Nastro d'Argento 2000-2009
Nominated or awarded movies in Nastro d'Argento during the 00s
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- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsAleksandar BercekVojislav 'Voja' BrajovicBogdan DiklicRandom Belgrade citizens interact with each other in a night full of crime, frustration, betrayal and revenge.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsGianni CavinaValentina CerviCarlo Delle PianeThis is a wonderful story of a matchmaking event in Italy. Young men and women are escorted to a midsummer dance. There is a man who coordinates the proper arrangements and the mountain villages send their youth.
- DirectorMario OrfiniStarsLaura MoranteLuca ZingarettiElena Fresco
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsMichele PlacidoFrancesco PaolantoniLunetta SavinoMafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
- 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.
- DirectorAnna NegriStarsTeresa SaponangeloStefania RoccaBebo StortiImma lives in Genoa, where she and her friend Gina practice odd and disparate jobs.
- DirectorLucio PellegriniStarsLuca BizzarriPaolo KessisogluLuciana LittizzettoStefano is turning thirty in a small town in Romagna. He has a boring job, a family he loves, lots of debts and he always thinks about the good old days he spent studying in Bologna with his friend Mauro, now a lawyer. Because of an error of the bank, he suddenly receives 6 billions lire (3 millions USD) and he decides to change his life... turning back time: he will pretend to have a new job in Bologna but he will go to town every day to live the life of a grown-up student. But in Bologna he meets Antonia, leading him to a double identity.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsNicolas CagePatricia ArquetteJohn GoodmanHaunted by the patients he failed to save, a monumentally burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three increasingly turbulent nights.
- DirectorFabio SegatoriStarsGiancarlo GianniniRaoul BovaLaura MartelliAfter having lived a few years in the USA as a stuntman, Francesco returns to his home town for the funeral of his elderly parents.
- DirectorPaolo BenvenutiStarsLucia PoliValentino DavanzatiRenzo CerratoThe trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsAleksandar BalabanNenad Gajin CoceGoran Markovski GlavaA documentary about the band "No smoking orchestra"
- 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.
- DirectorPasquale ScimecaStarsMarcello MazzarellaVincenzo AlbaneseCarmelo Di MazzarelliThe real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948
- DirectorBenjamin RossStarsLiev SchreiberJames CromwellMelanie GriffithOrson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncAnna MouglalisIn Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.
- DirectorDaniele GaglianoneStarsVirgilio BieiGiuseppe BoccalatteDiego CanteriAlberto and Natalino are two old men who were partisan fighters in Piedmont during the war. Silurino was another fighter, but he fell victim to the black brigades. Natalino still lives in the mountains, in an old uninhabited village, but Alberto, a widower, spends the summer in a boarding house, where he makes friends with Umberto, an old man confined to a wheelchair. Slowly but surely, all the old memories return to the surface in all their dramatic intensity.
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiMaria de MedeirosJean RochefortAlberto Columbo is an engineer, sent on a useless mission in Melancias, an isolated village in Brazil, leaving behind Margherita, his unsatisfied, career-oriented wife.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMargherita BuySandra CeccarelliThe lively goings-on of a modern family seen through the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.
- DirectorRay LawrenceStarsAnthony LaPagliaGeoffrey RushRachael BlakeThe relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsSonia BergamascoGiorgio CaputoElisabetta CartaA young student of an acting school decides to try her natural talent for fiction in her everyday life.
- DirectorFederica MartinoStarsCarolina FellineManrico GammarotaElena BonelliA family from the wrong side of the tracks moves to Rome. 16-year-old Olivia has a hard time making friends in her new school but eventually teams up with Lilli, a great fan of the film "Grease" and its star Olivia Newton-John.
- DirectorMaurizio SciarraStarsAndoni GraciaGeorges MoustakiAdriano GianniniAs April 25, 1974 dawns, 25-year-old Marco, an Italian, and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. They are bound for Lisbon, which on that night was freed from Europe's longest dictatorship. The two are joined by Claire, Victor's former girlfriend and University classmate, who wants to take a break from everyday life (including her husband and baby son) to form again, even for a few days, a traveling trio with her friends.
- DirectorVincenzo TerraccianoStarsAntonio CataniaGiovanni EspositoRenato ScarpaHospital patients rebel against bland food and indifferent care by secretly cooking a feast for themselves.
