Ennio Fantastichini

Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.

A biopic on the personal and artistic life of Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André.

Vincent was born near Paris, but has cut off every link with his roots. Maria, fifteen years younger, grew up in Ostia, but no longer sees her family. Together they form a couple that does not seem to need anyone. They lead a secluded life in contemporary Rome, indolent and distracted. Furthermore, Vincent and Maria are good at blending in with their environment. When they return home, they make love with the passion of young lovers in a suburban apartment that she has carefully furnished. Yet, on closer inspection, their everyday life betrays what lies behind their seemingly normal appearance: a project carried out by him with a clear determination and accepted by her only by virtue of unconditional love. A plan to help couples who cannot have children. Maria decides that it is time to create a real family. This choice has an inevitable consequence: the rebellion against Vincent, the man of her life.

A biografia do mundialmente famoso tenor Andrea Bocelli. Depois que uma grave doença ocular o deixa cego aos doze anos, ele supera todos os desafios com o apoio incondicional de seus pais, e sua paixão pela música, traz a luz de volta à sua vida.

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.

Três histórias, passadas em três lugares do mundo, ligadas por um elemento simbólico. Na Bélgica, a loja do iraquiano Hamed é saqueada e seu precioso pote de café é roubado. Na Itália, um sommelier apaixonado se envolve em um assalto a uma fábrica de café. Na China, um jovem gerente é convidado a cuidar de uma fábrica que corre o risco de poluir um vale em Yunnan.

Marina Baldi (Sabrina Ferilli) é extrovertida e militante, e Federica Salvini (Margherita Buy), uma mulher tímida e introvertida, que já foi casada e tem filhos. As duas resolveram viver juntas e já estão juntas há cinco anos, enfrentando crises como qualquer outro casal.

Love, passion, and murder haunt a passionate romance in this drama. When the young soldier meets Helene, a torrid affair begins. 15 years after the war has ended, Max finds out that the love of his life was murdered in a concentration camp, setting off on a relentless manhunt for vengeance.

Com uma carreira profissional brilhante em Londres, Serena, arquiteta italiana de Abruzzo, decide voltar a trabalhar na Itália, em Roma. Todavia, para uma mulher conseguir um trabalho à altura de sua qualificação revela-se um tanto difícil, até o momento que decide se passar por homem. Assim, consegue se envolver num projeto de revitalização do bairro de Corviale. Sempre em Roma, conhece Francesco, homossexual com o qual desenvolve uma profunda amizade.

In 1956, Italy is trying to cheer up after the World War Two devastation. Fedele Cova, freeway society engineer, has a dream: build a long highway that link Milan and Naples. The challenge is extremely hard and for 8 years a lot of men work strongly, building a 755 kilometers highway, with 113 viaducts, 525 flyovers and 38 tunnels.

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?

The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and Sicily and of a special man, the greatest architect of his time, Luigi Vanvitelli. Their Love goes beyond their own human existence and becomes real in the immeasurable beauty of the Royal Caserta Palace.

Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Amanda believes men are too complicated and has lost faith finding the perfect one. Her friend and a psychoanalyst have a plan how to make her fall in love. She insists that Amanda not stay home alone on New Year's Eve, and only gets her way after swearing that all the other guests will be couples, except for Maxime, a gay colleague. But Maxime leaves at the last minute to join his lover in Amsterdam, and Antoine, recently separated from his wife, arrives alone at the party.

Chinese-language interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr. Wang.

Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building.

Tommaso é parte da tradicional família Cantone, proprietária de uma fábrica de massas no sul da Itália. Ele viaja de Roma, onde almeja uma carreira de escritor, para uma reunião com todos. Seu irmão será anunciado como eleito para tocar os negócios da família e Tommaso pretende aproveitar a ocasião para contar a todos sobre sua homossexualidade. Mas ele não esperava que seu irmão Antônio tomaria a dianteira e comunicaria aos familiares que também é homossexual.

Um livre retrato do poeta italiano Lorenzo da Ponte, autor do libreto de Don Giovanni, amigo do libertino Giacomo Casanova e, ao mesmo tempo, um artista que vivia na dissipação. Da Ponte, um judeu veneziano convertido por obrigação ao cristianismo e que foi expulso de Veneza pela Inquisição, conheceu Mozart em Viena, trabalhando com ele na peça de teatro e lírica encarregada pelo rei austríaco, depois do sucesso de As Bodas de Figaro.

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.

An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

This is a contemporary story set in Perth Western Australia . Anthony Argo is a young Italian/Australian boxer, being pushed to the limit by his Sicilian father-trainer, Joe,. Joe wants Anthony to achieve the success in the ring that he was denied as a young man. When Anthony meets Kate, he begins to see his life - and the role violence - in a different light.

An odd couple of contrasting cops: one is a disillusioned veteran, the other young, idealistic and speaks fluent Arabic. Ideal for tailing Khalid (Ahmed Hafiene), who was acquitted but is still suspected of having ties with Al-Qaida. The two cops, who initially can't stand each other, find themselves increasingly in contact with the life and habits of Khalid. As the story goes the suspect catches on to them, but when he begins receiving threats the cops become his bodyguards, his escort. Being nearer to him, and knowing him better, the two cops end up making almost friends with the man. At last it comes out that Khalid is the victim of a legal error. He makes accusations against the Italian's justice, but this leads to his expulsion from Italy. The young policeman undertakes a voyage in search of Khalid, that will lead him to Tunisia, and to some final twists.

A young boy and a young girl finds each other.

