Best movies from Italy, 2000-ongoing, no particular order
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- DirectorGianluca Maria TavarelliStarsFabrizio GifuniErika BernardiAntonio CataniaRenato and his best friend Walter live two unsatisfied lives. The two decide that the only way they can ever change for the better is by robbing a postal van and escape to Costa Rica. Their plan would be perfect were it not for an especially determined police commissioner called Lucidi. Lucidi retraces Renato and Walter's steps and reconstructs Renato's miserable life bit by bit.
- DirectorRoberto De PaolisStarsSelene CaramazzaSimone LiberatiBarbora BobulovaAgnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother (a harsh but devoted woman and a regular church-goer) and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is a 25 year old man, with a violent temper and a difficult past behind, who works as a warden in a car park that borders with a gypsy camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a sentiment of purity, made of little stolen moments and mutual help. But when they make love for the first time, Agnese s illusion of purity is shattered. She experiences a deep sense of betrayal towards her ideals, which leads her to take an extreme decision in the hope of erasing her sin.
- DirectorDonato CarrisiStarsToni ServilloAlessio BoniLorenzo RichelmySpecial agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old's disappearance.
- DirectorMarco DanieliStarsSara SerraioccoMichele RiondinoMarco LeonardiWhen Giulia meets Libero, she discovers there may be another destiny awaiting her, as they embark on an intense period together. A choice that leads to Giulia being completely cut off from the Jehovah's Witness world she belongs to.
- DirectorSpiro ScimoneFrancesco SframeliStarsFrancesco SframeliSpiro ScimoneTeresa SaponangeloTwo Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much like to know what his friend is doing for a living but Pino will not tell him. Nunzio spends his free time the best he can in his friend's absences. He ends up falling in love with Maria, a commercial employee, whereas his health condition deteriorates...
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioIsabella RagoneseMaria Pia CalzoneVanni and Linda have been engaged for ten years, living together in central Rome. He is a writer, she is his ghostwriter.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsElio GermanoAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyValerio BinascoFausto and Nadine meet for the first time in a hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful French girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- DirectorMatteo RovereStarsStefano AccorsiMatilda De AngelisPaolo GraziosiGiulia 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.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloOlivia MagnaniAdriano GianniniAn introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsMarco LeonardiPeppino MazzottaFabrizio FerracaneThe story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsElio GermanoAlessandra MastronardiRicky MemphisThe life of a sub-proletarian boy in Rome through the Seventies and Eighties, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
- DirectorFrancesco BruniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioBarbora BobulovaStefano BrunoriThe life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.
- DirectorDenis RabagliaStarsPaolo VillaggioFrancesca PipoliMarie-Christine Barrault75-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. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloAnna BonaiutoGiulio BosettiThe story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsLuigi Maria BurruanoFranco ScaldatiPietro GiordanoIn the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsSergio CastellittoJacqueline LustigChiara ContiA celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
- DirectorGabriele MainettiStarsClaudio SantamariaLuca MarinelliIlenia PastorelliLonely, misanthropic small-time crook Enzo uses the superpowers he gained after falling into the Tiber River to chase down a crazy gangster called "The Gypsy."
- DirectorGianluca Maria TavarelliStarsElio GermanoNicole GrimaudoAnita ZagariaCenzo is a man from Bussi sul Tirino, small mountain village, who moves to big city of Pescara.
- DirectorSydney SibiliaStarsEdoardo LeoValeria SolarinoValerio ApreaA university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsLuca ZingarettiMarco D'AmoreSimona TabascoA lawyer must cross the line between law and crime to protect his family.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoAlessandro BorghiAnna BonaiutoIn a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioLaura MoranteNicoletta RomanoffThe members of a comfortable Italian family each struggle with their own secret issues and dilemmas.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsCosimo RegaSalvatore StrianoGiovanni ArcuriInmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
- DirectorStefano IncertiStarsToni ServilloMi YangGeppy GleijesesMarino Pacileo, known as "Gorbaciof" due to the prominent birthmark on his forehead, is an accountant at Poggioreale Prison in Naples. Pacileo, silent and shy, has only one passion in life: poker. He's in love with a Chinese girl called Lila and when he discovers that her father can't pay a debt incurred at the card table, Pacileo steals the money from the prison coffers and gives it to the girl. From that moment on, between losing games, collecting backhanders and committing robberies, he sets out on a slippery slope from which there is no turning back.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloRemo GironeSarah FelberbaumErnesto Bolta is the accountant of LEDA, a big agribusiness. Its founder, Amanzio Rastelli, appointed several of his relations to managerial positions and the firm decided quite lightly to think internationally and now it is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta is on the watch. He uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books. But rushing headlong will not avoid the coming catastrophe...
