Luisa De Santis

Acqua e anice is a “dance hall road movie” about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer and a fixture at local dance halls, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra’s tour bus. No tour dates, this time: she is simply setting out to see her fans, her loved ones and all the places where she became a star, once again. For the occasion, Olimpia has hired a young woman, Maria, as shy and awkward as Olimpia isn’t, to be her driver.

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.

Ever since, at the age of six, Dario Cavalieri saw live images of the first moon landing, he has never stopped wanting to go there. Mario Cavalieri runs a neighborhood hardware store in Rome, until the day his existence is upset by the phone ring. His brother Dario is in prison. Mario finds himself being the only one who can take care of that brother he has seen only once in his life. The two brothers, as physically similar as they are different in character, will find themselves alone in the face of an impossible undertaking.

The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen ".

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.

Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his old mother in a village in Calabria, where the accident happened.

Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried) es una aspirante a escritora de una revista, quien, junto con su novio Víctor (Gael García Bernal), vuela desde Nueva York a Italia para vivir algo del romance que mucha falta le hace a la relación. Mientras Víctor está fuera, ocupándose de unos asuntos de trabajo, Sofía se encuentra en el famoso patio de Verona, donde mujeres de todas partes del mundo le dejan a Julieta cartas de amores perdidos y no correspondidos. Ella descubre una carta escrita 50 años antes a Julieta por Claire Smith (Vanessa Redgrave) buscando a un joven italiano que la cautivó siendo adolescente. Para sorpresa de Sophie, su carta inspira a Claire, ahora abuela, para viajar a Verona en busca de su amor perdido (Franco Nero).

A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.

A brief tribute to the grat director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.

A brief tribute to the grat director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.

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...

Paolo Bonomo es un productor de películas de serie B que atraviesa un momento particularmente crítico: está en trámites de separación de su mujer Paola, y además su productora no va demasiado bien. Un día le ofrecen un guión para hacer una película sobre Silvio Berlusconi y acepta la propuesta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.

Después de la muerte de Jesús, Poncio Pilatos tiene remordimientos por haber consentido en crucificar a Jesús y le pide al emperador que le decapite. (FILMAFFINITY)

Tras ejercer sus funciones en una isla del sur de Italia, un joven sacerdote es destinado por sus superiores a una parroquia de Roma. Allí se reencontrará con su familia y con sus amigos e intentará, en la medida de sus posibilidades, cambiar las cosas; pero el fracaso lo acechará, y su posterior crisis personal y profesional le harán cuestionarse su labor dentro de la Iglesia

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.

La historia de una estrella de la canción, desde sus orígenes humildes en su Italia natal hasta su rotundo éxito en París.

Italia, 1816. Los "carbonarios", un grupo revolucionario que sigue las teorías de Babeuf (1760-1797), intenta resistir los ataques del absolutismo. Cuando uno de ellos, el viejo Fulvio, de origen noble, enfermo y cansado y, además, perseguido por la policía, busca refugio en la casa familiar y se plantea empezar una nueva vida, alejada del compromiso político que ha arruinado sus ambiciones personales, sus correligionarios lo presionarán para que siga contribuyendo a la causa.

Milán, revuelta anti-austriaca de 1848. Cainazzo (Celentano), un delincuente de poca monta, y Rómulo (Cerusico) un panadero, se ven envueltos en los disturbios del momento. Asisten a reuniones en las que entran en contacto con los personajes más heterogéneos: agentes dobles, gentes sedientas de sangre, aventureros sin escrúpulos. Y como no desean ser marginados, participan de forma oportunista en la rebelión. Pero en medio de tanta injusticia y violencia, Rómulo reacciona instintivamente.

Un abogado arribista se casa con una mujer rica y se vuelve impotente. Con el fin de tener hijos, convence a un amigo cura de que engendre por él, pero el sacerdote le coge gusto al menester. El abogado lo mata...

El cuerpo del joven Alvise está paralizado, o al menos así lo cree. Está enamorado de su bella tía Lea. Lo que comienza como una terapia y cuidado inocentes pronto se convierte en una extraña batalla erótica y psicológica entre ellos.

Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.