Pizza: A Love Story

May 30, 2019

1h 26m

★ 7.0

Pizza wasn't invented in New Haven. It was perfected there.

Overview

It's the most loved food in America. And we want to tell you a story about three pizza places in the town of New Haven, Connecticut that you may or may not have heard of. They're named: Sally's Apizza, Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana, and Modern Apizza, and they are generally considered to be three of the finest pizza restaurants on the planet.

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Rosa DeLauro

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Lyle Lovett

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Henry Winkler

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Dave Portnoy

Luca lives for pizza. In an attempt to create a documentary about the cultural exchange between Neapolitan and Windsor pizza, the Covid-19 pandemic diminishes any hopes of flying to Italy and exploring his cultural background. With an infinite amount of free time, (and a hunger for pizza), Luca and his twin sister, Gemma, aim to save the documentary.

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The Best Thing I Ever Done

Oct 21, 2010

Hailed as the “godfather of Brooklyn pizza,” for forty five years Domenico DeMarco, Italian émigré and father of seven, has been slinging pizzas in his legendary corner shop, Di Fara. Employing five of his children, Dom works tirelessly from morning until night hand crafting each and every pizza himself while his kids take orders and manage the mob of devoted pizza aficionados. The Best Thing I Ever Done is a portrait of DeMarco and his beloved pizzeria, an exploration of his rise to fame and an ode to pizzaioli who take their time to 'make it right.'

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Domino's Pizza: How Do They Really Do It?

Apr 23, 2023

The secrets of the fast-food delivery chain, which has nearly 1,200 outlets in the UK and supplies in the region of 100 million pizzas every year. This documentary goes inside the kitchens and behind the scenes of this pizza empire to meet staff and see first-hand how the pizzas are prepared and cooked, and there is access to one the business's distribution centres.

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The New York Pizza Confessions

Jan 1, 2011

So often a documentary will try to capture the supposed real experience of life in New York City, and fail miserably. Usually this is because the filmmaker tries to incorporate larger-than-life characters, and give his audience just one somewhat overwhelming experience of life on this busy little island. In the NY Pizza Confessions, Finbarr Wilbrink, instead focuses his camera on plain everyday people, and the result is genuine New York.

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The Pizza City You've Never Heard Of

Aug 12, 2021

Disturbed that his hometown is typically overlooked on lists of the top pizza cities in the world, George Kalivas sets out on a road-trip exploring Windsor's most well-established pizza places. He's on a mission talking with suppliers, pizza joint owners and pizza enthusiasts about the essential characteristics that define and distinguish a true Windsor pie.

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The Subtext of a Yale Education

Sep 24, 1999

Two years in labor relations at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, during the decade of the 1990s.

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Synonymous With

Apr 12, 2021

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

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Arrangiarsi: Pizza... and the Art of Living

Feb 3, 2017

When the director's life falls apart, he moves into a 1985 VW van, gets back to his Neapolitan roots, and discovers arrangiarsi, making something from nothing.

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Baked by Luigi

Nov 9, 2022

A documentary short about Baked by Luigi (Midtown Manhattan) and its eccentric owner Luigi Vassallo; his life journey to that point and what making pizza means to him.

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Pizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream

Oct 6, 2017

With humor, insight, and compassion, this documentary shares the journey of two Italian brothers who have run a successful restaurant for over 40 years, the sacrifices they’ve made for their children, and what it means to immigrants when they fulfill the American Dream.

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Pizza! The Movie

Sep 18, 2012

Drama, controversy, and hilarity abound as uniquely talented and passionate pizza makers battle it out as they attempt to go for the gold against their international counterparts. Their quest is followed while exploring the pizza industry. The amazing and highly competitive world of acrobatic pizza-dough tossing is examined as competitors vie for spots on the U.S. Pizza Team and the chance to compete for the gold medal at the World Pizza Championship in Italy where teams perform choreographed dough-tossing routines to music while being scored by a panel of judges.

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Pizza Hut Training Video

Apr 15, 1988

In this late 80s training video, you will learn the ways of making Pizza Hut pizza.

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The Pizza Master

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A riveting documentary style look into the brazilian food industry

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When Pizza Kneads to Be Honest about Itself

Nov 22, 2021

While the French are the second biggest consumers of pizza in the world, today premium pizza is everywhere. The dough is thick and soft, the toppings of high quality and the recipes inventive. The prices soar, however: the world champion of pizzas sells his for nearly 20 euros. But are they really worth their price?

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Pizza Shop

Jan 1, 2012

A master pizzaiola, working in rural Mississippi, discusses his craft.

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Margherita, mozzarelle and Fanta

Sep 30, 2025

Giulio is a young adult trapped in a routine of precarious jobs and distant relationships. Torn between the weight of family expectations and his struggle to accept a life off the traditional tracks, Giulio drifts between tense conversations with his brother Andrea and lonely evenings working as a delivery rider for a small pizzeria. During a delivery to an enigmatic customer, Maurizio, an apparently insignificant event—an unexpected whisper—casts a shadow of mystery over Giulio’s daily monotony, opening space for reflections on his condition and the choices that have led him there.

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Fat Pizza

Apr 10, 2003

Fat Pizza is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.

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Fair Game

Nov 3, 1995

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

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Mystic Pizza

Oct 13, 1988

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

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The Skulls

Mar 31, 2000

A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.

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