Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈnanni moˈretti]; born 19 August 1953; Brunico) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. The Palme d'Or winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His films have... Read full bio →
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Il sol dell'avvenire
A film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife.
Tre piani
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Mia madre
A director shooting a film while her mother is dying in the hospital.
Girlfriend in a Coma
Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West.
Habemus Papam
A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.
Caos calmo
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia.
Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.
Il caimano
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini.
La stanza del figlio
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Aprile
Nanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.
Trois vies et une seule mort
Raoul Ruiz’s enthralling thriller is made up of four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Il giorno della prima di Close Up
At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.
Caro diario
Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life.
Il portaborse
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Palombella rossa
La crisi ideologica della sinistra italiana durante la fine dei due blocchi, giocata sulla perdita di memoria del protagonista, metafora sull'identità perduta da parte del vecchio Partito Comunista Italiano.
La messa è finita
Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends.
Bianca
Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work.
Sogni d'oro
Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares.
Ecce bombo
Michele, Mirko, Vito e Goffredo, quattro amici ex sessantottini, stufi di spendere le serate in maniera inconcludente al bar, decidono di affidarsi all'autocoscienza per risolvere le proprie insoddisfazioni.
Padre padrone
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
Io sono un autarchico
Abandoned by his wife, who leaves him their child, Michele, a former '68 student protester with little going on in his life, struggles to be a good father. In the meantime, he spends his time acting in an experimental theater company directed by his friend Fabio.