Sandro Petraglia

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti

Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, a new teacher at the local high school, enters his life, Michele finds himself falling in love. At the same time, a string of murders rocks the neighborhood, casting suspicion on him.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi

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

Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.

Dir. Marco Risi · With Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Stefano Accorsi

Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giulio himself, the latter are now each coping in their own way with the defeat of the revolution. Soon, however, Giulio realizes that despite his best efforts, he seems unable to solve the problems troubling those around him.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri

Toni Chichiarelli arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a painter, but his talent leads him elsewhere — from art galleries to state secrets. Between art, crime, and power, his signature ends up everywhere — even in the history of Italy.

Dir. Stefano Lodovichi · With Pietro Castellitto, Giulia Michelini, Andrea Arcangeli

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Silvio Orlando, Anna Galiena, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon

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

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission.

Dir. Alessandro Tonda · With Claudio Santamaria, Sonia Bergamasco, Anna Ferzetti

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With John Malkovich, Arnas Fedaravičius, Vilius Tumalavicius

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.

Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Valerio Binasco

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

Dir. Andrea Molaioli · With Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni

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

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert

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

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!

Dir. Luca Miniero · With Claudio Bisio, Alessandro Gassmann, Angela Finocchiaro