Best from Italy, 1990-1999, no particular order
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- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsTim RothPruitt Taylor VinceMélanie ThierryA baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiPaolo BonacelliA kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsFrancesco BenignoAlessandra Di SanzoRoberto MarianoYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsSilvio OrlandoSabrina FerilliEnnio FantastichiniThe political and cultural controversies between two Italian families during their summer holidays in the Tirrenian sea.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsSilvio OrlandoAnna GalienaFabrizio BentivoglioIt is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs: the pupils are not really diligent and the teachers give their worst both from a working and personal point of view.
- DirectorLeone PompucciStarsPaolo VillaggioDiego AbatantuonoMarco MesseriFour waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist who must decided whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a luncheon for the new owner, the waiters must prove their worth to save their jobs.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsSergio CastellittoAnna GalienaAlessia FugardiAn epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
- DirectorGuido ManuliMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiAngela FinocchiaroMariella ValentiniMartina is a professional lady whose clients are harmless if eccentric; she sees herself as a social worker. Shy Maurizio dubs sound for cartoons while his outgoing brother dubs more saucy material and gets the girls. After Maurizio accidentally helps Martina on some of her assignations she decides to find out if he wants to help regularly. Whether or not it's the possibility of romance, Maurizio is horrified to find on their first date that his hands have been replaced by cartoon ones with minds of their own.
- DirectorEmidio GrecoStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRicky TognazziReturning from abroad to Sicily, a former diplomat informs the police about a strange discovery he has just made. The next day, police inspector Lepri comes to the man's place and finds him dead. Has he committed suicide? While conducting his investigation, Lepri happens to suspect his own commissioner - Meanwhile, a train comes to a stop somewhere in the countryside because of a malfunctioning signal. A motorist decides to alert the station master but he too is found dead, as well as another railway agent. For the police, the driver cannot but be linked to those mysterious deaths.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsValerio MastandreaCaterina CaselliBenedetta MazziniWalter is 20. He hasn't got a job, a girlfriend or any clear convictions. He rejects conventional values, notably his father's submissive acceptance of a life working in a factory as well as a social life, including sex (he is, self-consciously, a virgin). An on-and-off philosophy student, he'd like to be a committed nihilist but is too insecure. 'All Fall Down' paints a picture of Walter as he weakly tries to find his independence.
- DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsDiego AbatantuonoRoberto CitranMarco MesseriItalia, 1994. Franco e Loris are two friends that decide to steal a stud bull. The bull is worth a lot. Their idea is to immediately leave Italy and try to sell the bull in Hungary. But east Europe is not exactly what they were expecting. The troubles, the miseries and the reality of the countries they are crossing change step by step their minds. The new way of thinking will drive them to a new kind of friendships.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsMarcello MirandaCarlo GiordanoPietro ArciadiaconoPaletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJeremy IronsLiv TylerCarlo CecchiAfter her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoLaura MoranteFabrizio BentivoglioTwo actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
- DirectorWilma LabateStarsClaudio AmendolaSilvio OrlandoFrancesca NeriA terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? It's what the Army official who's taking him to the woman is thinking. And will the woman meet him? She's not sure of her own will.
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiovanni StortiGiacomo PorettiThree friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsMassimo BoldiIsabelle PascoGianni Cavina
- DirectorMaurizio ZaccaroStarsMichele PlacidoStefano AccorsiMariangela MelatoIn June 1983, journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora is arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
- DirectorFulvio OttavianoStarsDaniele LiottiFrancesca SchiavoValerio MastandreaSergio has a degree in botanics but he cannot find a job. While he tries to get one, following the techniques written in a 'mistake-free' book, his life gets shaken by his noisy room-mate Enzo and the announcement that his former girlfriend Rita is getting married.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsTommaso BiancoRenato CecchettoMarina ConfaloneDuring the Christmas celebrations, a surprising announcement takes a family by surprise and threatens to break the delicate balance that regulates the familial relationships.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsFrancesco PaolantoniMassimo GambaccianiPiero GremigniThree factory workers who lose their jobs when their employer closes shop decide to join forces and open an ostrich ranch, in hopes that ostrich meat will find favor on Italian dinner tables.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsGiulio ScarpatiGene GnocchiMargherita BuyThree young people, three stories. Stefano is a jobless graduate and has recently lost his girlfriend. Giulio is a divorced plumber, has a fifteen year-old daughter and he's seeing Martina, younger than him. Lucia is a waitress in a pub and lives with a two bit singer. One night Giulio saves Stefano from suicide and takes him home. Lucia is betrayed by her man and gets the sack. Stefano stays at Giulio's home and tries to learn to be a plumber; while Lucia decides to become a call girl. One day Lucia calls up the other two to repair a broken tap and Stefano begins to think of her and falls in love, not knowing about her "job", while Giulio is abandoned by Martina.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsBurt YoungFabrizio BentivoglioValeria MililloItaly 1935: Vittorio works in a matrimonial agency, and although the agency is closed for summer vacations, he tries to find an Italian wife for an American man. At last he finds a suitable girl, but a surprise is awaiting for him.
