Release Date: 1996-02-09

Overview: The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

Rating: 6.2 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1959-09-09

Overview: In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Rating: 5.9 (7 votes)

Release Date: 1977-12-24

Overview: Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.

Rating: 8.8 (64 votes)

Release Date: 2019-01-17

Overview: Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him.

Rating: 5.934 (235 votes)

Release Date: 2013-10-17

Overview: Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husband; Valbona, a lesbian; Rosa Maria herself; and, to crown it all, two eccentric workers accompanied by a little girl... After a period of chaos, this small world gradually discovers that unity makes strength.

Rating: 5.644 (111 votes)

Release Date: 2018-09-01

Overview: A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.

Rating: 5.033 (91 votes)

Release Date: 2018-04-26

Overview: When Daniel and Isabelle invite Patrick and his new flame, Emma, to dinner, it’s with some misgivings. After all, Patrick has just dumped his ex-wife — their best friend — to run off with a much younger woman. But when the ravishing Emma appears, all of Daniel’s qualms fly out of the window. He’s instantly smitten with the seductive woman...

Rating: 5.01 (155 votes)

Release Date: 1998-10-16

Overview: The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.

Rating: 5.573 (192 votes)

Release Date: 2019-03-21

Overview: Michele is a superficial man with nothing but contempt for other people and who lives only to show off his wealth on social media, until he finds himself mistaken for a North African immigrant in Eastern Europe and deported.

Rating: 5.027 (168 votes)

Release Date: 1986-01-30

Overview: Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

Rating: 6.468 (200 votes)

Release Date: 2009-03-20

Overview: Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.

Rating: 5.826 (195 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-12

Overview: While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.

Rating: 6.975 (281 votes)

Release Date: 2011-11-18

Overview: The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.

Rating: 6.4 (241 votes)

Release Date: 2019-02-28

Overview: When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano’s failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Instead he is focussed on putting his affairs in order: distributing possessions, reconciling past disputes, and, most importantly, finding a home for his beloved canine, Pato. Over four days, the two men walk the streets of Rome, visiting bookshops, restaurants, veterinarians and friends, examining their lives and speculating on what the future holds.

Rating: 6.852 (223 votes)

Release Date: 2019-08-29

Overview: Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.

Rating: 6.292 (253 votes)

Release Date: 2020-07-02

Overview: Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

Rating: 5.98 (271 votes)

Release Date: 2018-11-07

Overview: The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he suffers a stroke, which makes him lose his grasp of language and use one word in place of another.

Rating: 6.495 (312 votes)

Release Date: 2014-11-06

Overview: Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.

Rating: 6.284 (451 votes)

Release Date: 2023-01-12

Overview: An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."

Rating: 7.07 (172 votes)

Release Date: 2020-07-01

Overview: A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

Rating: 6.017 (458 votes)