Movies to see Thursday 16 March, in prime time and late evening

The Gentlemen – at 21.20 on Rai 2

(Action, Comedy, 2020, duration: 113 Min)
A movie of Guy Ritchie, with Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Brittany Ashworth, Steve Barnett, Max Bennett and Eliot Sumner.

Plot of the film The Gentlemen: The film follows the story of Mickey Pearson, an American businessman transplanted to London, where he built a thriving marijuana empire. When Pearson decides to withdraw from the market and sell his business to billionaires from Oklahoma, a series of blackmail and corruption games are triggered around him in an attempt to take over his business.
Among the protagonists of the film we find Hugh Grant in the role of Fletcher and Charlie Hunnam in the role of Pearson’s confidant. The two will have to manage Pearson’s capital and will discover how far his enemies are capable of going to secure all the money.

Wonder Woman – at 21.20 on Italia 1

(Action, Adventure, Fantasy, 2017, Duration: 141 Min)
A movie of Patty Jenkins, with Gal Gadot, Robin Wright, Chris Pine, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya, Lucy Davis, Ewen Bremner, Danny Huston, Saïd Taghmaoui, Eleanor Matsuura, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Doutzen Kroes and Florence Kasumba.

Plot of the movie Wonder Woman: At the time of the Olympians, Ares secretly plotted against Zeus and his Amazons, warrior women of extraordinary strength and prodigious goodness.
To protect them from the wrath of the god of war, Zeus gave them the only weapon capable of killing Ares, hiding them on the peaceful island of Themyscira.
Centuries later, the Amazon Queen Hippolyta wishes her daughter Diana would not develop her incredible physical gifts, hoping thus to protect her from the burden of their bloodline.
However, the little girl is determined to follow in the footsteps of her aunt Antiope, the proud general of the Amazons who secretly trains her niece, preparing her for the meeting with Ares…

Gravity – at 21.10 on Rai Movie

(Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, 2013, duration: 90 Min)
A movie of Alfonso Cuaron, with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.

Plot of the movie Gravity: The brilliant Dr. Ryan Stone is on her first space mission, while astronaut Matt Kovalsky is on his last flight before retirement. But what was supposed to be a routine spacewalk for them is turning into a catastrophe. Dr. Ryan Stone’s life is in fact hanging by a thread, her cable that keeps her hooked up to the experienced astronaut Matt Kowalski, with whom she is drifting in open space. A sudden storm of debris, caused by the destruction of a spy satellite by a Russian missile, in fact irreparably damaged the Shuttle and killed the crewmates, saving them that at that moment they were outside for an operation of maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope, condemning them to wander among the stars with low oxygen and no possibility of communicating with Houston. Surrounded by suffocating silence and darkness mitigated by the Earth in the background, they just have to advance into the unknown towards the International Space Station not far from where they are, with the looming threat that a new wave of debris will overwhelm them …

The Dead Don’t Die – at 21.15 on Italia 2

(Horror, Comedy, 2019, duration: 103 Min)
A movie of Jim Jarmusch, with Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Tom Waits, Rosie Perez, Carol Kane, Iggy Pop, Danny Glover, RZA, Sara Driver and Luka Sabbat.

Synopsis of the film The Dead Don’t Die: In the quiet rural town of Centerville, Ohio, very strange things begin to happen: the hours of day and night do not follow each other as usual, clocks and cell phones stop working, some animals disappear and others behave in unusual ways . It is speculated that the Earth’s rotation is changing, that the abuse of Earth’s resources has caused the polar ice cap to break up, but no one has precise information. People begin to be worried, scientists are unable to give exhaustive answers, until events precipitate: the dead rise again, coming out of their graves and looking for the living to feed on them; they are decidedly particular zombies, also interested in the objects they loved when they were still alive, such as the mobile phone, or the guitar, and even anxiolytics…

Born tired – at 21.30 on Nove

(Comedy, 2001, duration: 92 Min)
A movie of Dominick Tambasco, with Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Marica Coco, Stefania Bonafede, Luigi Maria Burruano, Massimo Olcese, Gino Carista, Costantino Carrozza, Dario D’Ambrosi, Gilberto Idonea, Ornella Giusto, Aurora Quattrocchi, Marcello Perracchio, Marcello Mordino, Paola Abruzzo and Leandro Parlavecchio .
Plot of the film Born Tired: The film follows the misadventures of Salvo and Valentino, two young unemployed Sicilians. The friends’ lives are divided every day between the town bar, their respective girlfriends – Loredana and Sandra – and public competitions around Italy, punctually faced in the worst possible way in order to be able to postpone entry into the world of work and marriage.
However, this routine is destined to end when the two go to Milan for yet another competition. Unaware that they have been strongly recommended by their fellow villager Don Ciccio, Salvo and Valentino discover to their dismay that they have won the jobs. At that point it seems inevitable to have to settle down and get married: but friends come up with an idea that maybe could save them from that situation…

The Cider House Rules – at 9.30pm on LA7D

(Drama, 1999, duration: 131 Min)
A movie of Lasse Hallstrom, with Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Kathy Baker, Erykah Badu, Jane Alexander, Kieran Culkin, K. Todd Freeman, Kate Nelligan and Heavy D.
Synopsis of the film The cider house rules: United States, early 1940s. Kind and helpful Dr. Wilbur Larch runs the St. Cloud’s orphanage in Maine. The conditions of the institution are spartan, but the children are treated with love and respect.
In the clinic attached to the orphanage, Dr. Larch performs abortions, albeit illegal, to prevent women who wish to terminate their pregnancies from being slaughtered by unprepared people. Alternatively, he delivers the girls anonymously and then takes unwanted children into the institution.
Among the orphans is Homer Wells. Despite not even having attended high school, Homer is a brilliant boy and Dr. Larch decides to teach him the profession of obstetrician, passing on all his knowledge in gynecological matters. The doctor sees in him his successor and the son he never had, but Homer is against abortion and wants to get out of the confines of St. Cloud’s to get to know the world…

Cinderella man – A reason to fight – at 20.55 on Tv 2000

(Drama, 2005, duration: 144 Min)
A movie of Ron Howard, with Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Connor Price, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Fulvio Cecere, Rosemarie DeWitt, Matthew G. Taylor, Ariel Waller, Bruce McGill, David Huband, Patrick Louis, Linda Kash and Nicholas Campbell.

Plot of the film Cinderella man – A reason to fight: The story is set during the period of the Great Depression in the 1930s. James Braddock, nicknamed Cinderella, is a boxer from New Jersey, forced to give up boxing after losing many fights due to a broken hand repeatedly in the ring.
This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae Braddock, tired of having to watch the violence of her husband’s profession, but aware that without his work surviving will be difficult. Braddock has in fact lost his boxer’s license and all his savings in a bad investment, finding himself forced to do all kinds of manual work in order to feed his family.
Despite his broken hand, he goes to the port every day in search of a job as a laborer in charge of unloading, secretly cultivating the dream of returning to professional boxing…