Sergio Rubini

The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury... (imdb)

Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious... (imdb)

Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him the love he needed, to his unsuccessful attempts to make money out of printing and publishing books... (imdb)

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

Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict with several of the "official" stories of his life). (Allmovie)

Four episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine. (imdb)

Gregorio, Vanni and Livia are the three sons of a famous sculptor; Vanni is a classical pianist, Gregorio left music academia and now is a DJ with the nickname of 'Dr. Music', Livia lives a double life with a husband and another man: they live separated and rarely meet. When the father disappears, the three try to find him and start to travel through all the places of their family's story and in the meantime they start to truly know each other. (imdb)

Antonio has always had problems with his incisors: they are huge, impossible to hide and embarrassing. It takes a woman, Mara - who he left his wife and children for - to crack both incisors with a glass ashtray during a fight brought about by jealousy: Antonio is convinced she's having an affair with hers dentist! Antonio's tongue instinctively touches and investigates his raw and bleeding gum and when his saliva mixes with the blood, he remembers his childhood.

Jimi, a successful computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released. (imdb)

On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democracy, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault. Moro was not only the victim of the brigadiers but also of the struggle for power between the Italian parties. (imdb)

In the south of Italy, two men couldn't be more different. Vito (Lo Cascio) is honest but naive; his brother-in-law, Toni (Rubini), is sharp but a dubious citizen too. There's never been any kind of friendship between them, but the stealing of Vito's car and the hunt to recover it will act as excuse to discover themselves. (imdb)

Why has Cetto returned to Italy after a long time abroad? Was it his choice? Or did someone plot in the shadows? With him is a beautiful black girl and another girl whose name he can not remember...

Several stories unfold simultaneously over three days on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. A man stumbles upon a risky opportunity to become instantly wealthy; a producer of pornographic films tries to rebuild his relationship with his estranged daughter; a police chief and his son maintain an uneasy co-existence; and a woman longs for her lover to be released from prison. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amn%C3%A8sia)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. (imdb)

Documentary that recreates the atmosphere of the life of Marcello Mastroianni, icon of Italian cinema.

When the efforts of a Philosophy teacher from the Italian Region of Puglia and his two brothers to sell an old family farm are stalled by their boorish and aggressive step-brother, the family's dark past is soon dragged into the harsh light of the presence in director Sergio Rubini's simmering family drama. (movies.nytimes.com)

Story of unrequited love, and the loss of youth and beauty. (bfi)

A teenaged girl's membership in the Communist Party in her Italian town causes tension in her family, especially as she roots for the USSR in its race to space versus the United States. Alienated by a passive mother and aggressive step-father, rejected by the boys in her local party except as an object of lust, she is left to confide in a brother who dreams of space but whose epilepsy means his fantasies will remain merely fantasies.

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

The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II. (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)

A young shy man (Tommaso) runs down a blond girl (Christine) with his car. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his department door. She asks him for help, as she has amnesia and can't remember anything. The little patient Tommaso tries to help her and after a while he falls in love, but suddenly she remembers her past life as a drug dealer's lover and leaves him. (imdb)

Mister "S", The Mnemonist", a first violin man in a famous orchestra, needs professor "L" helps in order to establish the reason why he can not read anymore a music paper. The Mnemonist is a man with an extraordinary memory and this is the cause of his job weakness and handicap. (Silvio Pellerani (imdb)

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

Biagio Bianchetti has an enemy since school, Ottone di Valerio, a classic "son of dad". Otto has always been better than him, he has covered him with failures and made him ridiculous in everything. (imdb)

Arturo is a B actor who has recently starred as a divorced father in a poorly rated TV series. His life takes a sudden turn when he meets Mirko, a young orphan who believes Arturo's character is - in fact - his real father.

A man with a knack for accidentally setting off catastrophes decides to help out the people around him and proceeds to cause them even more trouble. (imdb)

Vanni and Linda have been engaged for ten years, living together in an attic in central Rome. Their best friends, Costanza and Alfredo, known as Prof, are married, have no children and manage their wedding like a business. Costanza discovers that Prof. has a lover, and in a panic attack, breaks into Vanni and Linda's house. Thus begins the longest night for the four protagonists who, between quarrels, jokes, laughter and admissions of guilt, will put their loves and friendships into play.

Italy, the early sixties: Yuri, a young boy who lives with his mother and a little sister (his father has abandoned them) meets Razzo, a tough streetwise boy and becomes his friend (imdb)

In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo's including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new school teacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. (imdb)

In the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching. (imdb)

A successful fashion journalist inherits a farm in the deep south of Italy. She goes there to sell it, but not all goes as planned.

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

In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, during a robbery, one of the three accomplices, Tonino aka Barboncino, a shabby-looking fifty-year old, takes advantage of the other two men's distraction, grabs the whole loot, and runs off. Tonino , runs from rooftop to rooftop until he reaches the uppermost terrace, beyond which there is a precipice that forces him to take refuge in an old washhouse. (imdb)

The story of a sea captain and his unlucky, unfaithful marriage, set in the Roaring Twenties in Hamburg.

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre. (imdb)