Valeria Golino

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

Céline Sciamma

Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Rain Man

Barry Levinson

Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology

Victor Davis, Thomas C. Grane

Роуэн Себастьян Аткинсон, Jim Abrahams

Spoof documentary

Leaving Las Vegas

Mike Figgis

Ни́колас Кейдж, Elisabeth Shue

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Immortal Beloved

Bernard Rose

Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

Frida

Julie Taymor

Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Human Capital

Paolo Virzì

Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Escoriandoli

Antonio Rezza, Flavia Mastrella

Valentina Cervi, Isabella Ferrari

Submission

Benicio del Toro

Joseph R. Gannascoli, Valeria Golino

Benicio del Toro's 1995 short film

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

Giuliano Montaldo

Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett

Jewish lovers (Rupert Everett, Stefania Sandrelli) and a homosexual doctor (Philippe Noiret) fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy.

Ritratto di mio padre

Maria Sole Tognazzi

Ugo Tognazzi, Pupi Avati

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

36th Precinct

Olivier Marchal

Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu

The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.

Respiro

Emanuele Crialese

Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato

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 Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.

Evagora's Vow

Andreas Pantzis

Georges Corraface, Valeria Golino

Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.

Le acrobate

Silvio Soldini

Valeria Golino, Licia Maglietta

A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.

The Indian Runner

Sean Penn

David Morse, Viggo Mortensen

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.