Giorgio Colangeli

Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect Italian countryside is soon interrupted as it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors some dark and horrifying secrets.

Delia is a wife and a mother. These are the roles that define her and that is enough for her. It's the second half of the 1940s in a Rome torn between the positive push of liberation and the miseries of the war just behind them. It is springtime and the whole family is in turmoil over the impending engagement of the beloved first-born Marcella. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite Delia's courage to overturn her plans and imagine a better future, not only for her.

An unlikely marriage between two worlds that would like to unite, but their diversity will inexorably make them incompatible. And the more they try, the more they move away, with the hand of fate. Or maybe not...

Four stories set in the Sibillini mountains, in the heart of Italy

Pio y Amedeo son amigos inseparables, o al menos lo fueron hasta que terminaron el bachillerato, momento en el que cada uno se enfrentó a la pregunta: ¿se muda al norte o se queda en el sur?

Where is the line between memory and reality? Michele returns to his hometown "Rutunn'" after many years and as an old man. Walking through the streets of his village he arrives at his old house, where memories emerge from the silence and dust: his son still young, his wife, music from another era and a terrace overlooking a limitless horizon. He sinks into the memory, he lives it as if it was all happening here and now. However, he has never been able to return to that house.

Pino Gambassi es un niño que sufre de hemofilia y está animado por un deseo desenfrenado de libertad y coraje ilimitado: decide comenzar su aventura en el mundo y mostrar a todos que puede vivir su vida como un niño normal

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.

We are in a beautiful southern family, united by a deep relationship, despite some misunderstandings: Franco, a father who has dedicated his life to his loved ones and to work.

En torno a un partido de fútbol en un campo de tierra a las afueras de Roma, una comunidad se debate frente a disyuntivas éticas y morales.

Tres hombres italianos planean irse al este de Europa para sacar más partido a sus escasas pensiones.

Gianni is a taxi driver dissatisfied with his life. One day by chance he gets the opportunity to take possession of the villa and life of a billionaire on holiday.

María Soledad Rosas fue una joven argentina de 23 años cuyo suicidio la convirtió en un ícono del movimiento anarquista italiano. Perteneciente a una familia de clase media, Soledad Rosas no parecía muy cómoda con las convenciones de su entorno; pero sería el viaje que emprendió a Europa a mediados de 1997 el que la apartaría definitivamente del mandato familiar y signaría su vida para siempre.

Ludovico accepted the last choice of his wife, out of love. Now he has to find the courage to reveal this to his daughter.

In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start

A group of wild, physically disabled lowlifes has the perfect plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong as each of them reveals their own personal agenda.

Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.

A group of workers try overcoming their differences while facing the threat of an earthquake

Una madre se encuentra con la novia de su hijo y se propone conocerla mejor aprovechando que ella desconoce un hecho trágico sobre el joven.

Cristiana Capotondi es Anna, el personaje principal de una historia que se centra en uno de los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo: la crisis de la vivienda. Ella relata el drama de los que de repente se encuentra sin trabajo, sin sueldo, sin amigos y sobre todo sin un techo sobre su cabeza.

Jenny tiene 17 años y sueña con dedicarse a la natación sincronizada, pero su despreocupada vida de adolescente en Ostia, en la costa romana, se tambalea con la imprevista muerte de su madre. Con un padre enfermo y un hermano pequeño de nueve años del que ocuparse, Jenny se ve obligada a trasladarse a un pueblo montañés. Pronto, la chica comenzará a sentir el peso de esta responsabilidad mientras crece en ella el deseo de retomar el camino del que era su sueño. (FILMAFFINITY)

"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind.

En 1946, Alberto Manzi tras regresar de la Guerra busca trabajo como maestro, una tarea nada fácil ya que carece de recomendaciones. Finalmente encuentra un trabajo que nadie quiere, como profesor en un reformatorio de la ciudad. A sus alumnos no les interesa aprender y Alberto tendrá que ganarse su confianza.

Jacopo has a serious problem. He may be a brilliant marriage guidance counsellor, but he can never manage to have a steady relationship for more than two weeks. And for good reason: since he was very young, Jacopo has been cursed and brought bad luck to every woman who has fallen in love with him. Really bad luck. Because of this, he has vowed to stay away from women, for their own good. But the moment he lays eyes on Sara at a friend’s birthday party, he is smitten. Despite his resistance, the two fall head over heels leading to back-to-back, laugh-out-loud moments of disaster! Sara will quickly learn the consequences of her choice as the limits of her love are put to the test.

