The wanderings of Laura (Italian films)
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- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsGian Maria VolontèFabio GarribaCarla TatòA populist right-wing tabloid newspaper tries to derail the official police investigation of a brutal murder of a young girl in order to help the fascist and right-wing candidates it supports in the upcoming elections.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsLuca MarinelliAlessandro BorghiSilvia D'AmicoVittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniSabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. But nightmares start disturbing her, at almost the same time she discovers that she's pregnant. Little by little she remembers her childhood in a severe middle-class family, but a big secret is still hidden in her heart. Determined to bring clarity and serenity to her life, she considers contacting her brother, a University teacher in the U.S.A., to try to understand what happened in their past. What is the secret? Will Sabina finally manage to free herself from the "beast inside her heart"?
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMarisa ParedesAngela FinocchiaroThe five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsElio GermanoAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyValerio BinascoFausto and Nadine meet for the first time in a hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful French girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate.
- DirectorCiro De CaroStarsRossella D'AndreaXueying DengValerio Di BenedettoFour Italian young adults longing to change their lives. The encounter with Mei Mei, a young Chinese prostitute, shines a light on the truth: the gain of one's freedom is, above all, an inside job.
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsValeria De FranciscisMarina CacciottiMaria CalìBroke, and armed with only a wry sense of humor, middle-aged Gianni lives with his mother in their old apartment. The debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager's mother during the Ferragosto, all will be forgiven.
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsGianni Di GregorioValeria De FranciscisAlfonso SantagataGianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.
- DirectorGianni Di GregorioStarsGianni Di GregorioMarco MarzoccaValentina LodoviniAfter a lazy working life Gianni discoveres he has to wait for more three years for retirement.
- DirectorEdoardo Maria FalconeStarsMarco GialliniAlessandro GassmannLaura MoranteA young man's decision to become a priest affects his whole family, especially his father.
- DirectorGiorgia FarinaStarsClaudia GeriniCristiana CapotondiSabrina ImpacciatoreGilda, Olivia, and Crocetta are three friends who live in a small island of Sicily, surviving however they can, being inept and provincial, but their chance soon arrives.
- DirectorGiorgia FarinaStarsMicaela RamazzottiLibero De RienzoAdriano GianniniIn the space of 24 hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of troubles.
- DirectorAlessandro GenovesiStarsFabio De LuigiCristiana CapotondiAntonio CataniaOn the occasion of Christmas, Giorgio, his wife, daughter Margherita and her husband Paolo, were invited to spend their holidays in Alberto's castle. Paolo however begins to cause a series of incredible disasters.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsSalma HayekVincent CasselToby JonesFrom the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsVanessa ScaleraLinda CaridiAlessio PraticòLea Garofalo is born into a crime family but decides to cooperate with the police to get away and give her daughter a better life. The story of Lea Garofalo's life.
- DirectorEdoardo LeoStarsLuca ArgenteroEdoardo LeoAnna FogliettaSergio, Fausto Diego and Claudio have to struggle against Camorra in order to open an agritourism.
- DirectorMirko LocatelliStarsFilippo TimiJaouher Brahim Ben FredjDragos Costantin TomaAntonio and his son Pietro, alone in Milan to face cancer. Jaber, just fifteen, in Italy with a group of fellow countrymen. They will meet each others in the hospital. The disease is the pretext for a meeting.
- DirectorGabriele MainettiStarsClaudio SantamariaLuca MarinelliIlenia PastorelliLonely, misanthropic small-time crook Enzo uses the superpowers he gained after falling into the Tiber River to chase down a crazy gangster called "The Gypsy."
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiRenato CarpentieriAntonio NeiwillerDirector Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsMarco LeonardiPeppino MazzottaFabrizio FerracaneThe story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsGabriele FerzettiIrene GalterPina BottinA young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsAlberto SordiSandra MiloNino ManfrediPaolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsSandra MiloFrançois PérierMario AdorfTwenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair's lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsStefania SandrelliMario AdorfJean-Claude BrialyAdriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
- DirectorMarco PontiStarsRiccardo ScamarcioLaura ChiattiMichele PlacidoNinella's daughter wants to marry Damiano. Her dream never became reality and history may repeat itself when her daughter Chiara and her chosen one find themselves involved in a whirlpool that may compromise their marriage as well.
