Carlo Lizzani

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the ...

How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This ...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of ...

Maria Josè was the daughter of the king of Belgium and she was betrothed to Umberto di Savoia, the son of Vittorio Emanuele III, the king of ...

A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at ...

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life ...

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously ...

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

Russia, 1937. Nicolai Bukharin and his wife Anna Mikhailovna Larina are living through a tragedy in their apartment. The husband fears that he ...

A scrupulous insurance agent comes into contact with a woman. Together they plan her husband’s murder with scam to the company’s ...

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.

A film of Enrico Berlinguer’s funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca’s stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a ...

Girolamo, a teenager from a good family suffering from bone tuberculosis, is hospitalized in a sanatorium where he is forced to suffer the ...

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called ‘cafoni’ (boors). Berardo Viola wants ...