Kiko is a teenager whose now dead father was Italian and his mother Marilou is from the Philippines. They live with Ennio, mother's new boyfriend, a foreman who recruits and exploits illegal migrant workers. Kiko goes to school but at the same time he is forced to work in Ennio's building yards. He feels he lives in a wrong planet. There's only one place where Kiko can dream: an old abandoned bus in a dump yard that he's turned into his private refuge. One day it seems his fate could change: an elderly friend of his father's, Ettore, comes looking for Kiko and offers to become a strange kind of tutor for him. But one day Ettore reveals to Kiko his real identity...

Un antiguo cura, don Costantino, está confinado en un remoto faro, lejos de miradas indiscretas, para evitar que se sepa que ha dejado los oficios. La idea ha sido de su madre, mamma Stella, que ahora se le suma otro escándalo: su hija Rosa María ha dejado a su marido fugándose con su amante (una mujer). Al viejo faro en desuso, que pertenece a la familia de Costantino y que debería garantizarles un aislamiento, comienzan a llegar personajes bizarros, transformándose poco a poco en un refugio de pecadores.

It is the day of Enrica and Filippo's wedding. All their relatives are waiting in the church for the arrival of the bride. It is a stifling hot day.

Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!

Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.

On a boat at night, the secret journey of a man returning home.

Madhi gets lost in Rome and asks the way.

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

Young laborer Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry Cinzia, his lifelong fiancée. His uncertain feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, engaged in the renovation of a house in Trastevere, he comes across Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by her lifestyle, light-years away from his.

Ivan is an undocumented immigrant from Eastern Europe who is in Italy looking for work to support himself and his father, who has a gambling addiction. When Ivan hears of work on a nearby island, he makes the trip only to be cheated and beaten by unscrupulous thugs. When all seems bleak, Ivan is befriended by Martina, an eccentric woman who never speaks and lives with Father Enzo, a compassionate priest who takes in misfits and transients. Despite his warm heart, Enzo has a harsh personality which has only gotten worse since he's been bedridden by a stroke. Enzo's sister helps look after him, but he's certain she only wants to gain control of land he owns but uses only to keep bees, which are cared for by Martina. As Ivan becomes part of the priest's household, he helps make Enzo's life more harmonious and bonds with the normally shy Martina, but not everyone in the community takes so kindly to the stranger who is clearly not Italian.

Clemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what seems to be an attempted robbery and taken to the police, accused of being the infamous Santa Claus Gang of burglars. While trying to prove their innocence, the trio explains the reasons for which they found themselves in such a strange situation.

Alba (Stefania Sandrelli) vive con su marido (Giorgio Colangeli) y dos hijos, de padres diferentes, que son diametralmente opuestos: el primogénito Giorgio (Alessandro Gassman), un mujeriego empedernido, y el tímido y sensible Leonardo (Luca Argentero), que, tras haber superado un intento de suicidio y vivido una dura decepción sentimental, cree haber encontrado el amor en Sara (Valentina Lodovini); pero la historia se complica cuando se descubre que Sara y Giorgio han sido amantes.

Mary is a young girl, daughter of shepherds, promised in marriage to Joseph, a widower with two children, living in the nearby village of Nazareth, in the Galilee of two thousand years ago. Grown up in love and respect for the little ones, Mary, after leaving her home, soon sees the distortions of the patriarchal world surrounding her, starting with her husband's family. Here he reads the oldest brother of Joseph, Mordecai. The sunny and determined attitude of the girl, protective of children, arouses the indignation of the head of the family and those who are convinced of the need to give them punishment, discipline and submission.

Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military peace mission.

En una antigua casa colonial, el silencio ahoga el alma de una indomable chica de dieciocho años, Chiara. Tommaso, el tan amado abuelo, yace muerto en la cama de sus padres.

Claudio es un albañil que está muy enamorado de su mujer y espera la llegada de su tercer hijo. Sin embargo, cuando un golpe inesperado del destino cambia su vida, Claudio afrontará con rabia la injusticia personal y social que se ha abatido sobre él. (FILMAFFINITY)

Gianluca, un hombre al que cada día le cuesta más hacer frente a las contracciones de la vida, sube a lo alto del Coliseo. Mientras tanto, sus superficiales amigos viven situaciones hilarantes camino del Coliseo. La abuela de Gianluca también sube a lo alto del Coliseo, y su llegada es vital para que su nieto pueda salvarse.

