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- DirectorPaolo CostellaStarsMassimo BoldiVincenzo SalemmeNancy BrilliGustavo is a chef Milan widower who runs a restaurant in Rome: in his local work former boxer Rocky and dishwasher Cecco.
- DirectorFranco AmurriStarsGerry ScottiLino BanfiVittoria BelvedereAt the North Pole there's isn't just one Santa Claus, but hundreds of them, each one responsible for a small area of the world.. and for the goodness of its inhabitants. The levels of goodness are dangerously low in Northern Italy, so the general assembly rules that Ezechiele must deal with the worst case on his territory, Mr. Achille Malerba, the man thought to be the reason for this downward plunge of the goodness "index". Ezechiele MUST make him a good man by midnight on Xmas eve, or he'll lose his job and be sent to make toys with the elves (who are very malevolent and nasty). Ezechiele appears to Mr. Malerba, a very rich industrialist (mayonaise) who callously refuses to understand the gravity - and reality - of his situation... Santa will use all his magic to try and make him understand, causing him to lose everything he has, but also helping him redeem himself through the relationship he develops with a former employee he had fired, and her fatherless 6 year old son.
- DirectorLucio GaudinoStarsLino BanfiGerry ScottiMicaela RamazzottiA few days before Christmas there is a long series of thefts of toys made by a man dressed as Santa Claus called Mario Cimatti (Gerry Scotti). To successfully resolve the case intervenes Ezekiel (Lino Banfi): the nice old man catching the thief and discovers an orphanage where the director forbids the Christmas festivities. Now his target is doubled: recover the stolen gifts and teach children to celebrate, all in less than 24 hours.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsPaola CortellesiFabio De LuigiLucia OconeThe love lives of the friends Walter, Diego, Renato, Marcello and Piero.
- DirectorFabrizio De AngelisStarsAmbra AngioliniRyan KrauseAdriana AstiTeresa lives with her family consisting of her grandfather, her mother and her little brother: She is a Roman young girl whose life, like all its peers, is composed of friends, and a job at a CDs store that allows to maintain her spending and her motor. One day, while working, is to serve the Prince Alfonso, heir to a tiny duchy that had escaped from a major event concerning the high office of his country. From that moment, the prince decides he wants to become a boy like all the others, tired of his life as a palace, he falls in love with Teresa which, however, says nothing of his true origins. After various adventures and scandals, the two will get married and Teresa will become princess, just like a modern fairy tale.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaAmbra AngioliniTwenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into society and lost track of one another. One day they receive a letter from the Ministry of Education: because of a formal error, they must retake the exam. With the initial shock now past, they grasp the opportunity to meet again, to share laughters and to cram together like they used to. On the other hand, they are not the same persons they were two decades before...
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaAmbra AngioliniA group of high school friend after many years go to Paros on holiday.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsAntonio AlbaneseNeri MarcorèKatia RicciarelliWhen his widowed sister-in-law and her son come to live with him after World War II, a simple farmer finds his life thrown into turmoil.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMicaela RamazzottiMarco GialliniThree divorced fathers are forced to live together.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRaoul BovaIsabella RagoneseClaudio works in the suburbs of Rome. He is in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. A dramatic event upsets his life. Claudio fights against an injustice. Love and support from his friends will help him to get by.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValerio MastandreaMicaela RamazzottiStefania SandrelliA misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsMonica BellucciGiuseppe SulfaroLuciano FedericoAmidst the war climate, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
- DirectorCristiano BortoneStarsGuglielmo ScillaEnrica PintoreVincenzo SalemmeWomanizer father teaches clumsy son the decalogue of seduction: ten foolproof rules to make any woman fall in love. But the results will be not what expected.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsMonica BellucciAlessio BoniLuca ZingarettiThe story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
- DirectorAntonello GrimaldiStarsNanni MorettiValeria GolinoIsabella FerrariA look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsFilippo TimiElio GermanoAlvaro CalecaA dark drama centered on a 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad, who are both outcasts in their suburban town.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFilippo TimiFausto Russo AlesiThe story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsFrancesco SciannaMargareth MadèLina SastriBaaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsLuigi Lo CascioSandra CeccarelliGalatea RanziAn established and famous actor and an aspiring young actress develop a relationship while working together on films. Their mutual attraction and passion draw them together while also pulling them apart.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsElio GermanoRiccardo ScamarcioAngela FinocchiaroTwo brothers come of age in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloDenis FasoloNello MasciaThe body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.
