Genres: Crime / Mystery / Drama
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva
Plot: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend.
Genres: Crime / Mystery / Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks
Plot: In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in restoring and reassembling some odd mechanical parts he finds amongst Claire's belongings, while also giving him advice on how to befriend her and deal with his feelings towards her. Also a friend of Oldman, Billy Whistler helps him to acquire a secret private collection of master paintings.
Genres: Comedy / Drama
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Monica Bellucci
Plot: The film begins in the 1920's, in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (a.k.a. Baaria) where Giuseppe "Peppino" Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next 50 years Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl (Mannina), has children and forges a political career for himself.
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Music
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel
Plot: Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.
Genres: Crime / Romance / Thriller
Director: Stefano Sollima
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Giulia Gorietti
Plot: A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Plot: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Genres: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Margherita Buy, Pierfrancesco Favino
Plot: A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family. Like an intricately constructed jigsaw puzzle, The Unknown Woman reveals piece by piece the enigma of Irena's past.
Genres: Comedy / Drama
Director: Paolo Genovese
Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Kasia Smutniak
Plot: Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles.
Genres: Animation / Adventure/ Comedy
Director: Iginio Straffi
Cast: Stefano Alessandroni, Laura Chiatti, Daniela Abbruzzese
Plot: A new hero is born in this hilarious, animated adventure of epic proportions. Timo, a student at the Gladiators' Academy in Rome, has no desire to become a legendary gladiator like his stepfather. That is, until the mesmerizing Lucilla walks into his life. With the help of an unlikely band of sidekicks, Timo is determined to be the gladiator of her dreams and embarks on an action-packed journey to become the Colosseum's first victor.
Genres: Crime / Drama
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: John Malkovich, Eleanor Tomlinson, Peter Stormare
Plot: A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
Genres: Drama / Romance / War
Director: Sergio Castellitto
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch, Jane Birkin
Plot: A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.
Genres: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Matteo Garrone
Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Plot: The film serves as Garrone's English-language debut and will interweave three separate story strands bookended by brief bits in which Italians Alba Rohrwacher and Massimo Ceccherini will play a street circus family. In one tale Salma Hayek will play a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Vincent Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
Genre: Crime / Drama
Director: Matteo Garrone
Cast: Gianfelice Imparato, Toni Servillo, Maria Nazionale
Plot: "Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Genre: Drama
Director: Emanuele Crialese
Cast: Valeria Golino, Elio Germano, Vincenzo Amato
Plot: Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale, the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan.
Genres: Comedy / Romance
Director: Giovanni Veronesi
Cast: Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Laura Chiatti.
Plot: Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire...
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