Italian LGBT : Gay and Lesbian movies from Italy (Italia)
A Cinematographic Anthology 1967-2024
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- DirectorGiulio QuestiStarsTomas MilianMarilù ToloPiero LulliVarious factions, including a half-breed bandit, a gang of homosexual cowboys, and a priest, feud over stolen gold in a surreal town.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsSilvana ManganoTerence StampMassimo GirottiA mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
- DirectorMarcello FondatoStarsClaudia CardinaleCatherine SpaakJohn Phillip LawMarta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsOrchidea De SantisFranco ResselSusy AndersenTake a guided trip with Emilio Servadio on a journey of sexual excess including a insatiable nymphomaniac, a sex killer, a lesbian and fetishists of every type.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeIngrid ThulinHelmut GriemThe dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsFranco CittiNinetto DavoliJovan JovanovicAn adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeRomolo ValliMark BurnsWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsHugh GriffithLaura BettiNinetto DavoliPasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
- DirectorCorrado FarinaStarsCarroll BakerGeorge EastmanIsabelle De FunèsA photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsHelmut BergerRomy SchneiderTrevor HowardThe reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsNinetto DavoliFranco CittiFranco MerliIn ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBurt LancasterHelmut BergerSilvana ManganoA reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniJohn VernonTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDominique SandaErland JosephsonRobert PowellThe life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsMalcolm McDowellPeter O'TooleHelen MirrenA dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.
- DirectorSalvatore SamperiStarsMartin HalmMichele PlacidoVirna LisiTriestw in the year 1911. Ernesto is the privileged, seventeen year old son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and his moaning aunt Regina, who send him to work at the office of a trading company. Ernesto doesn't take his new job very serious, he wants to become a violin player. One day when he is alone in the storage, he is approached by a young stable-hand, to whom he has given working orders before. They agree to meet. Ernesto is very aware of the sexual intentions of the man. He is curious and starts having sex with the man frequently. But after an overwhelming heterosexual experience with a prostitute, he decides to avoid any further contact with the man. He quits his job and concentrates on studying the violin. During a concert, Ernesto meets a 15 year old violin player of classic beauty called Emilio. The two boys start an intense friendship that is troubled by jealousy and possessiveness. Untill Emilio introduces Ernesto to his twin sister Rachele. Then Ernesto becomes insecure and confused. Does he want the brother or the sister?
- DirectorStenoStarsRenato PozzettoEdwige FenechMassimo RanieriA factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.
- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsMariangela MelatoEleonora GiorgiErland JosephsonA gay brother visits his childhood home where his sister still lives with her lesbian niece and her girlfriend. They reminisce about the better past and their parents.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsRenzo MontagnaniRay LovelockAnna Maria RizzoliA moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress.
- DirectorFrancesco MassaroStarsMichel SerraultTomas MilianOmbretta ColliLeon de Paris used to be a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery. In fact the plan is to take all Fanny's money, share it among them and escape in Montecarlo. Will the strange couple succeed?
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenato PozzettoNino ManfrediMara Venier
- DirectorFabio CarpiStarsHéctor AlterioOmero AntonuttiPierre MaletThe internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead violinist suddenly died, leaving the remaining three confused about their lives and careers.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsCarol AltRenée SimonsenFabrizio BentivoglioVia Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsPhilippe NoiretRupert EverettValeria GolinoA Jewish family and a homosexual doctor suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. Based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani.
- DirectorAldo LadoStarsFiona GélinEnzo DecaroYves CollignonPhotographer Lea visits her hubby Alfredo, who works on an oil rig in Morocco. Wherever she goes, she's given eerie dirty looks. She gives in to a couple of men, but then falls for thuggish bar owner Le Serpent and his bar boy.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoClaudio AmendolaFrancesco BenignoA teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsFrancesco BenignoAlessandra Di SanzoRoberto MarianoYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
- DirectorPappi CorsicatoStarsIaia ForteCristina DonadioCiro PiscopoThree episodes: In Napoli Aurora is abandoned by her husband and rekindles her relationship with a former lover. Exconvict Sebastiano learns that his mother is a trans woman. Libera gathers video evidence to prove her husband's infidelity.
