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- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinPhilippe NoiretFour inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsGiorgio BasileGiuseppe BattistonClaudio BisioSeven friends have a passion: every week they play futsal. Each of them forget the everyday's trouble playing futsal.
- DirectorLuca MinieroStarsClaudio BisioAlessandro SianiAngela FinocchiaroOverwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."
- DirectorGiacomo CiarrapicoMattia TorreLuca VendruscoloStarsLuca AmorosinoValerio ApreaAntonino BruschettaA director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneEleonora GiorgiChristian De SicaSergio Benvenuti finds a job as musical agent to an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more-experienced agent and a nice girl, to work with him for just one day to gain more experience. They must meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat; Nadia is late, but Sergio goes ahead with the meeting. By the time she arrives, Sergio has found out that Fantoni isn't what he said he was. Things escalate quickly until Sergio lands in an incredible situation from which he can't escape.
- DirectorGiambattista AvellinoStarsLuca ArgenteroPaola CortellesiPaolo RuffiniThree former school friends meet after twenty years and realize that they pursued a common enemy: the recommended. Max (Argentero Luke) is a reporter for talent in a local newspaper that was forced to round to write the most unlikely of magazines, came a step away from much needed employment is undermined by the daughter of a famous writer. Irma (Paola Cortellesi), despite being one of the most respected doctors of the hospital, lives with scholarships, and just when the contract is for the favorite is the new girlfriend of the primary.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneNancy BrilliAlessandro BenvenutiFormer high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.
- DirectorUmberto Riccioni CarteniStarsLuca ArgenteroClaudia GeriniFilippo NigroWhat happens when an openly gay man decides to run for mayor in a super conservative town in North Eastern Italy, using his homosexuality as his secret weapon? What would happen if during the electoral campaign, our hero falls in love with his right hand man who happens to be a - woman? What will the voters say, the political opponents, his official companion? And what..in the end will his heart say?
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeClaudio BisioAnna is from Piedmont, she loves opera and French literature. Piero, her husband, is from Calabria, loves football and other women.
- DirectorMassimo VenierStarsAlessandro TiberiValentina LodoviniCarolina CrescentiniIn Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsDiego AbatantuonoLaura ChiattiFabio De LuigiBologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsFabio De LuigiDiego AbatantuonoFabrizio BentivoglioA screenwriter scared of happy endings is going through a creative crisis until a woman invites him to dinner. The dinner attendees become the characters of his new screenplay, but they try to interfere with his work.
- DirectorRoan JohnsonStarsClaudio SantamariaFrancesco TurbantiPaolo CioniSongwriter Pino Masi and two students decide to leave Pisa, Italy, during the tumultuous military coup building in the city.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsChristian De SicaLaura MoranteLuca ZingarettiAn amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaAmbra AngioliniTwenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into society and lost track of one another. One day they receive a letter from the Ministry of Education: because of a formal error, they must retake the exam. With the initial shock now past, they grasp the opportunity to meet again, to share laughters and to cram together like they used to. On the other hand, they are not the same persons they were two decades before...
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneLaura ChiattiMarco GuadagnoWhen Father Carlo returns home after years spent in Africa in an humanitarian mission, instead of getting the expected peace of mind with his family, he'll face their problems: for instance, his father has married Olga, a much-younger Moldavian woman, and his brother and sister are worried about their inheritance--or what's left of it.
- DirectorIvan CotroneoStarsValeria GolinoCristiana CapotondiLuca ZingarettiNaples,1973. Peppino is nine, comes from a large family and has an older cousin, Gennaro, who thinks to be Superman. But when Gennaro dies, Peppino's imagination rewrites reality and brings him back to life, as though his cousin really were the superhero he said. And it is thanks to this imaginary friend that Peppino manages to face up to the vicissitudes of his life. With Cristiana Capotondi.
