Paolo Bonacelli

Caligula

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into...

Mission: Impossible III

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the to...

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic ph...

The American

Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be...

Midnight Express

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him...

Origins of the Mafia

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to...

I promessi sposi

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endu...

Abraham

The life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spanning from the patriarch's qu...

Night on Earth

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

In the Hand of Dante

A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob bos...

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of f...

Lenin... The Train

In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany t...

The Commander

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merc...

The Stendhal Syndrome

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when s...

Rimini Rimini

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimin...

Giordano Bruno

Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bru...

Seven Times Seven

A gang of prison inmates escape to do a job at the Royal Mint, with only the time of the Cup Final to get back...

Abraham

Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the...

Maddalena

The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.

Magical Nights

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty k...

Johnny Stecchino

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicappe...

The Inheritance

In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-l...

Christ Stopped at Eboli

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time,...

The Persian Lamb Coat

Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the fa...

Nest of Vipers

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie...

Furore il vento della speranza

Le Guignolo

After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice...

Illustrious Corpses

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from...

Nothing Left to Do But Cry

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to al...

Lenin: The Train

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants k...

Francesco

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell storie...

Love Sins

A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and F...

Year One

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keepin...

Ciao, Professore!

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade...

The Knight, Death and The Devil

A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the sedu...