Giovanni Visentin
2021
Romanzo di una strage
Marco Tullio Giordana
Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Il signore delle formiche
Gianni Amelio
Gina Rovere, Luigi Lo Cascio
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 he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
Lord of the Ants
Mare largo
Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani
Claudio Amendola, Isabella Ferrari
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
Open Sea
Sanguepazzo
Marco Tullio Giordana
Monica Bellucci, Luca Zingaretti
The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the regime until the very end. Accused of collaborationism and torture, they were summarily executed by Partisans during the Liberation.
Wild Blood
I Paladini. Storia d'armi e d'amori
Giacomo Battiato
Zeudi Araya Cristaldi, Barbara De Rossi
During a war between heathens and Christians, love blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, who in turn is in love with Moorish princess Isabella, Ruggero's sister.
Hearts and Armour
L'assassino è ancora tra noi
Camillo Teti
Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Riccardo Parisio Perrotti
During a spree of violent killings, a young woman writing a thesis in criminology begins to suspect that her new boyfriend, who is a forensic pathologist, might be a serial killer.
The Killer is Still Among Us
Il cartaio
Dario Argento
Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
The Card Player
Faccione
Christian De Sica
Nadia Rinaldi, Paco Reconti
Daniela, a true Roman girl with a big face, weighs over a hundred kilos and always has the joke ready. She cohabits in a tiny apartment with her friend Luisa and works as an assistant to Maria Pace, owner of an art gallery.
Faccione