- DirectorLucio PellegriniStarsPierfrancesco FavinoStefano AccorsiVittoria PucciniAn Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover. (Italian with English subtitles).
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLuca ArgenteroViolante PlacidoNeri MarcorèMattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsFrancesca InaudiRiccardo ScamarcioGabriella PessionLucia loves Paolo since her childhood. When Maria, her best friend, announces the engagement with him, she can't stand the situation and decides to take action.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneLuciana LittizzettoSilvio MuccinoFour intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoFabrizio BentivoglioCristina MarsillachA Spanish girl, Teresa, comes to Milan to meet Ponchia, Marco, Paolino, and Cedro, who haven't seen one another in years; her man, their old friend Rudy, is in jail in Marrakech and needs help and money. The five decide to drive to Morocco to get him out of trouble.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsPaola CortellesiFabio De LuigiLucia OconeThe love lives of the friends Walter, Diego, Renato, Marcello and Piero.
- DirectorNina Di MajoStarsMargherita BuyFabio VoloLuciana LittizzettoA single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoClaudio BigagliGiuseppe CedernaIn WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
- DirectorMassimiliano BrunoStarsPaola CortellesiRaoul BovaRocco PapaleoAlice lives in a beautiful villa. She has a husband who makes a lot of money, a nine-year-old son, and three servants who happen to be immigrants. She is superficial, haughty, and racist. But everything changes the day her husband gets killed in an accident and the young widow finds herself debt-ridden. Forced to leave their magnificent house, she goes to live in a small apartment in a working-class neighborhood. To repay her debts she must also find work. When she gets to know Eva, a call girl who works in the town's West End, she follows her example. In parallel, during her free time, Alice meets a certain number of good people in her new area--and she feels closer and closer to one of them: Giulio.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsGiorgio FalettiCristiana CapotondiNicolas VaporidisA group of Italian friends is preparing for their final exams.
- DirectorDavide MarengoStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoValerio MastandreaEnnio FantastichiniFranz is a bus driver. One night in his empty bus, Leila, a girl on the run, gets on. He doesn't have time to deny her a cigarette that the woman has already got rid of her wig and slipped into his bed, but only to have a place to hide till the next morning. In fact, Leila is a charming scammer, shrewd and liar.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsLuca ArgenteroMoran AtiasDario BandieraNicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
- DirectorSilvio SoldiniStarsLicia MagliettaBruno GanzGiuseppe BattistonAfter being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.
- DirectorFrancesco BruniStarsFabrizio BentivoglioBarbora BobulovaStefano BrunoriThe life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.
- DirectorGiulio ManfredoniaStarsClaudio BisioAnita CaprioliGiuseppe BattistonNello is a recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law, many former patients were left hopeless. With the intention of improving the lives of his pupils, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsLuca ArgenteroDiane FleriFabio TroianoCarlo is a doctor that has recently lost his wife. Affected by the loss, he is supported by his family and friends, and, above all, for the love he feels towards his little daughter. And then, one day, he meets Camille.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsChristian De SicaPasquale PetroloClaudio GregoriLove at first sight.
- DirectorGiorgia FarinaStarsClaudia GeriniCristiana CapotondiSabrina ImpacciatoreGilda, Olivia, and Crocetta are three friends who live in a small island of Sicily, surviving however they can, being inept and provincial, but their chance soon arrives.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìStarsToni ServilloGiselda VolodiAlfredo CastroIn 1970s, the Ciraulos are modest scrap-dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside-down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their immense grief is alleviated by a huge sum of money allotted by the government. This is their chance of a lifetime to improve their conditions. What to do with all that money? The father decides to buy a Mercedes, which soon becomes the apple of his eye. Therefore, the moment he finds a scratch on it, the drama erupts..
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuyRiccardo ScamarcioRoberto HerlitzkaThe story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsSergio CastellittoMarco GialliniClaudia GeriniA man organize the perfect Christmas for his perfect family...but no one is who they say they are.
