Claudia Gerini

While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo (Sergio Castellitto) recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia (Penélope Cruz), a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories. (imdb)

The Passion of The Christ focusses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus has gone to pray after sitting the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death. (imdb)

Irena "the unknown" (Rappoport) is an Ukranian young woman living in the Italian city of Velarchi. Soon we discover she has an horrible past of violence and humiliations. To pursue a mysterious aim she manages, by any means, legal and illegal, to get the job as an house servant for a wealthy couple with a little girl... (imdb)

Romeo is a washed out musician who moves to Brussels in order to find the love of his life, following the recommendation of a fortune teller. While living with his older lady friend Marguerite, he coincidentally meets a young Italian woman named Iris, with whom he will form a new musical act, and hopefully even more.

Dr Raniero Borroni Cotti and his wife Fosca, Ivano e Jessica, John and Valeriana. They're three couples who have one thing in common: they've just been married...

Left-wing and right-wing agendas go head-to-head in Diverso da Chi?, Umberto Carteni's satirical skewering of contemporary Italian politics. Luca Argentero stars as Piero, an openly homosexual gay rights activist, running as the more progressive candidate in the mayoral election of Udine, Italy... (ovguide.com)

Set in Naples, the film centers on an Italian family unbalanced by its fishmonger patriarch's delusional obsession with the local version of "Big Brother." (incontention.com)

In this absurdist retelling by director Davide Manuli, the tracksuit- and headphone-wearing Kaspar Hauser washes up on the beach of an almost uninhabited island, where he is found and received as the messiah by The Sheriff (Gallo) who is also a DJ. (mubi.com)

When the efforts of a Philosophy teacher from the Italian Region of Puglia and his two brothers to sell an old family farm are stalled by their boorish and aggressive step-brother, the family's dark past is soon dragged into the harsh light of the presence in director Sergio Rubini's simmering family drama. (movies.nytimes.com)

The film's sequel Bianco, Rosso e Verdone; Produced nearly 30 years later, observes the same three characters at a later point in life again, all played by Verdone

A married couple cheat on each other with each other.

Gilda, Olivia and Crocetta are three women are absolutely different from one another. They live on an island in southern Italy where ancient prejudices still resist. In the village comes a young police commissioner who understands that they hide a secret.

Una famiglia allargata, come ce ne sono tante oggigiorno, nella quale una coppia di genitori attende per le feste l'arrivo della figlia e del suo misterioso fidanzato; c'è anche un uomo che per la prima volta conosce i figli della sua compagna che faranno di tutto per cacciarlo. Poi ancora una vedova inconsolabile, un fratellastro irrisolto, una bellissima casa, la neve... (comingsoon.it)

A string of bizarre events is unleashed when a woman and her lover have themselves locked up with her husband's corpse. (BFI)

Instructing The Heart (Italian: Al cuore si comanda) is a 2003 Italian romantic comedy film. It marked the directorial debut by Giovanni Morricone, son of composer Ennio and brother of composer Andrea, who both co-scored the film (wikipedia.org)

Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles in their love lives: Marta is chasing a deaf-mute man who has stolen things from her book shop, Sara is a lesbian who was left by her girlfriend just after she proposed to her, and 18-year-old Emma is seeing a 50-year-old architect called Alessandro, who is already married. Unfortunately, these three patients are Francesco's three beloved daughters. (imdb)

A businesswoman, who at night goes to a lucrative club, finds herself in danger as many of those, with whom she had spent time in the club, are found murdered.

After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.

A man organize the perfect Christmas for his perfect family...but no one is who they say they are. (imdb)

In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican. (imdb)

A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over. (imdb)

In order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish"), Donna Maria sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro and Rosario, to find the nurse and kill her. (imdb)

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex - husband?

A trio of opera singers are reunited by a wedding ten years after their stormy breakup. (imdb)

"Maldamore" is a story of love cross, a story of betrayal and reconciliation in the typical vein of Italian comedy. (IMBD)

The last year of Bettino Craxi's life, one of the most important and controversial Italian leaders of the 1980s (imdb)

The raw history of an South-east Italian family in 1952's, among poorness and the fight to survive. (imdb)

It's new year's eve and two friends decide to spend the night in a special way, just to forget a sentimental disillusionment. After some failing experiences, the night becomes a nightmare, among fool policemen and maniac murderers. (imdb)

The story of Federica Angeli, reporter of the daily newspaper "La Repubblica" that investigates the Roman underworld, challenging threats and dangers. (imdb)

At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Bova), her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.

The dark and romantic story of the first meeting between master thief Diabolik and Eva Kant, set in the fictional state of Clerville in the late 1960s. Inspector Ginko is on the hunt for the criminal, trying to stop his evil plans. (imdb)

A group of friends meet up every year at a villa for a birthday party. This year, they discover there may be only a few hours left before the end of the world. (imdb)