Lei mi parla ancora

Lei mi parla ancora 2021

6.10

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.

2021

Giovanna's Father

Giovanna's Father 2008

6.90

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.

2008

Mr. Devil

Mr. Devil 2019

6.00

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims to have acted in order to kill the Devil himself.

2019

Christmas Present

Christmas Present 1986

7.30

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite after a long time to rip off a rich industrialist in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.

1986

Il figlio più piccolo

Il figlio più piccolo 2010

5.50

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor.

2010

Dante

Dante 2022

5.14

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.

2022

The Friends at the Margherita Café

The Friends at the Margherita Café 2009

5.60

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

2009

The Big Heart of Girls

The Big Heart of Girls 2011

5.70

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ...

2011

The Hideout

The Hideout 2007

6.10

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

2007

Arcane Sorcerer

Arcane Sorcerer 1996

6.90

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.

1996

Incantato

Incantato 2003

6.40

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

2003

The Second Wedding Night

The Second Wedding Night 2005

6.30

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.

2005

Laura's Wedding

Laura's Wedding 2015

4.50

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.

2015

Magnificat

Magnificat 1993

6.00

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

1993

Graduation Party

Graduation Party 1985

7.20

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

1985

Il fulgore di Dony

Il fulgore di Dony 2018

7.30

Dony and Marco, two high school students from Bologna, live an intense love story until he starts suffering serious neurological damage after a ski accident.

2018

Bix

Bix 1991

6.20

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.

1991

The Last Minute

The Last Minute 1987

6.10

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.

1987

The Story of Boys and Girls

The Story of Boys and Girls 1989

7.00

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.

1989