- DirectorMaria Sole TognazziStarsPierfrancesco FavinoMonica BellucciKseniya RappoportA 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.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsDiego AbatantuonoVanessa IncontradaViolante PlacidoAmid glittering Christmas decorations of modern-day Rome, actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing most painful moment of his existence.
- DirectorAlberto NegrinStarsRosabell Laurenti SellersEmilio SolfrizziMiklós SzurdiFreely inspired by Alison Leslie Gold's "Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend," the film tells of Anne Frank and her friend, Hanneli Goslar, their first meeting in Amsterdam, their daily lives, the German occupation and their sudden separation when the Frank family went into hiding. Music by Ennio Morricone. In Italian, with subtitles.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsDiego AbatantuonoVanessa IncontradaViolante PlacidoAmid glittering Christmas decorations of modern-day Rome, actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing most painful moment of his existence.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsValeria GolinoVincenzo AmatoFrancesco CasisaOn an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsSilvio OrlandoMargherita BuyJasmine TrincaA skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorMohamed Rachid BenhadjStarsVanessa RedgraveGérard DepardieuSergio RubiniThe isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteJasmine TrincaA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniJean RenoNicoletta BraschiA love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniSabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by little she remembers her childhood in a severe middle-class family, but a big secret is still hidden in her heart. Determined to bring clarity and serenity to her life, she considers contacting her brother, a University teacher in the U.S.A., to try to understand what happened in their past. What is the secret? Will Sabina finally manage to free herself from the "beast inside her heart"?
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsKim Rossi StuartAndrea RossiCharlotte RamplingMeeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsStefano AccorsiGiovanna MezzogiornoStefania SandrelliCarlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsSilvio MuccinoViolante PlacidoGiuseppe SanfeliceA coming-of-age comic tale about three eighteen-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsBud SpencerJun IchikawaSally Ming Zeo NiA young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoMassimo GirottiRaoul BovaOverburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsGerard ButlerEmmy RossumPatrick WilsonA young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
- DirectorFiorella InfascelliStarsMaya SansaAndrea Di StefanoPiera Degli EspostiAndrea and Stella are two engaged couples who are about to get married. But a dramatic event upsets their dreams: one evening, in the open countryside, Stella is raped by a group of hunters. The girl's life breaks in the face of this ignoble gesture, bringing out a hidden truth: maybe Stella was not really ready for marriage. The girl leaves the university and starts working in a pastry shop; here she meets the designer Franco, who had prepared the wedding dress for her.
- DirectorCiro IppolitoStarsMaria Grazia CucinottaAlessandro PreziosiJoaquín CortésPenelope, a mother of three kids, gets tired by the infidelities of her husband and leaves him. She goes to live at her grandma's house, while he has to take care of the children. His interest is awakened when he finds love letters held by his wife, indicating a past love affair. She, on the other hand, tries to find her past lover, a Spanish painter, with whom she had a short love affair, only to discover that he is terminally ill.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsGiorgio PasottiFrancesca InaudiFabio TroianoThe magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.