- DirectorAlessandro AngeliniStarsSergio CastellittoAnita KravosGiorgio ColangeliMero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloCarlo VerdoneSabrina FerilliJep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
- DirectorGiorgia CecereStarsIsabella RagoneseAlessio BoniFaysal AbbaouiA married couple's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when Lucia uncovers secrets that push her to break her usual routine.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsValerio MastandreaCristiano MorroniAlessia BarelaClaudio, age 17, has a simple aspiration: he wants to be a mechanic. His father, though, would like him to take over his small auto-wrecker company that he has built up over his lifetime.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsAngela FontanaMarianna FontanaAntonia TruppoDaisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is another trait which cloaks them in fascinating charm: they are siamese twins. They support their family with their singing like a well oiled company/entertainment machine. This idyllic situation ends when a notable English doctor sees them at a first communion in Casertavecchia. He sentences them to the possibility of a normal life when he states, "I can separate you.".
- DirectorFabio MolloStarsLuca MarinelliIsabella RagoneseAnna FerruzzoPaolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoMassimo GirottiRaoul BovaOverburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
- DirectorAndrea CostantiniStarsEdoardo LeoElisabetta CavallottiLuca WardSuperintendent Chessari is sent to run a small police station on the outskirts of Rome - a temporary posting in a difficult area, with not much backing and very few staff. His deputy, Lorenzo Corsi, is a youngster just out of the Academy, full of enthusiasm and high principles which clash with the corrupt reality of the streets and the attitude of his colleagues. The small police station seems like an outlying frontier post, a sort of backwater where recruits and hot-heads are assigned to rot. Chessari wants a quiet life, and all he does is set up a few routine operations; following suspects and tapping phones. He tries to avoid making waves that might upset his plans for career advancement. His men, however, are a bunch of loose canons, who are not intimidated by the rules or regulations imposed upon them and at times risk crossing the line of legality.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniSabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by little she remembers her childhood in a severe middle-class family, but a big secret is still hidden in her heart. Determined to bring clarity and serenity to her life, she considers contacting her brother, a University teacher in the U.S.A., to try to understand what happened in their past. What is the secret? Will Sabina finally manage to free herself from the "beast inside her heart"?
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioPaolo BrigugliaMassimo VenturielloWhen the efforts of a Philosophy teacher from the Italian Region of Puglia and his two brothers to sell an old family farm are stalled by their aggressive step-brother, the family's dark past is soon dragged into the harsh light.
- DirectorGiulio ManfredoniaStarsClaudio BisioAnita CaprioliGiuseppe BattistonNello is a recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law, many former patients were left hopeless. With the intention of improving the lives of his pupils, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities.
- DirectorEugenio CappuccioStarsFabio VoloNinetto DavoliGiuseppe BattistonEverything Lorenzo owns he has earned with great determination and without looking back. A house, envious friends, a woman who loves him, an established position, when just as he is about to undertake the business which will make him a very rich man, he suddenly is faced with his own sickness.
- DirectorValerio MieliStarsIsabella RagoneseMichele RiondinoGlen BlackhallBorn of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìStarsToni ServilloGiselda VolodiAlfredo CastroIn 1970s, the Ciraulos are modest scrap-dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside-down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their immense grief is alleviated by a huge sum of money allotted by the government. This is their chance of a lifetime to improve their conditions. What to do with all that money? The father decides to buy a Mercedes, which soon becomes the apple of his eye. Therefore, the moment he finds a scratch on it, the drama erupts..
