Silvio Orlando

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Silvia Nono

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Asia Argento

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando

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

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Ennio Fantastichini

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.

Dir. Leonardo Di Costanzo · With Toni Servillo, Silvio Orlando, Fabrizio Ferracane

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?

Dir. Enzo Monteleone · With Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando

Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Dir. Antonello Grimaldi · With Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Silvio Orlando, Sabrina Ferilli, Christian De Sica

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Silvio Orlando, Monica Bellucci, Valerio Mastandrea

Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...

Dir. Massimo Gaudioso · With Fabio Volo, Silvio Orlando, Carlo Buccirosso

Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.

Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Silvio Orlando, Luciana Littizzetto, Michele Placido