John Fante Movies

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a...

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick...

Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his...

Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his...

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.

In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social...

A big-game hunter's son and a Hindu boy brave the jungle in order to deliver a baby white elephant to an Indian temple.

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

A father-in-law's visit makes life even more complicated for a struggling writer and his pregnant wife. Director Richard Quine's 1956 film stars Judy...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the...

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

About a largely unsung writer of the twentieth century: John Fante, the renegade author whose highly autobiographical novels illustrate his...