- DirectorRoan JohnsonStarsClaudio SantamariaFrancesco TurbantiPaolo CioniSongwriter Pino Masi and two students decide to leave Pisa, Italy, during the tumultuous military coup building in the city.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuyRiccardo ScamarcioRoberto HerlitzkaThe story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValerio MastandreaMicaela RamazzottiStefania SandrelliA misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
- DirectorEdoardo LeoStarsMarco BoniniEdoardo LeoSabrina ImpacciatoreTwo estranged brothers, traveling in a classically restored Morgan convertible, are obliged to deliver their father's ashes to his hometown in Calabria. Genziano (co-writer Marco Bonini) and Mirko (co-writer/director Edoardo Leo) haven't spoken for 18 years, ever since a mysterious accident involving their mother. After the incident, Genziano immigrates to England, where he is a successful businessman, while Mirko stays in Italy working in their father's auto shop. As the brothers travel across Italy, sometimes accompanied by the beautiful and mysterious hitchhiker Cate, they learn to communicate again and fight about various family secrets. Meanwhile, in Rome, Mirko's wife develops a tender relationship with the grandfather who came from London with Genziano. A touching and funny work about sibling relations, "Eighteen Years Later" showcases the collaborative teamwork of Leo and Bonini, the picturesque Calabrian countryside, and a diverse and bouncy soundtrack.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsSilvio OrlandoFrancesca NeriEzio GreggioIn pre-war Bologna, Michele Casali's teenage daughter Giovanna kills her best friend out of jealousy. Deemed mentally unfit, she is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
- DirectorFrancesco PatiernoStarsElio GermanoLaura ChiattiMartina StellaFlorence, early seventies. Marco is a young man, he still live with his parent and has a girlfriend, Cristina. He doesn't know what to do in his life but he is very passionate about music so he starts doing the DJ in clubs and then to host a program on the radio. Despite of the success Marco is unhappy and apathetic. The lack of emotions will come true one day when he enter in a race, from that moment Marco's life will change, he begins to lose more money and he also begins to poker. Luckily it is noted by the famous producer Cecchetto that brings him to Milan for a test for Radio Deejay. Marco, all alone in a huge city starts to bet again.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsFrancesco SciannaMargareth MadèLina SastriBaaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
- DirectorAntonello GrimaldiStarsNanni MorettiValeria GolinoIsabella FerrariA look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsGiacomo RizzoLaura ChiattiGigi AngelilloGeremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsStefano AccorsiGiovanna MezzogiornoStefania SandrelliCarlo'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.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioA film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioSet mostly in his Sardinian mansion, Silvio Berlusconi's personality, politic career, scandals, relationship with his wife and ambiguous heritage are presented through partially fictional events.
- DirectorMarco MartaniStarsNicolas VaporidisGiorgio FalettiCarolina CrescentiniA climax of brutality and violence after a young man hits some cars in a rush.
- DirectorVincenzo TerraccianoStarsAntonio CataniaGiovanni EspositoRenato ScarpaHospital patients rebel against bland food and indifferent care by secretly cooking a feast for themselves.
- DirectorEnzo D'AlòStarsErica NecciDiego AbatantuonoGiancarlo GianniniMomo, a little girl, tries to save the world from the Gray Men who are intent on stealing people's time.
- DirectorMarco PontiStarsStefano AccorsiAnita CaprioliLibero De RienzoAn unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaBruno GanzGiuseppe BattistonAfter being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.
- DirectorAndrea MagnaniStarsNicola NocellaLibero De RienzoBarbara BouchetIsidoro's career as a young go-kart driver was interrupted when he began to gain so much weight he was not able to get into the seat any more. One day, his brother turns up with a job offer for him.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsValerio MastandreaGiuseppe BattistonHadas YaronEnrico Giusti works to help agencies getting out of bad management situations. The sudden death of two entrepreneurs leaves their young children in charge of the family business. This will be a huge challenge for Enrico.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMicaela RamazzottiValentina CarneluttiTwo quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.
- DirectorDuccio ChiariniStarsMatteo CreatiniFrancesca AgostiniNicola NocchiAn awkward teenage boy with phimosis deals with lack of confidence and sexual pressure from the outside world.
