Claudio Santamaria

Cult legend Dario Argento's latest is a maniacal and cynical tale of a serial killer pinning the life of his captives on the outcome of a video poker game. (Two Boots Pioneer Theatre)

When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer (imdb)

A serial killer, called the Iguana, is terrorizing Bologna. He is able to change continuously identity. Grazia is investigating trying to find out the truth about the Iguana. Only a blind boy obsessioned by "Almost Blue", a jazz song, could help her. (imdb)

A criminal known as The Libanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership (The Lebanese is followed by his cohorts Freddo and Dandy) take place over twenty-five years, from the 1970's into the '90's, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government... (imdb)

Birdwatchers is a fascinating film that mixes fiction with anthropological documentary. A group of Guarani-Kaiowa Indians, lead by the shaman Nadio, defy society by breaking out of the reservation and settling on a piece of land where there once was dense jungle. It marks the end of a search for their roots, they have come home. There is only one problem; this land is now part of a large plantation. (Kosmorama.no)

story of 5 friends who meets in one house for one weekend. their pastime situation, and future time situation is reflected. The story is based on characters happiness in the past, and the pessimism in the present.

Paolo is 35 years old and the editor of a small sports paper. After a close friend dies, apparently of a heart attack, Paolo does some investigation and discovers that things are perhaps not as they appear. It will require an encounter with an autistic child to set Paolo on the right path...

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work. (imdb)

A bunch of students live in an apartment in Bologna, during the 70's. This is a 24-hour sample of their ordinary life, where, between marijuana, school, university, girls and political contrasts, spectators can get a nice and colorful picture of that time, of those people and of their ideas and problems. Crazy, hallucinated, somehow "Trainspotting Italian style", this movie was taken from comic strips by Andrea Pazienza and it respects very well their atmosphere and style. (imdb)

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town... (imdb)

From the Diary of Anthony Perrone, condemned to 49 years of imprisonment and detainment in isolation. (solocine.it)

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio. (The Last Kiss 2001, italian version) (imdb)

A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit (imdb)

After being dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline lets herself be dragged along by her sister to a luxurious hotel on the Italian riviera. Instead of indulging in the pleasures of loungeing around and doing nothing, Pauline convinces herself that a crime has been commited in the hotel and starts playing at being detective, carting along a seductive lifeguard with her into her investigations. (imdb)

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First World War the distinguished Italian director Ermanno Olmi presents this movie about the front in North-Eastern Italy in1917. A real story about long waits and the fear of being the next to go, which most probably will mean dying for no reason at all.

Bruno is a medical representative. His firm, 'Zafer', is going through a bad period. Bruno is ready to do anything not to lose his job: corrupt doctors, cheat on colleagues, betray the loyalty of those who are closer to him. (ilvenditoredimedicine.it)

Enzo, a lonely and misanthropic small time crook, uses the superpowers gained after falling in the Tiber river to chase down a crazy gangster called "The gypsy". (imdb)

A man struggling under the crushing weight of debt must work as a tax collector to pay off his creditors. (imdb)

A group of wild, physically disabled gangsters has a plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong when each of them reveals they all had their own personal agenda. (imdb)

Willi, who wanted to be a singer, is the biological father of the boy. One night, out of the blue, he finally works up the courage to go and meet that son that he has never seen before discovering that Vincent wasn't anything like he had imagined....

Matteo is a twenty-year-old who is impulsive and hardly committed to his studies. He and Margherita fall in love. She is a young, strong Slavic woman who is older than him and who has already taken her place in the world of work. However, Matteo's insecurity ruins this potentially very beautiful love story. (imdb)

For the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it's an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte's father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. (imdb)

A group of adventurers sets out to rob a gold mine in the heart of French Guiana. But the operation does not go as planned, and, during their flight, their helicopter must land in disaster in the middle of the jungle. They got their hands on six hundred kilograms of gold, but now have to carry it on their backs in a very hostile environment. Everything contributes to making their long march impossible. And the cohesion of the group is eaten away by the gold fever. (imdb)

The story of Italy, from the 80s to nowadays, told through the life of four friends, Giulio, Gemma, Paolo e Riccardo; during 40 years of loves, aspirations, success and failures. (imdb)

Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone start looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.