Ferzan Ozpetek

A drama about how we find love and passion in our lives in the midst of chaos and disruption. (Sony Pictures Classics)

AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband's lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life. (imdb)

Francesco and Marta are husband and wife running a small design company in Rome. When Francesco's long forgotten Aunt Anita dies in Istanbul, he travels there to look after the sale of the hamam (imdb)

As the Ottoman Empire comes to an end, an old servant spins a tale to keep the women in the Sultan's harem distracted... (imdb)

Director Ferzan Ozpetek returns to familiar grounds for Saturno contro, yet another exploration of love both straight and gay in the Italian capital. (european-films.net)

The story of a woman who tries to take charge of her life and a policeman, her husband, unable to accept the end of his marriage, obsessed by the memory of his wife, his children, his lost family...

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends. (imdb)

Mine vaganti tells us the unpredictable story of an Italian pasta manufacturer family, with their strong family and moral patterns.

Pietro is a gay man who tries to become an actor. He rents a new house in Rome, but soon he realizes that the place is haunted. The ghosts of a theatre group lives there since the WW2.

Elena's love is divided between Antonio and Fabio. One day, the trio experiences a traumatic development, which greatly upsets their lives.

Living abroad for many years, writer, editor Orhan Sahin, the famous director to work on the first book of the sea Generic Istanbul 'to come. Deniz lives in a barn with his family in his last generation of riches. Orhan finds himself in the midst of complex relationships, mysterious friends and family members of the Sea on the first day. Years later, he returned to Istanbul 'u while exploring with new eyes, the feelings will begin to relive forgotten. (Wikipedia)

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, mystery wraps itself around Adriana's life (with the latter played by Mezzogiorno) as it is suddenly devastated by love and a violent crime. (Cineuropa)

When Annamaria, a longtime friend of Alessandro and Arturo, ask the couple to take care of her children, the relationship between the two men reaches a point of no return. (imdb)

Following the death of her husband in a car accident, Antonia discovers that he was having an affair with a man named Michele. At first devastated by the news, she finds herself building an unexpected friendship with this man she had never heard of. They both learn to know each other, to accept each other, to understand each other. Antonia thus discovers her husband's other family made up of friends with unusual lifestyles and different sexual identities. (imdb)

A short film series by Ferzan Özpetek. Meze: A woman trying to overcome the great disappointment of her wedding gathers with her loved ones at a table with delicious appetizers. Muzik: A man who is having trouble at work gets the opportunity to see how a simple incident from his childhood can completely impact someone else's life. Muhabbet: A man who moves away from his hometown becomes deeply involved with his family and friends while eating, drinking and celebrating life. (imdb)

In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart. (netflix.com)

Two sisters, Luisa and Gabriella run a glamorous fashion house in Rome in the seventies, they cater for Oscars' winning Best Costume Design customers. Colors, sewing and fabric are at the core of the movie; but lots of dramas unfolds in this close knit community of seamstresses. (imdb)