Fabrizio Gifuni

Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.

El auge y la caída del imperio pirata de mixtapes de tres hermanos de Nápoles y sus casetes con la marca registrada "Mixed by Erry" que llevaron la música pop a la juventud italiana de la década de 1980.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

En un barrio residencial de Roma hay una conocida escuela católica donde se educa a los hijos de la clase media alta. Las familias sienten que en ese entorno sus hijos podrán crecer protegidos de la agitación que impregna la sociedad y que una educación estricta les abrirá las puertas de un futuro brillante. En la noche del 29 al 30 de septiembre de 1975 esa fortaleza de valores irreprochables se derrumbó bajo el peso de uno de los crímenes más atroces de la época: la masacre del Circeo.

Nino and Caterina have been married for sixty-five years. On the death of Caterina , his daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an editor to write a book on their love story.

Leonida Riva es un veterano de guerra -sombrío y solitario- que alguna vez fue capitán de las fuerzas especiales del ejército. La vida y el trabajo han separado a Riva de su familia. Su hijo mayor, Mattia, nunca lo ha perdonado mientras que su hija, Teresa, lo ama incondicionalmente. Sin embargo, un trágico suceso obligará a Leonida a transformarse 'la bestia' que pensó que había enterrado en el pasado.

A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.

Where I've never been to live, Francesca's emotional conflicts, 50, is the only daughter of a famous Turin architect, to whom she visits only on rare occasions. For many years, Francesca lives in Paris with her teenage daughter and her husband Benoît, a financier on her sixty, apparently reserved but paternal and protective about her. Due to a domestic accident that forces the elderly father to bed, the woman flees to Turin to take her parents in the design of a villa on a lake for a young couple. At work he meets architect Massimo, his peer-minded career and engaged in an open relationship with independent Sandra. After a tough first approach, Massimo and Francesca create a strong professional tune that leads to a deep and passionate feeling. For the first time in life, both will have to really confront themselves and their most authentic destinies ...

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

Turín, 1969. Massimo es un joven de nueve años que disfruta de una infancia feliz junto a su madre, una mujer cariñosa pero psicológicamente inestable. Una mañana, el pequeño es invitado a pasar unos días en casa de unos vecinos, quienes le explican que su madre ha fallecido. Massimo, quien crece sin haber conocido las causas de la muerte de su progenitora y nunca entablar relación con su padre. Treinta años más tarde, Massimo se ha convertido en un reputado escritor y periodista, comienza a sufrir una serie de ataques de pánico. Cuando Massimo se prepare para vender el apartamento familiar, Elisa, una doctora, le ayudará a enfrentarse a las heridas de su pasado. Este drama italiano está basado en la novela de Massimo Gramellini 'Fai bei sogni'.

La noche del 2 de noviembre de 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini es asesinado en Roma. El director era el símbolo del arte revolucionario que lucha contra el poder. Sus escritos eran escandalosos; sus películas, perseguidas por los censores. Era tan amado como odiado. Ese día, Pasolini había pasado sus últimas horas con su madre y con sus amigos; por la noche se lanzó a la calle en busca de aventuras. Al amanecer, su cadáver fue hallado en una playa de Ostia, en las afueras de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)

En un documental íntimo, la actriz Teresa Mannino pregunta al autor Andrea Camilleri en qué se inspiró para escribir sus famosas novelas del comisario Montalbano.

Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idolatric.

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.

James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.

Inspirado en una novela del norteamericano Stephen Amidon, originalmente ambientada en Connecticut, el film habla de un mundo de una clase pudiente, con mansiones fastuosas y repletas de personal de servicio, dominado por un especulador creador de un fondo que promete un 40 por ciento de interés anual atrayendo y esquilmando a los crédulos inversores. El personaje es un digno "representante de esa criminalidad financiera que, como ocurrió en la crisis de 2008, puede llegar a destruir la economía de naciones enteras o por lo menos a despojar a los ingenuos de todos sus bienes", declaró Virzì.

Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.

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.

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

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.

A biopic of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist.

Tras la muerte de su padre, Gabriele Rossetti vuelve a Puglia. Su casa natal le recuerda su infancia, en los años 60, cuando tenía que sufrir los cambios de humor de su padre, un jefe de estación que soñaba con ser pintor. Recuerda también la severidad de su madre, profesora de literatura, y la alegría de su joven tío Pinuccio. El día del entierro, Gabriele descubre algo que cambia profundamente su opinión sobre su padre.

Freak and Jajà, like Vladimir and Estragon, are in a no man’s land, with no date or time. Earth is no longer inhabited by humans but a few strange survivors who appear from time to time. The two protagonists, strangers to each other, meet at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere.

Telefilm que se centra en la figura de Pablo VI desde que era sacerdote con 27 años, hasta los meses más cercanos a su muerte en marzo de 1978. Desde la perspectiva de Pablo VI, la película recoge momentos históricos como el fascismo en Italia, los Nazis, la II Guerra Mundial y el Concilio Vaticano II en el que Pablo VI tuvo un papel relevante o incluso la guerra de Vietnam.

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.

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.

Una pequeña e idílica población italiana en la región de los Dolomitas (Alpes orientales) queda conmocionada por la violenta muerte de una adolescente en un paraje montañoso. De la capital viene el inspector Sanzio para encargarse de un caso en el que tanto la víctima como el crimen aparecen rodeados de misterios.

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

Historia de una familia italiana desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días. Dos hermanos, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) y Matteo (Alessio Boni), comparten las mismas esperanzas, los mismos sueños; disfrutan de los mismos libros y de los mismos amigos hasta que conocen a una chica desequilibrada, Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), que perturba su destino. Mientras Nicola ejerce como psicólogo, Matteo abandona sus estudios e ingresa en el cuerpo de policía.

It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama of incommunicability.

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.

La vida y la profesión de Sofía, que es actriz, está presidida por la mentira y la ilusión.

Han pasado diez años desde que el doctor Hannibal, después de su entrevista con la agente del FBI Clarice Starling, escapara del hospital de máxima seguridad en el que estaba recluido. Lecter vive ahora en Italia, pero Starling no ha podido olvidar sus encuentros con él: su fría voz sigue resonando en sus sueños. Mason Verger también recuerda a Lecter: fue su sexta víctima y, pese a quedar horriblemente desfigurado, logró sobrevivir. Tras heredar una fortuna, Verger decide emplearla para satisfacer sus deseos de venganza. Pero pronto se da cuenta de que, para sacar a Lecter de su escondrijo, debe ponerle delante un cebo irresistible: Clarice Starling.

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.

Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.

Twenty years of the relationship between a man and a woman.

Historia de dos hermanos sicilianos emigrados a Turín. Giovanni, el mayor, acaricia un ambicioso proyecto, que aparentemente está muy lejos de sus posibilidades, pero está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea con tal de hacerlo realidad: desea que Pietro, su hermano pequeño, obtenga el título de maestro. El problema es que Pietro no quiere estudiar. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.