Discoveries from Italy World Cinema

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.

Franco Campanella, a former postal worker earning under €1,000 monthly, is devoted to his family but addicted to gambling. On his daughter Luisa’s wedding eve, he promises to save for expenses but, after being denied a loan, gambles away tens of thousands, ending up in debt to loan sharks and Camorra members.

Francesco used to be an up-and-coming footballer; after several school failures, however, his father forced him to give up his dream. One day Francesco meets Bala, the manager of a football camp, who is impressed by his talent and decides to contact a sports agent to organise a tryout for the young man. Will Francesco succeed in getting his second chance?

Giulio is an advertising agent; in order to conclude an important contract with a refrigerator manufacturer, he moves into their boss's villa for the weekend with his mistress, along with his designer, who is accompanied by the advertising agent's wife for an adventure. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings until the head of the advertising agency arrives and exposes them. Thanks to the providential intervention of the industrialist, who had noticed the deception perpetrated against him, everything is resolved and the head of the agency finds his new love in the woman who accompanied Giulio.

Seduced by a Don Juan working for a gang of pimps, a young girl ends up in a brothel.

A recently separated man meets many girls online.

The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.

A woman travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to find herself again, and to find cinema.

it's a fast moving blood and thunder tale well rendered and at least rooted in fact, and has a good feel for the period. It's interesting to have a look at somewhere else in medieval Europe besides England and France for a change. After all, Spain, Portugal, and the Italian states and some other principalities were big players at that time, too.

When three drifters come into the possession of stolen gold they are imprisoned then sprung by a friend and tracked by the outlaw Jackson brothers, who originally stole the gold.

Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a decent person at heart—and so when his father dies he's passed over in matters of succession. His pride wounded, he doesn't resign himself and tries to be his own boss, only managing to make a fool of himself. When he finds out that his daughter is dating to the son of the judge prosecuting the new boss, Tonino sees the opportunity to prove himself in front of his family and all of Naples.

In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....

A documentary film about the independent band UZEDA who brought a disruptive sound from Sicily to almost everywhere.

The love story between a singer and a beautician is disrupted when an old flame shows up.

Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.

A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.

Solo, an everyman who seemingly brings misfortune upon other people's relationships, faces his own fear of love.

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.

A hippie tells a story to his wife about four hedonists who lived in an old house. The hedonists pass their time discussing various topics and arguing. One night, a spirit haunts them and drives them insane. When the story is over, the hippie’s wife gives birth.

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro.

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town community doesn't like strangers.

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

After taking a job at a family’s previously thriving vineyard, a young woman looks to save its dysfunctional owners from debt and themselves.

A young boy, Cam, searches for his sister in a world ravaged by wars. On his journey he faces many dangers from humans and nature itself, both equally merciless.

A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors.

Follows Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman with aspirations of following in her mother's footsteps as a meat seller. She sets out on her journey to Italy in pursuit of her ambition, a journey fraught with horror and bestiality.

Back home after his wife's death, a migrant labourer faces a dilemma between a high-paying job overseas and one last chance at reconnecting with his son, who sees him only as a stranger because of all his years abroad.

You are in the countryside. Just you and your girlfriend. You hope that with the silence of an isolated house in the woods you will find inspiration to write your next book. There is something wrong. You don't like this place. It tortures you. It's not just in your head.

Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.

A composer, grieving over the death of his wife, moves into a temporary home, with his young son, where they both fall under supernatural assault.

A journey among the forgotten: U.S. citizens experiencing homelessness, forced to live in extreme marginalization. Giving voice to these wounded souls is the unmistakable sound of Tom Waits.

Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him.

Djurado is a gun-slinging professional gambler who struts into the small town of Silver Mine and wins half of the local saloon, the other part of which belongs to Barbara, whilst battling notorious outlaw Tucan.

Ninetto De Terenzi is a Roman who lives for the day, helping a lawyer in his intrigues and acting as a stunt double for a cheating engineer; he disapproves of the relationship his widowed mother has with a married man and is engaged to a good worker, whom she tries to betray.

The body of one of the Villa owners is found lifeless in the tub. The accusations are immediately turned against the plumber.

A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.

The Countess Clara is in love with Andrea Valverde but agrees to marry the Count Guido when he learns that Andrew is his brother from his mother's side.

The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.

The Istituto Luce turned ninety in 2014, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and that unique treasure trove of images known to all as the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary, some of the most acclaimed rising filmmakers in Italy were invited to make a small film, with each director selecting ten minutes of footage from the archives, out of the thousands of hours of footage to be found there. The result is an album full of different narratives.

Chinese-language interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr. Wang.

A man discovers his wife's infidelity and kills her lover.

Love at First Sight is an Italian movie directed by Franco Rossi.

19-year-old Teo, an aspiring writer who has grown up worshipping the likes of John Fante, Bukowski and Luciano Bianciardi, suddenly finds himself in dire need of becoming financially independent in the wake of his father's health problems, jeopardizing his studies and future.

Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up until "The Phantom of the Opera".

In 1950s Italy, a young woman from a poor background strives for a better life.

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3. The show, RAIot (a play on the name of the Italian state public TV: RAI, and the English word riot), lampooned prime minister Berlusconi. Since it wasn't considered a satirical show, but a political one, it was cancelled after the first episode.

Short by Fabrizio Plessi.

A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others.