Critically acclaimed Italian movies

Actors : Francesco Pio Amato, Damiano Amato, Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon,
Directors : Jonas Carpignano,

In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - ...

Actors : Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Giorgio Cantarini, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Roberto Benigni,

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Matilde Gioli, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Guglielmo Pinelli,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Actors : Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, Renato Scarpa,

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Actors : Giuseppe Sulfaro, Matilde Piana, Luciano Federico, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Amidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Marcel Dalio, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Abel Davis is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and ...

Actors : Alfonso Santagata, Gianni Di Gregorio, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Valeria De Franciscis,
Directors : Gianni Di Gregorio,

Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.

Actors : Max Casella, Massimo Ranieri, Angela Luce, John Turturro,
Directors : John Turturro,

A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.

Actors : Antonia Truppo, Angela Fontana, Toni Laudadio, Marianna Fontana,
Directors : Edoardo De Angelis,

Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms. Their real draw is ...

Actors : Sara Casu, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Udo Kier,
Directors : Laura Bispuri,

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Actors : Christelle Prot, Fabrizio Rongione, Arianna Nastro, Ludovico Succio,
Directors : Eugène Green,

At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is ...

Actors : Elena Lietti, Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Filippo Timi,

The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up ...

Actors : Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Jacopo Olmo Antinori,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.

Actors : Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

Actors : Luigi Ciardo, Nicolas Vaporidis, Manuela Martelli, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Alicia Scherson,

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

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 : Maya Sansa, Paolo Briguglia, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Actors : Vinicio Marchioni, Carlo Cecchi, Jasmine Trinca, Libero De Rienzo,
Directors : Valeria Golino,

Irene, nicknamed 'Honey', has devoted herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering, even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with ...

Actors : Francesco Di Napoli, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Viviana Aprea, Ciro Vecchione,
Directors : Claudio Giovannesi,

A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Gabriele Muccino,

In the dysfunctional Italian middle-class family Ristuccia, the middle-aged executive Carlo has a stalled life without passion, bored in his work and having a monotonous life with his wife ...