John Fante Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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...