Screenplay: Paolo Taviani

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Omero Antonutti · Saverio Marconi · Fabrizio Forte · Marcella Michelangeli

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Margarita Lozano · Claudio Bigagli · Omero Antonutti · Franco Franchi

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Omero Antonutti · Margarita Lozano · Sabina Vannucchi · Massimo Bonetti

Plot The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Fabio Cavalli · Salvatore Striano · Giovanni Arcuri · Antonio Frasca

Plot The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the actors leave the stage and return to...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Turi Ferro · Antonio Albanese · Lello Arena · Sabrina Ferilli

Plot Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Stefania Rocca · Timothy Peach · Marie Bäumer · Cécile Bois

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Vincent Spano · Joaquim de Almeida · Greta Scacchi · Désirée Nosbusch

Plot After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Giulio Brogi · Renato Scarpa · Daniele Dublino · Renato Cestié

Plot Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell.

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Lea Massari · Mimsy Farmer · Laura Betti

Plot A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

Direction Valentino Orsini · Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Didi Perego · Turi Ferro · Spiros Focás

Plot Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields....

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Julian Sands · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Nastassja Kinski · Massimo Bonetti

Plot Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is constantly...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Luca Marinelli · Anna Ferruzzo · Francesco Turbanti · Marco Brinzi

Plot An Italian partisan is torn between the resistance movement and his obsession with a young woman.

Direction Paolo Taviani

Cast Fabrizio Ferracane · Matteo Pittiruti · Dania Marino · Dora Becker

Plot Three surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Michele Placido · Saverio Marconi · Isabella Rossellini · Giulio Brogi

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Lello Arena · Kasia Smutniak · Jasmine Trinca · Kim Rossi Stuart

Plot Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Hugues Anglade · Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Marie Gillain

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Paz Vega · Moritz Bleibtreu · Alessandro Preziosi · Ángela Molina

Plot A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Laetitia Casta · Adriano Giannini · Cecilia Roth · Marie Bäumer

Plot Set at the close of the 18th century, the fictionalized love story based on real characters centers on a Naples aristocrat and her romance with a fellow rebel during a...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Lucía Bosé · Giulio Brogi · Samy Pavel

Plot A group of young men manage to escape a volcano eruption on their small island. Seeking a new life, they stop at an island between their destroyed island and the...

Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani

Cast Maria Cumani Quasimodo · Lucio Dalla · Ferruccio de Ceresa · Fabienne Fabre

Plot "The Subversives" combines actual footage of a Communist leader's funeral, Palmiero Togliatti (who died in 1964), with the story of four people for whom the death marks a major turning...