Elio Germano

Grazia (Golino) is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro (Amato) is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale (Casisa), the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan. (imdb)

Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s. (imdb)

David, a student in Pisa who is about to pass his final exam, gets involved in an anti-globalist group. (imdb)

Rome 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) and Leone (Sergio Castellitto) have got a men's costume shop, on the same street. Umberto is Catholic, Leone is Jewish. Racial Laws are approved in Italy in 1938 after Hitler's visit to Rome. (wikipedia.org)

A voyeuristic film student senses foul play when a murder strikes at the apartment complex across the street. (moviefone.com)

The vicissitudes of a newly graduated girl in the universe of the precarious work. Marta is a well- educated girl; she is curious and silent one, which finds work in the call center of a company that sells a futuristic appliance. So she finds out a new fantastic world formed by young telephone operator and fanatic seller,corporate jingle, motivational dance, prize giving, ovation and penance. A bittersweet picture of modern society narrated through the eyes of a funny young philosopher. (imdb)

A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier. (imdb)

Giorgio is a 22 year-old model law student, until the day he meets Francesco, a mysterious fellow student who introduces him to the world of gambling houses and poker and teaches him how to cheat. (cineuropa.net)

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. (imdb)

A working class Roman takes a shortcut between the honest and the dishonest.

Luca's father is a bank manager who doubles as a loan shark - and Bruno is heavily in debt to him. Luca is disgusted by his father's deadbeat double life and, we feel, shamed by his father's implied contempt for him.

A dark drama centered on a 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad, who are both outcasts in their suburban town.

Pietro is a gay man who tries to become an actor. He rents a new house in Rome, but soon he realizes that the place is haunted. The ghosts of a theatre group lives there since the WW2.

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

Italy today. Two young brothers, Cosimo and Elia, fanciful construction workers, travel from Rome to a remote town on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to renovate the Villa of the area's only wealthy man, popular singer Fausto Mieli. The conflict that arises upon the "foreigners'" arrival will have terrible and unexpected consequences on all the inhabitants of the town... (mubi.com)

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. (imdb)

The life and times of an everyman Roman and a tour through modern Italy, from the sixties to present-day.

About a woman who is implicated in a crime she knows nothing about and must find out about to prove she is innocent. (imdb)

Politics, religion and crime are three powers that share the business in Rome

The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. (imdb)

An Italian couple take a young Ukrainian girl into their summer home after rescuing her from desperate situation. What starts as a simple act of kindness soon becomes much more complicated.

Fausto and Nadine meet for the first time in an hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful french girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate. (imdb)

Giacomo (Fabio De Luigi) is a great heir of industrial, but he prefers to devote his mind to thoughts and fantasies. An esoteric will change Giacomo's life by telling him that he identified the current reincarnation of his father, who died when he was a young boy. The reincarnation is Mario Pitagora (Elio Germano), a man with the sole interest in money. Their meeting will change their lifes.

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela.

A finance magnate is convicted of tax fraud and is sentences to spend a year doing social services. (mymovies.it)

The stories and crossed destinies of Cenzo, sacked from his factory; Vince, his son who dreams of leaving with Elena, his girlfriend.

In a small Italian town, a baby that does not obey the law of gravity is born. The mother, not knowing who the father is, believes the baby is an angel and names him Oscar. Alongisde with the baby´s grandmother, both women decide to run away from town to raise him in the mountains in order to keep the secret. However, one day, Oscar decides to go to a T.V. show so the world can see who he truly is.

Florence, early seventies. Marco is a young man, he still live with his parent and has a girlfriend, Cristina. He doesn't know what to do in his life but he is very passionate about music so he starts doing the DJ in clubs and then to host a program on the radio. Despite of the success Marco is unhappy and apathetic. (imdb)

Lucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council. (imdb)

Antonio is expelled from Switzerland to Italy against his will. For years he lives in poverty in the Po floodplains, but he never gives up his passion for drawing. The story of Antonio Ligabue, a revolutionary loner in modern art. (imdb)

Once upon a time there was a dark tale set in a small community somewhere in the world. A seemingly normal world silently festering with the sadism of fathers and the anger of diligent, desperate children. (Letterboxd)

In the last days of his life the journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani talks to his son about his life. (imdb)

An idealistic engineer builds his own island off the Italian coast and declares it a nation, drawing the world's attention. Values are tested when the Italian Government declares him an enemy, but to change the world risks must be taken. (imdb)

The trial of Aldo Braibanti.

Based on the book by Domenico Starnone

1997. At ILVA in Taranto, yet another workplace death has just occurred, but Caterino Lamanna, a worker assigned to strenuous tasks in the steel industry, is ready to blame the unions for it.

A time during Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro's three decades as a fugitive from Italian justice, when he was at the peak of his nefarious powers. (imdb)

Massimo is a dentist from Latina, happily married with two daughters. One day he goes down to the cellar for housework and finds a girl tied up and gagged, asking for help. (imdb)