- DirectorEmidio GrecoStarsSilvio OrlandoTommaso RagnoRenato CarpentieriIn 1782, following a storm at sea, the Moroccan ambassador's ship is wrecked against the Sicilian coast. The diplomat speaks no Italian, so Fra Giuseppe Vela, a Maltese brother, is requested to watch over him and serve as his interpreter. Actually, the monk knows only a few words of Arabic, which troubles him not at all. Quite the contrary: the sly-boots is determined to make the most of the situation.
- DirectorNina Di MajoStarsValeria GolinoValeria Bruni TedeschiFabrizio GifuniIt's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama of incommunicability.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsFrancesca d'AlojaIaia ForteSilkeAfter being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to Argentina in search of their spouses.
- 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.
- DirectorFranco AngeliStarsFrancesco SalviLivia BonifaziFranco di FrancescantonioDifficult story of Mario Gibellini, a boxer, told as if it was a boxing match: in twelve episodes.
- DirectorGiulio ManfredoniaStarsEmilio SolfrizziGioele DixFabio De LuigiThree discontent men magically switch existences with one another, each with the person he most envied, but they do not turn out to be as happy as they had hoped.
- DirectorAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiStarsAldo BaglioGiacomo PorettiGiovanni StortiAl Caruso, John Gresco and Jack Amoruso are three gangsters working for the Genovese family. However, their efforts are more than headache-inducing, and when they are given one last chance to protect the boss's aunt, she is accidentally killed and the three men are sentenced to death. They come up with a plan to sell the boss to the police and the FBI. However, Al suffers from short-term memory loss and has to be told the story by John and Jack.
- DirectorMarco FilibertiStarsLuigi DibertiFrancesca d'AlojaClaudio VanniSet in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsRupert EverettColin FirthFrances O'ConnorIn 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo GhiniBarbara De RossiRocco PapaleoFranca Malorni, a well-off widow in Rome, falls and breaks a thigh-bone during a traditional Sunday lunch with her closest relatives. During her stay in hospital we get to know better her three daughters, their husbands and daily life in Rome's upper middle class.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsFanny ArdantJeremy IronsJoan PlowrightThe last days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas.
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsValentina CerviViolante PlacidoMichele VenitucciTonino and Maddalena live very much in love in a small village in southern Italy. Maddalena's great beauty makes her the victim of the envy of her cousin Teresa, who even resorts to witchcraft to win Tonino.
- DirectorGiada ColagrandeStarsGiada ColagrandeNatalie CristianiClaudio BotossoFormer prostitute Maria restricts artistic teenage sister Catarina's freedom. Catarina pursues forbidden relationship from dance class against Maria's wishes. Sisters' dynamics, Catarina's quest for love and independence drive the plot.
- DirectorFrancesco PatiernoStarsLuigi IacuzioFederica BonavolontàFrancesco PirozziAfter ten years in jail, Matteo, returns home in order to sign some legal papers tied to the imminent death of his father. But the real reason Matteo returns is to face the ghosts of his past and to relive the episodes that landed him in prison.
- DirectorFerdinando Vicentini OrgnaniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoRade SerbedzijaGiacinto FerroIlaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international environmental scandal. Together with her cameraman, she was killed in the streets of Mogadishu in March 1994.
- DirectorEleonora GiorgiStarsOrnella MutiPaolo GiommarelliShasa Vitale1960s. Suffocated by everyday tasks, by 5 children and house duties, Anna accepts her condition and the obvious indifference from her husband with growing intolerance, but continues to work for the dream: a true happy family.
- DirectorPiero SannaStarsRoberto MagnaniElisabetta BaliaSebastian BrotzuA young recruit to the Carabinieri (the national police of Italy) is assigned to a remote village in the mountains of Sardinia, where he encounters a world that is different from anything he has experienced.
- DirectorFranco BattiatoStarsCorrado FortunaDonatella FinocchiaroAnna Maria GherardiEttore, a young child in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention.
- DirectorLuca D'AscanioStarsLuca D'AscanioMariano BartolomeuGiorgio TirabassiWhile Laura reiterates to Nicola that he is now with another, Damiana places him at home Mariano Bartolomeu, an Angolan guest. The few days of hospitality become weeks, months.
- DirectorEdoardo WinspeareStarsCarlo BruniStefania CasciaroIppolito ChiarielloTonio is a 12 year old boy who one day gets run over by a car. Before he loses his senses, Tonio sees something which will change his life. When he wakes from the coma in the hospital, he casually comes into contact with a man who is dying.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsGiorgio ColangeliAntonello FassariFabio FerrariThe camera follows citizens of Rome in mockumentary style.
- DirectorLucio PellegriniStarsJacopo BonviciniViolante PlacidoEdoardo GabbrielliniDavid, a student in Pisa who is about to pass his final exam, gets involved in an anti-globalist group.
