You’ve probably organized a few trips out of town this weekend to welcome the official arrival of summer. But who said it doesn’t suit the tradition of watching movies on TV (thanks to streaming too)? So, as always, we’re here with our recommendations, including some good first approaches. On the free-to-air channels we tune into The Color of Freedom with Lucas Till and Lucy Hale, while on the satellite channels we will be able to discover the latest directorial work of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi or Forever Young-Les Amandiers.
Stream For Romance with Julio Peña and Clara Galle in From My Window: Beyond the Sea.
free-to-air movie
Azadi Ka Rang – Friday 23 June (9.20 PM), Rai3
Director: Barry Alexander Brown
Cast: Lucas Till, Lex Scott Davis, Lucy Hale, Julia Ormond
Year: 2020
Synopsis: It’s 1961, Alabama. Bob Zellner is a student, the son of a Methodist pastor and the nephew of a Ku Klux Klan member, who has to do a term paper on race relations. Joins four other classmates at a church event organized by black worshipers to mark the fifth anniversary of the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”, when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 – Fri, June 23 (9.10pm), LA5
Director: Kirk Jones
Starring: Elena Kampouris, Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, John Stamos
Year: 2016
Plot: New chapter in the saga of the Portokalos family. Ian and Toula have been married for many years and have a daughter, Paris, who is now a teenager and about to go off to college. Instead, Maria and Gus continue to run their restaurant with the help of their children and grandchildren.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Damned – Sat 24 June (9.20pm), Italy 1
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Jonathan K Kwan, Roy Chiao, Philip Stone, Roshan Seth, Dan Aykroyd
Year: 1984
Synopsis: In order to save the inhabitants of a village, to retrieve a stone with miraculous powers, Indiana Jones must face incredible dangers and clash with members of a bloodthirsty sect dedicated to the goddess Kali.
American Graffiti – Sat 24 June (9.10pm), 27
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Catt, Gary Busey, Lee Purcell
Year: 1973
Plot: It’s the summer of 1962, in California. In the metropolis of night, with its multicolored lights and streets, the stories of some boys are found in search of happiness, which unfortunately constantly slips out of hand. It is about classmates John Miller, Terri Fields, Steve Bilender and Kurt Manderson, who each have a soulmate who they meet the night before they enter college. The young people begin to talk about dreams, friendship, love, fears and hopes for the future.
Suspicion – Above Crime and Desire – Sunday 25th June (9:20 PM), Rai4
Director: Philip Noyce
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Thora Birch
Year: 2019
Synopsis: A recently married FBI agent must search a small Kentucky town for information. The man begins a relationship with a local woman, who thus becomes his main source of information. The girl sees in him a way out of certain situations.
Hocus Pocus – Sunday 25 June (21.00), Iris
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice, Oona Lawrence, Emma Howard
Year: 2017
Synopsis: We are in the American Civil War. Private John McBurney was wounded and then Mrs. Martha took him to the women’s boarding school for treatment. Within days, the man manages to win over the director and other women around him, so he decides to take advantage of it.
movies on satellite
Forever Young – Les Amandiers – Friday 23 June (9.15pm), Sky Cinema Dew
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Starring: Nadia Terezkiewicz, Sofia Bencer, Lewis Garrell, Micah Lescott, Clara Bretheau, Noham Adze, Wassily Schneider, Eva Danino, Liv Heneguer, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Lena Garrell, Sarah Henochsberg, Oscar Lesage, Alexia Chardard, Suzanne Linden, Frank Demeules, Isabel Reynolds, Sandra Nakake, Bernard Nisile
Year: 2022
Synopsis: We are in 1986 France. Stella, Adele, Victor and Frank are in the prime of their youth. Entering the prestigious Les Amandiers theater school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans, he feels he has the world in his hands. Going full speed ahead in their passion, they will live through excitement, fear, love, but also their first great tragedies together.
If You Change Seats at the Table – Sat 24 June (9:00pm), Sky Cinema Romance
Director: Christel Renal
Cast: Elsa Zilberstein, Franck Dubosc, Audrey Lamy, Arie’ Elmaleh, Shirley Bousquet, Mathias Mlecuz, Lewis Monnot, Lanic Gautry, Tom Renal, J’Rome Deran
year 2012
Synopsis: A brief but intense embrace between a boy and a girl at a wedding banquet inadvertently causes the guests’ cards to fall down. Since the bride is busy keeping herself tidy, the young man collects them but arranges them haphazardly on the table. Thus the unsuspecting guests will end up in a place different from the predestined and this will change their destinies, both for the better and for the worse.
