Carlo Cecchi

Stealing Beauty -- A young girl travels to Italy to search for her father and to lose her virginity.

An epic adventure of mystery and obsession unfolds when Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson), an appraiser of rare musical instruments, discovers a one-of-a-kind, red violin at a prestigious Montreal auction house. Convinced he's found an authentic long-lost masterpiece, Morritz uncovers the spectacular journey of the priceless violin, how it changed hands and the lives of all who touched it. When the violin's shocking secret is finally revealed, Morritz must wrestle with his own demons and choose between burying the truth, and risking everything.

An epic adventure of mystery and obsession unfolds when Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson), an appraiser of rare musical instruments, discovers a one-of-a-kind, red violin at a prestigious Montreal auction house. Convinced he's found an authentic long-lost masterpiece, Morritz uncovers the spectacular journey of the priceless violin, how it changed hands and the lives of all who touched it. When the violin's shocking secret is finally revealed, Morritz must wrestle with his own demons and choose between burying the truth, and risking everything.

An epic adventure of mystery and obsession unfolds when Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson), an appraiser of rare musical instruments, discovers a one-of-a-kind, red violin at a prestigious Montreal auction house. Convinced he's found an authentic long-lost masterpiece, Morritz uncovers the spectacular journey of the priceless violin, how it changed hands and the lives of all who touched it. When the violin's shocking secret is finally revealed, Morritz must wrestle with his own demons and choose between burying the truth, and risking everything.

When the long-lost "red violin," a rare instrument crafted during the Italian Renaissance, shows up at a modern auction, it reveals its mysterious history -- and the lives of its previous owners -- in a series of flashbacks spanning three centuries. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars as a curious connoisseur in this acclaimed production that won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Stealing Beauty is the story of a young American girl (Liv Tyler) who travels to Italy to search for her father and to lose her virginity. In no time, Lucy's personal journey into womanhood becomes the talk of the town when three men, who have no idea that they might be Lucy's father, as well as the others in the villa, become fascinated by Lucy's innocence and virginity.

A young girl travels to Italy to search for her father and to lose her virginity.

A young girl travels to Italy to search for her father and to lose her virginity.

STEALING BEAUTY is the story of a young American girl (Liv Tyler) who travels to Italy to search for her father and to lose her virginity. In no time, Lucy's personal journey into womanhood becomes the talk of the town when three men, who have no idea that they might be Lucy's father, as well as the others in the villa, become fascinated by Lucy's innocence and virginity.

After a famous judge is brutally murdered in the Sicilian town of Trapani, four reluctant cops are assigned as "La Scorta," a bodyguard team to shield the replacement magistrate from Mafia assassins. But soon, both the judge and his protectors find themselves dealing with daily threats of car bombs and ambushes. Meanwhile, personal conflicts and backroom betrayals jeopardize the team's solidarity in this Italian thriller based on a true story.

Lucy, a 19-year-old American, visits a villa on an Italian hilltop in Tuscany to try to find out who her father is.? Could he be the Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for 20 years?? The dying English playwright?? The artist who makes sculptures out of tree trunks with a chainsaw?? Lucy knows is that she may have been conceived on that hilltop.? Lucy also hopes to find the Italian boy who kissed her on a visit to Italy four years earlier... and to lose her virginity.? The three men have no idea that they might be Lucy's father, they - as well as the others in the villa - are attracted by Lucy's innocence and virginity, which - there being nothing else to talk about - becomes the talk of the town.?