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsSergio RubiniLuigi Lo CascioMariangela ArcieriTwo men, brothers- in-law, are on the hunt for a stolen car.
- DirectorPasquale ScimecaStarsAntonio CataniaMarcello MazzarellaVincenzo AlbaneseUSA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a journalist decide to inquire about the story.
- DirectorGiovanni MorriconeStarsClaudia GeriniPierfrancesco FavinoSabrina ImpacciatoreLorenza, an ambitious woman in her 30s, is successful in everything but love. Therefore she has the idea of renting herself a lover.
- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsAnna AmmiratiPaolo De GiorgioIda Di BenedettoDepression is paralyzing Bruno's existence. To get rid of dark evil, man, on threshold of middle age, decides to embark on a journey to discover his demons.
- DirectorEdoardo GabbrielliniStarsEdoardo GabbrielliniCarolina FellineSelenThe Cormorant is a former summer camp at the mouth of the river nearby Pisa. This is where young Mario lives. Everybody nicknames him B.B. (for Bugs Bunny) because of his teeth. Around him gravitate a range of colorful characters, all more weird than the other, but with whom he gets along. As far he is concerned, B.B. works hard with a view to earning enough money for being able some day to buy a plane ticket to the USA, where he dreams of joining an uncle who lives in New York and becoming a singer there. But one day, his American uncle returns.
- DirectorGiorgio FerraraStarsFranca ValeriAdriana AstiArmando AriostiniThe classic tale of lust, jealousy and vengeance takes on a lighter, mischievously comic tone, as two subsidiary female characters (the moralistic house concierge and a worldly-wise "actress") candidly discuss the melodramatic goings-on around them. The story - in which Tosca must save her unfaithful lover from execution by giving herself to the brutal chief of police - is told through an actual performance of Puccini's grand opera, and takes on a contemporary, ironically comic tone in the earthy, gossiping conversations between the two eavesdropping women.
- DirectorTonino ZangardiStarsValeria GolinoRodolfo LaganàNoah Lewis ScialomThirteen-year-old Giampiero is the teenage son of a decaying family. He gets to know Romana, a girl of his age, and they fall for each other. The trouble is that Romana lives in a Romani settlement set up near the block where he lives. Now, the coexistence between the travelers and the sedentary population is not without problems, so much so that violence winds up erupting. On the other hand, Romana's father is forced, to honor a gambling debt, to sell his daughter to a traveling merry go round owner. Giampiero, then decides to go in search of Romana and to elope her, as they had promised to each other...
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsSilvio OrlandoMichele PlacidoClaudio SantamariaThree workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
- DirectorCostanza QuatriglioStarsVeronica GuarrasiIgnacio ErnandesMarcello MazzarellaA coming of age story of a boy, Turi (Ernandes) and his younger sister, Teresa (Guarrasi) on an island off the coast of Sicily. Using mostly non professional actors in a neorealist style, this film creates a charming and seemingly authentic slice of village life.
- DirectorAmbrogio Lo GiudiceStarsStefania RoccaMarco CocciLuca ZingarettiReality sometimes looks more like a fairy tale. Adele and Marcello were marked by fate at birth: they were born at the same moment on April 16, 1927, delivered by their mothers just a few inches from each other. From that moment on, their lives were destined to intertwine. The narrator is Loris, their few-years-older friend, a witness of their early romance; as children they used to play bride-and-groom inside a small abandoned chapel, swearing eternal love and exchanging rubber rings made from a bicycle innertube. Not long afterwards, though, they are separated by the events of WWII, but their dream will continue, nourished by hope and memories. Their lives run parallel for years, overlapping at times by a destiny that lets them brush close to each other for a few seconds, for a few yards, or for a word or two.
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiChiara MastroianniJean-Hugues AngladeAs a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge. As Federica struggles to find meaning in her life, she wrestles with her feelings about death and responsibility. She alleviates the added weight of the haunting guilt that her wealth derives through her vivid imagination, where her reality grows wonderful and, if only fleetingly, gives her the sense that all is perfect in her world.
- DirectorFrancesca ComenciniStarsNicoletta BraschiCamille Dugay ComenciniRosa MatteucciA woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job, her firm tries all the humiliation techniques known as "mobbing". The film is based upon real cases reported by Italian unions.
- DirectorFranco BertiniStarsFlavio InsinnaEdoardo LeoDavide Lepore
- DirectorVincenzo MarraStarsVincenzo PacilliGiovanna RiberaFrancesco GiuffridaAged 18, Enzo lives with his family in Secondigliano, a poor suburb near Naples. The sudden death of his father leaves the boy with the difficult task of taking care of his mother and sister.
