The Past Is a Foreign Land

The Past Is a Foreign Land 2008

6.17

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.

2008

Ogni volta che te ne vai

Ogni volta che te ne vai 2004

5.10

Orpheus was a child with a dream: to become a singer of smooth. Twenty years later, his dream becomes more complicated: to become a smooth singer with Pamela. And while she, free and elusive, continues to come and go in her life, music and dreams mark the rhythm of this bizarre love story.

2004

Cosmonaut

Cosmonaut 2009

6.00

Against the backdrop of the space race between the Soviets and the US, a 15-year-old girl struggles to affirm her political and gender identity in 1960s Italy.

2009

Lecture 21

Lecture 21 2008

6.28

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.

2008

The Station

The Station 1990

6.20

In a forgotten railway outpost, a humble stationmaster meets a glamorous society woman. Their brief wait for her train turns unexpectedly intimate—until her fiancé arrives, and the night erupts into a desperate struggle as he tries to drag her back by force.

1990

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 2001

6.60

In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.

2001

Italian Race

Italian Race 2016

7.54

Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she participates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.

2016

The Predators

The Predators 2020

6.74

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.

2020

Bits & Pieces

Bits & Pieces 1996

4.90

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

1996

It Was the Son

It Was the Son 2012

6.90

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.

2012

The Dew Point

The Dew Point 2024

6.28

25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as yet another nuisance, but spending time with Villa Bianca's residents — especially Dino, a cultured and sarcastic 80-year-old who has attempted suicide several times — will make Carlo change his outlook on the world and on life itself.

2024

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin 1994

6.40

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.

1994

Break Free

Break Free 2003

6.30

The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara to work as a cook. He falls for Genny, a waitress with a travel phobia, but his father Cenzo arrives, seeking Vince’s help to win back his ex-wife Paola.

2003

Ecco fatto

Ecco fatto 1998

4.80

Matteo and Piterone, lifelong friends, try to pass their high school exams for the third time, but then Margherita arrives and love enters their lives. Muccino's debut film.

1998

Strawberry in the Supermarket

Strawberry in the Supermarket 2003

6.73

An ex-soldier storms a supermarket and takes all the cashiers captive because one of them insulted his grandmother.

2003

L'Oriana

L'Oriana 2015

6.61

The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.

2015

We Have a Pope

We Have a Pope 2011

6.78

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

2011

Maximum Velocity (V-Max)

Maximum Velocity (V-Max) 2002

6.02

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, but gets himself involved with the latter's former girlfriend.

2002

But Forever In My Mind

But Forever In My Mind 1999

5.90

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.

1999