Italian success

A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie.

North of Italy, 1944. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of a local teacher, will change the course of everyone's life.

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at ...

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of ...

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American ...

Italy, from the '80s to the present day, told through the life of four friends – Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, and Riccardo – during 40 years of loves, aspirations, ...

The love story between Clara and her children, in 1970s Rome.

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy ...

Four circus freaks with superpowers find themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied Rome after their owner and father figure goes missing in the aftermath of ...

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In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class wife and mother dreams of a better future.

Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant ...

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family ...

Everyone knows Karl Marx. But do you know his daughter?

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a ...

The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday ...

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A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist. At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave ...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, ...

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

On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond heist ...

Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money ...

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.

Cheyenne, a retired rock star, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II. Cheyenne ...

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention ...

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Margherita is ...

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car accident, although nobody seems to notice. He's also a water polo player and, during an away match ...

The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist ...

Een mysterieuze man kan wensen in vervulling laten gaan, maar in ruil daarvoor wordt een opdracht toegewezen. Een ogenschijnlijk willekeurige groep vreemdelingen ...

Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows ...

The true story of Gavino Ledda, son of a Sardinian shepherd, who escapes his harsh existence by educating himself, despite brutal opposition from his father. The ...

Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education.

Paolo Virzì's French-Italian tragicomedy The Overjoyed was nominated twice for the European Film Awards.

Fellini's autobiographical movie about struggling with writer's block and one's conscience.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an ...

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal ...

A young German boy faces the problems of a tough life in immediate post WWII Berlin. Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the ...

Life stories cross, while Rome is occupied by the Nazis. Pina loves Francesco, a clandestine printer. Manfredi is the leader of the Roman resistance movement. ...

Jep, a charming 65-year-old journalist, returns wistfully to the passions of his lost youth and pens a complex portrait of Rome.

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge ...

In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne has arrived from France, declaring herself ...

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, engulfing the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Susie ...

With quiet humor and delicate poetry, Alice Rohrwacher tells the fairy-tale story of an unusual saint in times of social upheaval.

The night of the shooting stars, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it and the Americans are on their ...

The loneliness of prime numbers.

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker, traveling from Boston to The Ernest Hemingway Home ...

The Joyces are an English couple who have gone to Italy to sell a recently inherited property near Naples. The coldness of their relationship is enhanced ...

Lorenzo, a quirky teen loner who has difficult relationships with his parents and peers, decides to take a break from it all by hiding.

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes ...

Chinesische immigrant Shun Li feels lost in Venice. Then she befriends Bepi, an immigrant from eastern Europe, who over the years has learned the ropes ...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral ...

A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.

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 ...

Une femme mariée à un industriel rompt avec son amant, mais une ancienne maîtresse de celui-ci la menace de tout dévoiler et commence à la faire chanter. Irene ...

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In six short episodes, Rossellini characterises the liberation of Italy after WW2 in one of the great masterpieces of Italian Neorealism. Paisan is the ...