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- DirectorHernán BelónStarsLeonardo SbaragliaEva De DominiciErica BanchiRamón Alvia is a professional boxer who, although he has won several international championships, is old and is at the end of his career. He resists. In the gym, Ramon discovers among the young boxers Deborah, a beautiful girl.
- DirectorMatteo RovereStarsAndrea BoscaMiriam GiovanelliClaudio SantamariaIn this taboo drama, Mete must fight against his inappropriate attraction to his 17 year old half sister, who has just moved in to his flat in Rome.
- DirectorCiro SorrentinoStarsSam GittinsMino SferraEllie PoussotA young Londoner scientist, running experiments with his father in a quiet Italian village, has to face consequences for choices he hasn't made yet.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMarisa ParedesAngela FinocchiaroThe five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsLudovico GirardelloKseniya RappoportGalatéa BellugiThree years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be what Michele thinks.
- DirectorTerence HillStarsTerence HillVeronica BittoGuia JeloWhen Thomas takes his Harley into the deserts of Spain for a little solitude and contemplation, he meets Lucia, a young woman in trouble. Though her antics are constantly disruptive, it is through her special spirit, ultimately, that he finds the enlightenment he was looking for.
- DirectorSimone GodanoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioAlessandro GassmannJasmine TrincaTwo families are brought together for a surprise marriage - between their patriarchs.
- DirectorAlessandro GenovesiStarsDiego AbatantuonoMonica GuerritoreSalvatore EspositoAntonio's finally found the love of his life, Paolo, with whom he lives happily in Berlin. Even if still not sure about their families' reactions, they decide to get married in Italy, in the small village from where Antonio's parents live.
- DirectorAlessandro GenovesiStarsFabio De LuigiValentina LodoviniAngelica ElliWhat happens if an always-present mother decides to leave for 10 days, leaving the three children with a father who was practically absent until then?
- DirectorAlessio LiguoriStarsJamie ChristofersenDavid BailieSonya CullingfordPhilip, a solitary proof reader, is trapped in his apartment, too afraid to leave and tortured by an unknown evil force that has kept him prisoner for the last two years.
- DirectorDuccio ChiariniStarsMatteo CreatiniFrancesca AgostiniNicola NocchiAn awkward teenage boy with phimosis deals with lack of confidence and sexual pressure from the outside world.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsPaola CortellesiMicaela RamazzottiEduardo ValdarniniBest friends Lucia and Maria have known each other from the beginning of their lives, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men; Maria can never be without one. One night the perfect man shows up in Maria's bed: handsome, sensible, mature, and passionate. The next morning brings up misunderstandings and lies that split up the two friends and make them take a break from each other. Maybe that young man met by chance is really the one every woman seeks, because with his simple theories he manages to paint the perfect picture of the two women's lives.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsJakob DiehlOrso Maria GuerriniYuliya VysotskayaThe life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
- DirectorGiulio De SantiTiziana MachellaStarsVictoria HopkinsLucy DriveSarah T. CohenAngela's daughter, Annie (aka "Little Red"), mysteriously disappeared, but the police never found her body. While the mother begins to shed light on the mystery, a religious cult ruled by a matriarch known as the Grandmother, is leaving a trail of blood and carnage in its wake. The further the mother delve into madness, the deeper the doubt burrows into her mind: is Annie alive? This is the most gory, and twisted Slasher you have ever seen: this is not a fairy-tale.
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsCarol AbboudHadi Bou AyashMoustafa FahsA young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
- DirectorMarco PontiStarsRiccardo ScamarcioLaura ChiattiMichele PlacidoNinella's daughter wants to marry Damiano. Her dream never became reality and history may repeat itself when her daughter Chiara and her chosen one find themselves involved in a whirlpool that may compromise their marriage as well.
- DirectorSergio ManfioStarsJohnny Yong BoschCherami LeighBryce PapenbrookA young Leonardo Da Vinci helps his friend Lisa recover her father's farm after his barn and crops are destroyed by a fire, and they set off in search of a fabulous treasure.
- DirectorGiulio De SantiTiziana MachellaStarsRayner BourtonRoland StoneJade MatthewHaving been slain by the Mistandrian Cultists, Frank is lost in a special level of Hell: Hotel Inferno. Frank must now collect the five elements that comprise the human soul so that he can return to Earth and reclaim his body.
- 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.
- DirectorMaria Sole TognazziStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMonica BellucciKseniya RappoportA man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.
- DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsClaudio SantamariaValeria GolinoDiego AbatantuonoWhen his estranged father, a singer, unexpectedly shows up the mentally challenged Vincent decides to secretly join him on his concert tour, and the baffled father takes him from Italy to Slovenia and Croatia.
- DirectorAntonio AlbaneseStarsAntonio AlbaneseAlex FondjaAude LegasteloisMario Cavallaro wakes up every morning in the same way, in the same house, in the same district in the same city, Milan. He has just turned 50. Mario loves order, accuracy, timeliness, respect, the decoration, a low voice, staying every one to his place. His life is divided between the socks shop he inherited from his father, and a vegetable garden, unique passion known, put in feet on the balcony of her home. With his fear of change, imagine if his old bar is sold to an Egyptian and if in front of his shop arrives Oba, a Senegalese seller of socks. Enough is enough-and for Mario, the solution is simple and neutral at the same time: "Put things in place." So he decides to kidnap Oba and take him back home, from Milano to Senegal, one way. At the bottom, deliberation, if all they do the migration issue would be solved simply set the navigator. But then this paradoxical road trip becomes terribly more complicated, because Oba agrees to his "deportation" provided that Mario drive him with his sister Dalida. Will there be serious troubles or-or the beginning of a new unexpected harmony?
- DirectorMax CrociStarsLuca ArgenteroSarah FelberbaumGiampaolo MorelliShe's a divorce lawyer, single mother and perpetually at war against men, he is a couple's therapist, single and not looking, they meet and collide in a bourgeois and romantic Rome...
- 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.
- DirectorVicente FerrazStarsDaniel de OliveiraFrancisco GasparJúlio AndradeThe unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsMargherita BuyLuca ZingarettiGoran BregovicOlga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsValeria GolinoAdriano GianniniArianna ScommegnaTeo has a good job, a fiancee, lovers, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. The meeting with Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
- DirectorStefano CipaniStarsAlessandro GassmannIsabella RagoneseRossy de PalmaJack has always wanted a little brother to play with, and when Gio is born, his parents tell him his brother is a "special" child. That's when Gio turns into a superhero with amazing powers in his big brother's imagination, like the ones in his comic books. Over time, however, Jack learns the truth: his brother has Down syndrome, a condition Jack decides to keep secret. When he goes to high school and falls in love with Arianna, he hides Gio's very existence from her and his new friends. But how can you expect someone to love you if you conceal such an important part of yourself? In no time, the truth comes out, and Jack realizes that Gio's energy and vitality are contagious. Gio's original outlook does indeed change the world, just like a superhero.
- DirectorAlessio Maria FedericiStarsRaoul BovaLuca ArgenteroCarolina CrescentiniPietro is a handsome, recognised and well accommodated Surgeon in its mid 40s. After a fatal accident from which he remains uninjured, doctors diagnose almost full amnesia. He does not remember his ex wife, daughter or brother. the latter is the chosen one to take care of him while struggling against his 4 year old behavior and his discovery of the world
- DirectorEdoardo Maria FalconeStarsElio GermanoFabio De LuigiDaniela VirgilioGiacomo, an extravagant and rich heir, strongly believes in reincarnation. Forty years after the loss of his father, he believes to see him in Mario Pitagora, a man far from being spiritual, interested only in money and heavily in debt.
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsMohammad BakriLior MillerHend AyoubA Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- DirectorNina Di MajoStarsMargherita BuyFabio VoloLuciana LittizzettoA single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.
- DirectorAlessio Maria FedericiStarsEnrico BrignanoVanessa IncontradaGiulio BerrutiChiara is looking for a man able to remedy her frigidity but a misunderstanding leads her to Orazio, a dreamer who has not had a relationship in years.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMassimo GhiniRicky MemphisMartina StellaWhen the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
- DirectorSergio CastellittoStarsRiccardo ScamarcioJasmine TrincaAnna GalienaGaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to where they are now.
- DirectorMarco PontiStarsValentina LodoviniAlessandro PreziosiVinicio MarchioniNina is an uncompromising idealist. She believes in what she does and is convinced that she can fight for a better world. Giulio is a wealthy, arrogant heir and pretty much her polar opposite. The two cross paths and their conflicting beliefs begin to change as they fall for each other.
