Released Date:
2008-12-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1016 Reviews)
Director:
Gabriele SalvatoresGenres:
DramaNiccolè Ammaniti (novel)
Niccolè Ammaniti (screenplay)
Antonio Manzini (screenplay)
Gabriele Salvatores (screenplay)
The story of the relationship between a neo-Nazi and alcoholic man, Rino Zena and his 11-year-old son Cristiano. They live on the margins of the society in a town in North Italy. Their only friend is Quattro Formaggi, a mentally ill man with whom they kinda form a surrogate family. A dark, long night of rain, lighting and desperation will change their lives forever.
Released Date:
2009-05-20
Languages:
Italian, German
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (4306 Reviews)
Director:
Marco BellocchioMarco Bellocchio (story)
Marco Bellocchio (screenplay)
Daniela Ceselli (screenplay)
The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
Released Date:
2009-10-09
Languages:
Italian, Spanish
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2898 Reviews)
Director:
Giuseppe CapotondiAlessandro Fabbri
Ludovica Rampoldi
Stefano Sardo
Guido (Filippo Timi), a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport), a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn. As Sonia's murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble. Everything in her life begins to change - - questions arise and answers only arrive through a continuous twist and turn of events keeping viewers on edge until the film's final moments. THE DOUBLE HOUR, winner of Best Actress at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival, is directed by Giuseppe Capotondi.
Released Date:
2013-10-30
Languages:
French, Italian, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (615 Reviews)
Director:
Valeria Bruni TedeschiValeria Bruni Tedeschi
Noèmie Lvovsky (screenplay)
Agnès de Sacy (screenplay)
A family is forced to sell their Italian home.
Released Date:
2013-11-28
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (219 Reviews)
Director:
Marco S. PuccioniNicola Lusuardi
Marco S. Puccioni (story)
Marco S. Puccioni
Heidrun Schleef
Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.
Released Date:
2014-04-03
Languages:
Italian, Arabic
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
(30 Reviews)
Director:
Mirko LocatelliMirko Locatelli
Giuditta Tarantelli
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow countrymen. He's just arrived in Europe, with other immigrants escaping from North Africa, and from the clashes born with Arab Spring. The hospital, a city within a city, where everyone is forced to remain: Antonio to heal Pietro, Jaber to assist Youssef, his best friend. The disease is the pretext for a meeting between Antonio and Jaber, two scared and lonely souls, "foreign bodies" that are facing pain, insecurity and illegal employment, which will be setting of a changing story. Antonio will experience on his own skin, that pain has no distinctions of color, language, origin, religion or social status. And when for Antonio and Pietro will come the time to come back home, Jaber will seems less foreigner than before, the departure will be violent, their farewell so painful, suffered and unexpected.
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