Italy knows exactly what it's doing. It lures you in with beauty, then hits you with chaos, desire, and stories that taste like espresso at midnight.

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Long before The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino’s second feature was a hyper-stylized existential drama — a demanding yet deeply rewarding gem. Featuring a dazzling performance by Toni Servillo as a man who seems to have been stripped of every trace of life.

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A well-groomed middle-aged man from southern Italy has spent the past eight years living in an anonymous hotel in a nameless Swiss city, with no apparent occupation. Years of silence and countless cigarettes unfold in the hotel lobby, where he sits elegantly dressed yet denies himself any luxury. What are the unspoken secrets he carries?

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2004

The Consequences of Love

Where the song is the lonely monologue of a forgotten loser. Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl's new magnum opus finds passion for life and romance beneath the sadness of a frayed surface.

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Richie Bravo is a washed-up pop star chasing his faded fame in wintery Rimini, Italy. Trapped between constant drunkenness and gigs for busloads of tourists, his world begins to crumble when his daughter shows up asking for money.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Berlin Film Festival | 2022

Rimini

A film that won the Jury Prize at Cannes and earned Toni Servillo the European Best Actor Award in 2008. In what many consider his finest work, Paolo Sorrentino draws inspiration from a controversial political figure to craft a dazzling and sardonic political satire.

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The story of Giulio Andreotti, seven-time prime minister and the most powerful politician in postwar Italy, spanning from 1946 to 1993.

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Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2008
Nominated for Best Achievement in Makeup | Oscars | 2010
Best European Actor (Toni Servillo) | European Film Awards | 2008

Il Divo

An unknown, dark and shameful aspect of European history is brought to light in a film of epic intentions and dimensions about a father's struggle to discover the fate of his children and to get justice, with another stirring performance by a thunderous Franz Rogowski.

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An itinerant artist wanders with his family from village to village struggling to survive. He belongs to the Genis, a nomadic ethnic minority in Central Europe.  He is called to fight against the Nazis, but on his return he learns that his wife has been murdered and that his children have been kidnapped by the authorities in order to be 'reformed'. The search for them will become the purpose of his life.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2023

Lubo

A story of the search for the meaning of life and male friendship against the backdrop of the breathtaking landscape of the Italian Alps. The Cannes award-winning film by Felix Van Groningen ("The Broken Circle Breakdown") is a moving journey of self-discovery and coming of age.

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Eleven-year-old Pietro, raised in Turin, spends a summer in the Alps and befriends Bruno, the only child of a nearly abandoned mountain village. In the years that follow, Bruno remains in the lonely but free life of the mountain, while Pietro wanders, searching for his destination. Their friendship, however, remains alive.

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Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2022

The Eight Mountains

Gabriele Muccino portrays, with cinematic energy and a tough tenderness, the dead-ends faced by thirty-somethings in early-2000s Italy, in a film that became a major success in its home country and later inspired a less successful American remake.

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Four thirty-something friends are forced to confront their fears and the demands of adult responsibility when one of their partners becomes pregnant. And that’s when everything begins.

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Audience Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2002

The Last Kiss

Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar fair and square for his Felliniesque tribute to the Eternal City, a dionysian cinematic ride concealing grief and emptiness behind its gorgeous imagery, transforming existential pain into a never-ending party.

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Rome in the summer. Tourists flock to Janiculum Hill. A charming -despite first signs of aging- man, enjoys the city’s social life. He attends dinners and parties, where his dazzling presence is always welcomed. As a young journalist, he wrote a novel that procured him a literary prize and the reputation of a repressed artist. He throws a roof party at his apartment, which has a view of the Colosseum, where "The Human System" (his novel’s title), is exposed and an empty farce is taking place.

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Oscar Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014

The Great Beauty

A realistic drama or a clever parable? After the Cannes award-winning "The Wonders," Alice Rohrwacher presents a charming conundrum that is summed up in the protagonist's disarmingly naive gaze.

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The story of Lazzaro, a young, kind-hearted peasant, and Tancredi, a nobleman cursed by his imagination. A sacred bond is created when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him stage his own kidnapping. This strange and unexpected alliance is a revelation to Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that will travel through time, placing Lazzaro in search of Tancredi.

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Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Official Selection | London Film Festival | 2018
Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 2018

Happy as Lazzaro

Everyone has their own Chimera. Alice Rohrwacher creates an eerie, adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between the nature and the city, a search between ecstasy and solitude. Starring Josh O'Connor from "The Crown."

