The American Backyard

The American Backyard 2025

7.35

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden.

2025

Dante

Dante 2022

5.20

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.

2022

Il figlio più piccolo

Il figlio più piccolo 2010

5.60

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor.

2010

Mr. Devil

Mr. Devil 2019

6.00

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.

2019

Graduation Party

Graduation Party 1985

7.20

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

1985

Incantato

Incantato 2003

6.40

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

2003

Lei mi parla ancora

Lei mi parla ancora 2021

6.20

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.

2021

Bix

Bix 1991

6.27

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.

1991

The Second Wedding Night

The Second Wedding Night 2005

6.22

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.

2005

Knights of the Quest

Knights of the Quest 2001

4.50

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.

2001

The Hideout

The Hideout 2007

6.10

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

2007

Giovanna's Father

Giovanna's Father 2008

6.86

Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.

2008

La prima volta

La prima volta 1999

3.00

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

1999

Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters 1992

4.30

After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes no time in settling into his new life, but Francesco find it more difficult, being shy and full of complexes.

1992

Laura's Wedding

Laura's Wedding 2015

4.50

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.

2015

The Big Heart of Girls

The Big Heart of Girls 2011

5.77

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ...

2011

The Three of Us

The Three of Us 1984

6.36

1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.

1984

Festival

Festival 1996

6.00

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.

1996

Arcane Sorcerer

Arcane Sorcerer 1996

6.90

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.

1996