Barbara Alberti

Gospel According to Mary (2023)

The story of Mary is reinvented, no longer a spectator but a courageous architect of her own existence. ...

The Man Who Bought The Moon (2018)

A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises. ...

Era di marzo (2017)

After years spent under the yoke of her violent and mafioso husband, Nunzia flees to Switzerland in search of shelter. Along the way, she crosses paths with her husband's henchman, Aitano. It transpires that he's a lover absolutely besotted with her. ...

The War of Bumpkins (2017)

Global politics in a fairytale nutshell: the eternal struggle between the ruling elite and the underclass, condemned to ignorance. ...

Misunderstood (2014)

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria i ...

The Referee (2013)

An ambitious soccer referee ends up handling a crucial match between two small Sardinian teams ...

I Am Love (2010)

Emma has 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. ...

Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008)

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption. ...

Melissa P. (2005)

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way. ...

Frivolous Lola (1998)

In 1950s northern Italy, a woman tests her fiancé's love and passion by trying to break his commitment to premarital chastity. ...

Donna di piacere (1997)

Angeli a sud (1992)

In Calabria in the seventies, Max leads a group of his friends as they set up a private television network "TV Sila". ...

A Woman in the Mirror (1984)

A couple meet during the Carnival in Ivrea (a little town in northern Italy), feel drawn to each other and have a torrid affair destined not to last long. ...

Disobedience (1981)

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let him ...

I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)

In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom's cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal tr ...

Ernesto (1979)

Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees. ...

Hotel Fear (1978)

A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her. ...

Playing with Love (1977)

Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both are growing u ...

Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden (1976)

Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger. ...

Lunatics and Lovers (1976)

The family of a wealthy nobleman tries to take away his land away after learning that he is having an affair with an imaginary woman. ...

Colpita da improvviso benessere (1976)

Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist. ...

Blonde in Black Leather (1975)

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure. ...

The Night Porter (1974)

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. ...

All the Way Boys (1972)

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for ...

The Master and Margarita (1972)

Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend t ...

A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971)

A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps. ...

So Long Gulliver (1970)

Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swi ...

Season of the Senses (1969)

A group of young girls stranded on an island, where they meet the reclusive Luca, who hides a dark secret. ...

Marko Polo (2024)

Hearing Voices (2023)

A schizophrenic woman battles the destructive voices that seek to dominate her amidst seeking love and acceptance in a crumbling inner world. ...

Bellezza, addio (2023)

In the mid-1990s, news broke that poet Dario Bellezza - who was friends with Sandro Penna, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Pier Paolo Pasolini - had AIDS: this was the beginning of the end for him. Today, friends, poets and literary c ...

The Desired War (2022)

A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop. ...

The Goddess of Fortune (2019)

Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro's best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take care of her two kids for a few days, ...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)

An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen. ...