Massimo Popolizio

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

Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.

Dir. Leonardo D'Agostini · With Stefano Accorsi, Andrea Carpenzano, Ludovica Martino

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

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

This is the story of two completely opposite households: the Pavone are intellectual and bourgeois, the Vismara are proletarian and fascists. They are two tribes sharing the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident brings these two poles together. The madness of a 25-year old youth will set them on a collision course, discovering the cards to reveal that everyone has a secret. People are never what they seem – but we are all predators in the end.

Dir. Pietro Castellitto · With Massimo Popolizio, Manuela Mandracchia, Giorgio Montanini

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

Dir. Riccardo Milani · With Claudio Bisio, Kasia Smutniak, Giuseppe Fiorello

A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.

Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Massimo Popolizio

Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric wins him once again the hearts and minds of millions of Italians — who see him as a wacky reenactor who speaks inconvenient truths to power.

Dir. Luca Miniero · With Massimo Popolizio, Frank Matano, Stefania Rocca

Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.

Dir. Giuseppe G. Stasi, Giancarlo Fontana · With Claudio Bisio, Sarah Felberbaum, Pietro Sermonti

A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor street seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate.

Dir. Aldo Baglio, Morgan Bertacca, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti

Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale…

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Anna Kasyan