fraeon
Films
BrowseTop 300
Series
TV ShowsAnimeTop 250 TVTop 100 Anime
Games
BrowseTop 100
Books
BooksMangaComics & GNTop 125 BooksTop 100 Manga
For youTier ListsThe ArchiveLeaderboardFind people
Trending
Log inSign up free
fraeon

Everything you watch, play and read — tracked, rated and remembered in one library.

Explore

  • Films
  • TV
  • Anime
  • Games
  • Books
  • Manga

Discover

  • Trending
  • Leaderboard
  • Find people
  • Lists
  • Tier lists

Company

  • Tour
  • About
  • Community guidelines
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact

© 2026 fraeon. All rights reserved. ·

Metadata from TMDB, RAWG, Jikan & Open Library. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Questions or ideas? mehmet@avortas.com

HomeFeedProfile
Why

Why

1971 1h 38mDramaComedy

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

3.7/5

TMDB score· 97 votes

Synopsis

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

The vibe

prisonbureaucracyitalianinnocencesatireinjusticevictimization

Behind it

Nanni LoyNanni LoyDirectorSergio AmideiScreenplayEmilio SannaScreenplayRodolfo SonegoRodolfo SonegoStoryCarlo RustichelliCarlo RustichelliComposerSergio D'OffiziSergio D'OffiziCinematography

Cast

Alberto SordiAlberto SordiGiuseppe Di NoiElga AndersenElga AndersenIngridAndrea AureliAndrea AureliGuardiaNazzareno NataleNazzareno NataleSaverio GuardascioneMichele GamminoMichele GamminoDon PaoloLino BanfiLino BanfiDirettore del carcere di SaguntoLuca SportelliAgente del carcere di SaguntoTano CimarosaTano CimarosaAgente del carcere di SaguntoSilvio SpaccesiSilvio SpaccesiMaresciallo carcere di SaguntoGiovanni PallavicinoGiovanni PallavicinoBrigadiere Saporito del carcere di SaguntoAntonio CasagrandeAntonio CasagrandeGiudiceGianni BonaguraGianni BonaguraAvvocato Sallustio GiordanaGiuseppe AnatrelliGiuseppe Anatrellidetenuto Rosario ScaliaMario BregaMario BregaDetenuto amico di Scalia (uncredited)Mario PisuMario PisuPsichiatraGianfranco BarraGianfranco BarraNello Appodiadetenuto ammanettato insieme ad Alberto SordiFulvio MingozziFulvio MingozziMingozzi, una guardia carceraria

Director

Nanni Loy

Writers

Sergio Amidei, Emilio Sanna, Rodolfo Sonego

Release date

27 Oct 1971

Runtime

1h 38m

Studio

Documento Film

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Reviews

No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.

Quotes

No quotes yet.

Discussions

Similar films

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

4.1

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974

Life Is Beautiful

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

4.2

Life Is Beautiful

1997

In the Name of the Italian People

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?

3.6

In the Name of the Italian People

1971

Uptown Girls

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

3.5

Uptown Girls

2003

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.

3.8

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976

Roma

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

3.6

Roma

1972

Lemonade Mouth

When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie find they can make a real difference when they learn to lean on each other and let go of everything holding back their dreams.

3.7

Lemonade Mouth

2011

Everybody's Fine

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

3.6

Everybody's Fine

1990

Perfect Strangers

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

3.9

Perfect Strangers

2016

On My Skin

The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.

4.0

On My Skin

2018

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

3.3

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976

He's Worse than Me

Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...

3.1

He's Worse than Me

1985

Thunderstruck

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

3.1

Thunderstruck

2012

What Maisie Knew

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

3.6

What Maisie Knew

2013

A Daughter

A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.

3.2

A Daughter

2025

Be Sick… It's Free

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

3.5

Be Sick… It's Free

1968

Bagnomaria

In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".

3.0

Bagnomaria

1999

Adopt a Highway

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.

3.4

Adopt a Highway

2019

Similar across media

Same mood, other forms — books, series, anime, games and beyond.

Series
Heated Rivalry

Two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey are bound by ambition, rivalry, and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery. Over the next eight years, as they chase glory on the ice, they struggle to navigate their feelings for each other. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can’t ignore, they must decide if there’s room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile – and powerful – as real love.

4.4

Heated Rivalry

2025

Book
Little Women

Romans · Jeunes filles

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1848

Series
The Pitt

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

4.4

The Pitt

2025

Book
Macbeth

Drama · Regicides

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

1508

Series
Chernobyl

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

4.4

Chernobyl

2019

Book
King Lear

Drama · King Lear (Legendary character)

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1608

Series
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

4.4

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2009

Book
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Drama · Courtship

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

1600

Series
Better Call Saul

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

4.4

Better Call Saul

2015

Book
Great Expectations

Authors · Benefactors

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

1861

Series
Weak Hero

With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.

4.4

Weak Hero

2022

Book
Julius Caesar

Antoine (Marcus Antonius) · Assassination

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

1656