Imma Piro

Vieni, vieni amore mio

Vittorio Caprioli

Imma Piro, Max Delys

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Paola Cortellesi, Massimo Poggio

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.

Fontamara

Carlo Lizzani

Michele Placido, Ida Di Benedetto

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

The Payoff

Sergio Corbucci

Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi

Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.

Il bestione

Sergio Corbucci

Giancarlo Giannini, Michel Constantin

An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.

Auguri professore

Riccardo Milani

Silvio Orlando, Claudia Pandolfi

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.

Donne armate

Sergio Corbucci

Raffaella Baracchi, Donald Pleasence

Excellent Cadavers

Ricky Tognazzi

Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Una vita venduta

Aldo Florio

Enrico Maria Salerno, Gerardo Amato

Two members of the fascist legion GOD WANTS IT, Michele and Luigi, both from Sicily, met in Malaga and became friends in the course of the 1936-39 counter revolution. Based upon the short story by Leonardo Sciascia.

Viva l'Italia

Massimiliano Bruno

Raoul Bova, Alessandro Gassman

The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…

Joseph of Nazareth

Elisabetta Marchetti, Raffaele Mertes

Tobias Moretti, Stefania Rivi

The people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of HEROD, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, it is rumored, is to take place very soon. Unlike his nephew JUDAS, who wants to join the zealots (freedom fighters), the 35-year-old widower JOSEPH is not interested in participating in any fighting against the Romans.

Rosa Pietra Stella

Marcello Sannino

Ivana Lotito, Ludovica Nasti

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work

Savage Breed

Pasquale Squitieri

Saverio Marconi, Angelo Infanti

Mario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people related to drug trafficking.

Il Pentito

Pasquale Squitieri

Franco Nero, Tony Musante

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.

Voci

Franco Giraldi

Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi, Miki Manojlović

An inexperienced journalist tries to discover who murdered her friend.

La Banda Del Trucido

Stelvio Massi

Luc Merenda, Tomás Milián

A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...