- DirectorEnzo MonteleoneStarsStefano AccorsiGiovanni EspositoEmilio SolfrizziThe 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.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneMargherita BuyGiancarlo DettoriA neurotic writer's life is turned upside-down when he meets by chance an actress with psychological disorders while he's working on a Jimi Hendrix biography.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsClaudio AmendolaRicky MemphisGianmarco TognazziThe "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before.
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiElena Sofia RicciAmanda SandrelliWhat would it have happened if...? Italian director Maurizio Nichetti replies to this question in this humorous film, where he plays six different roles who meet one another in a way or another during a night.
- DirectorFrancesco BarilliGiuseppe BertolucciMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsPhilippe NoiretOrnella MutiBruno GanzA collection of tales set on the Adriatic coast.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoCarolina FreschiThe rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
- DirectorAntonietta De LilloGiorgio MagliuloStarsCarla BenedettiSilvio OrlandoLuigi PetrucciMatilda is an unlucky girl: her boyfriends keep dying in strange accidents. The last of them, Torquato, a shy filing clerk, is a little afraid of this situation and doesn't know how to continue the relationship.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorAlessandro BenvenutiStarsAthina CenciIlaria OcchiniCarlo MonniThe film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue.
- DirectorRoberto CimpanelliStarsCecilia DazziCarlotta NatoliPaola Tiziana CrucianiFilm about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsMarco AdamoDaniel AlegiAlessandro AnzillottiThe "adventures" of a group of teenagers in a suburb of Rome. Fifteen-year-old Lorenzo makes up a tall story about one of their friends who, according to him, is dying of cancer. The other kids, touched by the awful lot of their pal, decide to send a prostitute to his place so that he can sleep with a woman before kicking the bucket. Two years and a half later, the "vitelloni" have grown up but have they grown wiser?
- DirectorSergio CittiStarsSilvio OrlandoPatrick BauchauRolf ZacherThree tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
- DirectorFrancesco CalogeroStarsRoberto De FrancescoMassimo RealeAmanda SandrelliGiovanni, a young boy who left for Bolzano from Sicily to perform military service, arrives five days in advance and is forced to stay outside the barracks before the official day of the convocation.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVincent PerezEmmanuelle BéartMassimo TroisiEn route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsValerio MastandreaMarco GialliniGiorgio TirabassiA former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in the 1980s Rome.
- DirectorPasquale PozzessereStarsFabrizio BentivoglioClaudio AmendolaArnaldo NinchiWhen Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained silent.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoValeria GolinoClaudio BisioBank employee Mario happens to witness a murder and has to fear for his own life. He leaves Milan and settles in Mexico where a pair of drifters befriend him as they all commence to travel through the country.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoValentina ScaliciGiuseppe IeracitanoAntonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsAntonella CostaCarlos EchevarríaEnrique PiñeyroIn the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One of the tenants, Felix, has a non-corresponded crush on Maria. When the teenager is abducted in her house by the Argentinean army accused of subversion, her mother seeks her out in the 23rd Precinct where one of the military without uniform tells her that they are heading with Maria. While Diane desperately tries to find information about her daughter, Maria is submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo.
- DirectorAlberto SimoneStarsTchéky KaryoNino ManfrediIsabelle PascoLorenzo, a milanese astrophysicist, has recently inherited a country house in Sicily and has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts his job with the help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be very slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them and finds out that Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first he's very angry but then his good heart prevails.
- DirectorSilvano AgostiStarsPaola AgostiDario BallantiniGiulia BoschiBruno Wolkowitch is the bullet man who works two days a week at the Togni circus and lives an important love story with his assistant Ewelyn, all around the protagonists of circus life with their stories and their weaknesses.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsGiulio ScarpatiMargherita BuyRoberto CitranMarco works as an accountant in his family car hiring agency; when his brother disappears, he begins a journey through Italy searching for him together with Elena, who has been his brother's girlfriend.