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

Sonia es una emigrante en Italia de origen esloveno que limpia habitaciones en un hotel de Turín, y que acude a un lugar de citas rápidas para encontrar pareja. Allí conocerá a Guido, un ex policía convertido ahora en guardia de seguridad de una mansión de lujo en medio del campo.

The title translates literally as "Faceboom." An omnibus film helmed by seven top-tiered Italian directors, this comedy explores the worldwide Facebook craze of the early 21st century by recounting the adventures of numerous Europeans whose lives are altered by that social networking site.

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is now working for a crime organization.

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.

Film sobre una de las figuras más controvertidas de la política italiana, el que fuera jefe del gobierno en siete ocasiones, Giulio Andreotti. Narra las presuntas relaciones de Andreotti con la mafia siciliana, delitos por los que fue procesado en los años 90 y absuelto por falta de pruebas.

Lulli, un notable crítico de arte, es novio de Gloria, la joven y bella hija de un amigo suyo muy querido que ha muerto. Pero este noviazgo, de repente, se rompe porque ella prefiere a Adriano, un artista atormentado que lucha por alcanzar la fama. Dolido y despechado, Lulli intentará vengarse buscando la ruina de su rival.

Narra la historia del nacimiento de Sasha y del renacimiento de Nicole. Es la historia de dos seres humanos que se reconocen inmediatamente, pero que tienen que cumplir todo el trayecto que la vida ha planeado para cada uno de ellos, antes de aceptar los propios sentimientos, antes de encontrarse en igualdad de condiciones, antes de tener el valor de verse reflejados cada uno en el otro. Antes de rendirse y concederse uno a otro.

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

Giuseppe Moscati, el santo doctor de Nápoles, fue un médico de inicios del siglo XX, proveniente de una familia aristocrática dedicó su carrera a servir a los pobres. En la película se centran en su lado humano, dejando parcialmente de lado su parte espiritual. Moscati asistía a Misa todos los días, incentivaba a sus pacientes a que recibieran los sacramentos, atendía a los pacientes pobres gratis, y solía enviar pacientes de vuelta a sus casas no solo con la receta para sus remedios sino también con dinero. En épocas catastróficas en Italia, Moscati se mantuvo ayudando en todo lo que su profesión le permitía.

An irrepressible passion blossoms between 27 year-old aspiring writer Stefania, and Stefano, a 15 year-old high school student. Their unusual relationship obviously baffles friends and relatives of both components of the unusual couple. Can their feelings withstand their own fears and the pressure of society ? ...

A Donatello award nominated short film about two young Somali brothers living in Rome with completely different work ethics.

Leo and Nina lived happily out of wedlock until one day Nina asked Leo to marry him. Leo, hostile to conformity, had always been opposed to the idea and it looked as though Nina as well. But giving in to his companion's insistence, the young man agrees to an unconventional wedding, without the expensive white gown, without the traditional candy box, with gifts to charities instead of wedding presents, the lot. Nina agrees … or seems to.

Fabio's work consists in helping ex prisoners to find their way in the outside world, but his quite life changes after he meets Mr Sparti, now he has to fight his own ghosts.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

Orpheus was a child with a dream: to become a singer of smooth. Twenty years later, his dream becomes more complicated: to become a smooth singer with Pamela. And while she, free and elusive, continues to come and go in her life, music and dreams mark the rhythm of this bizarre love story.

Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver...gay night life... sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together. - - - Gente di Roma is a 2003 Italian comedy mockumentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini's Roma. The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, who Scola wanted to close the film, as a noble man, but he could not film him because he died. Scola's daughters helped to co-write the script. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A Donatello award nominated short feature.

The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).

Umberto es el propietario de una elegante sastrería, pero está perdiendo clientes debido a la competencia que le hace Leone, un sastre judío. La rivalidad profesional propicia toda clase de estrategias y trucos sucios. Sin embargo, sus hijos pequeños van juntos al colegio y sus hijos mayores son novios. Esta situación cambiará cuando, en 1938, el gobierno italiano aprueba las leyes raciales contra los judíos.

Conjunto de pequeñas historias referidas por sus propios protagonistas, clientes esporádicos de un restaurante regentado por Fiora (Fanny Ardant). A la tranquila hora de la cena se muestran tal como son, con sus vicios y virtudes, con sus deseos, decepciones y cambios de humor.

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.

Pietro is 70 years old, he's a bicycle addict even if he has a heart condition. He's now on his bike ready to meet his daughter after a long time.