Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Eternal Visionary (2024)

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his relationship with the loved ones who have inspired his art. ...

Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema (2024)

Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014. It delves into his distinctive poetic style, blending genres, and portraying rarely seen parts of Italy with empathy and dignity. ...

The Worst Days (2023)

Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul. ...

Raul Gardini (2023)

The last three years in the life of entrepreneur Raul Gardini (1933—1993). ...

Casanova's Return (2023)

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He's approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he's deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova w ...

Thank You Guys (2023)

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot. ...

September (2022)

Over the course of a day in September, three loosely related people realize their life is not the one they dreamt of. ...

Security (2021)

After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies. ...

Rose Island (2020)

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well b ...

La concessione del telefono (2020)

Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone who is not satisfied with his life… ...

Pastrone! (2019)

Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio (2019)

"The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is revisited through the music and the worldwide influences of the multi-ethnic Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. ...

An Almost Ordinary Summer (2019)

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love. ...

The Invisible Witness (2018)

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura. The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room. ...

Loro (2018)

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tyc ...

Loro 2 (2018)

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a momen ...

Loro 1 (2018)

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a momen ...

Disconnected (2018)

Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, Claudio's gi ...

Forever Young (2016)

Intertwined stories of 50somethings that won't give up on their glory days. ...

Dobbiamo parlare (2015)

Vanni and Linda live in a penthouse apartment for rent in the center of Rome. Vanni writes novels, Linda 'cooperates' to his novels. Between a vernissage and an exhibition of Basquiat, thay hang out Alfredo and Constanza, a couple on the verge of a nervous ...

The Last Will Be the Last (2015)

Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she's always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn't always have a job and they both need to struggle to ...

The Invisible Boy (2014)

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible. ...

La sedia della felicità (2014)

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead. ...

Human Capital (2013)

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. ...

Everything Everything Nothing Nothing (2012)

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. ...

Easy! (2011)

The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son. ...

A Second Childhood (2010)

Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. ...

Happy Family (2010)

A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they're getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters ...

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (2007)

In 1976, Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting away his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what could be his big break when he joins the summer tour of a washed-up maestro from the big city. ...

The Right Distance (2007)

The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder. ...

The Family Friend (2006)

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affa ...

Our Land (2006)

Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when t ...

Love Returns (2004)

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life. ...

Remember Me, My Love (2003)

A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured ...

On the Tiger's Back (2002)

Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days before his release, he's forced by two dangerous inmates to take part in their jailbreak. On the run, Guido set ...

Hotel (2001)

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu. ...

Teeth (2000)

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist ...

Holy Tongue (2000)

Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of St. Anthony of Padua. ...

Magicians (2000)

A con-man and a wannabe professional magician team up with a waitress and an old professional on their way to Vegas. ...

The Missing (1999)

When her child is missing an Australian mother calls for an priest from Italy she has not seen in years. ...

The Nanny (1999)

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave he ...

Típota (1999)

A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie. ...

Eternity and a Day (1998)

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and enc ...

Del perduto amore (1998)

Basilicata, 1950s. A young teacher with communist leanings is committed to women's emancipation and the spread of education in rural areas, coming into conflict with her party comrades. ...

Notes of Love (1998)

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness. ...

Le acrobate (1997)

A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman. ...

An Eyewitness Account (1997)

When Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained s ...

Sacred Silence (1996)

A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year-old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the pri ...

Slaughter of the Cock (1996)

Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them. Greece's submission for ...

Elective Affinities (1996)

After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone. ...

The Real Thing (1996)

Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a ...

La scuola (1995)

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children. ...

Like Two Crocodiles (1995)

A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company in Paris. He lives in a fine, automated apartment which ...

Un eroe borghese (1995)

1979. Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli is appointed liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, the empire of mighty financier Michele Sindona. Teaming up with unassuming cop Silvio Novembre, Ambrosoli uncovers the real scope of Sindona's malpractice, exposing him as th ...

A Soul Split in Two (1993)

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manife ...

La fine è nota (1993)

A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to inv ...

Puerto Escondido (1992)

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions. ...

Americano rosso (1991)

The Peaceful Air of the West (1990)

Set in Milan in the summer of 1989 against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the film follows four frustrated individuals whose lives intertwine because of the loss of a planner. ...

Turné (1990)

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him. ...

Italia Germania 4-3 (1990)

Apartment Zero (1989)

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon b ...

Marrakech Express (1989)

After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out. ...

Affairs (1989)

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Eve ...

Regina (1987)

Via Montenapoleone (1987)

Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge. ...

Salomé (1986)

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the he ...

Woman of Wonders (1985)

In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a ...

Death in the Vatican (1982)

A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning. ...

La festa perduta (1981)

Lady of the Camelias (1981)

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm. ...

Masoch (1980)

Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. Both spous ...

The Blue-Eyed Bandit (1980)

An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal. ...

Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio (2019)

"The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is revisited through the music and the worldwide influences of the multi-ethnic Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. ...

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (2007)

In 1976, Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting away his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what could be his big break when he joins the summer tour of a washed-up maestro from the big city. ...

Típota (1999)

A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give birth, who get caught up in a the filming of a scene from a movie. ...

Turné (1990)

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him. ...