- DirectorAurelio GrimaldiStarsFrancesco CusimanoTony SperandeoLuigi Maria BurruanoBrutal film about the exploitation of a young Italian boy, who is virtually sold to the operators of a sulphur mine where he is beaten and sexually molested.
- DirectorPaolo BenvenutiStarsStefano BambiniLucia BartaliniMarcello BartolomeiSet in 1736 Rome, two Jews refuse to renounce their faith in the face of torture and death.
- DirectorAlessandro BenvenutiStarsAlessandro BenvenutiEva RobinsAndrea BrambillaLeo has a marriage crisis. Fortunately he has to go to another town for work. In the new town he's followed by a mysterious person. One day he has collapses and gets first aid from the mysterious person. He awakes at home and realizes that the mysterious person is his cousin Giulio, who he has never met for many years, and has become... ...Giulia, a very charming girl.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsPaolo VillaggioMassimo CeccheriniVittorio RapDuring the Allies liberation of Tuscany in 1944, a former boxer organizes rigged matches to make some money.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsEnrico Lo VersoMichele PlacidoPiro MilkaniImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
- DirectorMaurizio ZaccaroStarsTom GallopCara WilderDon PearsonRather than waste the funds and logistical skill it took to film the movie "Bix" in Davenport, Iowa, Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati wrote and produced this unassuming English-language melodrama to make full use of their unusual location. This film tells the story about a young man, Irving, who returns to the house where he grew up - just after the death of his father, whose reputation got destroyed by the suicide of a young woman he had an affair with. Irving left his small-town home a long time ago, after breaking off relations with his father, who was capable of all kinds of wrongdoing. In particular, Irving's old man got a girl pregnant and didn't even begin to do the right thing by her. Now that the old coot is dead and he is the sole heir, Irving has come back to town determined to right past wrongs, and see to it that the girl's family benefits from his legacy. The young man soon gets obsessed by the house and the past of his dad... "Dove Comincia la Notte" is a film in the tradition of overtly subtle horror films like the beautiful "Un Sussurro nel Buio" from 1976, where no manifestation of the supernatural ever happens, yet the main characters are so haunted by a past event that they won't be able to escape in the end.
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiovanni StortiGiacomo PorettiAldo, called Bancomat, has been detained for two years and four months in the San Vittore prison for forgery of credit cards.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsEdoardo GabbrielliniMalcolm LunghiRegina OrioliThe story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, over the background of Livorno's neighborhood Ovosodo.
- DirectorGiacomo CampiottiStarsFabrizio BentivoglioGiancarlo GianniniIgnazio OlivaGabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge.
- DirectorLuciano LigabueStarsStefano AccorsiLuciano FedericoAlessio ModicaLooking back at stories and myths of an Italian small town in the mid-70s.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFanny ArdantAntonio CataniaFrancesca d'AlojaA multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.
- DirectorEnzo D'AlòStarsCarlo VerdoneAntonio AlbaneseLuis SepúlvedaA dying seagull entrusts her egg to a cat named Zorba, who promises three things: he won't eat the egg, he'll care for the egg, and he'll teach the baby seagull to fly.
- DirectorStefano RealiStarsValerio MastandreaAntonio CataniaEmanuela RossiThe thirty year old Massimo is admitted to a hospital in Rome for a knee ligament operation. Luigi, his roommate, has been in the hospital for years for some wrong operations.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsDiego AbatantuonoSilvio OrlandoValentina CerviA bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which rapidly goes from bad to worse are the ingredients to this very funny and unpredictable caper flick. Sad sack Domenico is an unemployed man who decides to rob a Turin bank and then to travel north to Switzerland with his loot. But things don't work out that way: For the heist is messy and he ends up with the tall, patrician Tommaso as his hostage. Tommaso, a businessman who is on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly takes over and convinces convincing Domenico to, instead, head south, get help from a friend of Tommaso and sail off to Egypt. But the plan soon unravels, as Domenico discovers that the friend, Orfeo, is actually Tommaso's lover and a policeman to boot. The odd couple is now the odd triangle and when Tommaso's grown-up daughter decides to come along as well, the likelihood of poor Domenico getting out of the country becomes more and more complicated.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsGiorgio PasottiBarbora BobulovaClaudio SantamariaMatteo is a twenty-year-old who is impulsive and hardly committed to his studies. He and Margherita fall in love. She is a young, strong Slavic woman who is older than him and who has already taken her place in the world of work. However, Matteo's insecurity ruins this potentially very beautiful love story. His jealousy transforms itself into a morbid obsession. Things are getting worse and worse at school too. Is everything sliding down towards a tragic epilogue?