Twilight – Sunday 25 June (9.00pm), Sky Cinema Family
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene
Year: 2008
Plot: Bella has recently moved with her father to a small town in a remote American province. The teenager is sad and bored, but her life changes when she meets the charming and mysterious Edward Cullen. Bella is immediately attracted to him, even though she feels he has rejected her. In fact, the boy behaves this way because he is a vampire, from a family of vampires converted and integrated into society. Edward fears he will put her in a dangerous position, but love blossoms between them nonetheless.
movies streaming
From My Window: Across the Sea – Netflix
Director: Markle Fores
Cast: Julio Peña, Clara Galle, Natalia Azhara, Guillermo Lasheras, Emilia Lazo, Eric Masip, Hugo Arbues, Andrea Chaparro, Ivan Lapadula, Carla Tous
Year: 2023
Plot: Ares has gone to study in Stockholm and maintains a long-distance relationship with Raquel, which unfortunately, turns out to be more complicated than he imagined. When the two meet again in early summer, their long separation and the people they meet will challenge the bond they both believed to be indestructible.
Last Night in Soho – Prime Video
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Diana Rigg
Year: 2021
Plot: Eloise is a young fashion victim who finds herself traveling through time and arrives in London in the 60s. This is due to a strange connection with his favorite singer, Sandy. But she soon realized that life in Soho was very different from what she expected at the time.
Lying – Infinite+
Director: Francesca Archibugi
Cast: Claudio Bisio, Gaddo Bacchini, Cocchi Ponzoni, Antonia Truppo, Giggio Alberti, Barbara Ronchi, Carla Chiarelli, Federica Fracassi, Gianluigi Fogassi, Sandra Ceccarelli, Donatella Finocchiaro
Year: 2017
Plot: Giorgio is a very famous television journalist, whose personal life is not very happy: he is separated for years and his ex-wife has not spoken to him, while he has a son, Tito, who lives with him most of the time. No one pays attention to him… In fact, the boy feels suffocated by his father’s attention and prefers to spend all day with his group of friends, eating, talking and playing video games. Until one day he knows love.
Nowhere Special – A Love Story – Timvision
Director: Umberto Pasolini
Cast: James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Eileen O’Higgins, Valerie O’Connor, Stella McCusker
Year: 2021
Synopsis: John is a young window cleaner who dedicates his life to raising his four-year-old son, Michael. In fact, the child’s mother had abandoned him soon after his birth. His life is a simple life, made up of small things and complete dedication and innocent love. But is John in front of her? Few months to live and so, in the absence of a family of his own, John will spend the rest of his days looking for a new, ideal family, so that Michael can be adopted and thus protect his child’s future.
Wild – Disney+
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Michael Huisman
Year. 2014
Synopsis: After the end of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed is a lost woman. After years of self-destructive behavior, she makes a difficult choice: Alone and with no experience, go hiking, covering more than 1,600 km of the Pacific Crest Trail.
Lola – Replay
Director: Andrew Legge
Cast: Stephanie Martini, Emma Appleton, Rory Fleck Byrne, Aaron Monaghan
Year: 2022
We are in 1941 England. Sisters Thomasina and Martha invent a device capable of intercepting radio waves from the future. This incredible machine allowed them to win bets and even explore their own punk dimension, a generation before the birth of the movement. As World War II progresses, the sisters begin using it as an espionage weapon, with worldwide consequences.
The Girl with the Pearl Earrings – Pluto TV
Director: Peter Weber
Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy
Year: 2003
Synopsis: Grit is employed in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, who immediately feels attracted to the girl. It would be his mentor, van Ruijven, who would convince him to ask him to pose for a painting.
Bread and Roses – Nexo+
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody, Pilar Padilla, Jack McGee
Year: 2000
Synopsis: Maya arrives in Los Angeles in secret and finds work at a cleaning company thanks to her sister Rosa. One day he meets Sam, a trade unionist who wants the workers to go on strike against a company that is growing at the expense of the workers. But motivating the people who desperately need that job to protest isn’t easy.
Disobedience – MUBI
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Eliot Alderman, Moshe Caplan
Year: 2018
Synopsis: New York photographer Ronit travels to London after hearing of the death of his estranged rabbi father. The woman returns to the same Orthodox Jewish community that had ostracized her decades earlier because of her childhood attraction to her friend Esti. Their meeting soon rekindles the old flames.
Heaven Is Everywhere – Apple TV+
Director: Josephine Decker
Cast: Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colliman, Julia Schlapper, Ji-Young Yoo, Havana Rose Liu, Cherry Jones, Jason Segel
Year: 2022
Summary: We’re in Northern California. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, a true musical prodigy, struggles with the unbearable pain that has overwhelmed her following the sudden death of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new kid at school, enters her life, she is immediately drawn to him. But Lenny’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend Toby sets the stage for a budding romance between her and Joe. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicting feelings, Lenny navigates between first love and first loss to create a song all her own.
Pride and Prejudice – Paramount+
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Tallulah Riley, Carey Mulligan, Judi Dench
Year: 2005
Synopsis: Mr. Bennet has a beautiful house in Hertfordshire, where he lives with his wife and five daughters. Everything goes well till his death. At that time the only way for girls to secure a future is to get married.