Alvaro Piccardi

Pope John XXIII

Giorgio Capitani

Edward Asner, Massimo Ghini

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".

Day by Day, Desperately

Alfredo Giannetti

Nino Castelnuovo, Tomás Milián

The mental illness that struck young Dario, one of the two children of the Dominici family who lives in a magnificent Roman palace, disrupts the life of all its members.

Il Divo

Paolo Sorrentino

Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

Italian Secret Service

Luigi Comencini

Nino Manfredi, Gastone Moschin

A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.

L'ospite

Liliana Cavani

Lucia Bosé, Glauco Mauri

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life, takes refuge in the country alone with her memories, and is later returned to the asylum.

Per amore o per forza

Massimo Franciosa

Michèle Mercier, Carlo Giuffrè