Luigi Lo Cascio is an Italian Actor and Director. He has won two David di Donatello Awards and an Venice International Film Festival. He's known for Don't Tell (2005), Human Capital (2013) and Baarìa (2009).
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, two actors rehearsing a new show with the actors of their amateur dramatics. This meeting brings great surprises.
The show revolves around a Sicilian public prosecutor named Nino Scotellaro who devoted his whole life to fighting the Mafia and finds himself accused and condemned of being a mafioso himself.
At the end of the sixties, a trial was held in Rome that caused a sensation. Playwright and poet Aldo Braibanti was sentenced to nine years’ prison, found guilty of plagio. That is, of having submitted another person, physically...
Naples, early 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s marriage finds itself on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married. A thriller about emotions, a story of loyalty and infid...
In the early 1980’s, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his ...
Tensions between two brothers and their families escalate when a video of two teenagers, possibly son of one brother and daughter of the other, beating a homeless woman to death, shows up.
In Paolo Virzì's refined three-chapter tale, we begin at the end. Approaching a snowy night from three vastly different perspectives, the lives of two generations overlap as they tumble toward an ill-fated event that inextricably...
Salvo is a body guard and hit man for a mafioso. After foiling an attack on his employer, Salvo hunts down the man who organised it and encounters the man's blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence.
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
When a disturbing childhood memory surfaces, an actress undertakes a painful exploration into the past she has repressed. For Sabina, the sudden recollection of an act of molestation by her father leads her to visit her brother in...
While hunting a cultured, intelligent and vicious psychopath, Inspector Amaldi comes face to face with the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his own past.
In Rome, the aspirant actress Laura is invited to an audition for the film "La Vita Che Vorrei" by the director, Luca. Laura is the lover of Raffaele, a man with a good standing in the cinema industry, and performs well,...
In 1978, the Red Brigade kidnapped the Italian Prime Minister. One of the group is no longer convinced of the wisdom of the idea. With inner division, the situation quickly becomes claustrophobic.
"La Meglio Gioventù" tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. It focuses on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. They share the same hopes, the same dreams, they enjoy the same books an...
This is an incisive, richly detailed portrait of a prosperous Roman family. Virna Lisi plays the mother feeling sidelined by her adult children. One daughter is widowed, the other unhappily married and the son, a successful barris...
Antonio is a lonely man who works as a driver of luxury cars. Outside of his work, he spends his time reading science fiction novels, and, especially by night, driving through the streets of the city. One night he meets Maria, a l...
The setting is Sicily in the latter half of the Fifties. Cinisi, a small town in the province of Palermo, is renowned only for its airport, Punta Raisi, used by powerful local Mafia bosses for trafficking. The town is also home to...
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