- DirectorPaolo ZuccaStarsStefano AccorsiGeppi CucciariJacopo CullinThe story of two italian teams, playing in the third league, and a corrupted referee.
- DirectorSergio RubiniStarsEmilio SolfrizziNeri MarcorèPasquale PetroloBiagio Bianchetti has an enemy since school, Ottone di Valerio, a classic "son of dad". Otto has always been better than him, he has covered him with failures and made him ridiculous in everything.
- DirectorLuigi CecinelliStarsVittorio Emanuele PropizioFederico CostantiniVincenzo Alfieri"Nothing can stop us" is a On the Road comedy. And 'the journey of formation of 4 "particular" boys, to the affirmation of self and acceptance of their differences. A fun and spectacular journey through Italy, the French countryside and Spain will lead them to Ibiza, the party capital. Friendship, complicity, adventures and summer loves are the ingredients of this romantic comedy.
- DirectorPifStarsCristiana CapotondiPifAlex BiscontiInspired by real events, this is a black comedy about 20 years of history of Sicily from 1970s to 1990s, mocking Mafia Bosses and restoring the generosity of the heroes of Antimafia. It's focused on Arturo, a young boy who grows up in Palermo and tries to conquer his beloved Flora.
- DirectorMatteo OleottoStarsGiuseppe BattistonTeco CelioRok PrasnikarPaolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an infantile stalking of his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born and raised in the mountains along with an aunt that Paolo did not know to have. After her death, Paolo is the only person who can take care of the boy. Thanks to the wise man owner of the Paolo's usual bar, he discovers that Zoran has a bizarre and unexpected gift: he is a real champion in playing darts. This is an opportunity for Paolo to take a revenge against the world. But things do not always develop as we would like them to.
- DirectorLeonardo PieraccioniStarsLeonardo PieraccioniSerena AutieriMaurizio BattistaArnaldo, Anita and the twins, Martina and Federica, here is the Nardi family. A quiet, normal middle class family. The man is at that stage of his life where nostalgia for the period as a student becomes stronger. It would be nice to be able to go back. It would be nice to savor those moments. It would be also nice to tell someone who has little more than twenty years in life you have to believe in their dreams and not be afraid. Perhaps also coming to steal a caravel of Columbus, as he did, and set sail in the wind and then stop only when ... steal a caravel of Columbus? A misunderstanding with his wife and she throws him out of the house! This is his big chance for a personal "time machine". For man decides to go temporarily to live in a student house: four, have little more than twenty years and the man from day to day lives with their age, those hopes, those doubts that "unfortunately, "he seems to have more. Two worlds compared two ways of seeing the future, a single goal: to return to the caravel stolen ... if there really is.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsMarco GialliniVittoria PucciniAnna FogliettaA psychoanalyst deals with three patients who are going through various difficulties in their love life. Unfortunately, these three patients are his beloved daughters.
- DirectorGiacomo CampiottiStarsFilippo ScicchitanoAurora RuffinoGaia WeissThe story takes place in the italian city of Turin. A roman boy loses his mind for a cancer-sick girl. He will do everything as possible to make her fall in love with him and save her life.
- DirectorClaudio AmendolaStarsEdoardo LeoRicky MemphisEnnio FantastichiniFour friends discover the sport of curling, and, convinced of their potential, decide to form a team for the Winter Olympic Games of Turin 2006.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsElio GermanoAlessandra MastronardiRicky MemphisThe life of a sub-proletarian boy in Rome through the Seventies and Eighties, choosing his own path with his lifetimes friends and family.
- DirectorSydney SibiliaStarsEdoardo LeoValeria SolarinoValerio ApreaA university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.
- DirectorRolando RavelloStarsAmbra AngioliniEdoardo LeoPaolo CalabresiBea and Roberto meet at a psychoanalyst's door and an uneasy love story begins.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsFabio De LuigiLaetitia CastaValentina LodoviniLawyer Francis and veterinarian Claudia, long-time friends reveal their complicated relationship when John arrives and Claudia marries him revealing the complexity of a man-woman friendship.
