Elio Germano
Also Known As: Έλιο Τζερμάνο, 엘리오 게르마노
Biography: Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s. He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue. Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: September 25, 1980
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Gender: Male
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Nine
Overview: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Fame chimica
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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As God Commands
Overview: An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Napoleon and Me
Overview: Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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My Brother Is an Only Child
Overview: Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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The Bee and the Wind
Overview: Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-12-05
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
Overview: A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-05-27
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
Overview: A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-03-19
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What Will Become of Us
Overview: A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-03-05
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Mary
Overview: The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary Magdalene who cannot bring herself to leave Bethlehem and a TV journalist whose spiritual doubts start to consume him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Our Life
Overview: Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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The End Is My Beginning
Overview: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press correspondent in Southeast Asia, about the political and social changes which he has seen, and about the spiritual transformation he has experienced in recent years. But for him the most important is to show his son how he is preparing for the last great adventure of a lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Call Me Salomè
Overview: Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious partner. Salomè is a young, immature and beautiful girl, desired by many men including her stepfather Herod. John is a protester held in captivity by the friends of Herod begins to read the sacred texts until he lost his mind becoming "the prophet". Passion and intrigue between different characters build a network of personal dramas and tragedies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Break Free
Overview: Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfilling, to say the least. His father Cenzo (Luigi Maria Burruano) lost his job after a local chemical plant closed; shortly afterward, Cenzo's wife Paola (Anita Zagaria) dumped him for a politician. Fed up, Vince travels to the beach town of Pescara and lands a job as a junior cook at a tourist resort. While there, he falls in love with Genny (Nicole Grimaudo), a waitress plagued by a phobia of traveling. Just as the romance begins to take off, Cenzo appears at Vince's doorstep demanding that his son help him get Paola back. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Beautiful People
Overview: Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous differences that separate their ways of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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The Past Is a Foreign Land
Overview: A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-31
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Unfair Competition
Overview: Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-02-23
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Overview: On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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Faccia d'angelo
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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A Magnificent Haunting
Overview: An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Sicilian Letters
Overview: Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Il cielo in una stanza
Overview: Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where Paolo will be able to prove to his son he too was cool.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-04-02
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Ci hai rotto papà
Overview: Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-03
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Scattered Cloud
Overview: Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, while working on the renovation of a luxury home, he meets Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by a lifestyle light-years away from his.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-06
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The Early Bird Catches the Worm
Overview: Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling addiction, that slowly consumes his life, his relationship with his girlfriend and his work skills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-11-25
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
Overview: Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-08-01
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The Landlords
Overview: Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town community doesn't like strangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Pavilion 22
Overview: Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a private clinic, but his ghost keeps tormenting her guilty conscience.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-12
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The Fifth Wheel
Overview: The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-14
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La storia chiusa
Overview: A Donatello award nominated short drama feature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Great Ambition
Overview: Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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Leopardi
Overview: In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Flaiano: il meglio è passato
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Melissa P.
Overview: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Trust
Overview: Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Palazzina LAF
Overview: Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-21
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Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-05-01
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Fallen Heroes
Overview: Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-05
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3.87
Overview: During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Suburra
Overview: A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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Alaska
Overview: Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-11-05
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Lost and Beautiful
Overview: Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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A Whole Life Ahead
Overview: 25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
Overview: The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-04
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Tenderness
Overview: Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-04-24
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It's All About Karma
Overview: Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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In arte Nino
Overview: Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and the encounter with the love of his life, Erminia.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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Romanzo Criminale
Overview: After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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A Judge of Honor
Overview: In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-08
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Ferrari
Overview: Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious, intrusive young journalist he recalls his setbacks and personal losses.
Genres: Drama Thriller Family TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-16
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Io sono Tempesta
Overview: To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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Lucia's Grace
Overview: During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-11-22
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Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Respiro
Overview: Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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Ultimo stadio
Overview: The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a modern Greek theatre, where five dramas touch one another, only to fade away in a few minutes. The main characters are, Simone, Alice, Gabriele, Pietro and Achille, all different types of people, of different ages, all looking for a place to find some peace and quiet, a taste of happiness and love, as well as someone to trust in. At the last stage people laugh, but there is always a bitter note to their laughter. And their laughter is louder and more satisfying the greater their adversity. Indeed, in the end, there is always a reason to go on, a final stage from which to rise.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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Binxet - Under the border
Overview: “Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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Hidden Away
Overview: The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized kid finds redemption in his art, and a way to express himself and be admired by the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Cornetti al miele
Overview: A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-10
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Now or Never
Overview: 2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful events of the G8 summit in Genoa.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Rose Island
Overview: In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-12-09
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The Man Without Gravity
Overview: A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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Bad Tales
Overview: In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-06-15
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America Latina
Overview: Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day he finds a little girl tied up in his basement.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-01-13
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Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
Overview: A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Lord of the Ants
Overview: Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Noi c'eravamo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Overview: A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-31
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Tre Ciotole
Overview: Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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