Films

An anthology film centered on two separate women both played by Anna Magnani, L’Amore tells the story of love and loneliness through two short films, “The Human Voice”, based on a play by Jean Cocteau and “The Miracle”, based on a story by Federico Fellini.

One of the post-war era’s most influential films Journey to Italy charts the declining marriage of an English couple (Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders) on a trip in the countryside near Naples. Rossellini’s masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality.

Roberto Rossellini’s neo-realistic follow-up to his breakout Rome, Open City is the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II and taking place across the country from Sicily to the northern Po valley. Receiving an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, co-penned by the young Federico Fellini, Paisan centres on the interaction between the Allied Forces and Italian people at the end of the war.

The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. Lithuanian Karin (Bergman) flees her
war-ravaged country and winds up in an internment camp in Italy where she meets Antonio (Mario Vitale). After a brief romance, Antonio takes her to Stromboli, the volcanic island he lives on, where Karin struggles with a language barrier, brutal living conditions and her outsider status.

During World War II, an Italian villager (Italian beauty Gina Lollobrigida in an award-winning role) befriends three American soldiers. Later, when unsure which of them fathered her daughter, she accepts support checks from all three soldiers. Twenty years later, a reunion unexpectedly brings the three veterans -- and their wives and children -- back to Italy and Mrs. Campbell panics as she endeavors to keep her lively past from her daughter.

Screen goddess Sophia Loren is one cinemas’ most recognisable figures. In Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style, Loren plays Filumena, a penniless prostitute, who meets the successful Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) in Naples during World War II, sparking a passionate affair.

4K digital restoration. Rossellini’s drama Rome, Open City, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani, is a powerfully resonant cinematic achievement. Conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II in Rome.

In Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), Cardinale stars as Angelica Sedara, the beautiful fiancée of the nephew of the Prince of Salina, laying the cornerstones of her career with an opulent classic that recreates the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic Italy. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1963, this 4K restoration of Luchino Visconti’s revered The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale.

A tale of survival and the challenge between Good and Evil, Giffoni Film Festival-winner Cam’s War follows a young boy and his sister on a dangerous journey through an apocalyptic world.   

A sudden revelation about his state of health leads a man to reevaluate his relationships with his family in this personal story from director Francesco Bruni, starring Kim Rossi Stuart.

Direct from its Venice premiere, this pioneering project explores Federico Fellini’s creative genius using new technology to emulate the works of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time in a new and unique movie set in Rome.

Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear winner Elio Germano delivers a powerhouse performance in this multi award-winning biopic about the troubled life of celebrated artist Antonio Ligabue.

A man with a knack for accidentally setting off catastrophes decides to help out the people around him but proceeds to cause them even more trouble in this entertaining comedy about friendship starring Claudio Bisio.

The sequel to the comedy smash hit Like a Cat on a Highway, Paola Cortellesi and Antonio Albanese return as Monica and Giovanni, whose lives become intertwined again three years later.

A 10-year-old boy witnesses an assassination attempt on his father (Pierfrancesco Favino in a Venice Best Actor-winning role) in Claudio Noce’s personal drama, inspired by his own family trauma.

An enthralling documentary following the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte, interwoven with concert footage, interviews, and reflections of the singer by other friends and colleagues such as Roberto Benigni and Isabella Rossellini.

The first foray into fictional storytelling for upcoming director Elisa Amoruso is a highly personal story, based upon her adolescence which was marked by her dysfunctional family and a special friendship she forms when she moves to the outskirts of Rome.

Winner of Best New Director at the 2021 David di Donatello Awards, Pietro Castellitto’s black comedy takes aim at class antagonism in contemporary Italy when two Italian families on opposite ends of the social ladder collide.

Daniele Luchetti's stylish marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome opened the Venice Film Festival and features an all-star cast including Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio and Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

Featuring a tremendous ensemble cast, the new drama from acclaimed auteur Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre, The Son's Room) traces the disparate lives of three families who reside in the same apartment block in Rome's stylish Prati neighbourhood. 

Marco Giallini (Perfect Strangers, God Willing) is back - alongside Vincenzo Salemme and Giuseppe Battiston - with a comedy hit that sees three friends try to hinder the love affairs of their daughters. 

Tigers is the enthralling true story of former Inter Milan player Martin Bengtsson's rollercoaster ride through the cutthroat world of professional soccer. 

Direct from Cannes 2021, this Directors' Fortnight-winning drama tells the gripping story of a 15-year-old girl from Calabria, whose family life starts to unravel when she discovers her beloved father may have criminal ties.

The Closing Night film of the 2020 Venice International Film Festival, this dramatic thriller set against a backdrop of Venice’s mysterious lagoons stars Stefano Accorsi as a man who finds himself torn between the past and the future.

A heartwarming tale of courage and adventure, when young Pino - who is usually confined to his bedroom - meets some kids from the local piazza he sets out to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.

A Christmas-themed sequel to the 2019 Festival hit 10 Days Without Mamma, the misadventures of the Rovelli family are back in this entertaining road movie, starring Fabio De Luigi and Valentina Lodovini.