- DirectorMaria Sole TognazziStarsMargherita BuySabrina FerilliFausto Maria SciarappaMarina and Federica have been together for five years now, they share the same apartment, bed, face cream, they laugh, they fight, but even so sometimes they are not sure if they're a couple or not.
- DirectorAlessio Maria FedericiStarsEnrico BrignanoAmbra AngioliniAnna GalienaJacopo is a very unlucky man, untill he meet Sara at a wedding party. And then his whole life changes. And so hers. Especially hers.
- DirectorIvan ZucconStarsDebbie RochonMichael SegálMarysia KayPietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
- DirectorFrancesco CarnesecchiStarsFrancesco PannofinoAlberto Di StasioGiorgio ColangeliThe next ninety minutes will change their lives, forever.
- DirectorSimone SpadaStarsValerio MastandreaMarco GialliniAnna FerzettiGiuliano and Tommaso have been friends for over thirty years and now the four most difficult days of their friendship await them.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsPaola CortellesiStefano FresiFrancesco MuraDuring the day Paola is an ordinary primary school teacher, but at night, she turns into The Christmas Witch, a magical creature who brings gifts to the good kids.
- DirectorFabio De LuigiStarsVittoria PucciniGiovanni EspositoAlessandro GenovesiAntonio, a representative of medical supplies with no success, finds a brilliant way to present himself to the costumers and improve his sales: the special tiramisù (an italian dessert) made by his beautiful wife Aurora.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsChristian De SicaCarlos Alberto VallesMassimo BoldiFabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers of Rome which, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks to have scuppered the plan to capture a secret agent.
- DirectorVincenzo AlfieriStarsFabio De LuigiEdoardo LeoGiampaolo MorelliA group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
- DirectorGuido ChiesaStarsDiego AbatantuonoMatilde GioliFrancesco FacchinettiIn the lead of the family comedy, we are watching award-winning actor Diego Abatantuono. Rich businessman Vincenzo realizes that he is not very interested in his children. But they are children who can not afford themselves economically. Vincenzo wants to prevent this, aims to give his children a chance to make their lives by making bankrupt number.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsChristian De SicaEnrico BrignanoLucia OconeThe Tucci family discovers that they have not really lost all their money and, refusing to pay Italian taxes, decides to turn Torresecca into a tax haven, relying on a post-Italian unification bureaucratic oversight.
- DirectorGiacomo CiminiStarsKathleen ArchebaldSusanna SattaRoberto DavideThis evocative chiller from director Giacomo Cimini follows the fortunes of a young 12yr-old girl named Jenny (Francesca). Abandoned in Rome by her careless mother, Jenny has to fend for herself, with only her friend George (Simone) to help her. But their plans soon turn evil, with Jenny and George unleashing some diabolical activities on the citizens of the Italian city, with much bloodletting ensuing.
- DirectorMarco BechisStarsClaudio SantamariaAlicélia Batista CabreiraChiara CaselliWhen a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields, tensions escalate.
- DirectorAlessandro GenovesiStarsClaudio BisioFrank MatanoValentina LodoviniA romantic professor Guido is left by his love - his life seems to be pointless. A physical education teacher, his former student tries to help him to go back on track, convincing his parents to move to Naples to be closer to Guido.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsLino BanfiAnna FalchiGiorgio Alfieri
- DirectorBodo KoxStarsOlga BoladzPiotr PolakSebastian StankiewiczA janitor in Warsaw stumbles upon a time-traveling device in his apartment and gets stuck in the past while the woman he's been seeing looks for him.
- DirectorEmanuele De SantiStarsJade MatthewCarol BoltAshleigh WhitfieldMary's mistake was to ignore a group of performance artists (The Crows) in the street. Tormented and alone in her home, Mary quickly learns that The Crows' art is crafted in blood and terror.
- DirectorMassimo GaudiosoStarsFabio VoloSilvio OrlandoNando PaoneResidents scheme to secure a factory contract for their remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, which is on the verge of collapse.
- DirectorFederico MocciaStarsVeronica OlivierBeatrice FlamminiFlavia RobertoCaro and her teen girlfriends fantasize all things love. But not all is butterflies and farytales.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsSergio RubiniAnouk GrinbergTom NovembreAntonio is a man who was born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth make him an outcast from his peers as a child, and he attempts more than once to break off the offending choppers.
- 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.
- DirectorIvan CappielloMarino GuarnieriAlessandro RakStarsMassimiliano GalloMaria Pia CalzoneAlessandro GassmannCenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsDaniela IoiaEnzo BuonomoDaniele BaseliceThis particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.