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniMichel BlancNicoletta BraschiAfter a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsKim Rossi StuartBoris TerralKassandra VoyagisA look at Jesus Christ's life, from his childhood to the meeting with the Apostles, focusing on his compassionate human side.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFabrizio BentivoglioRocco PapaleoIn the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching.
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsSergio RubiniGiovanna MezzogiornoCarlo MucariOn September 2nd, 1636, Porzia Maria Colonna leaves the Atri Convent. She has to reach her betrothed and she is escorted as the hazards are many. In fact, after a bandit assault, the survivors are only three: Porzia, a Captain and Bortolo, a groom. Later the captain too is killed. Porzia and Bortolo begin then an adventurous journey, a journey not only in a dangerous and unknown territory, but also a journey into their respective ways of thinking and conceiving life. A journey which will take them so close by, that at the end, Porzia will ask Bortolo to go with him. Bortolo will refuse, aware of the impossibility of the thing in the society of the time. The seeds of knowledge, however, spread during the long journey will bear fruits.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsClaudio BigagliGalatea RanziMichael VartanWhile traveling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted 200 years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean, but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta's brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt, and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis--the cursed. The children's grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse--but will he pass it on to them?
- DirectorLeone PompucciStarsCarla BenedettiMatteo FaddaGiacomo FaddaA Roman tenement block, 1961: Sandrino waits for the total solar eclipse, fugitive Caligiuri returns to his wife, the Rossi brothers are obsessed with the legacy of their dying father, a family waits for the results of an eye operation.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMarcello MastroianniMichèle MorganValeria CavalliMatteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsSilvio OrlandoNanni MorettiGiulio BrogiCesare Botero (Nanni Moretti) is a young minister well-known to be corrupted and corrupter. He is looking for an appropriate spokesman. He finds the right person in Prof. Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando). Sandulli is a very good and polite person, he is positive and full of hopes, but unluckily his economic position is disastrous. So he immediately accepts the new job. He has to write all the speeches of the minister, and soon became a sort of mentor. In fact his first impact with Rome and his politician world is positive, Sandulli is really convinced the young minister want really change the situation working for the common interest. But step by step, nevertheless his economic and familiar situation gets a lot of benefits by his new job, he enters in a world in which intrigues and corruption are the only laws. The honest Sandulli will react trying to resist to the cynic world of Botero. He will come back to his students.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGiancarlo GianniniMassimo GhiniAnna FalchiThe difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just-ended WWII.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLuigi DibertiArnaldo NinchiMassimo BellinzoniDuring the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsCarlo CecchiAnna BonaiutoRenato CarpentieriNaples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of the PCI and its employees to the University, he lives his life with disenchanted posting.
- DirectorAntonio CapuanoStarsNando TriolaGiovanni BrunoPina LeoneVITO AND THE OTHERS is the groundbreaking film which drew international attention to the problem of neglected youth and street crime in poverty-stricken Naples. The film's opening moments are startling and deeply disturbing. A despairing Rosario has just murdered his wife and daughter at the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Somehow, Vito quietly convinces his father to drop the gun, spare their lives and call the police. Placed in the custody of sexually abusive relatives, Vito is left free to roam the trash-strewn back streets of Naples where he and his friends engage in drug abuse, prostitution and petty crime. Ably acted by a large cast of nonprofessional street kids, VITO AND THE OTHERS is a heartrending portrait of innocents without a future.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsFabrizio BentivoglioValeria Bruni TedeschiMaya SansaRome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsCarlo CecchiStefano DionisiArnaldo NinchiA seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they'd never met.
- DirectorGiuseppe M. GaudinoStarsOlimpia CarlisiTina FemianoSalvatore GrassoPozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; the oracles of the Sibilla Cumana; the young Christian martyr Artema, killed by his classmates; Maria 'the crazy', a warrior heroine who saved the city from enemies. But next to the past is the present. In the early seventies, the phenomena of bradyseism flare up in the gulf. The Gioia family, which lives on fishing, is forced to leave the house several times because of the risk of a sudden landslide. Repeated moves lead to the progressive disintegration of the family unit. The difficult relationships sentimental of the children, the opposition to the public force that orders the eviction, the death of the father are so many stages that mark painful generational and existential passages.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsSergio CastellittoTiziana LodatoFranco ScaldatiA photographer and the types of people he encounters.
