Sandro Petraglia

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. (Miramax)

Paolo (Andrea Rossi) is a young man who was abandoned by his father and who was born so soon after his mother died during childbirth. Grown up, he will be joined by his father in a series of tests that will do.

It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation...

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...

The body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery. (imdb)

While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years... (imdb)

Mafioso Tano Carridi schemes for power while being pursued by his nemesis Corrado Cattani.

It's the story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. The story begin with the arrest of "Pelosi", a young man then accused of the murder of the poet. All the investigation about the crime is about the question: "Was ONLY the "Pelosi" to kill Pasolini?" The help of a Policeman, Trepalle put in evidence a trouble: Was Pasolini killed because of his accuses to some politicians? (imdb)

A working class Roman takes a shortcut between the honest and the dishonest.

A former radical who renounces his past to become a priest returns to his home town and is appalled by the townspeople's lack of faith.

Story about the Piazza Fontana Bombing in Milan on December 12 1969.

Luciano, a young Italian literature teacher living in the provinces, supplements his income by ghost writing for a famous, but dried up, novelist. One day Minister Botero summons him to Rome to write his speeches and communiqués. Luciano accepts. His initial delight in privileges granted to members of the Minister's entourage soon turns into disillusionment. (festival-cannes.fr)

TV adaptation of Chekhov's play

A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria. (imdb)

A narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and his previously devoted wife's extra-marital inclinations, in the touching and insightful new comedy-drama from Italian writer-director Daniele Luchetti. (tiff.net)

Ambientato nell'inverno del 1996, racconta la storia di un professore di lettere in crisi e della sua classe. (wikipedia)

Italia, 1994. Franco e Loris are two friends that decide to steal a stud bull. The bull is worth a lot. Their idea is to immediately leave Italy and try to sell the bull in Hungary. But east Europe is not exactly what they were expecting. The troubles, the miseries and the reality of the countries they are crossing change step by step their minds. The new way of thinking will drive them to a new kind of friendships. (imdb)

An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse. (imdb)

This film supports the ideas of Dr. Franco Basaglia on menthal health and the abolition of lunatic asylums.

A finance magnate is convicted of tax fraud and is sentences to spend a year doing social services. (mymovies.it)

Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against those who wrongly accused him. (imdb)