Elio Germano

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor....

Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond...

An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger...

Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.

A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder.

A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing...

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a...

When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in...

Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious partner. Salomè is a young, immature and...

The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara to work as a cook. He falls for Genny, a...

Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in...

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he...

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses...

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists...

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance...

Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where...

Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing...

Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the...

Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling...

Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his...

Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a private clinic, but his ghost keeps tormenting...

The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.

A Donatello award nominated short drama feature.

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa...

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get...

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to...

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines....

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common...

Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a...

Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who...

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for...

The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he...

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting...

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio...

In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous...

Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious,...

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the...

The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a...

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the...

The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar...

A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.

2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful...

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the...

A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the...

Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one...

A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love...

A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

After what seemed like an insignificant argument, Marta and Antonio separate. He, a promising chef, takes refuge in his kitchen; she, in her silence,...

A couple faces the difficult path to adoption, determined to become parents despite their complex vulnerabilities.

Based upon the true story of Ranuccio Bandinelli, an antifascist Archaeology and History of Art teacher who sought to steer clear of politics but who...