: to bury a curious relic on the ground on the border with Slovenia. Naturally, her inseparable friends will be next to her.
For love or money – Non-romantic comedy – Infinity+
Director: Mark Murphy
Cast: Robert Kazinsky, Samantha Barks, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Ed Speleers, Tony Way, Ivan Kaye, Anna Chancellor, David Hargreaves, Charlie McDougall
Year: 2019
Plot: The first crush is never forgotten, and when Mark meets Connie 18 years later, the spark ignites again. But Connie is now a gold digger and teams up with Mark for his bank account. When he discovers the fraud, he decides to take revenge, making her life impossible one malice after another. Will Connie be able to endure everything solely and solely for the sake of money?
Breach – Infiltrator – TimVision
Director: Billy Ray
Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Caroline Dhavernas
Year: 2007
Plot: Young agent Eric O’Neill is selected by the FBI’s Homeland Security Division to investigate Agent Robert Hanssen, a late-career veteran suspected of leaking top-secret information to the USSR.
The Boogeyman – Disney+
Director: Rob Savage
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivienne Lyra Blair, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, LisaGay Hamilton, David Dastmalchian
Year: 2023
Plot: High school student Sadie Harper and her little sister Sawyer are devastated by the recent death of their mother. Unfortunately, they have little support from Will’s father, a therapist who also deals with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.
Amanda – RaiPlay
Director: Carolina Cavalli
Cast: Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatea Bellugi, Michele Bravi, Monica Nappo, Margherita Maccapani Missoni, Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Year: 2022
Plot: Amanda is 24 years old and has never had friends. And now this is what he wants most. When she discovers that she and Rebecca spent a lot of time together as newborns, Amanda takes on a new mission: convincing her that they are still best friends.
I want to start again – Pluto TV
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin, Eliza Dushku.
Year: 1993
Plot: We are in the 1950s. Caroline decides to leave Utah and live in Seattle with her son Toby. In fact, her ex-husband lives somewhere on the East Coast, and her other son is studying at Princeton. Young Toby falls into bad company, and meanwhile Caroline is being courted by Dwight Hansen, who wants to give her some help, even without dealing with the boy.
Gloria Bell – Nexo+
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Cast: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sean Astin, Alanna Ubach, Rita Wilson, Holland Taylor, Brad Garrett, Karen Pistorius
Year: 2019
Plot: Gloria loves her children (now adults), but she is not just a caring mother and grandmother. She loves to dance in singles’ clubs and, moving from one lover to another, continues to believe in love. Right on the dance floor, she meets the recently divorced Arnold: an irresistible passion is born between them, which will make him rediscover almost forgotten happiness. It’s a pity that a man’s daughters and ex-wife have a negative influence on him.
Girl with a gun – MUBI
Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Monica Vitti, Carlo Giuffre, Stanley Baker, Corinne Redgrave
Year: 1968
Plot: Assunta Patane is a young Sicilian woman who is seduced and left by mistake. The girl, thirsting for revenge, pursues her kidnapper Vincenzo to Great Britain, where she also manages to build a new life.
Shooting Pigeons – Portrait of John Le Carré – Apple TV+
Director: Errol Morris
Year: 2023
Plot: Documentary film about the life and career of former British spy David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, author of spy novels typical of the genre (such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Mole). The story is set against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War and spans six decades, up to the present day, the last interview given by Le Carré, the most revealing and punctuated by sketches and rare archival footage.
80. Brady’s Wish – Paramount+
Director: Kyle Marvin
Cast: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field
Year: 2023
Plot: Four friends go on an unforgettable journey to watch their hero Tom Brady play in the Super Bowl and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it’s never too late to live life to the fullest. Inspired by a true story.