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Fresh out of prison, archaeologist Arthur continues to search for his lost love, Beniamina. Arthur will be reunited with the Tobaroli gang, grave robbers who together plunder Etruscan tombs and collect their ancient treasures. His ability is to track them, their ability is to plunder them. But their goal differs. They want the money - Arthur wants Beniamina. No matter what he has to do to reunite with her.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

La Chimera

In the new film by award-winning Mario Martone, gangster drama meets existential angst in the streets and alleys of gorgeous Naples and the sensational Pierfrancesco Favino gives a powerful performance. Participation in the Official Competition at Cannes 2022.

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A man returns after 40 years of absence to his hometown, Naples. He seeks and rediscovers not only the people and places that marked his life, but also the city's ciphers and the guilty secrets of a criminal past that still haunts him.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2022

Nostalgia

A young woman takes her life into her own hands, resists her fate and seeks revenge, in a true story colored by patriarchy, the church and the mafia of Southern Italy. A film about the condemnation of tradition and the consequences of its betrayal.

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Rosa is a restless girl who lives with her mother's family in a remote village of Southern Italy. The mysterious death of her mother when Rosa was still a child casts a shadow over her life. When the truth comes out and Rosa realizes that she is trapped in the same predetermined fate, she decides to betray her family in search of revenge. But when your family belongs to the mafia, a single misstep can lead to death.

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Panorama Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2022

Una Femmina - The Code of Silence

A political satire that brings the nightmare of fascism to the present, incarnated by one of its main representatives in the 20th century, in a magical and surreal journey through time and evolution of the Italian society.

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Present day Rome. 80 years after his death, Benito Mussolini reappears under strange circumstances in Piazza Vittorio. The war is over, his beloved Claretta is lost, and everything seems to have changed. Mussolini believes he can re-rule Italy - what if he returned for good?

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Nominated for Best Actor (Massimo Popolizio) | Golden Globes | 2018
Nominated for Best Comedy | Golden Globes | 2018

I am Back

Another work of nearly wordless organic beauty that touches on the mystical, the latest film by Michelangelo Frammartino chronicles a visit through unknown depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior.

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During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe’s highest building is being built in Italy’s prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young speleologists explore for the first time ever Europe’s deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The intruders’ venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighboring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group’s journey

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Special Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | 2021
FEDIC Best Film Award | Venice Film Festival | 2021
Best Camera Operator | Venice Film Festival | 2021

The Hole

A hilarious mainstream Italian comedy with sharp commentary and situations that would be plausible anywhere in the Greek provinces, traversing the fine line between legal and illegal.

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Municipal elections are upon a small Sicilian village, Pietramare. The current mayor is a corrupt man, ready to continue serving in a similar fashion. This time, however, a new candidate seeks office, an idealist and exemplary citizen. Against all odds, he wins the elections and a new era of legitimacy and order begins. Are the villagers ready to welcome the change?

It's the Law

A survivor of a brutal murderous attack by her partner in Italy, gives the director Nina Maria Paschalidou the opportunity to make a courageous and necessary documentary, which makes clear the absolute necessity of the legalization of the term "femicide".

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In Italy, one woman is murdered every three days. Nunzia Maiorano, Alba Chiara Baroni and Lorena Quaranta were murdered by their partners. Their families and friends relive the horror as they seek to understand the growing phenomenon of femicide.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival | 2022

Femicidio

What would you do if you found out at 40 that you were probably the permanent victim of your inner circle? That all your own people were probably taking advantage of you? A relaxed and imaginative comedy from Italy shows that it's never too late to find a solution.

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A 40-year-old woman experiences a hectic daily routine in a large and stressful city. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, she decides to seek the help of a special life coach and tries to get out what is weighing her down. A real revelation occurs as soon as she leaves the counselor's office.

Say it Loud!

An icon of popular modern Italian comedy, Antonio Albanese, stars, writes and directs with humor and irony about the contradictions and fears of modern times, in a crazy road movie that changes the life and beliefs of its hero.

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Mario Cavallaro wakes up every morning in the same way, in the same house, neighborhood and city, Milan. He has just turned fifty and loves punctuality, preciseness, respect, manners and order in general. Every change scares him, especially when that has to do with the sale of his favorite bar to an Egyptian, and with the arrival of Oba, a Senegalese street vendor who is stealing his clients. Believing he needs to restore order, Mario comes up with a simple, albeit unorthodox, solution.

Back Home

In accordance with neorealism and the power of fierce women like Anna Maniani, Jasmine Trinca impersonates, with courage and inexhaustible energy, a "lucky" heroine whose fate does not seem to follow her name, in a modern melodrama of emancipation.

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The portrait of a woman on the outskirts of Rome who takes on everyone and everything in her quest to make her dream come true and faces a force that comes in juxtaposition with what her name means: Fortunata is unlucky. Or maybe not?

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Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress (Jasmine Trinca) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017