Best Italian movies of 2006

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Kseniya Rappoport,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Actors : Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Silvio Orlando, Michele Placido,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Actors : Alessandro Morace, Marta Nobili, Kim Rossi Stuart, Barbora Bobulova,
Directors : Kim Rossi Stuart,

A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.

Actors : Max Parodi, Anna Jimskaia, Riccardo Marino, Nela Lucic,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

An attractive, yet neglected housewife will have a scandalous affair behind her husband's back at Mantua's renowned literary festival.

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Sami Frey, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sergio Castellitto,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A film director falls in love with the daughter of a prince.

Actors : Marco Cocci, Francesco Campobasso, Luca Capriotti, Simone Colombari,
Directors : Cristiano Bortone,

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.

Actors : Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Lluís Homar, María Valverde, Sergio Múñiz,
Directors : Antonio Hernández,

A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.

Actors : Alessio Boni, Isabella Ferrari, Alina Nedelea, Michele Placido,
Directors : Michele Soavi,

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle...

Actors : Chiara Caselli, Luciana Littizzetto, Luca Lionello, Eduard Gabia,
Directors : Carmine Amoroso,

Cover-boy (low-budget film shot in the Sony digital HDV format and transfert on 35mm. feature film) is the story of the friendship between Ioan (Eduard Gabia) and Michele (Luca Lionello) ... See full synopsis »

Actors : Romano Guelfi, Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri, Grazia Orsi,

This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.

Actors : Antonio Catania, Umberto Morelli, Massimo Ciavarro, Laura Morante,
Directors : Claudio Antonini,

THE BALL, a comedy directed by Claudio Antonini starring Laura Morante about a "liscio" singer who wants to try a new style of music... See full synopsis »