- DirectorAlex InfascelliStarsMargherita BuyBarbora BobulovaValerio MastandreaThe vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton.
- DirectorAnne Riitta CicconeStarsLaura MalmivaaraVincenzo PelusoDavid CocoIn the 1970s, Marja, the 20-year-old daughter of a Finnish mother and an Italian father, was a hippie. During a march for peace she got to know Fortunato, a young Sicilian, and fell in love with him. They decided to marry and start a family. For several years they lived happily in Finland with the two daughters they had, Alice and Sonia. But times became hard and Fortunato suggested that they moved to Sicily where he could find work easily. Unfortunately for her, Marja accepted...
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsStefano AccorsiBarbora BobulovaViolante PlacidoA young couple, Matteo and Emma, work in a hospital. He is working in the ambulance and she is a surgeon. In one night, their lives will change.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaGiulio AndreottiThe movie on the career of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, from the debut until the death of both. It's composed of selected passages from movies and varieties, and interviews to directors (Mario Monicelli, Mariano Laurenti, Osvaldo Civirani, Lucio Fulci), actors (Lino Banfi, Lando Buzzanca, Pino Caruso), scriptwriters (Pipolo), singers (Mario Merola, Nino D'Angelo), and to the television presenter Pippo Baudo; beyond to the close relatives of Franco and Ciccio.
- DirectorAlessandro ValoriStarsPier Giorgio BellocchioPietro TariconeMassimo Bosi3 Italian men each with their own reasons to join the army and volunteering for Kosovo are confronted with pain and suffering in a war they never will understand.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsFrancesca InaudiRiccardo ScamarcioGabriella PessionLucia loves Paolo since her childhood. When Maria, her best friend, announces the engagement with him, she can't stand the situation and decides to take action.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiKen LoachErmanno OlmiStarsCarlo Delle PianeValeria Bruni TedeschiSilvana De SantisDuring a train journey from Central Europe to Rome, characters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice. One single journey sparks many changes for many people.
- DirectorLuciano MelchionnaStarsLorenzo BalducciFrancesco VendittiMoran AtiasSix youngsters aged between 20 and 30 years old, stranded within the restricted values of a provincial city, constrained to live in an emotional void, lacking dreams and acknowledged values, brought together by their rage and feeling that they have nothing left to lose.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsAngela BaraldiGigio AlbertiClaudia ZanellaA private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
- DirectorSaverio CostanzoStarsChristo JivkovFilippo TimiMarco BalianiAndrea is an intelligent, handsome young man who seems to have everything necessary to succeed. But the worlds infinite possibilities have only confused him. In this disoriented state, he undertakes the novitiate, a period of spiritual training leading to priesthood. Within the large religious community of novices, Father Superiors and retired priests, Andrea discovers more than a simple world of semi-silence and prayer. The monastery becomes a mysterious universe where every look, every sound, reveals intrigue as the novices are encouraged to denounce one anothers shortcomings. Daily routines, rituals and readings are marked by constant surveillance and questioning, as the novices struggle to lose themselves on behalf of God. Andreas attention turns to the nervous Fausto, obviously tormented and not a strong public speaker. Andrea is also shaken by his encounters with zealous novice Zanna, who rebelliously accuses the novitiate and the Church itself of using Gods Word to gain power and influence. In comparison, Andrea begins to profoundly feel he is merely feigning faith. Despite strong support from the Father Superior, Andrea flounders on his mystical test of absolute faith. As his frustration for solid answers grows, he risks to abandon the Order like others before him
- DirectorLuis PrietoStarsRiccardo ScamarcioLaura ChiattiKaty Louise SaundersA man gets a second chance at true love.
- DirectorFrancesca ComenciniStarsValeria GolinoLuca ZingarettiGiuseppe BattistonUgo (Luca Zingaretti) is a crooked banker with a shifty hand for finances. Rita (Valeria Golino) is a by-the-books finance officer determined to bring Ugo to justice.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMichele PlacidoGiorgio PasottiAlessandro HaberA sanitary battalion of the Italian army is sent to Sorman Oasis in Libya during the African campaign in 1940. Soon, an Italian missionary living nearby succeeds in transforming the occupation by the Italian army into a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact, the entire battalion is involved in helping the local population. The war goes on with no regard to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to become a fast retreat.
- DirectorRoberto AndòStarsAlessio BoniDonatella FinocchiaroValeria SolarinoAfter witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
- 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.