Elio Germano

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Elio Germano, Matilda De Angelis, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

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.

Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Amendola, Alessandro Borghi

The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized kid finds redemption in his art, and a way to express himself and be admired by the world.

Dir. Giorgio Diritti · With Elio Germano, Oliver Ewy, Leonardo Carrozzo

A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.

Dir. Marco Bonfanti · With Elio Germano, Michela Cescon, Silvia D'Amico

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."

Dir. Daniele Vicari · With Claudio Santamaria, Jennifer Ulrich, Elio Germano

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.

Dir. Gianni Amelio · With Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.

Dir. Andrea Segre · With Elio Germano, Paolo Pierobon, Roberto Citran

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro

Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.

Dir. Emanuele Crialese · With Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Valerio Mastandrea

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.

Dir. Michele Riondino · With Michele Riondino, Elio Germano, Vanessa Scalera

The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Elio Germano, Ricky Memphis, Alessandra Mastronardi

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Dir. Mario Martone · With Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio

Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.

Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Elio Germano, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Valerio Binasco

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

Dir. Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo · With Elio Germano, Tommaso Di Cola, Giulietta Rebeggiani

Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day he finds a little girl tied up in his basement.

Dir. Fabio D'Innocenzo, Damiano D'Innocenzo · With Elio Germano, Astrid Casali, Sara Ciocca

Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.

Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Elio Germano, Luca Virgulti, Paolo Vivio

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Elio Germano, Isabella Ragonese, Raoul Bova

An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Filippo Timi, Elio Germano, Alvaro Caleca

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Elio Germano, Federica Rosellini, Vittoria Puccini

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.

Dir. Gianni Zanasi · With Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.

Dir. Gianni Amelio · With Renato Carpentieri, Elio Germano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.

Dir. Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza · With Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Marco Giallini, Elio Germano, Eleonora Danco

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Massimo De Lorenzo

A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Silvio Muccino, Violante Placido, Elio Germano

She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...

Dir. Joann Sfar · With Freya Mavor, Stacy Martin, Benjamin Biolay

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Dir. Luca Guadagnino · With María Valverde, Letizia Ciampa, Primo Reggiani