Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran 2024

7.37

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.

2024

A Bunch of Bastards

A Bunch of Bastards 2023

4.00

An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.

2023

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

5.90

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

2004

Getaway of Love

Getaway of Love 2015

3.90

The destiny of Giuliana is radically changed when two robbers suddenly break into the supermarket where she works and take her hostage.

2015

What the Waters Left Behind: Scars

What the Waters Left Behind: Scars 2023

5.83

An Anglo-American indie rock band winds up stranded in Epecuén, where their internal conflicts and the bad luck of their tour quickly lose importance before the hell that awaits them.

2023

Caliber 9

Caliber 9 2020

5.10

Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.

2020

Just Like a Woman

Just Like a Woman 2013

5.50

Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret.

2013

Double Soul

Double Soul 2023

5.32

Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmation of identity and the risks that people are willing to take to get what they want.

2023

Nevermind

Nevermind 2018

5.00

A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations may seem incredible, yet they happen.

2018

Fort Apache Napoli

Fort Apache Napoli 2009

7.15

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

2009

Bal-Can-Can

Bal-Can-Can 2005

7.00

A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.

2005

Hammamet

Hammamet 2020

5.93

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

2020

Django undisputed

Django undisputed 2024

6.50

Determined to exact his justice, Django faces dangerous challenges and bloody clashes to restore order in a territory dominated by lawlessness and injustice.

2024

Killer Mosquitos

Killer Mosquitos 2018

3.70

A group of friends, spending the weekend in a house in the isolated countryside, are attacked by a swarm of killer horseflies that feed on human flesh like piranhas. The group soon discovers that the only deterrent that can keep the insects away is THC, the main ingredient that makes up cannabis. Their only hope of survival is therefore given by the consumption of grass, with all the consequences that entails.

2018

New

New 2024

8.20

Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.

2024

Bad Blood

Bad Blood 2022

6.25

Sergio is a former hitman who has just recently retired. His routine is disrupted by the visit of an old friend. He wants to hire Sergio for one last assignment: to kill the Ventura brothers, two dangerous criminals.

2022

La Rabbia di Pasolini

La Rabbia di Pasolini 2008

7.50

An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.

2008

Black Bits

Black Bits 2023

3.30

Dora and Beth, as well as being a couple, are hackers and robbers. After their last heist they need to find a hiding spot. The only safe place is a house hidden deep in the wood, far away from digital connections. What happens there turns out to be something more disturbing and dangerous than the reality they are facing. They find themselves in a fight for their survival against the clock and where their fate is in the hands of the dark web.

2023

Ciao, Brother!

Ciao, Brother! 2016

6.80

Angelo is a forty-year-old messy man, nice but a bit of a scoundrel. He makes a living by selling fake paintings to rich Japanese on holiday, until one day he is unmasked and to escape the police who are hunting him he takes the first flight to an unknown destination. As luck would have it, the first plane he can catch takes him to Los Angeles. Having arrived in California penniless and with his credit cards blocked, he gets by for a few days as a bum when suddenly he comes up with a brilliant idea. Angelo, in fact, reads in a newspaper that the rich Italian-American entrepreneur Vittorio Di Spirito has died leaving a boundless inheritance to his son George, and he cannot help but notice that the dead rich man looks like his father in every way. Thanks to this resemblance, Angelo shows up at the funeral, staging a dramatic and heartfelt condolence, and then shows up at George's villa declaring that he is his brother...

2016