Cast: Piera Degli Esposti

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Kseniya Rappoport · Michele Placido · Claudia Gerini · Margherita Buy

Synopsis In director Giuseppe Tornatore's (CINEMA PARADISO) haunting story of mystery and love, a Russian woman named Irena (Xenia Rappoport) calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid...

Direction Paolo Sorrentino

Cast Toni Servillo · Anna Bonaiuto · Piera Degli Esposti · Paolo Graziosi

Synopsis In Rome, at dawn, when everyone is asleep, there’s one man who isn’t sleeping. That man is called Giulio Andreotti. He isn’t sleeping because he has to work, write books, be a socialite, and, last but not least, prey. Calm,...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Maria Callas · Giuseppe Gentile · Laurent Terzieff · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis Featuring Opera Diva Maria Callas in her only film role Based on the Greek classic by Euripides, Pasolini's Medea tells the tale of Jason, the leader of the invincible army of Argonaut, and his quest for the Golden Fleece. Meeting...

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Dario Cantarelli · Nicola Di Pinto · Alessandro Haber

Synopsis 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...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Sergio Castellitto · Jacqueline Lustig · Chiara Conti · Gigio Alberti

Direction Giuseppe Piccioni

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Valeria Golino · Sonia Bergamasco · Lidia Vitale

Synopsis Guido writes novels and short stories; he's detached, diffident. When his wife and teenage daughter move, he stays behind to write. He takes swimming lessons; his teacher is Giulia, somber, perhaps melancholy. They talk from time to time; he invites...

Direction Roan Johnson

Cast Emanuele Basso · Alessandro Benvenuti · Gianna Breil · Cristina Cioni

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Bérénice Bejo · Fabrizio Gifuni · Guido Caprino

Synopsis Marco Bellochio walks through the last 40 years of Italian history, embodied in Massimo’s life. Massimo was left an orphan after the Superga tragedy, the accident that buried the most outstanding generation of legendary Torino Football Club players. The author...

Direction Maria Sole Tognazzi

Cast Pierfrancesco Favino · Monica Bellucci · Kseniya Rappoport · Marisa Paredes

Synopsis A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

Direction Riccardo Milani

Cast Pierfrancesco Favino · Miriam Leone · Michele Placido · Pietro Sermonti

Synopsis Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic

Direction Marco Filiberti

Cast Alessandro Gassman · María de Medeiros · Massimo Poggio · Michela Cescon

Synopsis Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Direction Giovanni Veronesi

Cast Silvio Orlando · Luciana Littizzetto · Michele Placido · Chiara Passarelli

Direction Leandro Castellani

Cast Ben Gazzara · Patsy Kensit · Karl Zinny · Laurent Terzieff

Direction Lamberto Sanfelice

Cast Sara Serraiocco · Anatol Sassi · Ivan Franek · Piera Degli Esposti

Synopsis Jenny is seventeen and dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer, but her carefree adolescent life in Ostia, a seacoast town near Rome, is shaken by the sudden death of her mother. With a sick father and a nine years old...

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Veronica Pivetti · Gene Gnocchi · Tullio Solenghi · Cinzia Leone

Synopsis Politics and sex seem to be the right combination in many of Lina Wertmuller's films. This one, came via cable, as we do not believe it has been commercially shown in this country. The story begins as two groups clash...

Direction Giacomo Campiotti

Cast Edoardo Leo · Cristiana Capotondi · Nicole Grimaudo · Gabriele Di Bello

Direction Franco Battiato

Cast Giuni Russo · Piera Degli Esposti · Franco Battiato · Lene Lovich

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Gabriella Pession · Sergio Assisi · Tommaso Ramenghi · Piera Degli Esposti

Synopsis Three young Neapolitans, Antonio, Chicchino and Maria want to import the Nobel prize Winner Muhammed Yunus' micro-credit system, so well working in India, to their poor neighbourhood in Naples. Their families and - incredibly - the local loan sharks would...

Direction Roberta Torre

Cast Donatella Finocchiaro · Pino Micol · Beppe Fiorello · Piera Degli Esposti

Synopsis Manuela is a 13-year-old girl from the sprawling, dilapidated suburb of Librino in southern Sicily. She lives with her dysfunctional family and works sweeping floors in a hair salon. After the head of a Virgin Mary statue disappears, Manuela announces...

Direction Laura Morante

Cast Laura Morante · Piera Degli Esposti · Francesco Pannofino · Lambert Wilson