- DirectorIvan CotroneoStarsValeria GolinoCristiana CapotondiLuca ZingarettiNaples,1973. Peppino is nine, comes from a large family and has an older cousin, Gennaro, who thinks to be Superman. But when Gennaro dies, Peppino's imagination rewrites reality and brings him back to life, as though his cousin really were the superhero he said. And it is thanks to this imaginary friend that Peppino manages to face up to the vicissitudes of his life. With Cristiana Capotondi.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsPierfrancesco FavinoValerio MastandreaRocco PapaleoThe band of musketeers; D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis and Athos, portrayed in a purely self-ironic and disenchanted key, in a series of adventures in order to save King Louis XIV.
- 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.
- DirectorBrini AmerigoStarsDanny CutlerAlex LucchesiAlex SouthernThieves face home invasion, discover basement lab experiments, and must escape before infecting mutated psychopaths with a new virus.
- DirectorFrancesco FalaschiStarsVinicio MarchioniValeria SolarinoLuigi FedeleA well known chef who has been in prison for anger issues, and who has met a young student with Aspergers while doing his community service sentence, teams up with the teen for a culinary competition.
- DirectorSilvio MuccinoStarsSilvio MuccinoAitana Sánchez-GijónCarolina CrescentiniSasha is a boy in his twenties, deeply loving the beautiful Benedetta, who doesn't seem to recognize his existence. Nicole is a French woman in her forties, living in Rome with her husband. They casually meet and start a friendship which becomes a sentimental education foe the boy.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsChristian De SicaMassimiliano TortoraBarbara TabitaCarlo and his second wife Susanna meet Giorgio, Carlo's brother, with his wife Marta, who is also Carlo's first wife.
- DirectorMassimiliano BrunoStarsPaola CortellesiAlessandro GassmannFabrizio BentivoglioThe drama about a woman that gets fired because of his pregnancy and deals with a difficult financial and familiar situation.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMarco LeonardiJuan LeyradoJulieta DíazThe life of the former football player Diego Armando Maradona is recreated in this film, from his childhood up to his first heart attack and his firm decision of recovering himself, passing through his stage of largest football glory when he was awarded with ten titles. This helped him to be chosen, in 2000, as the best athlete in the century, in a vote promoted by the FIFA.
- DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsSilvio OrlandoGiuseppe BattistonKasia SmutniakTo avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
- DirectorEmanuele ScaringiStarsSimone LiberatiValerio ApreaPietro CastellittoThe narrative, adapted from a graphic novel created by Zerocalcare, is weaved around the protagonist's relationship with an imaginary armadillo that represents his fears and insecurities.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLaura MoranteRita TushinghamBurt Young"The Hideout" is a mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
- DirectorRolando RavelloStarsAmbra AngioliniEdoardo LeoPaolo CalabresiBea and Roberto meet at a psychoanalyst's door and an uneasy love story begins.
- DirectorGerard DiefenthalStarsGerard DiefenthalBarbara BouchetAnna OrsoIn 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
- DirectorAlessandro AronadioStarsEdoardo LeoMargherita BuyGiuseppe BattistonTo save his B&B from failure, Massimo decides to turn it into a place of worship, creating a new religion.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsLibero De RienzoValentina LodoviniMichele RiondinoThe story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsLuigi Lo CascioSandra CeccarelliSilvio OrlandoAntonio is a lonely man who works as a driver of luxury cars. Outside of his work, he spends his time reading science fiction novels, and, especially by night, driving through the streets of the city. One night he meets Maria, a lonely woman, and her daughter Lisa. He manages to enter in their life, and starts to take care of them. He discovers that Maria owes a lot of money to an usurer, and starts to pay her debts, but without letting her know of this. He dedicates with total abnegation to Maria, up to the point of losing his job, but she seems to remain indifferent to his love. Until...
- DirectorChristian De SicaBrando De SicaStarsMassimo BoldiChristian De SicaRegina OrioliCesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers that Luciana is seeking a caregiver to look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the job.
- DirectorBeda Docampo FeijóoStarsDarío GrandinettiSilvia AbascalAnabella AgostiniA look at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, form his early childhood days in Argentina to his becoming Pope Francis.
- 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.
- DirectorLuca FacchiniStarsLuca MarinelliValentina BellèElena RadonicichA biopic on the personal and artistic life of Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André.