- DirectorPifStarsCristiana CapotondiPifAlex BiscontiInspired by real events, this is a black comedy about 20 years of history of Sicily from 1970s to 1990s, mocking Mafia Bosses and restoring the generosity of the heroes of Antimafia. It's focused on Arturo, a young boy who grows up in Palermo and tries to conquer his beloved Flora.
- DirectorRolando RavelloStarsRolando RavelloKasia SmutniakMarco GialliniWorker Agostino, one day returning to his apartment in the suburb of a big city, after the First Communion of his child, finds the house occupied by another family. Thus begins his personal battle to get it back together with his grandfather, his wife and child and with them decides to occupy the landing.
- DirectorFabio MolloStarsMiriam KarlkvistVinicio MarchioniValentina LodoviniGrazia is 17 and lives in a small town in the South of Italy. Her brother Pietro disappeared years ago; she was told he was dead and her father never wanted to talk about it. One night, after a fight, Grazia enters into the sea and sees a human figure, in which she recognises her brother. That night she decides to search for him, breaking the rule of silence to which her father has always obeyed.
- DirectorGiorgia CecereStarsIsabella RagoneseFrancesco ChiarelloAlberto BollNena, a girl from the south of Italy, has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher. She is sad, not because she has to leave her mother and sister, with whom everything is clear and sometimes difficult, but because she is having a serious love affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed: a young upper-middle class man who seems to sincerely feel the same. They promise that nothing will change between them. It is only until June and then she can ask for a transfer. And so she leaves, a little sad and a little curious about what is in store for her. But what she finds is completely different from what she imagined. It's much worse: a school isolated on a high mountain plain, wild children, people she has nothing in common with and a hostile environment. She sticks it out because of pride and because Francesco loves her for her courage, until one cold February day when everything goes wrong, everything seems lost forever... but it isn't so, it's never that bad. Nena will find this out day by day.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsToni ServilloMarco D'AmoreFrancesco Di LevaThe story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead. Instead, he was living in a little hotel near Frankfurt, with a wife and a young German son. Then, when the trains filled with waste departed from Naples, the past climbed on board. This is the story of a man who, while trying to kill a chestnut tree with a copper nail, was grabbed from behind by his past. And was forced to settle the score.
- DirectorStefano SollimaStarsPierfrancesco FavinoElio GermanoClaudio AmendolaA gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
- DirectorRolando RavelloStarsAmbra AngioliniEdoardo LeoPaolo CalabresiBea and Roberto meet at a psychoanalyst's door and an uneasy love story begins.
- DirectorAntonio ManettiMarco ManettiStarsAlessandro RojaGiampaolo MorelliSerena RossiA newly hired cop from Naples, with a past in music studies, gets recruited for a special mission as a pianist for a band close to a mob boss.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsKasia SmutniakFrancesco ArcaFilippo ScicchitanoElena and Antonio are opposites who develop an irresistible mutual attraction. They attempt to avoid it but eventually give in. Egle, played by Paola Miraccione, is a tragic yet comedic character in this relationship dramedy.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsLuca MarinelliAlessandro BorghiSilvia D'AmicoVittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRiccardo ScamarcioAngela FinocchiaroTwo brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsAlessandro PreziosiLando BuzzancaCristiana CapotondiStory in set in Sicily, 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal side, leading to intricate love affairs, difficult parental relashionship and obstacles on their way to the top.
- DirectorRoberto AndòStarsToni ServilloValerio MastandreaValeria Bruni TedeschiWhen a politician disappears, his (mad) twin brother is brought to replace him.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsValerio MastandreaBérénice BejoGuido CaprinoMassimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the death of his mother. Years later, he is forced to relive his traumatic past and compassionate doctor Elisa could help him open up and confront his childhood wounds.
- DirectorGiorgia FarinaStarsClaudia GeriniCristiana CapotondiSabrina ImpacciatoreGilda, Olivia, and Crocetta are three friends who live in a small island of Sicily, surviving however they can, being inept and provincial, but their chance soon arrives.
- DirectorLuigi Lo CascioStarsLuigi Lo CascioLuigi Maria BurruanoMassimo FoschiA man takes his ecological lifestyle to the extreme.
