Silvio Orlando

Infused with humor, intelligence, and passion, After Midnight is a masterful homage to the silent movie era. Ferrario's daring visual choices and unconventional storytelling make for a charming celebration of love and cinema. (Avatar Films)

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)

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)

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby. (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.

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work. (imdb)

World War II Bologna-set drama chronicling a father's love for his troubled daughter. When young Giovanna (Neri) kills one of her friends in a fit of rage she is committed to a mental hospital. At the cost of his wife, Giovanna's father promises to remain as close to her as possible. (list.co.uk)

Antonio is a lonely man who works as a driver of luxury cars. Outside of his work, he spends his time reading science fiction novels, and, especially by night, driving through the streets of the city. One night he meets Maria, a lonely woman, and her daughter Lisa. He starts to take care of them. He discovers that Maria owes a lot of money to an usurer, and starts to pay her debts without letting her know. (imdb)

The main character is Andrew, a writer who one day sees his face and his sister (Jasmine Trinca) in an old photo. Nicholas is a young policeman (Riccardo Scamarcio), and his sister Laura is a nice girl who takes part in the extraction Catholic protests and marches for peace. Another leading figure is Free (Luke McConaughey), worker of Fiat in Turin.

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)

Luigi is a successful businessman who married into a wealthy family and eventually became CEO of his father-in-law's company. He has a spoiled teenage son Matteo and an attractive younger lover. During a trip to his home town in Calabria, southern Italy, Luigi learns of the plight of his young relative, Rosario, father in jail and mother dead, presumably killed by the Mafia.

"The passion" tells the story of a group of assorted people, bound together by the most unlikely (and, in some cases, unfortunate) circumstances, who find themselves busy staging the tale of the passion of Christ on a Good Friday in a Tuscan village, an old tradition that is still alive all over Italy. (imdb)

Light comedy about two strereotyped Italian families.

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 controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in Ventotene, a tiny island in the Tirrenian sea. Too many political and cultural differences divide the two groups. (imdb)

Ambientato nell'inverno del 1996, racconta la storia di un professore di lettere in crisi e della sua classe. (wikipedia)

A bunch of hopeless unemployed occupy a polling place during general election in Italy to protest and report the mafia affairs of Mr. Cannavacciuolo. He is candidate and is setting up a fraud to be elected anyway. Lucia, his daughter, is taken as hostage by the group. The unexpected action manages to get the attention of the media, and the people starts supporting the group till the police intervenes with heavy manners. (imdb)

The inspector Monaco (Silvio Orlando), tired of his work since the death of his wife, devoted himself for many years only to administrative tasks. Following the murder of Mr. Ullrich, an entrepreneur closely linked to political life, one night his manager imposes, however, deal with the case that it soon becomes very delicate. The same night in the rooms of the police station also enters Linda, his daughter, who was stopped because it found in possession of his service revolver. (wikipedia)

A bank robber and his hostage form a strange alliance during their escape through Italy.

A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be choosen. (Imdb.com (Adalberto Fornario))

From Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Academy Award®-winning 'The Great Beauty,' 'The Young Pope' tells the controversial story of the beginning of Pius XIII's pontificate. (HBO)

Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful. An Italian remake of canadian "The Grand Seduction (2013)" which is also a remake of french-canadian "La grande séduction (2003)"

A terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? (imdb)

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)

Upcoming follow-up series to Paolo Sorrentino's "The Young Pope."

Captain Vinciguerra has the opportunity to finally see his merits recognized. But the arrival of his son, convinced pacifist, suddenly changes his plans. (mymovies.it)

A marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome over a long period starting in the 1980s (IMDb).

Gloria is a young waitress who works in a restaurant and dreams with open eyes. (imdb)

The last remains of a prison, guards and a few inmates, are waiting to be transferred and gradually the rules seem to make less and less sense and the waiting men become a new fragile community. (imdb)

It hasn't rained in Rome for 3 years. Regulations and customs change as a group of intertwined characters deal with the water shortage. (imdb)

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)

Parthenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth? (imdb)