Italian

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

Peppino Impastato, an activist in 1970s Sicily, used radio to defy the mafia's reign. His bold defiance led to his murder by the mob, exposing society's silence on organized crime.

A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.

When a politician disappears, his (mad) twin brother is brought to replace him.

Giacomo meets Giovanni, his former best friend with whom he quarreled three years before. Giovanni persuades him to go visit their third friend Aldo, who is dying in Sicily; flashbacks tell their story: Aldo was the phantom in operas, Giacomo was dubbing films in which he only made noises, and Giovanni worked as a living department-store mannequin. Unsatisfied with their careers, they try to stage their own show but women troubles separate them.

A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front.

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.

An Italian professor seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of an old building.

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

Claudio works in the suburbs of Rome. He is in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. A dramatic event upsets his life. Claudio fights against an injustice. Love and support from his friends will help him to get by.

The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.

Vittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.

The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.

Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.

A former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

In 1970s, the Ciraulos are modest scrap-dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside-down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their immense grief is alleviated by a huge sum of money allotted by the government. This is their chance of a lifetime to improve their conditions. What to do with all that money? The father decides to buy a Mercedes, which soon becomes the apple of his eye. Therefore, the moment he finds a scratch on it, the drama erupts..

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Two brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Palermo in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Salvatore Giammarresi's life revolves around school and his first love, his sister's escapades and his parents' dreams. But the shadow of the Mafia and its crimes hangs over everything.

A coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Italy.