- DirectorPierfrancesco CampanellaStarsTomas AranaGianfranco JannuzzoGioia ScolaWanting to make a scoop, TV journalist Marco delves deeply into an unfamiliar world within the metropolis, follows the trail of a serial killer and gets himself entangled in case.
- DirectorChristian De SicaStarsFabrizio AccordinoPaolo ConticiniCarlo CroccoloFour homosexual friends: Vittorio, an architect who falls in love with Alex, one of his employees; Sandro, divorced with a son and who works in the world of cinema; Dado, an esteemed doctor and Tony, owner of a men's clothing store.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsCarlo De FilippiNicoletta BraschiToni BertorelliA film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino Pelosi, the street kid who was found guilty of the murder. The trial becomes a metaphor of the Italian society in the 1970s.
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsValeria MariniJorge PerugorríaStefano DionisiHer name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (Doll). Upon her mother's death, she and her homosexual brother Flavio open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another boyfriend of hers, Settimio. While visiting him in jail, she meets sadistic Furio and they begin a relationship.
- DirectorMassimo SpanoStarsJean-Marc BarrMassimo DapportoThomas KretschmannA young recruit to the Italian army (Albanese) discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer (Barr) and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.
- DirectorCarmine AmorosoStarsEnrico Lo VersoVincent CasselMonica BellucciPasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsAlessandro GassmannFrancesca d'AlojaCarlo CecchiFrancesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsDiego AbatantuonoSilvio OrlandoValentina CerviA bungling bank robber, an uncooperative hostage with a secret, a gay policeman and a situation which rapidly goes from bad to worse are the ingredients to this very funny and unpredictable caper flick. Sad sack Domenico is an unemployed man who decides to rob a Turin bank and then to travel north to Switzerland with his loot. But things don't work out that way: For the heist is messy and he ends up with the tall, patrician Tommaso as his hostage. Tommaso, a businessman who is on the verge of bankruptcy, quickly takes over and convinces convincing Domenico to, instead, head south, get help from a friend of Tommaso and sail off to Egypt. But the plan soon unravels, as Domenico discovers that the friend, Orfeo, is actually Tommaso's lover and a policeman to boot. The odd couple is now the odd triangle and when Tommaso's grown-up daughter decides to come along as well, the likelihood of poor Domenico getting out of the country becomes more and more complicated.
- DirectorDaniele CiprìFranco MarescoStarsMarcello MirandaCarlo GiordanoPietro ArciadiaconoPaletta steals from a shrine to pay a prostitute. Fefè, an aging homosexual, attends his lover's wake and steals his ring. Lazzaro is killed by the mafia. Totò, a humble messiah, resurrects the man, who rushes off to take his revenge.
- DirectorMonica StambriniStarsMaya SansaRegina OrioliMariella ValentiniMechanic Stella owns a gas station with introvert Lenni. When Stella accidentally kills Lenni's abusive mother, they try to dump the body. They run into trouble, thugs and cops but stick together as they fall in love with each other.
- DirectorLaura MuscardinStarsThomas TrabacchiRiccardo SalernoDavide BechiniClaudio is HIV-positive and lead a normal life, at work, with your family, with your boyfriend, until an unexpected passion arises from a one-night stand.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsMargherita BuyStefano AccorsiSerra YilmazAfter a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband's friends and finds the truth about his life.
- DirectorAurelio GrimaldiStarsArturo PagliaGaetano AmatoMassimo Ferroni D'AndreaThe film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of having seduced three paesan boys.
- DirectorRodolphe MarconiStarsRodolphe MarconiAndrea NecciEcho DanonBruce leaves his girlfriend behind in Paris for an arts fellowship that will allow him to live and work in Rome. Staying at a villa that once belonged to the Medici and being allowed to write full time seems like a dream until he meets Matteo, a native of Rome who works at the villa. Daily exposure to renaissance art and ancient Roman statuary and the looks of desire that he thinks he recognizes in Matteo's eyes leads Bruce to question his own sexual orientation. Why does Matteo seem to enjoy falling asleep in Bruce's bed so often? And why is Matteo so attentive one minute and so distant the next? If Matteo is interested, why does he also seem so interested in Irene, the American girl? And if Bruce is straight why does he care so much?
