Fabrizio Gifuni

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. (Miramax)

The story of two Sicilian brothers who emigrate to the northern Italian city of Turin is told over a six-year period (1958-1964), with each year represented by a dramatic vignette from one day in their lives. (Film Forum)

The body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery. (imdb)

Ignazzio is a highly regarded judge who returns home to Lecce in Southern Italy after many years up north. Here he again meets Lucia, the girl he has never stopped loving. Lucia is now the girl of a drug dealer and has a day job working for a perfume company. However, this is a cover-up; she is actually close to becoming the right hand of the local mafia boss. The lines of conflict are many and it turns into a struggle for power and love. (Kosmorama.no)

About a railway worker who is a painter, but remains an amateur, because his countrymen would by mortified by his artistic aspirations.(wikipedia.org)

The biography of one of most influential Italian politicians, through the dramatic years of fascism, WWII and country economic and social rebuilding. First victim of political persecution, at end premier during the transition from monarchy to republic, De Gasperi was one of the writers of the Italian Constitution, and a thinker capable to invoke an European union when the ruins of war were still burning. (imdb)

Story about the Piazza Fontana Bombing in Milan on December 12 1969.

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)

Historical drama. In 19th century Rome, Cecilia, an innkeeper, is famed for the dish she cooks for the guests known as Carbonara, which is also the name given to the revolutionaries who frequent Cecilia's inn and who belong to the secret society of the Carbonari, intent on uniting Italy as a republic. Cecilia finds she must act to save the life of an ex-lover, Zaccaria, who is one of those taken prisoner, before he too is killed. (bfi)

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)

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents' apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. (Quinzaine)

The story of Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus Christ. (imdb)

The life and death of Giuseppe "Pippo" Fava, a sicilian journalist and intellectual who tried to fight the mafia through his newspaper "I Siciliani" during the 70's and the early 80's. (imdb)

Dramatic movie inspired by Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Marco kills his father. An apparently inexplicable hatred led him to that gesture after a life spent in apparent normality. After the murder, Rinaldi, a policeman investigating the crime, suspects Marco, but he immediately realizes that he is facing a boy hit by a drama bigger than him.

Leonida Riva is a gloomy, solitary war veteran, once Captain of the Army's special forces. Life and work have driven Riva apart from his family. His eldest son, Mattia, has never forgiven him while his daughter, Teresa, loves him unconditionally. However, a tragic event will force Leonida to transform into something he thought he had long buried in the past. (imdb)

In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo's including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new school teacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. (imdb)

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. (imdb)