Margherita Buy

A coming of age story about a 15-year-old provincial girl who moves to Rome and finds her new tony private school is a microcosm of the cultural and political divisions of Italian society. (Empire Pictures)

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)

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)

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of b-movies in 70s; after a long hiatus, following the commercial fiasco of "Cataratte", Bonomo is going to be signed by RAI in order to produce a film about Cristoforo Colombo's homecoming. When the director Franco Caspio quits the project, Bonomo is forced to offer another screenplay to RAI, which is "Il Caimano" a screenplay he stumbled upon, written by the young director Teresa... (imdb)

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby. (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)

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen through the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion. (imdb)

Well-to-do, sophisticated couple Elsa and Michele have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream: study art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago... (cineuropa.org)

Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love. (imdb)

Olga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. (imdb)

About a railway worker who is a painter, but remains an amateur, because his countrymen would by mortified by his artistic aspirations.(wikipedia.org)

An unexpected pregnancy and premature birth become a burden that Maria is unprepared for. Lacking control over events for the first time in her life, she retreats into an emotional space where she is alone, until the day arrives when she must learn to live again for her vulnerable child. (imdb)

A writer is looking for a new idea, and the characters enter his life when he decides to suddenly end the film

A nice love story between two anxious hypochondriacs, a Jimi Hendrix biographer and an actress.

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist. (imdb)

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.

Eight people, of different ages and with different stories, live in Rome united only because they are in the same therapy group. This includes three women and four men, whose stories show in a comical way, from choral scenes to more intimate ones, the frailty but also the wish to change and the ability to react typical of our contemporaries. (archivio.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo)

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011. (imdb)

Nicole Garcia's film shows a family through an adult man's figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons too. Jean Paul visits his father all day. After he divorced his life is unexciting and troubled. He has a lot of dark suits, a good car, a big house but he has some debts, and his private life touch bottom. He has to call his brothers and ask them to help . (imdb)

Forty-something Irene had a dream job that made her life easy: she was indeed a luxury hotel inspector and her work got carried out in a wonderful ever-renewed setting, from Paris to Gstaad to Berlin to Morocco to China... But does a dream job necessarily mean a dream life?

At the top of its activity, the Milanese lawyer Umberto Maria Dorloni (Claudio Bisio) is not affected by any signs of the economic crisis affecting Italy. With a career constantly growing, a wife from solid character (Margherita Buy) and a big bank account to be disposed of, Umberto is a being arrogant and self-centered who soon finds himself facing a situation for him unexpected fired from the study where you work, will do anything to not give up his privileges. (kickass.so)

A director and her brother watch over their dying mother.

Edo and Lupo are two countrymen running away after having robbed their boss. They are chased by 3 mercernaries. They will meet real gangsters, then some excentric nobles. At this time, they are separated for an experiment. Edo is given education, while Lupo is left alone unattended. The goal is to determine whether education can make a man more clever. (imdb)

Mario Tessadori is killed in the university where he taught. Thirty years after, the grown up daughter get in contact with the child she was, through the phone of their holiday house.

It starts as a studio theatre: a good-natured, bit pedantic stationmaster performs his job at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. Eventually a beautiful, obviously very rich young woman enters the station and wants to buy a ticket. She has to wait, they start talking, get closer - high-society meets petty bourgeois. Then suddenly the mood turns around: the woman's fiance appears and tries to prevent the girl from leaving with increasing violence. (Frank Wallner)

In Florence, soon-to-be husband and wife Alessandro and Bea are about to postpone their wedding due to a business trip in the US.

This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls. (imdb)

Seeing all the advantages that go the businesses affiliated to the Catholic Church, a man founds a new religion in order to save his failing bed and breakfast.

Marina and Federica have been together for five years now, they share the same apartment, bed, face cream, they laugh, they fight, but even so sometimes they are not sure if they're a couple or not. (imdb)

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

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex - husband?

Four friends: Caterina, Liliana, Anna and Angela, live in a small provincial italian town. When Caterina receives a job offer from a notable Hotel in Belgrade (Serbia) and chooses to accept it and relocate, her three friends decide to follow her. (imdb)

Vignettes of Roman life feature a jogger, robbers, newlyweds, an opportunistic mechanic and a sadistic meter-maid. (imdb)

Fleeing away from a violent husband, Anna and her son Valerio struggle with the life in a new city. (imdb)

Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident. He returns to his wife of fifteen years a stranger to himself. What used their married life to be? From what she tells him, he tries to piece together their existence. Can Gilles be sure he is the man she describes, and is she in fact his wife? A suspenseful thriller about a couple in search of the truth. A black comedy full of surprises in which light-hearted banter alternates with full-scale war. (imdb)

Gloria is a young waitress who works in a restaurant and dreams with open eyes. (imdb)

Trastevere, the historic district of the Italian capital is put into turmoil by a sensational news story: Leonardo Zulliani has disappeared. The case becomes a true national emergency, but who's Leonardo? And what really happened? (imdb)

Italian high school students form a band to express their love of music, but the principal wants them to focus on their Math & Literature studies. Tension grows and conflict arises as the youngsters must decide how much they are willing to fight for their band. (imdb)

The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium. (imdb)

The sequel of "Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione", this time set in the late 19th century. (imdb)

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

7 women find themselves dealing with a mystery killing. Who's the killer and what are the motives of the murder? (imdb)

Stories of women, both in front of and behind the camera. (imdb)

A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956. (imdb)

A mysterious man gifts four strangers on the brink of suicide a chance to see what life would be like without them.

Milan, 1975. Irene, the daughter of migrants from the south of Italy, replies to a job advert at Appeal, a fashion magazine, to make a living while she finishes her studies. (imdb)

The enchanted story of Pinocchio. (imdb)

In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager.