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- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValerio MastandreaMicaela RamazzottiStefania SandrelliA misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsRiccardo ScamarcioNicole GrimaudoAlessandro PreziosiTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMatilde GioliValeria Bruni TedeschiThe destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsMargherita BuyStefano AccorsiSerra YilmazAfter a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband's friends and finds the truth about his life.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiRoberto BenigniIris PeynadoIn the 80s, two friends misteriously wake up in the XV century and clumsly try to intermingle with the society of the time.
- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsNino ManfrediAnna KarinaPaolo TurcoItalian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorGennaro NunzianteStarsChecco ZaloneGiulia MicheliniDino AbbresciaA Southern Italian singer moves to Milan to have more chances with his career, bringing a little bit of the South with him.
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsDino AbbresciaMino BarbaresePaolo SassanelliA couple of criminals look for a little box full of drug, all around Bari
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsSergio RubiniLuigi Lo CascioMariangela ArcieriTwo men, brothers- in-law, are on the hunt for a stolen car.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioLuigi Maria BurruanoLucia Sardo"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about the Mafia, and several politicians maintained that the Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this conclusion. Note: This is a true story. More than twenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.
- 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.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteJasmine TrincaA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
- DirectorRocco PapaleoStarsAlessandro GassmannPaolo BrigugliaMax GazzèA music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
- DirectorGennaro NunzianteStarsChecco ZaloneNabiha AkkariIvano MarescottiChecco is an immigrant from Southern Italy living in Milan, in the North. After failing his exam to join the Italian gendarmerie, he's hired as a security guard at Milan's Cathedral, but is spotted by Muslim extremists.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsGiorgio FalettiCristiana CapotondiNicolas VaporidisA group of Italian friends is preparing for their final exams.
- 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.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRiccardo ScamarcioAngela FinocchiaroTwo brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsElio GermanoMichele RiondinoChiara CaselliA promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.
- DirectorDaniele GaglianoneStarsValerio MastandreaBassirou BalldeMamon BhuiyanThe ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, truth and artifice, and between documentary and drama, Gaglianone has created a film within a film. You see the apparent artifice of Gaglianone's crew using professionals, including the noted film actor Valerio Mastandrea as the teacher, interlinked with 'real' immigrant protagonists, studying the language to improve their chances of employment and of gaining a permanent residence permit. Thus in the course of the lessons there is simultaneously the painful and upsetting relation of the students' personal stories but also humour, as they interact and share their humanity, bridging cultural differences, united in their striving to make a better life for themselves.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsStefano AccorsiStefania MontorsiGiorgio PasottiDuring World War II four Italian university students in Veneto join the resistance against the Fascist government.
- StarsSimone CorrenteGianni FerreriRoberto NobileLife and work in a police station of Rome. The chief of the station, Giovanna Scalise, has arrived in town after a long period passed in the city of Palermo, Sicily, where she fought against mafia. Now she catches criminals with the help of Mauro (the crazy guy of the group), Manrico (the cool one), inspector Ardenzi (who is married with Angela, the psychologist of the station), Parmesan (the old one) and the young Nina (who loves the handsome Benvenuti). Distretto di polizia is a TV series of action, sometimes dramatic, sometimes happy, with a peculiar attention to human affairs.
- 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.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniJohn VernonTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
- 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.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsGiuseppe BattistonAnna FogliettaMarco GialliniSeven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
- 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."
- DirectorGennaro NunzianteStarsChecco ZaloneEleonora GiovanardiSonia BergamascoChecco was born into privilege in a small Italian town with a guaranteed job as a public servant. When a new reformist government vows to cut down on bureaucracy, Checco is forced to accept worsening conditions.
- DirectorEdoardo LeoStarsLuca ArgenteroEdoardo LeoAnna FogliettaSergio, Fausto Diego and Claudio have to struggle against Camorra in order to open an agritourism.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsClaudio SantamariaJennifer UlrichElio GermanoA reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsEdoardo GabbrielliniMalcolm LunghiRegina OrioliThe story of Piero from childhood to fatherhood, over the background of Livorno's neighborhood Ovosodo.
- 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.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsGeoffrey RushJim SturgessSylvia HoeksVirgil Oldman, a wealthy art auctioneer, takes the help of a young artificer, Robert, to understand and woo Claire Ibbetson, a young heiress, who hires him to auction off an antique collection.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsElio GermanoMargherita BuyVittoria PucciniThe only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way. He comes Rome and starts to work in a bakery. At first, he stays with his cousin, Maria , but then he rents a house. But he is not alone there.