- DirectorAlessandro RakStarsLeandro AmatoNando PaoneRenato CarpentieriA taxi driver who lives in Napoli spend his time on his uncle's car thinking about happiness. His former brother took a road for happiness practicing Buddhism while he is always sad and melancholic. He listens to a radioshow called the art of happiness as a remembering idea of what is the goal of life. Do we have just one life or are we living again and again forever?
- DirectorRiccardo RossiStarsRiccardo RossiAnna FogliettaFabrizia SacchiA hyper-anxious control freak father finds out his teenage daughter is about to have sex for the first time. In a fit of pure panic he organizes a dinner party with some friends to try and dissuade her.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsLudovico GirardelloValeria GolinoFabrizio BentivoglioMichele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.
- DirectorSydney SibiliaStarsEdoardo LeoValeria SolarinoValerio ApreaA university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.
- DirectorStefano SollimaStarsPierfrancesco FavinoElio GermanoClaudio AmendolaA gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsMichael CaineHarvey KeitelRachel WeiszA retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsJeremy IronsOlga KurylenkoSimon JohnsFocused on the relationship between an astronomer and his lover, who spend their years apart.
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsClaudio SantamariaJennifer UlrichElio GermanoA reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsAlba RohrwacherEmily FerratelloLars EidingerYears after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsGiuseppe BattistonAnna FogliettaMarco GialliniSeven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsCarlo CecchiAnna BonaiutoRenato CarpentieriNaples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife, and having become a stranger to his own party colleagues of the PCI and its employees to the University, he lives his life with disenchanted posting.
- DirectorRoberto De PaolisStarsSelene CaramazzaSimone LiberatiBarbora BobulovaAgnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother (a harsh but devoted woman and a regular church-goer) and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is a 25 year old man, with a violent temper and a difficult past behind, who works as a warden in a car park that borders with a gypsy camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a sentiment of purity, made of little stolen moments and mutual help. But when they make love for the first time, Agnese s illusion of purity is shattered. She experiences a deep sense of betrayal towards her ideals, which leads her to take an extreme decision in the hope of erasing her sin.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsHelen MirrenDonald SutherlandChristian McKayA runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker".
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsIsabella RagoneseEva GriecoFrancesco MontanariThe story of a friendship between two young women Eli and Vale struggling with everyday probrlems in the suburbs of Rome.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloElena Sofia RicciRiccardo ScamarcioA film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorRoberto FaenzaStarsMargherita BuyLuca ZingarettiGoran BregovicOlga's life is shattered when her husband abandons her. This prompts her to fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTimothée ChalametArmie HammerMichael StuhlbargIn 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsClaudio SantamariaCamillo GrassiNiccolò SenniA group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front.
- DirectorMateo ZoniStarsGiacomo AnelliIrene CarraEttore Scarpa27 are the operas by the greatest Italian composer of all times. In the land of melodrama there's an exclusive 27 Club - not the Forever 27 of rockstars who died at 27, it's simply 27 men named after Giuseppe Verdi's operas. They introduce themselves as Traviata, Rigoletto, Giovanna D'arco etc. From the sweet wrath of these plain-dwellers everything was evolving peacefully until an eleven-year-old child came along: he's got their uniform, their pin - he really wants to be one of them. A new miracle of the Maestro? Maybe. Or more likely, considering these people's sinister musical inclination, as Bruno Barilli wrote, everything is carefully planned. Reality or fiction? That's what people who stumble upon this story ask themselves. It's a story so unbelievable it seems fabricated in every detail and so real it seems unreal when told on that silver screen which lies to tell the truth.
