Alessandro Haber

Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided to go living with one of their children and make him or her inherit the family house. (imdb)

Irena "the unknown" (Rappoport) is an Ukranian young woman living in the Italian city of Velarchi. Soon we discover she has an horrible past of violence and humiliations. To pursue a mysterious aim she manages, by any means, legal and illegal, to get the job as an house servant for a wealthy couple with a little girl... (imdb)

A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) start investigating, and soon find they are in way over their head. Meanwhile, the body-count keeps rising as the killer now starts butchering all those who find out too much... (imdb)

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery. (imdb)

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

A poli sci professor from a large, wealthy family stirs up turmoil amongst his family and friends when he decides to run for office on the Socialist party ticket. His brother the Maoist tries to thwart his endeavors. Other family members get involved in the struggle for political power, sexual gratification, and money. (allmovie)

Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments... (All Movie Guide)

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town... (imdb)

The relationships between five men who play cards far into the night on Christmas Eve are the focus of this psychological drama by Pupi Avati. Four of the players are out to skin the fifth, industrial tycoon Santelia (Carlo Delle Piane), but the four are not exactly a united front. Theater-owner Franco (Diego Abatantuono) is nearly bankrupt and harbors a deep and well-founded resentment against Ugo (Gianni Cavina), a wacko television host... (allmovie.com)

17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players meet for a new challenge. Who can trust who? (imdb)

Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper. (imdb)

In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world: as a director fighting a flawed establishment, as an artist seeking a true expression of his visions, and as a neurotic, disturbed individual trying to cope.

Levante lives in a small city near Florence and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life. (imdb)

It begins after Mattia leaves his family (his wife and his mother-in-law).The events in Mattia's life suddenly take a soaring run;the casino's villains turn up.Mattia meets Véronique (Caroline Berg).The music is,throughout the film ,alert and powerful,suggesting rather a "giallo" than a satire.There is no transition between Mattia's provincial life and his Monte-Carlo break. (imdb)

A italian remake of the movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance? by 1felco (imdb)

Lorenzo is the most single man on Earth. He has one-cup coffee machines, he sleeps alone and when he wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom he is happy to find only one bath towel and one. For sure, he has a very selfish attitude! But in Ischia he will meet Amaranta, a pretty, fascinating and mysterious girl with a secret that the man should really not happen to know...

Raccà, a businessman on the edge of bankruptcy, plans to swindle an insurance company by sinking his yacht, at present anchored in a Moroccan port. The operation is to be carried out by his submissive brother-in-law Zappi, who takes along a life boat for him and the would-be sea dog, Bigazza. The two arrive in Morocco, undergo a series of misfortunes in the desert... (mediasetdistribution)

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. (imdb)

A satirical portrait of a group of Italian men who all belong to an elite rowing club. (bfi)

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what? (bfi)

Five stories, five lives which run into one another: a declining TV star, a fragile young girl, a mistress, a macho kinda guy, a cinema usher, fiances... all of them tell each other stories, looking for happiness and true love. (imdb)

The life and times of an everyman Roman and a tour through modern Italy, from the sixties to present-day.

A young graduate headed for military service, although having done everything to be admitted to the academy, is uncomfortable in the harsh reality of military life. His superior, currently in a state of depression, confides in him and, without knowing it, his wife's lover.

Paolo, a depressed playwright moves to a house which has been rented by his father Carlo as well, without each knowing about the other. Neither he or Carlo want to leave and so they begin an awkward cohabitation. Carlo is worried about his son's depression and gets him a girlfriend Benedetta. The girl however falls in love with the more interesting Carlo. Unfortunately one day Carlo ... (imdb)

The Nativity of Mary, from Joseph point of view. (imdb)

Historical drama that deals with Carlo Pisacane's revolutionary campaign in southern Italy during the Risorgimento. (imdb)

The Rienzi family spend the Summer in their old house in Tuscany. Their lives will go on each on their side. The adolescent Matteo will experiment his first love; his sister Eleonora will have to find the right man for her baby, while their parents will have to resolve issues with their marriage in crisis. (adapted from wikipedia.org)

In a small village in China's Yunnan region, Xiwen (Jingchu Zhang) mourns the sudden loss of her beloved, only child, a young boy poisoned by tainted food. Numbed by the pain, she seeks a reason to live. Although a woman of the highest integrity, she has become hard and uncompromising. (imdb)

Four once famous old, out of shape musketeers, come out of retirement to help their Queen and save France once again.

Italy, 1952. The young official Furio Momenté is sent to Veneto region, near Polesine, to investigate a shocking and mysterious case: a minor has in fact killed one of his peers claiming to have killed the devil himself. (imdb)

Danilo does a robbery in a villa in Tuscany with some friends but when he returns home a sad news awaits him: the death of his mother Adele; upset, Danilo hides the stolen goods in the mother's coffin exposed at home in the waking room. (imdb)

Willy gets involved in a car accident. The girlfriend of the man killed in the accident, who is waiting for a baby, blames Willy. So he decides to care for her and for the baby. (imdb)

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

A guy with Asperger's syndrome and a woman just out of jail face a road trip with a man who wants to commit suicide. (imdb)

In a church in Turin a priest is killed by a bomb during the homily. Police Commissioner Santamaria is investigating the case and at first he turns his attention to the Turin underworld, even if the track seems to be that of the industrial world. Adapted from a novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.

The tormented and visionary story of the "naive" painter Antonio Ligabue (1899-1965), who lived before being discovered and celebrated, a painful existence marked by loneliness and psychic discomfort. (Raiplay.it)

Youtopia is the story of a young woman who decides to sell her virginity to pay debts of her mother and of the man who decides to buy it . It's a Bildungsroman in which the protagonist discovers new worlds and new feelings.

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as "the gentleman bandit" because he robbed banks with no violence, using only a toy gun. After a number of trials and escapes, in the summer of 1973 he is held in the Fossano jailhouse in Piedmont when he tries to escape once again. This time things turn for worse and he has to use a real gun and take two policemen as hostages. (imdb)

After a 22 years wedding, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually, it seems so, but is the lover for real? (imdb)

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy. (imdb)

Through the depiction of some famous pages of Russian literature, we travel inside the history of the tsars' rule, up to the October Revolution.

The film, inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's book Trattatello in laude di Dante, narrates the life of the poet Dante Alighieri as told by Boccaccio himself (wikipedia.org)