- DirectorLuciano LigabueStarsStefano PesceElisabetta CavallottiMassimo BellinzoniFour middle-aged friends plan to re-experience an old weekend in Rimini.
- DirectorRenato De MariaStarsFlavio PistilliCristiano CallegaroMatteo TarantoWho killed the director's cat?
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMargherita BuySandra CeccarelliThe lively goings-on of a modern family seen through the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsErnesto MahieuxValerio Foglia ManzilloElisabetta RocchettiA solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.
- DirectorMarco FilibertiStarsLuigi DibertiFrancesca d'AlojaClaudio VanniSet in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- DirectorAndrea AdriaticoStarsCorso SalaniFrancesca MazzaLuca LeviNightfall. Marco, a politician, is murdered while he is going home. Also Luca, a gay man, is going home, where his partner Paolo is waiting. But he is on the killer's way, and he is shot. Paolo dashes to the hospital but the doctor doesn't want to tell him anything because Paolo isn't a "real" relative. Luca dies. Paolo starts walking in the streets of the town, where his loneliness will be ever misunderstood. A barman tries to comfort him supposing he was discharged by his girlfriend. Luca's mother orders Paolo to leave the house. A guy takes Paolo to him's, looking for a partner in the night. Paolo runs away from everybody, also from his friend Francesca: she says she is understanding but she can't. While the dawn is coming, Paolo reads about the murders on the newspapers, and realizes that what happened was reality.
- DirectorStefano RealiStarsMaurizio MattioliValerio Foglia ManzilloAna PapadopuluIn southern Italy, Rollo, a nearly mute, large, muscular young man, is part of a crime gang. He wants to go on "an escort," to smuggle a ten-year-old Moroccan boy into Switzerland where adoptive parents supposedly await him. The third person on this road trip is Mauro, a middle-aged nurse brought into the deal by his boss, a hospital physician, to make a quick buck. They head for Cannobio on what should be a one-day trip, but complications soon arise. Car trouble, a Bulgarian prostitute and her daughter, the boy's constant desire to play soccer, and Rollo's flashbacks to a troubled and violent childhood combine to challenge them in a world without conscience.
- DirectorRaffaele PiscitelliStarsMarina ToppettiEnzo GiraldoGabriele GalèThe theatre company managed by Marco is passing through a crisis; the big networks invaded the market with their poor products and they lay down the law. Marco finds an important subject to work on: homosexuality; but it is hard to ask Federica, who is a writer and director, to work on it. That subject is a thorn in her side, as it was the cause of her marriage break up. Federica angerly refuses Marco's proposal, but after one night of searching, spent on Internet, she brings to light an aspect of the homosexuality, which doesn't want to give up, now: "The Pink Triangle" that means homosexuality as a martyrdom, the tribute of blood that homosexual people shed during the nazi period. Federica explains Marco and other actors of the company the new project, by telling the historical documentation. Each of them imagines his own character in dark colour performances, often brutal, following the line of blood that history has drawn. Documentation doesn't stop at the past; we realize that the way towards the end of any prejudice is still long.
- DirectorCarmine AmorosoStarsEduard GabiaLuca LionelloChiara CaselliCover-boy (low-budget film shot in the Sony digital HDV format and transfert on 35mm. feature film) is the story of the friendship between Ioan (Eduard Gabia) and Michele (Luca Lionello) respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails of a young man, son of the Post-Communist Revolution, who flees his country in search of a better future and the travails of another youth who instead scrapes along the margins of a Western society that is unable to offer gainful employment to so much of its youth. In the background of this rapport between a simple Romanian youth and his marginalized Italian counterpart, there is a West which on one side is still reeling from the collapse of the Communist ideology and on the other, in the clutches of a Capitalist myth which has increasingly assumed, as it propulsive force, harsh competitiveness and an intensification of social inequality. The film tells the story of their shared experiences on the fringes of a prosperous city, tormented by their landlady (Luciana Littizzetto) and it illustrates how the savagery of a daily dog-eat-dog struggle for survival can be opposed by the bonds of genuine friendship. Ioan's encounter with a famous photographer (Chiara Caselli), and his misjudgment of an exploitive sentiment for love, will ultimately bolster his friendship with Michele and guide him to the final destination of his on-going quest.
