Silvio Orlando
Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor. Orlando was born in Naples. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and others. He also took part to several TV series. Orlando in 1988... Read full bio →
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Aprile
1998
Sud
1993
Un altro Ferragosto
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him.
Parthenope
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
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.
Siccità
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Il bambino nascosto
A piano teacher living in a working class area allows a 10 year old boy to hide from his family in the teacher's apartment.
Ariaferma
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Lacci
Naples, early 1980’s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without love. Now, 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
The Young Pope
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
La sedia della felicità
Italian North - East . Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician. Their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead. Business is not very good so, together begin the search.
Il papà di Giovanna
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
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.
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
Dopo mezzanotte
A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman.
Opopomoz
It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a baby brother. Three bungling devils sent by Satan promise him that if he'll stop Jesus from being born—entering the Nativity scene his father built by the magic word "opopomoz" and altering the past—his brother won't be born either.
El Alamein
This WWII drama follows Pvt. Serra, a reluctant Italian student-turned-soldier in Africa. Under Lt. Fiore and Sgt. Rizzo, he battles British forces while struggling with harsh desert conditions and confusing military commands.
Bear's Kiss
A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.
La stanza del figlio
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Fuori dal mondo
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
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.
Nirvana
The main character Solo in Nirvana, a computer game developed by Jimi for release in 3 days, has gained self-awareness after a virus attack. Solo wants to be deleted. Jimi wants to find his ex.
Ferie d'agosto
Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.
La scuola
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Sud
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
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.