Italian terrorism
Films about the 'leaden years' and political violence in Italy
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- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsDonald SutherlandGiancarlo GianniniStefania RoccaOne of the main players in Italian politics, Aldo Moro, gets kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. One judge finds evidence that sheds dangerous new light on the case.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsCarlo De FilippiNicoletta BraschiToni BertorelliA film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino Pelosi, the street kid who was found guilty of the murder. The trial becomes a metaphor of the Italian society in the 1970s.
- DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsGian Maria VolontèMattia SbragiaBruno ZaninThe story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFausto RossiLaura MoranteEmilio is a clever and introverted teenager who lives with intolerance the confidential relation between his father Dario, a left wing university professor, and his former student Giulia. When Sandro Ferrari, Giulia's lover, is killed at a roadblock, Emilio tells the police how the young man used to go to their home.
- 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.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMariangela MelatoDelphine SeyrigAurore ClémentMichele is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsFlavio BucciMicaela PignatelliAgnès NobecourtSvitol has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsClio GoldsmithVittorio MezzogiornoYves BeneytonWho is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She shares his destiny right up to its unexpected conclusion.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartAnna MouglalisPierfrancesco FavinoSet in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
- DirectorFranco BerniniStarsFrancesca NeriClaudio AmendolaEnzo DecaroDr. Martinelli is a young psychoanalyst who is treating Dario Campisi, and a surprising truth emerges from the latter's stories during psychoanalytic sessions.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèMarcello MastroianniMariangela MelatoParty leader and power broker M. is holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansing.
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsLina SastriRossana PodestàGiulia BoschiYoung terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
- DirectorMimmo CaloprestiStarsNanni MorettiValeria Bruni TedeschiValeria MililloProfessor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself.
- DirectorMarco TurcoStarsMassimo BellinzoniEnnio FantastichiniIsabella FerrariBy all appearances, Dario leads a lush life in Paris: his sweetheart is stylish, his daughter is appealing, he's successful in business, and he has a circle of Italian friends in town. Beneath this veneer is a violent past and fear of discovery: a life suspended. Peeling away this veneer inadvertently is Dario's younger brother, Jacopo, who idolizes a brother he hardly knows, visits Paris, asks questions, and learns about his brother's terrorist past. What does Jacopo now make of his brother, and how do Dario and his circle respond to Jacopo's presence, especially when one of their number is arrested and when an ID card of Jacopo's indicates he may be a cop?
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsValerio MastandreaPierfrancesco FavinoMichela CesconA chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
- DirectorLuigi Maria PerottiStarsIda PeciRoberta PeciAlberto FranceschiniIn 1980 Patrizio Peci was a leaders of Red Brigades (left wing terrorist organization). His brother Roberto was a normal worker fascinated by Red Brigades political project. When Patrizio was arrested, he started to cooperate with the State, destroying his Organization. Red Brigades answered kidnapping Roberto. They wanted to punish Patrizio so, they forced Roberto to admit in front of a camera that he was the traitor and they killed him. It was the first media action made by terrorists. Ida, the sister, tried to save Roberto. After 26 years she decided to tell her story.
- DirectorMassimo PirriStarsLuc MerendaLou CastelAndrea FranchettiAbout a group of terrorists trying to execute their mission. A human drama dealing with the double lives lead by the terrorists and the emotions they must deal with in order to achieve their goal.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaruschka DetmersFederico PitzalisAnita LaurenziA sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsKim Rossi StuartDino AbbresciaDario D'AmbrosiRimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?
- StarsVinicio MarchioniAlessandro RojaMarco BocciThis crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
- DirectorGiovanni BonfantiPier Paolo PasoliniStarsEdoardo Di GiovanniMarcello GentiliAugusto LudovichettiOn December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969, Pinelli was seen falling to his death from a fourth-floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
- DirectorAndrea ManniStarsDaniele LiottiRoberto CitranFrancesca De SapioThe story of an innocent man accused of a murder. At one moment his stable life turned into a never-ending nightmare. Sufferings,physical and mental pain, humiliation, ruining of all his hopes and dreams, the loss of his true love, his parents, his country.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsFrancesco NutiAlessandro BenvenutiAntonella PonzianiFrancesco De Bernardi is the chief commissioner of the homicide squad. He has a no-global child who challenges him.
- DirectorGuido ChiesaStarsMarco LuisiTommaso RamenghiClaudia PandolfiThis documentary-style film takes place in Bologna, Italy. The Radio Alice program began on February 9, 1976. The radio station used an ex-military transmitter. They were mao-dadaists. The government wanted to have early elections. THere were many political problems. The main characters needed jobs, so they got an illegal job of digging a tunnel beneath buildings. They eventually got caught when one of the boys ran out of the tunnel and a cop saw him. They were almost done digging the tunnel. Anyone could come in and talk about whatever they wanted on Radio Alice. The creators did not want the channel to be affiliated with politics or to play mainstream music. They wanted to let creativity flow. The feminists took their own time slot on Radio Alice. During a protest, the police killed a fellow college student. The students set everything on fire. The protesters believed that they had to work too much. The carabinieri (Italian military police) shut down the station on March 12, 1977. This film was based on the 1977 protest.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsAlessio BoniMichele PlacidoIsabella FerrariGiorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police inspector, and after giving away former comrades, he obtains a reduced jail sentence. Once released from prison he obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way to it is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist and murder...