- DirectorMarco Simon PuccioniStarsMaria de MedeirosAntonia LiskovaMounir OuadiThe story's protagonists are three people: Anna, a wealthy middle-class 35-year old woman who owns, together with her mother and her brother, a factory in the northeast of Italy; she has a love affair with 25-year-old Mara, who works in the factory; then there's Anis, a young man from Maghreb who suddenly storms into their lives.
- DirectorAndy TennantGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioFour episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsStefano AccorsiMargherita BuyPierfrancesco FavinoThe confidences, hopes and disappointments of a group of friends.
- DirectorFabiomassimo LozziStarsFrancesco ApolloniDomenico BalsamoMirko BatoniAn experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in monologues performed by actors and adapted from interviews with ordinary Italian gay men. A multicolored kaleidoscopic journey through a varied and multi-faceted aspect of the human experience that is rarely represented on the big screen.
- DirectorMirko LocatelliStarsMattia De GasperisMichela CovaAndrea SemeghiniValerio is a lonely young boy who can't get on with the others of the same age. He just observes without been seen and tries to compare himself to them, especially with two tough guys from his swimming course. One day Valerio sees something that will change him forever.
- DirectorPablo BenedettiDavid SordellaStarsAziz AhmeriGhizlane WaldiAn Italian bride sets off on an adventure to Morocco with a transvestite dressmaker one week before her wedding.
- 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?
- DirectorMarco FilibertiStarsAlessandro GassmannMaria de MedeirosMassimo PoggioTwo couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonFlavio ParentiEdoardo GabbrielliniEmma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
- DirectorStefano PasettoStarsSandra CeccarelliFrancesca InaudiCésar BordónTwo women, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity to meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind they find that escape carries with it a different set of responsibilities.
- DirectorDonatella MaiorcaStarsValeria SolarinoIsabella RagoneseEnnio FantastichiniNothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsRiccardo ScamarcioNicole GrimaudoAlessandro PreziosiTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsElio GermanoMargherita BuyVittoria PucciniThe only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way. He comes Rome and starts to work in a bakery. At first, he stays with his cousin, Maria , but then he rents a house. But he is not alone there.
- DirectorFrancesca MuciStarsAnna FogliettaGiulio BerrutiCamilla FilippiElena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, however, when she meets Adriana, an 18-year-old seductive young woman who offers passion and excitement, and Hector, an older man who offers Elena stability and security. Elena quickly realizes though that Adriana is too immature and too young for her, so she tries to end their romance, but for Adriana the rejection is just another game to play.
- DirectorIvan SilvestriniStarsJosafat VagniMonica GuerritoreFrancesco MontanariMatthia is about to move to Madrid to be with his boyfriend Eduard, so he won't have to reveal to the family of being gay. Eduard, however, is convinced that their marriage has the blessing of all family members. On the day before Matthia leaves for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to meet the in-laws. Matthia must now choose whether to finally come clean with his companion, or confess to being a formidable liar.
- DirectorMariano LambertiStarsEnrico SilvestrinDaniela VirgilioLucia MascinoProtested by Catholic organizations at the time of its release, this romantic comedy from Italy follows eight characters who cross paths on New Year's Eve in Rome. After a sudden power outage, the night takes a strange turn and our eight separate protagonists are well on their way to becoming four distinct couples.
- DirectorMatteo VicinoStarsNicolas VaporidisAndrea BoscaMassimo GhiniFederico and Riccardo have been friends ever since childhood. The two friends become aware of the possibility of getting a grant. But soon they discover that the competition is open to unmarried couples.
- DirectorSilvio NacucchiStarsViviana AltieriWilliam AngiuliNicola CamurriAn Italian lesbian couple wants a child. A gay couple tries to help them. Four friends, hundreds of problems. One solution.
