Stefano Accorsi

AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life. (imdb)

Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities. (imdb)

Director Ferzan Ozpetek returns to familiar grounds for Saturno contro, yet another exploration of love both straight and gay in the Italian capital. (european-films.net)

Blame it on Fidel is the story of a 9 year-old girl growing up during the early 70's whose quiet, middle-class life is thrown into chaos when her parents become political activists. (Gaumont)

A criminal known as The Libanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership (The Lebanese is followed by his cohorts Freddo and Dandy) take place over twenty-five years, from the 1970's into the '90's, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government... (imdb)

Andrea, 27 year old, just graduated from University with a useless degree. He spends his days looking for a job and killing time talking endlessly with room-mate Bart and Indo-Italian friend Lucia. Everything changes when he meets Dolores, a beautiful teacher and actress. (imdb)

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship - which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar - and of two young army captains who were involved in it. (imdb)

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life. (Music Box Films)

Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved because she will soon leave for studying in America. Alex gets relief in music and his friend Martino who leads what looks to him as a more complete life. (imdb)

For a gang of immigrant children living on the outskirts of a big city, an abandoned factory is a place of adventure and wonder. But their childish daydreams turn into nightmares when two girls are discovered among the ruins raped and murdered. The children unmask the culprit the local doctor but, deeming that no one will believe them, decide to take the matter into their own hands. (filmdates.co.uk)

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio. (The Last Kiss 2001, italian version) (imdb)

Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter, 15-year-old Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always rosy at Alessandro's... (imdb)

The film cuts back and forth between the story of the two teams and the rising international career of Cruciani, an ambitious referee at the highest echelons of his profession, as well as the subplot in which two cousins playing for Montecrastu are involved in a feud linked to the archaic codes of sheep breeding. (festivalscope.com)

Forty-something Irene had a dream job that made her life easy: she was indeed a luxury hotel inspector and her work got carried out in a wonderful ever-renewed setting, from Paris to Gstaad to Berlin to Morocco to China... But does a dream job necessarily mean a dream life?

A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home. (imdb)

A group of Italian university students become partisans against the nazi occupation.

The film follows the lives of a group of friends in a small Italian town during the 70s.

Darren is a charismatic but deeply insincere television presenter, whose hit show 'Tabloid TV' uncovers the darkest secrets of even the most virtuous celebrity guest. The show is a big ratings success. However, one night Darren takes part in a kinky sex game with two glamour models and he finds himself in the same position as some of his guests. (Amazon)

Giulia is a young promise of GT racing. When her life falls apart, her only hope is her brother, a drug addict and former rally champion (imdb). (imdb)

The story of a young mother (Jasmine Trinca) with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort to free herself and gain independence and right to happiness. (imdb)

A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain stranded on the island and the idyll between them seems to be over. (imdb)

Six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move the house, it won't be long before he sees in Philippe, his new neighbour, an ideal Prince Charming for his mother. (imdb)

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 June 1983, the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora is arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better. (imdb)

When Annamaria, a longtime friend of Alessandro and Arturo, ask the couple to take care of her children, the relationship between the two men reaches a point of no return. (imdb)

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as "the gentleman bandit" because he robbed banks with no violence, using only a toy gun. After a number of trials and escapes, in the summer of 1973 he is held in the Fossano jailhouse in Piedmont when he tries to escape once again. This time things turn for worse and he has to use a real gun and take two policemen as hostages. (imdb)

Follows six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape of early 90's Italy. (imdb)

At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angèle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves. (imdb)

Riko works in a cured meats factory, like his father, surrounded by more pigs than people. The real, everyday love he shares with Sarah, is in predicament. While Riko's unhappy with his job, he's lucky to be working at all, unlike several of his colleagues fired at the age of fifty. Not even going out with friends, including Carnevale, is enough to soothe the professional and existential crisis. To shake things up, he decides to drive to Rome with his friends. (imdb)

Italian drama based in the turbulent political landscape of 1990s Italy. (imdb)

Italian drama based in the turbulent political landscape of 1990s Italy. (imdb)