Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Muccino's bittersweet drama delves into the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile unit. (Roadside Attractions)

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice... (imdb)

Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home. (imdb)

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend"... (imdb)

Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc(Colin Firth) is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane mothers room due to poor ticket sales at his revival movie theater. Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), the new roommate, appears normal enough at first but it soon becomes apparent that he is hiding something. (imdb)

Antonio has always had problems with his incisors: they are huge, impossible to hide and embarrassing. It takes a woman, Mara - who he left his wife and children for - to crack both incisors with a glass ashtray during a fight brought about by jealousy: Antonio is convinced she's having an affair with hers dentist! Antonio's tongue instinctively touches and investigates his raw and bleeding gum and when his saliva mixes with the blood, he remembers his childhood.

Early in the 19th century, Edward and Carlotta, in love 20 years ago, find each other and marry. After a year's bliss at his Tuscan villa, Edward begs to invite Otto, an architect and friend, to join them. She has forebodings of disaster, but relents. Otto arrives, and to balance the dynamics, Carlotta invites her teenage godchild Ottilia to join them. (imdb)

Alphonsine, growing up motherless in absolute poverty, goes alone to Paris and finds work as a seamstress. In the evening most of the girls she works with are whores but one is a cloakroom attendant at the opera house and takes her there to help. Seeing high society on display fills her with the desire to join their world. (Wikipedia)

A woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder falls in love with a cello teacher from afar and struggles over trying to connect with him.

A writer is looking for a new idea, and the characters enter his life when he decides to suddenly end the film

Spanish girl Teresa comes to Milan to meet Ponchia, Marco, Paolino and Cedro who have not seen each other for years: her man, their old friend Rudy, is in jail in Marrakech and needs help and money. The five decide to go to Morocco by car to get him out of trouble. (imdb)

An Italian coming to age movie. Luca moves in with his tutor, Bruno, an ex-teacher and writer who now works as a ghost writer for VIPs. Journey of both of them to take each their responsibilities.

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)

Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him. (imdb)

A con-man and a wannabe professional magician team up with a waitress and an old professional on their way to Vegas. (imdb)

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. (imdb)

Set in Milan in 1989, this is the story of four people - an expert in market research, a nurse, a university professor and a pharamceutical researcher - whose destinies intertwine through a lost diary in a city which seems, by its very nature, unsuitable for establishing human relationships. (mubi.com)

The true story of Giorgio Ambrosoli, a lawyer who tried to oppose a web of power, linking politics, mafia and banks, in 1970s Italy, and paid a high price for it.

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible. (imdb)

The drama about a woman that gets fired because of his pregnancy and deals with a difficult financial and familiar situation. (imdb)

Gabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge. (imdb)

A priest, in a troubled Neaples quarter, begin a fierce fight against camorra and a relationship with a young altar boy. A story between heroism and infamy.

A film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi. (imdb)

Loro is an Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Toni Servillo. It is a biography about the media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi. (wikipedia.com)

In a grammar school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day of school before the summer holidays. Professor Vivaldi, Italian literature teacher, before the end bitterly remembers what happened in that year and he wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school. (wikipedia.org)

In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'. (imdb)

A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide. Sembola (IMDB).

Two families are brought together for a surprise marriage - between their patriarchs. (imdb)

Adriano Doria is "the entrepreneur of the year" in Milan.He drives a BMW, wears a flamboyant Rolex, has an adorable wife and daughter and a beautiful mistress. But now he is under house arrest, accused of murder. (imdb)

Vanni and Linda have been engaged for ten years, living together in an attic in central Rome. Their best friends, Costanza and Alfredo, known as Prof, are married, have no children and manage their wedding like a business. Costanza discovers that Prof. has a lover, and in a panic attack, breaks into Vanni and Linda's house. Thus begins the longest night for the four protagonists who, between quarrels, jokes, laughter and admissions of guilt, will put their loves and friendships into play.

During a tumultuous period in the career of Silvio Berlusconi, as his marriage to second wife Veronica Lario fractures, LORO speculates on what may or may not have taken place behind closed doors, depicting a wide variety of characters from multiple levels of society and their attempts to either ingratiate or distance themselves from him. (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)

Lino Settembre and his wife Chicca lead a tranquil married life without any serious problems. They are satisfied with their careers. He's the sports editor at the Messenger and she's a professor of medieval languages at the Universita' Gregoriana. (imdb)

Pietro Di Leo, security officer of a department store in Milan, where the girl he is dating also works as a make-up artist, is separated from his wife and with a son that he only sees on weekends. He is a very dissatisfied man, whose psychosomatic suffering ( outbursts of anger, visions) reveals a situation of profound discomfort. One day, however, he meets Pabe, a young Roma who has to get rid of the warehouse and who will then let go when she is caught stealing a perfume. (wikipedia.org)

In the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching. (imdb)

Three men, each completely and utterly innocent in the eyes of their mothers, find themselves behind bars at the mercy of the Law. They are united by two things: politics and the dark forces plotting against them. (imdb)