- DirectorSebastiano RisoStarsDavide CaponeVincenzo AmatoLucia SardoPersecuted by his father for being different, androgynous boy Davide, 14, leaves home to live on the streets of Catania.
- 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.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsWillem DafoeNinetto DavoliRiccardo ScamarcioA kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
- DirectorDuccio ChiariniStarsMatteo CreatiniFrancesca AgostiniNicola NocchiAn awkward teenage boy with phimosis deals with lack of confidence and sexual pressure from the outside world.
- DirectorCarlo LavagnaStarsOndina QuadriMassimo PopolizioValentina CarneluttiAs Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- DirectorVeronica PivettiStarsAndrea AmatoPia EngleberthCorrado InvernizziFirst film directed by Veronica Pivetti. The theme of the film is bullying and homophobia of a teenager at school.
- DirectorMaria Sole TognazziStarsMargherita BuySabrina FerilliFausto Maria SciarappaMarina and Federica have been together for five years now, they share the same apartment, bed, face cream, they laugh, they fight, but even so sometimes they are not sure if they're a couple or not.
- DirectorMassimo CappelliStarsFabio TroianoDino AbbresciaBelén RodríguezTwo gay men live together. One of them falls for a beautiful woman.
- DirectorEdoardo Maria FalconeStarsMarco GialliniAlessandro GassmannLaura MoranteA young man's decision to become a priest affects his whole family, especially his father.
- DirectorRoberto CuzzilloStarsDaniel De RossiGiuseppe Claudio InsalacoA story about love between a Italian guy and a Russian guy
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsAlba RohrwacherEmily FerratelloLars EidingerYears after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- DirectorGabriele MuccinoStarsBrando PacittoMatilda Anna Ingrid LutzTaylor FreyA gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
- DirectorIrene DionisioStarsRoberto De FrancescoFabrizio FalcoAlfonso SantagataThree story lines revolve around a mount of piety in Turin, Italy.
- DirectorIvan CotroneoStarsRimau Ritzberger GrilloValentina RomaniLeonardo PazzagliThe story of three teenager friends not accepted by their peers.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsGiuseppe BattistonAnna FogliettaMarco GialliniSeven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuyMaria RoveranMarta GastiniWhen Caterina accepts a job offer in a Hotel in Belgrade, her three friends decide to follow her despite their problems, starting an on the road adventure which will mark a turning point in their lives.
- DirectorAdriano GiottiStarsNataly Beck'SFrancesco MaccarinelliFrancesca RenziMarla and Simone are madly in love and have a very passionate relationship. They are also struggling to get by and are unable to pay the rent. In desperation they decide to make porn videos.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTimothée ChalametArmie HammerMichael StuhlbargIn 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- DirectorMatteo BotrugnoDaniele ColucciniStarsAnna FogliettaGiulia BevilacquaVinicio MarchioniA story that sees love and pay sex mix, crime and hope, tragic and comic, forming a variegated mosaic in which the periphery is a monstrous giant stranded on the edge of a large city.
- DirectorFabio MolloStarsLuca MarinelliIsabella RagoneseAnna FerruzzoPaolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
- DirectorCesare FuresiStarsCarlo Delle PianeCaterina MurinoLando BuzzancaA delicate, melting love story about life to the end. Giulio is an elderly gentleman, gambling addict and devoted lifelong lover of Claudio. When Claudio becomes ill and money gets tight, the only way out is one last poker game.
- DirectorSebastiano RisoStarsMicaela RamazzottiPatrick BruelPippo DelbonoA shocking drama about a couple which debates between business, love and life.
- DirectorSimone CataniaStarsVinicio MarchioniMarco D'AmoreJennifer UlrichAntonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.
- DirectorAlessandro GenovesiStarsDiego AbatantuonoMonica GuerritoreSalvatore EspositoAntonio's finally found the love of his life, Paolo, with whom he lives happily in Berlin. Even if still not sure about their families' reactions, they decide to get married in Italy, in the small village from where Antonio's parents live.