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Um grupo de amigos que viveram a própria juventude nos anos 80 e 90, estão a beira dos quarenta e tiram as contas sobre o sentido de tal amizade, dos seus romances e de suas vidas. O tema da separação, seja na amizade que no amor e a impossibilidade de aceitá-la irá obrigá-los a se confrontar com os seus sentimentos, suas emoções e seus medos mais profundos. O que aconteceria se em vez de esconder, negar ou remover mudanças sentimentais ou existenciais, se começasse a não esconder mais nada, a desabafar tudo e a se confrontar coletivamente com os próprios desejos, segredos, cada um com sua própria vontade de novas relações e sentimentos? Como se podem superar todos os medos ligados às mudanças da própria vida? Como não se separar nunca, mesmo quando tudo ao teu redor pede por isso.

Aos 18 anos, o jovem polonês Karol Wojtyla (Piotr Adamczyk) dedicava-se aos estudos e ao desejo de ser ator e escritor. Mas quando as consequências da Segunda Guerra Mundial passam a assombrar seu país, com a invasão das tropas nazistas, Karol presencia os horrores de um povo cruelmente perseguido e destruído. Diante de tanta dor, decide se tornar padre e ajudar àqueles que precisam. Tem início sua jornada rumo à devoção e à esperança. Wojtyla disseminou palavras de fé, de paz e de liberdade, distribuindo amor entre os desenganados. Com a chegada do Comunismo, combateu o regime totalitarista corajosamente, convencido de que, mesmo ameaçado, tinha o dever de fazer algo em prol da humanidade. Wojtyla foi o escolhido. Aceitou seu destino e tornou-se o Papa João Paulo II, o mais querido e popular de todos os tempos, e que esteve determinado até o fim a amenizar os sofrimentos e as angústias do homem.

In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.

Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June 17, 1942, the children spent several adventurous months in Slovenia, caught up in the ongoing fight between the partisans and the Italian army. In April 1943, another 33 children, some from the Balkans, others from France, joined the original group. All were orphans who had lost their parents in concentration camps and had subsequently been smuggled out of Germany by Recha Freier, a well-known Zionist. The group ranged in age from six to twenty one and settled in at Villa Emma with their chaperones and teachers, Josef Indig, Marco Schoky and the pianist Boris Jochverdson.

Six shorts.

Maria Josè was the daughter of the king of Belgium and she was betrothed to Umberto di Savoia, the son of Vittorio Emanuele III, the king of Italy. The movie tells her story from her teens, when she was a Red Cross nurse during World War I until her exile in 1946.

Feature film.

Italian thriller

Esta é a história de Saulo de Tarso, perseguidor de cristãos que se tornou no apóstolo Paulo depois que Jesus lhe apareceu em uma visão. Como um dos primeiros missionários cristãos, Paulo levava uma vida de perigo e aventuras. Ele foi aprisionado, torturado, apedrejado, afundaram seu barco, foi atacado por bandidos e inimigos da fé.

Based on Anton Chekhov's play.

A história do homem que criou jesus como se fosse seu próprio filho. José (Tobias Moretti) é um pobre carpinteiro, noivo da jovem Maria(Stefanis Rivi). Certo dia é chamado pelo Rei Herodes (Ennio Fantastichini) para trabalhar em uma distante terra. Quando retorna, recebe a notícia de que sua futura esposa está grávida. Desconfiado, não acredita nas palavras de Maria, que afirma estar grávida do Espírito Santo. José, sendo justo e não querendo difamá-la, resolve deixá-la secretamente. Mas numa noite, em sonho, lhe aparece um anjo do Senhor e lhe diz: "Casa-se com Maria que ela dará à luz ao filho de Deus".

Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase.

Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. He is a writer who lives alone without any children, and is an antisocial person. However, he is as satisfied with his life. Although he has not been working for a while, a film director asks him to prepare a scenario on the life of "Teresa of Ávila". Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.

Viola is a girl who has just cut off a love affair and lives alone with her dog. One day he decides to browse the world of erotic chats and meets the mysterious Mittler, who begins to advance more and more audacious requests, until they decide to discover their respective identities.

An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...

During an August vacation on the island of Ventotene, two groups of Italians with diametrically opposed political views and social backgrounds find themselves living together as neighbors. An incident concerning an African immigrant triggers a series of confrontations that reveal hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.

Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.

In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.

Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.

Genoa, 1945. The war is over but not for 4 partisans who still try to capture the remaining fascists. They are not satisfied with the concept of justice that the new born Italian Republic tries to instigate.

After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.

A good-natured, albeit a bit pedantic stationmaster works at a railway station in the middle of nowhere. One night, a beautiful high-society woman enters the station to buy a ticket. Waiting for her train, the two talk and eventually grow close. However, the mood quickly changes when the woman's fiancée arrives and tries to prevent her from leaving with increasingly violent means.

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.

Palermo 1936. Um funcionário do governo fascista, Tommaso Scalia, cometeu três assassinatos e se espera que seja condenado a pena capital, mas um juiz é contra a opinião geral, e partidário da prisão perpétua e tentará impedir a condenação de morte.

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys.

Ferruccio, who knows everything about camels, and Camillo, who acts as his manager, go to Milan to take part in a telequiz.

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?

During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.

Leo has a dream: to make a movie in the great outskirts of the metropolis (Rome). He does anything for money, including selling cocaine. But his dream vanishes in the night when the police catch his friend.

Três homens na casa dos setenta decidem deixar sua vida em um bairro de Roma e encontrar um lugar no exterior para se mudarem.