- DirectorPaola RandiStarsValerio MastandreaClémence PoésyLuca EspositoAfter his wife's death the Professor (Valerio Mastandrea) lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He supposedly works on a top-secret project for the US government. He supposedly works on a top-secret project for the US government, but in actuality, he spends his days on the couch, listening to the sound of the Universe. His only contact with the outside world is Stella, who organizes alien-themed weddings for tourists on the prowl for extra-terrestrials. One day the Professor receives a message from Naples: his dying brother is entrusting him with his two children, so that they may live with him in America. Anita (16) and Tito (7) arrive expecting the legendary brightening lights of Las Vegas, but instead, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere, in the hands of their nutty uncle and in a weird, mysterious place where aliens are said to live.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsValerio MastandreaMarco GialliniAlessandro BorghiThe fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsMarcello MastroianniJacques PerrinSylvieA man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
- DirectorPaolo VirzìStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMicaela RamazzottiValentina CarneluttiTwo quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.
- DirectorSebastiano RisoStarsDavide CaponeVincenzo AmatoLucia SardoPersecuted by his father for being different, androgynous boy Davide, 14, leaves home to live on the streets of Catania.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsPierfrancesco FavinoLivia RossiLuca FilippiThe last year of Bettino Craxi's life, one of the most important and controversial Italian leaders of the 1980s.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsAlba RohrwacherElio GermanoGiuseppe BattistonLucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsLuca MarinelliJessica CressyVincenzo NemolatoMartin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
- DirectorIgor TuveriStarsToni ServilloValeria GolinoCarlo BuccirossoBased on the namesake book, the movie follows Peppino, an old hit man in a '70 Naples, forced to come back in action by the murder of his son. This tragic event also arises reflections on life and on the society in all the characters.
- DirectorGiuseppe BonitoStarsPaola CortellesiValerio MastandreaMehmet GünsürSara and Nicola are expecting their second child. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp focus, all the joys and troubles of parenthood in modern-day Italy are brilliantly, wittily delineated.
- DirectorFrancesco AmatoStarsVittoria PucciniBenedetta PorcaroliEdoardo LeoInspired by the extraordinary story of Elisa Girotto, the woman who moved the world by leaving 18 birthday gifts for her daughter when she discovered that she would have little time with her.
- DirectorDuccio ChiariniStarsDaniele ParisiSilvia D'AmicoAnna BellatoA bitter-sweet late coming of age about the problems of modern-day love.
- DirectorAlessandro D'AlatriStarsAndrea ArcangeliPaola CalliariMatilde GioliA teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiStarsFrancesco De SantisGaetano FinocchiRoberto GiulianiFor nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco Rosi brings to the foreground the daily routine of ordinary people, composing the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsTommaso CestroneSergio VitoloGesuino PittalisThe foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- DirectorCostanza QuatriglioStarsTihana LazovicBasir AhangDawood YousefiHaving escaped from Afghanistan when still a child, Ismail now lives in Europe with his brother Hassan. After several disturbing phone calls, Ismail will have to face the destiny of his family, counting the cost of the senselessness of war and the history of his people, the Hazaras.
- DirectorFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsPeppino De FilippoCarla Del PoggioGiulietta MasinaA beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsFilippo ScottiToni ServilloTeresa SaponangeloIn 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsAlba RohrwacherLuigi Lo CascioLaura MoranteA marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome over a long period starting in the 1980s.
- DirectorDaniele GaglianoneStarsGeorgia BorderiJessica CosenzaLorena FornasirIn different Italian cities, 4 women deal with immigrants and tell the reasons that led them to approach this world.
- DirectorGianluca JodiceStarsSergio CastellittoFrancesco PatanèTommaso Ragno1936. Giovanni Comini has just been promoted to Federal, the youngest in Italy. He gets summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: he must survey Gabriele D'Annunzio and make sure that he does not cause any trouble. D'Annunzio, a nationally respected poet, is getting restless and Benito Mussolini fears that he could damage the alliance with Nazi Germany. However, Comini is only a small cog in the political wheel that begins to unravel, and the young federal finds himself divided between his loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, which will put his blooming career at risk.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiGiulietta MasinaBrunella BovoDuring a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsRita JosaRosanna CartaEnrico PellicciaSix separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsBroderick CrawfordRichard BasehartGiulietta MasinaA trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
- DirectorGiuseppe CapotondiStarsKseniya RappoportFilippo TimiAntonia TruppoA chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviAdriana BenettiGiuditta RissoneA family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia CristianiGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.