- DirectorCiro De CaroStarsRossella D'AndreaXueying DengValerio Di BenedettoFour Italian young adults longing to change their lives. The encounter with Mei Mei, a young Chinese prostitute, shines a light on the truth: the gain of one's freedom is, above all, an inside job.
- DirectorFrancesco BruniStarsFabrizio GifuniKseniya RappoportLucrezia GuidoneLara, Ettore, Emma and Giacomo all wake up in a different place. Lara-her bed, Ettore-a friend's sofa, Emma-a theatre and Ettore-his aunt's home. What was once a happy family are now one of their days: frenetic, complicated but special.
- DirectorCarlo MazzacuratiStarsValerio MastandreaIsabella RagoneseGiuseppe BattistonDuring her visit to a prison to do the nails to an old lady and former head of a criminal clan, a broke beautician is the recipient of the last words of the dying lady whispering the hideout of a treasure, supposedly in an old chair in the lady's mansion. The beautician sets forth to find the treasure, but all the belongings of the mansion have been confiscated and auctioned. The beautician seeks help by the neighbor's's shop, a tattoo studio, where the broke owner does everything he can to help, and discovers that there are eight identical chairs and that there is a way to find their owners. The quest to find the lucky chair brings the couple around the Veneto region trying to persuade the chair owners that they don't really need them. A magician, a greedy priest, industrious immigrated entrepreneurs, a grumpy fishmonger and a shepherd in the alps are some of the characters the couple find in their pursuit of happiness.
- DirectorDaniele LuchettiStarsKim Rossi StuartMicaela RamazzottiMartina GedeckA narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and his previously devoted wife's extra-marital inclinations.
- DirectorAlessio Maria FedericiStarsRaoul BovaLuca ArgenteroCarolina CrescentiniPietro is a handsome, recognised and well accommodated Surgeon in its mid 40s. After a fatal accident from which he remains uninjured, doctors diagnose almost full amnesia. He does not remember his ex wife, daughter or brother. the latter is the chosen one to take care of him while struggling against his 4 year old behavior and his discovery of the world
- DirectorRiccardo MilaniStarsPaola CortellesiRaoul BovaCorrado FortunaSerena Bruno returns to Italy to be an architect and help people but she will struggle to convince her fellow co-workers that they have to be more open minded.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsAlessandro GassmannMicaela RamazzottiValeria GolinoPaolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsSabrina ImpacciatoreRaoul BovaSergio RubiniA successful fashion journalist inherits a farm in the deep south of Italy. She goes there to sell it, but not all goes as planned.
- DirectorAlessia ScarsoStarsMarco BocciElena RadonicichBarbara TabitaThe tale of the tender and moving friendship between a lonely boy and an extraordinary dog that teaches a whole village about being human.
- DirectorEdoardo LeoStarsLuca ArgenteroEdoardo LeoAnna FogliettaSergio, Fausto Diego and Claudio have to struggle against Camorra in order to open an agritourism.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMarisa ParedesAngela FinocchiaroThe five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìStarsSergio CastellittoRocco PapaleoValeria Bruni TedeschiVeteran ambulance chaser Oscar gets 'bitten' by a dog and decides to make some cash by suing its owner. However, this turns out to be Armando, a penniless man just released from jail after 30 years for a crime he didn't commit, shunned by everyone except his dog. Oscar sees the potential of getting millions in compensation from the state, and the two fifty-somethings team up in search of clues along with the help of a friendly Barista who owns the a café.
- DirectorEdoardo Maria FalconeStarsMarco GialliniAlessandro GassmannLaura MoranteA young man's decision to become a priest affects his whole family, especially his father.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoLaura MoranteFabrizio BentivoglioTwo actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.