- DirectorStefano SollimaStarsPierfrancesco FavinoFilippo NigroMarco GialliniA look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
- DirectorMassimiliano BrunoStarsPaola CortellesiRaoul BovaRocco PapaleoAlice lives in a beautiful villa. She has a husband who makes a lot of money, a nine-year-old son, and three servants who happen to be immigrants. She is superficial, haughty, and racist. But everything changes the day her husband gets killed in an accident and the young widow finds herself debt-ridden. Forced to leave their magnificent house, she goes to live in a small apartment in a working-class neighborhood. To repay her debts she must also find work. When she gets to know Eva, a call girl who works in the town's West End, she follows her example. In parallel, during her free time, Alice meets a certain number of good people in her new area--and she feels closer and closer to one of them: Giulio.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartFilippo TimiValeria SolarinoA biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsValerio MastandreaValeria GolinoSonia BergamascoA young writer strikes up a relationship with his daughter's swimming instructor.
- DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsGiovanni CapovillaValentina LodoviniAhmed HafieneA writer's need to maintain an appropriate amount of professional "distance" from his or her subject; the journalist in question here is Giovanni, a late adolescent with a flair for journalistic correspondence.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloDenis FasoloNello MasciaThe body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsClaudio SantamariaVittoria PucciniPaolo BrigugliaThe movie is about the story of two musicians: Gianca, who plays the saxophone in a desperate attempt to follow his father's footsteps, and Nick, a trumpeter in love with Clifford Brown. They decide to create a band, and Gianca helps Nick in order to exploit his talent. Until Nick proves himself better than his friend.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónDino AbbresciaGiorgio CarecciaA young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsValerio MastandreaMarco GialliniAlessandro BorghiThe fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsValerio MastandreaGiuseppe BattistonAnita CaprioliStefano Nardini is still a punk rock musician at the age of 36. One day, as he is in a fix, he decides to leave Rome and to go back to his family in Rimini where he intends to get in touch with his inner self. However, as soon as he is back in the family house, he realizes that he is not the only one to be in trouble. And instead of being taken care of as he expected he sets about taking care of everyone and everything.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsIsabella RagoneseMassimo GhiniValerio MastandreaA brilliant recent graduate struggles to find work. After falling into a babysitting job, she is introduced by the child's mother to the world of the international call center, its employees, and the fast pace that drives them.
- DirectorFabio GrassadoniaAntonio PiazzaStarsJulia JedlikowskaGaetano FernandezCorinne MusallariAgainst a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsGiorgio PasottiFrancesca InaudiFabio TroianoThe magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.
- DirectorCarlo LavagnaStarsOndina QuadriMassimo PopolizioValentina CarneluttiAs Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRaoul BovaIsabella RagoneseClaudio works in the suburbs of Rome. He is in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. A dramatic event upsets his life. Claudio fights against an injustice. Love and support from his friends will help him to get by.
- DirectorGiuseppe CapotondiStarsKseniya RappoportFilippo TimiAntonia TruppoA chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsValeria De FranciscisMarina CacciottiMaria CalìBroke, and armed with only a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, all will be forgiven.
- DirectorAlessandro AngeliniStarsGiorgio PasottiMichela CesconGiorgio ColangeliFabio (Giorgio Pasotti), an embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsNeri MarcorèVanessa IncontradaGiancarlo GianniniNello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in Bolgna and thus produce an heir for the business. Nello stays in a guesthouse run by Arabella, a wise woman who already knows all about his situation. He shares a room with Domenico, a crafty barber from Naples. After several unsuccessful efforts, Nello meets Angela, an exuberant, beautiful young blind girl with whom he falls hopelessly in love. The girl's father and Nello's parents do not approve of the relationship, but the real problem is Angela's temperament.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsMarco GialliniElio GermanoEleonora DancoNuma Tempesta is a fascinating, charismatic, businessman at the top of his game. Driven by a ruthless, relentless need to succeed, Numa will stop at nothing to close a deal even if it means bending the law. That's until the law catches up to him and to avoid prison, Numa is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter. While there, Numa cannot conduct any business but he must close the deal of the century or lose his fortune. It will take Numa every crafty bone in his body to find a solution and he may just find it where he least expects it.