- DirectorAlessandro Di RobilantStarsGiulio ScarpatiSabrina FerilliLeopoldo TriesteThe true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsVincenzo AmatoJessica Whitney GouldAnjalee DeshpandeAntonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree romantic tryst with a wealthy art dealer. When he falls in love with Ellen, a strong-willed radio talk-show host who is set to move to Paris within a few days, he decides he must find a way to keep her from leaving. Meanwhile, Antonio's friend Apu faces a love challenge of his own. Apu is a young Indian-turned-New Yorker who was sent from his homeland with his family's life savings to find the American dream of success and fulfillment. He works hard at odds jobs-- from being a guinea pig in a drug-testing lab to dubbing porno films. Then his life is completely uprooted on the day his pre-arranged wife from India arrives in New York--the woman chosen by their families when they were children, one he hasn't seen since he was 8 and she was 4. Apu is caught between the old world and the new--trying to find love and happiness within the confines of his pre-determined destiny. The film is about what happens when cultures clash--about expectations and reality, dreams of love and money, and life when the timing is way off.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaValeria GolinoAngela MarraffaA study of the friendship between two contemporary Italian women. One is a pharmacist from the affluent North East, while the other is an impoverished shop assistant living in the South East.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsMaggie SmithJudi DenchJoan PlowrightAn orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsGiancarlo GianniniEmmanuelle SeignerStefania SandrelliAfter his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiRenato CarpentieriAntonio NeiwillerDirector Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- DirectorRoberta TorreVincenzo NavarraStarsCiccio GuarinoEnzo PaglinoMimma De RosaliaShot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women.
- DirectorEnzo D'AlòStarsDario FoMary Tyler MooreLella CostaA group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioAntonella FattoriIvano MarescottiSet in Milan in 1989, this is the story of four people - an expert in market research, a nurse, a university professor and a pharmaceutical researcher - whose destinies intertwine through a lost diary in a city which seems, by its very nature, unsuitable for establishing human relationships.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRenato CarpentieriA principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsFrancesco GiuffridaEnrico Lo VersoFabrizio GifuniTurin at the end of the fifties: two brothers have emigrated there from Sicily and the older works very hard to let the younger study and free himself from poverty through culture. The boy however is not keen on school and would like to begin to work. When after some time he gets his degree however things take a violent and dramatic turn......
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsJulian SandsCharlotte GainsbourgMassimo BonettiYoung nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly interrupted by visitors hearing rumours that Sergio possesses miraculous powers, and by women who bet each other that they can successfully seduce him...
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsGiampiero LisarelliRicky MemphisGiorgio TirabassiA pack of bored youths kidnaps two young German tourists with the help of an older criminal. They decide to rape them. Sylvia, the older of the two girls, decides to sacrifice herself to spare her friend Marion. Nevertheless, violence keeps increasing.
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsFlavio PistilliFederico Di FlauroPaolo SettaThe story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsMichel PiccoliAsia ArgentoLino CapolicchioIn Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue. She also has a bruised history: her mother's suicide, her brother's mental illness. Ada, a dog-owning client, hires her to follow Ada's aged and courtly father every day. The dad, a retired philology professor, has a touch of dementia, sometimes forgetting where he is; Cora is to keep him in sight, phoning Ada if the professor has difficulties. On the third day, he takes a train out of Rome, and Cora follows on what proves to be a journey into her best and worst selves. She becomes his traveling companion, but what does he become to her?
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsEmmanuelle LaboritRoberto HerlitzkaLaura MoranteSicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During her 20s she is instructed by a French tutor, which teaches her philosophy and all the new ideas that tour around Europe. She also has to manage, after Pietro's death, a relationship with her servant's brother (and following scandal). In her mature age she finally discovers and understands the terrible secret behind his handicap.
- DirectorGianluca Maria TavarelliStarsLorenza IndovinaFabrizio GifuniLuciano FedericoTwenty years of the relationship between a man and a woman. We start in the present, as they are both married to other people and are having an adulterous affair with each other. Then we move to their first date and from there chronologically through their good and bad moments, break-ups and reconciliations.