Movies

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity...

Three Italian soldiers volunteer to go to Kosovo after the war, where they risk their lives to help a young girl.

A documentary focused on film critic Lino Micciché, as seen from the point of view of his friends and his son Francesco.

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai

Drawing on archives and interviews, including one with Italian director Marco Bellocchio, this is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making...

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

Marco Bellocchio in his interview with Joyce in 1994 talks about his attitude towards life devoid of dreams and illusions, but extremely active,...

For trying to seduce the boss's wife, a young delinquent is punished by gangsters.

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself...

A strange encounter with an unknown man from a story a harpist tells to his friend during a recording session.

Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then,...

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the...

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

Elena has just turned 18 and this is her first day working in a coffee bar in Bobbio, a town in the north of Italy. It's summer and the coffee bar is...

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

It is a unusual documentary that mixes the music of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi with places, faces and voices from Piacenza, a nice place in...