Renato Scarpa

Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. On the island, the unemployed son of a poor fisherman is hired as an extra postman due to the huge increase in mail that this causes. Il Postino is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, the postman learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever. (imdb)

John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic... (imdb)

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he taught were the inexpressibility of any ultimate truths and the complete relativity of ordinary truth. He also taught religious tolerance... (All Movie Guide)

Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.

Two outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the indian Gironamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discover gold under the village. (imdb)

Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drugs trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department. (imdb)

A meek book-keeper (Vittorio) brings on his squalid life, which is interrupted when he becomes friend with a policeman (Sauro). Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, and appears to be very gifted. This fact gives a shake to his dull existence, but when he gets in trouble with gangsters, he'll regret the past. (imdb)

Italy, 1956. In the picturesque island of Amatrello, a unique custom keeps the young men of the village busy: when a girl turns eighteen, every boy is invited to bring a gift for her first date. However the gift is not for the girl, but for the father... who will ultimately determine which boy takes her on her first rendez-vous! Eighteen-year-old fisherman's son Marcello doesn't care about this tradition until he sets eyes on the enchanting Elena, the daughter of the Mayor... (imdb)

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

Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meet a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home. Written by Sembola (imdb)

It's 1958, the year of the death of Pius XII, the most clerical and authoritarian of modern pontiffs. In a boarding school, the handsome, rich and rebellious Angelo Transeunti arrives. He is a devotee of the "overman". With his arrival, the school life is shattered - the boy puts into action plan to deride and destroy the institution against the deputy rector, Father Corazza. (mubi.com)

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

Gianna Abastanza (Mariangelo Melato) is tired of men acting as though they can do everything better than women, so she enters the police force and dons a policewoman's uniform. By following the law more closely than her police comrades and superiors, she soon runs into trouble with them, though this does not prevent love from blossoming. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Portrait of Naples today, a collection of anecdotes about the people of the city and their eccentricities. (ftvdb)

Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers. (imdb)

A young man named Giacomino leaves his parents to live on his own, but he quickly finds that it is more difficult than he thought. (imdb)

Comedy in which a man falls for his best friend's girl. The usurped lover is a millionaire who proceeds to smash up his friend's flat and gamble away all his money and furniture. (bfi)

A young woman creates havoc in a few minutes as she walks down the stairs from her flat - she sticks chewing gum onto the lens of a neighbour's camera, sets a dog barking, threatens a baby in a pram. Eventually she meets up with two anarchistic young men, and they proceed to terrorise the city. (bfi)

Francesca, an incredibly beautiful woman, lost her husband. Only after his death she discovers his unfaithfulness and overall the huge amount of debts he left. Cesare is Francesca's best friend, he is a solicitor. Following his advices Francesca starts selling all her goods, like the house, jewels, furs and finally also the yacht. By doing this she is able to survive for the rest of the year, but has no perspective for the future.. (imdb)

The secretary of the main opposition party, Enrico Oliveri, is in crisis, and the polls for the upcoming electoral competition predict his defeat. One night, after yet another protest, Oliveri vanishes without a trace. In institutional settings and party the allegations follow one other. The right-hand man of the Secretary, Andrea Bottini, and his wife Anna try to discover the reasons of his escape and the identity of a possible accomplice. Finally they turn to the twin brother of the Secretary.

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell. (imdb)

Gemma Mirtilli è un'impiegata di un'agenzia di soubrette che ha tutto per essere triste: nel lavoro viene sfruttata per 12 ore al giorno, in cui deve sorbirsi i capricci delle varie attricette e le richieste del capo Claudio Pignatti per solo un milione e sei al mese; nella vita privata ha un fidanzato, Pietro Lodigiani detto "Mummia" perché tende a non dialogare con nessuno, che la snobba per il biliardo e la pallanuoto.

Tommaso has just left his first wife but he will meet a new person who will change everything in his life. (imdb)

While on the roof to admire the Halley Comet, Professor Bellavista and his friends witness a murder taking place in a building opposite, so they decide to investigate the matter.

Behind Vatican walls, the traditionalist Pope Benedict and the reformist future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.

Valeria is a ghostwriter for a screenwriter lacking inspiration. When she gets a plot of a new film by a mysterious character, an exciting intrigue starts. (imdb)

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. (imdb)

A ten-year old boy has moved with his parents to Rome and he recounts in an essay the story of life inside and outside an enormous condominium called the "Corviale", which resembles Alcatraz, where unknown to everybody death is on the wait.

One of the world's best selling Italian writers, it is a hard character to define. Through his life he has been a boy scout, a brothel's auditor, a poet, an athletics champion, an art seller, a speed boat racing pilot, an essayist, a novelist, a philosopher, an illustrator, a photographer, a commentator, a script writer, a film director, an actor, an anchorman, a tip tap dancer and finally an engineer.

Bob and Joe are two inmates in a maximum security prison in Costa Rica. The couple manages to escape disguised as friars and take refuge in a Catholic mission led by monks. (imdb)