Nanni Moretti

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. (imdb)

Nanni Moretti, Italy's answer to Woody Allen, takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time and struggles to make a film. (imdb)

Nani Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters,... (imdb)

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. (imdb)

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of b-movies in 70s; after a long hiatus, following the commercial fiasco of "Cataratte", Bonomo is going to be signed by RAI in order to produce a film about Cristoforo Colombo's homecoming. When the director Franco Caspio quits the project, Bonomo is forced to offer another screenplay to RAI, which is "Il Caimano" a screenplay he stumbled upon, written by the young director Teresa... (imdb)

A bereaved Italian executive puts his life on hold to spend his days waiting for his daughter outside her school. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.

The owner of a small cinema in Italy is going through the figures for the most recent blockbusters in his town and is irritated to see that the advertising space for the new Iranian film showing at his cinema (Close-Up) is significantly smaller than that of American films. He tries to promote the smaller works at every chance he gets but will it ever be able to compete with the Lion King? (imdb)

Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself. (imdb)

This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. The sketches are framed within the context of a Roman student's school year, which is disrupted by political and amorous misadventures. (AllMovie)

In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world: as a director fighting a flawed establishment, as an artist seeking a true expression of his visions, and as a neurotic, disturbed individual trying to cope.

Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. (imdb)

A former radical who renounces his past to become a priest returns to his home town and is appalled by the townspeople's lack of faith.

Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?

Italian Communist Party (PCI) is going to change name and identity and renew itself into a new 'Thing'. This is a selection of talks that took place in various sections of the party throughout Italy before the historical congress. (imdb)

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist. (imdb)

Luciano, a young Italian literature teacher living in the provinces, supplements his income by ghost writing for a famous, but dried up, novelist. One day Minister Botero summons him to Rome to write his speeches and communiqués. Luciano accepts. His initial delight in privileges granted to members of the Minister's entourage soon turns into disillusionment. (festival-cannes.fr)

The film tells the misadventures of a company of players who are oppressed by a tyrannical director. At the same time, his friend Michele is living with the failure of his marriage to Silvia. (imdb)

A director and her brother watch over their dying mother.

Santiago, Italia depicts how the Italian embassy in Santiago became a haven for Chilean dissenters during the coup d'état against Salvador Allende in 1973. After Pinochet takes over, most of the dissenters immigrated to Italy as political refugees. Through interviews with embassy staff, immigrant dissenters, jailed putschists, re-enactments and archival footage Moretti shines a light on the lives that were changed by the coup. (film.iksv.org)

The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium. (imdb)

Television documentary on Nanni Moretti made during the release of his film "Bianca".

A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956. (imdb)