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Gomorra

Gomorra

Matteo Garrone 2008 2h 17m 7.5

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano.

Un giorno perfetto

Un giorno perfetto

Ferzan Özpetek 2008 1h 45m

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.

Le conseguenze dell'amore

Le conseguenze dell'amore

Paolo Sorrentino 2004 1h 40m 8.4

Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.

Respiro

Respiro

Emanuele Crialese 2002 1h 35m 6.6

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed.

Eros

Eros

Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh 2004 1h 49m 6.3

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

Mine vaganti

Mine vaganti

Ferzan Özpetek 2010 1h 48m 7.0

Tommaso 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.

Bad Boy Bubby

Bad Boy Bubby

Rolf de Heer 1993 1h 54m 7.8

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.

Fascisti su Marte

Fascisti su Marte

Corrado Guzzanti, Igor Skofic 2006 1h 40m

A handful of Blackshirts commanded by Hierarch Barbagli arrives on Mars.The planet is hostile and scarce water and food. After great discoveries, hilarious adventures and mystical visions, will the fascists be able to go back home?

Caos calmo

Caos calmo

Antonello Grimaldi 2008 1h 48m 5.5

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.

Lezione 21

Lezione 21

Alessandro Baricco 2008 1h 32m 8.0

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.

Reality

Reality

Matteo Garrone 2012 1h 57m 6.7

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.

Habemus Papam

Habemus Papam

Nanni Moretti 2011 1h 45m 7.2

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.

Il sol dell'avvenire

Il sol dell'avvenire

Nanni Moretti 2023 1h 36m

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.

L'ultima ruota del carro

L'ultima ruota del carro

Giovanni Veronesi 2013 1h 53m

The life of a sub-proletarian boy in Rome through the Seventies and Eighties, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.

Samsara

Samsara

Pan Nalin 2001 2h 18m 7.0

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

Silk

Silk

François Girard 2007 1h 47m 5.0

Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a married French smuggler whose perilous and solitary travels lead him to the strange and captivating new world of the west to collect his materials.

Smetto quando voglio

Smetto quando voglio

Sydney Sibilia 2014 1h 40m

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.

Veloce come il vento

Veloce come il vento

Matteo Rovere 2016 1h 59m 7.0

Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she partecipates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood

Daniele Vicari 2012 2h 7m

A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.

L'ultimo bacio

L'ultimo bacio

Gabriele Muccino 2001 1h 55m 6.3

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding.

Magnifica presenza

Magnifica presenza

Ferzan Özpetek 2012 1h 45m

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Mia madre

Mia madre

Nanni Moretti 2015 1h 46m 7.0

A director shooting a film while her mother is dying in the hospital.

Tmavomodrý svet

Tmavomodrý svet

Jan Svěrák 2001 1h 52m 7.5

Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF.

È stato il figlio

È stato il figlio

Daniele Ciprì 2012 1h 30m

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.

L'amico di famiglia

L'amico di famiglia

Paolo Sorrentino 2006 1h 42m 8.3

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend".

L'ultimo terrestre

L'ultimo terrestre

Gian Alfonso Pacinotti 2011 1h 40m 7.3

The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist man with only the desire solitude and routine.

Smetto quando voglio: Ad honorem

Smetto quando voglio: Ad honorem

Sydney Sibilia 2017 1h 37m

Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.

Made in Italy

Made in Italy

Luciano Ligabue 2018 1h 40m

Riko is an honest man, who can count on a group of real friends and a wife who, between highs and lows, he loves forever. But he is also a very angry man with his time, which seems to be punctuated only by backlashes and false starts.

Piove

Piove

Paolo Strippoli 2022 1h 33m

In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.

Radiofreccia

Radiofreccia

Luciano Ligabue 1998 1h 52m 10.0

April 24, 1993: it's the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, an independent radio station closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age. Bruno, one of its founders, begins to tell its story, the story of a group of friends—especially troubled Freccia's—and a period of their youth in their small hometown.

L'imbalsamatore

L'imbalsamatore

Matteo Garrone 2002 1h 41m 8.8

A solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.

Ten Canoes

Ten Canoes

Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr 2006 1h 30m 7.0

In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.

The War Zone

The War Zone

Tim Roth 1999 1h 38m 7.8

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Baciami ancora

Baciami ancora

Gabriele Muccino 2010 2h 19m 6.5

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

La valle dei sorrisi

La valle dei sorrisi

Paolo Strippoli 2025 2h 2m

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

Ricordati di me

Ricordati di me

Gabriele Muccino 2003 2h 5m 6.7

A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.

Tre piani

Tre piani

Nanni Moretti 2021 1h 59m

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Da zero a dieci

Da zero a dieci

Luciano Ligabue 2002 1h 39m 5.0

Giovanni, Libero, Biccio e Baygon stanno partendo per il weekend, hanno lasciato impegni, famiglie problemi e responsabilità a Correggio e stanno andando a Rimini; luogo che già conoscono ma di cui hanno solo un ricordo lontano: un weekend dell'estate 1980.

La profezia dell'armadillo

La profezia dell'armadillo

Emanuele Scaringi 2018 1h 39m 5.0

A twenty-seven year old guy from a peripheral Roman suburb lives a very normal but very repetitive life, but he also find his critical conscience in the form of an Armadillo with whom he has conversations bordering on paradoxical during which he updates him on what’s happening in the world.

Pranzo di ferragosto

Pranzo di ferragosto

Gianni Di Gregorio 2008 1h 15m 7.3

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly frequent quiet sessions at the local tavern. As an Oriental saying goes, 'Moments of crisis are moments of opportunities'.

Smetto quando voglio: Masterclass

Smetto quando voglio: Masterclass

Sydney Sibilia 2017 1h 53m

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

Alexandra's Project

Alexandra's Project

Rolf de Heer 2003 1h 43m 8.0

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

Dust

Dust

Milcho Manchevski 2001 2h 7m

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her.

Tickets

Tickets

Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach 2005 1h 49m 6.0

A train travels across Italy toward Rome.

Dance Me to My Song

Dance Me to My Song

Rolf de Heer 1998 1h 41m

The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After the arrival of a mysterious man, Julia begins to question the day-to-day dramas and frustrations she's tolerated for years.

I for India

Sandhya Suri 2005 1h 10m

Drawing from 40 years' worth of film footage and tape recordings her father sent to family members in India, filmmaker Sandhya Suri crafts a personal history that also explores the experiences of Indian expatriates.

Primo amore

Primo amore

Matteo Garrone 2004 1h 40m 8.0

Vittorio, a goldsmith looking for his perception of beauty, meets Sonia and manages to convince her to lose weight to an unhealthy degree.

The Forgiveness of Blood

The Forgiveness of Blood

Joshua Marston 2011 1h 49m

A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister’s dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder.

The Monkey's Mask

The Monkey's Mask

Samantha Lang 2001 1h 33m 3.0

A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.

The Quiet Room

The Quiet Room

Rolf de Heer 1996 1h 32m

A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.