Antonella Attili

Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

An international incident threatens to break out a war between major European powers that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

Bernardo is a charming, successful man, full of friends, always frantically searching for his freedom. For a bad twist of fate one day everything changes, putting him in front of a choice: accept what has happened or become someone else, to take back what life has taken from him.

Based on a story by Stefano Sardo, The Perfect Dinner follows Carmine (Salvatore Esposito, Gomorrah series), a Neapolitan mafioso who isn’t cut out for the criminal life. Under the protection of his boss Pasquale (Gianfranco Gallo), Carmine is sent north to run a money laundering operation through a restaurant. He simply needs to defrost frozen meals, issue receipts and dinner is served. But everything changes when he meets Consuelo (Greta Scarano), a chef who always pursues perfection and dreams of winning a Michelin star. Carmine hires her and decides to transform the establishment into a high-end restaurant. Could the love for food and dream of winning a Michelin star give them both a second chance?

Greta is forced to accompany her newly separated mother to a party. For the first time, she will see her as a lonely woman, rather than just a mother.

Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.

Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action.

Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.

Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.

Policewoman Maria Moosandl and her lover Rocco Pacelli are expecting offspring. Unfortunately, the family conditions are anything but optimal: Maria's father is the police chief in the tranquil Landsberg and her future father-in-law Silvio the best connected owner of the pizzeria "Il Paradiso" and governor of a Sicilian Mafiaclans. In order to advance their own family business, the patron has already arranged a wedding for his only son - naturally with the daughter of the powerful clan chief from Naple

Massimo and Fabrizio are two 30-year-old Roman brethren living in Naples. Their life is about to change: they will become the Demolitions, who avenge those who have suffered wrongs.

Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother – a harsh and devoted woman – is a regular church-goer and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is twenty-five, has a violent temper and a difficult past behind. He works as a warden in a car park that borders a Roma camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a true sentiment, made of little stolen moments and mutual help.

In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what else can happen?

Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.

A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democratic Party, which is separated from the market by a concrete wall, built to allow the construction of the subway.

On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of his personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as his drawings and film clips.

Three very different women who are hiding a secret are forced to work together to save their own skin.

Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.

by joseph sargent

a young and charming immigrant, is about to marry the daughter of the underworld boss he works for. The ceremony is ready, but at the last moment Ali decides not to show up, and flees from Hesse, his countryman hopelessly in love with him. The two young lovers hide in a hotel waiting for the sunset to be able to reach the airport and escape forever. With Ninni Bruschetta.

Two poor friends are trying to run a con on a wealthy family.

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.

This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some viewers. Outwardly Luca seems to be a normal, quiet 20-year old. His mother is frequently gone. Trouble begins when Luca becomes obsessed with Valeria, the beauty who works in the next building. He begins spying on her, and then secretly filming her with his camcorder. He tries to get to know her, but she ignores him. Unable to stand her constant refusal, the frustrated young man accosts her on dark street and rapes her. The first rape was almost accidental; he encountered her on the street and he hurt her. Unfortunately, he liked the violence and begins raping every attractive woman he sees. He is particularly violent with Lorena, a jewelry saleswoman whom he beats up in a park before violating her.

Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges to fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband will be murdered and, unfortunately, her fears are realized. She decides to join a group of widows of judges to break the silence that has always protected the crimes of the Mafia, who always act in collusion with influential public figures. With the help of the group and the notes and documents of her husband, Carla produces a television documentary that endangers the lives of many people.

共産主義信奉者の大学教授ブルスキ（マルチェロ・マストロヤンニ）は規則正しい生活を送るのが身上の保守的な人間。ある日、疎遠な息子オリヴィエロから離婚寸前の妻ステラ（サンドリーヌ・ボネール）が出て行ったため、4歳の娘パペレを託される。利発だがちょっと変わった孫娘との生活にとまどうブルスキだが、やがて感受性豊かな彼女との生活が楽しみになる。ところがそこにステラが転がり込んできて状況は一転。奔放で粗野なステラは自分の都合だけでパペレを振り回し、ブルスキと衝突を続けたあげく家を追い出される。1カ月後、交通事故にあったステラを探しあてたブルスキは彼女を家に連れ帰る。奇妙な共同生活が続くなか、ブルスキはステラを本当の娘のように思い始め、3人は家族のようになった。ブルスキから教育を受けて新たな世界に目覚めるステラだが、彼との生活は窮屈だった。ある日、ステラはパペレを連れて家を出て行く。残されたブルスキは人生の黄昏をかみしめるのだった。

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

イタリアの名匠ジュゼッペ・トルナトーレによる、映画史に残る至高の名作。イタリアのシチリアを舞台に、少年と映写技師が映画を通して心を通わせていく様を、感動的な音楽と繊細な人物描写で描き出す。映画監督のサルヴァトーレ（ジャック・ペラン）は、映写技師のアルフレード（フィリップ・ノワレ）という老人が死んだという知らせを受け、故郷のシチリアに帰郷する。