- DirectorCarlo CarleiStarsSergio CastellittoEd StoppardCristina MogliaWhen he is only ten years old, Enzo Ferrari runs to the next village only to watch a car race. Now the direction for his life is set. He starts immediately working on vehicles and as soon as he is old enough to drive a real car, he becomes a race car driver. Soon the young man shows ambitions in finding a racing team. He offers his services to Fiat but the team managers turn him down. Yet Alfa Romeo hires Ferrari and promotes him to team manager. With gusto Ferrari takes his family to the races. His wife objects to the noise and considers this environment inappropriate for little Dino, but Enzo's enthusiasm knows no restraint. He is determined to raise him as his successor. Ferrari's reputation grows and enables him to create his own company, Scuderia Ferrari. When he presents his employees (including Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari) to the press, he explains that enthusiasm can be contagious. But when German troops come to Italy, Ferrari is accused of building weapons for the Italian resistance. Although one of the officers is a fan of Ferrari and tries to protect him, Ferrari must hide. After the war Enzo Ferrari rebuilds his destroyed factory, and begins pushing himself to his limits. Once he is back in business and has recovered from exhaustion, he finds out that Dino suffers with an especially severe form of muscular dystrophy. Enzo regrets not having spent more time with him, a thought which will haunt him for the rest of his life.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsAitana Sánchez-GijónDino AbbresciaGiorgio CarecciaA young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsPaz VegaMoritz BleibtreuAlessandro PreziosiA 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 hope.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsPaolo BonolisSergio RubiniMargherita BuyThe zealot politician Massimo, proponent of a law about the defense of family, has a secret love affair with Martina, a young emerging actress. To divert any suspicions, he brings his family on holiday to Paris
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsValeria De FranciscisMarina CacciottiMaria CalìBroke, and armed with only a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, all will be forgiven.
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsGianni Di GregorioValeria De FranciscisAlfonso SantagataGianni 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.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsAsia ArgentoMassimo CeccheriniValerio MastandreaThree friends leave for a trip by camper, but their vacation is turned upside down by Viola, a girl who has just come from a robbery in a jewelry store.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiPaolo BonacelliA kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsGiorgio FalettiCristiana CapotondiNicolas VaporidisA group of Italian friends is preparing for their final exams.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneLuciana LittizzettoSilvio MuccinoFour intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
- DirectorAndy TennantGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioFour episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsAldo BaglioGiovanni StortiGiacomo PorettiOn Christmas Eve in Milan, three friends dressed in Santa Claus costumes are arrested by the police during an apparent robbery attempt and taken to a police station, where the Chief Bestetti accuses them of being the band of thieves known as the "Santa Clauses Band". In search of a way to prove their innocence, the three try to explain the reasons for which they found themselves in such strange situation.
- DirectorLeonardo PieraccioniStarsLeonardo PieraccioniSuzie KennedyBarbara TabitaGualtiero Marchesi is a divorced man that works in a circus. Along with some companions of the circus, Gualtiero decides to revive Marilyn Monroe through a seance. Gualtiero decided with the heart, so Marilyn appears only in his eyes.
- DirectorGiuseppe CapotondiStarsKseniya RappoportFilippo TimiAntonia TruppoA chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsRobert De NiroMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioIn Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsLuca ArgenteroMoran AtiasDario BandieraNicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsMichel PiccoliNanni MorettiJerzy StuhrA story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist.
- DirectorAntonello GrimaldiStarsNanni MorettiValeria GolinoIsabella FerrariA look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsFilippo PucilloDonatella FinocchiaroGiuseppe FiorelloA Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonFlavio ParentiEdoardo GabbrielliniEmma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLuca ArgenteroViolante PlacidoNeri MarcorèMattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
- DirectorFederico MocciaStarsRaoul BovaMichela QuattrocioccheFrancesca FerrazzoMayhem ensues when a 37-year-old ad executive on the rebound falls for a bubbly high school senior.
- DirectorFederico MocciaStarsRaoul BovaMichela QuattrocioccheFrancesco ApolloniThe love between Alex, a mature successful advertising agent, and Niki, now twenty, continues to deepen and blossom. It has now been three years since they vowed to love each other forever before their special rendezvous lighthouse. Despite their age difference, Alex is convinced Niki is the woman he wants to marry. And Niki, in the beginning, is overjoyed. Yet, as the crucial date approaches, mounting doubts, fears - and temptations too - suddenly make Niki do the unthinkable. She calls off the wedding. Far from being the end of the couple's love story, however, this could unexpectedly be the tender, courageous and amusing beginning of Niki and Alex's "impossible" dream come true...
- DirectorSergio CastellittoStarsPenélope CruzSergio CastellittoClaudia GeriniA destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.