- 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.
- DirectorEdoardo LeoStarsRaoul BovaMarco GialliniEdoardo LeoA 40 years old man who loves to party and have fun with women discover to have a daughter from an old one night relation.
- DirectorAlessandro RakStarsLeandro AmatoNando PaoneRenato CarpentieriA taxi driver who lives in Napoli spend his time on his uncle's car thinking about happiness. His former brother took a road for happiness practicing Buddhism while he is always sad and melancholic. He listens to a radioshow called the art of happiness as a remembering idea of what is the goal of life. Do we have just one life or are we living again and again forever?
- DirectorCarmine AmorosoStarsEduard GabiaLuca LionelloChiara CaselliCover-boy (low-budget film shot in the Sony digital HDV format and transfert on 35mm. feature film) is the story of the friendship between Ioan (Eduard Gabia) and Michele (Luca Lionello) respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth. In the background of this rapport between a simple Romanian youth and his marginalized Italian counterpart, there is a West which on one side is still reeling from the collapse of the Communist ideology and on the other, in the clutches of a Capitalist myth which has increasingly assumed, as it propulsive force, harsh competitiveness and an intensification of social inequality. The film tells the story of their shared experiences on the fringes of a prosperous city, tormented by their landlady (Luciana Littizzetto) and it illustrates how the savagery of a daily dog-eat-dog struggle for survival can be opposed by the bonds of genuine friendship. Ioan's encounter with a famous photographer (Chiara Caselli), and his misjudgment of an exploitive sentiment for love, will ultimately bolster his friendship with Michele and guide him to the final destination of his on-going quest.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLuca ArgenteroViolante PlacidoNeri MarcorèMattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsFabio De LuigiLaetitia CastaValentina LodoviniLawyer Francis and veterinarian Claudia have been good friends for a long time. There are no secrets between them--until John arrives and Claudia decides to marry him. Francis realizes that friendship between a man and a woman is more complicated.
- DirectorEdoardo De AngelisStarsLuca ZingarettiMarco D'AmoreSimona TabascoA lawyer must cross the line between law and crime to protect his family.
- DirectorAntonio PadovanStarsGiuseppe BattistonRade SerbedzijaLiz SolariThe film follows Inspector Stucky investigating a series of murders and the theatrical suicide of Desiderio Ancillotto, a count who lives in the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in a story that recounts the conflict between greed and respect for the land.
- 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.
- DirectorSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeStarsSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeMassimo PopolizioA thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
- DirectorMassimo VenierStarsAlessandro TiberiValentina LodoviniCarolina CrescentiniIn Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
- DirectorGiulio De SantiStarsMino BoniniMassimo CaratelliMaurizio ZaffinoBarabba must save his brother from a life of crime, no matter what the cost. Meanwhile, Massimo's wife is killed in a snuff film. Unified by violence, Barabba and Massimo's destinies are on collision course.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsVincenzo SalemmeAmbra AngioliniRicky MemphisA family by surprise! Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father! They'll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father's favorite lake in Arizona! Accepting the challenge, these newfound family members ("mai stati uniti") set out on a journey full of hijinx and comic adventures in the Stati Uniti d'America. What a quintet! Antonio, the gambling addicted waiter; Angela, the panicky divorcee; Nino, an unemployed mechanic; Carmen, a shopaholic; and Michele, who grew up at a zoo.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsAlba RohrwacherElio GermanoGiuseppe BattistonLucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsStefania MontorsiGiampaolo MorelliMartina MerlinoWhen 30-year-old Stefania breaks up with her boyfriend Andrea, little does she realize what the summer has in store for her. She winds up on vacation at the Greek resort 'Isle of Love' with her 15-year-old niece. Unfortunately, her teenage niece has something more than sun and surf on her mind; she decides that this Mediterranean paradise is where she will finally lose her virginity. However, in an ironic twist, the cute guy she has her eye out on turns out to be none other than Andrea, her aunt's ex-boyfriend. This light-hearted "comedy-of-errors" is a valuable lesson in what being a woman means at any age.
- DirectorDaniel BurmanStarsDaniel HendlerHéctor AlterioEnrique PiñeyroIn 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?
- DirectorClaudio RisiStarsBruno ArenaRaffaello BalzoAnna Maria BarberaWhen a young Italian girl from a modest background falls in love with a man from a wealthy family, there are problems as both families object and try to protect their loved ones.