Franco Barbero

Mi raccomando (2023)

Cognati con la camicia (2023)

After a divorce, Ciro moves back in with his parents, who are already living with his sister, her husband and their 10-year-old son. ...

Stessi battiti (2022)

Qui non si muore (2019)

Il cielo guarda sotto (2019)

Compulsion (2016)

Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his tru ...

Ci vuole un gran fisico (2013)

Torn between family and work, Eva is a woman enslaved by her sense of duty, always in a rush and invariably stressed. Four days shy of her fateful 50th birthday, Eva works as a clerk in the cosmetics department of a department store to support Francesca, h ...

Aspromonte (2012)

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspi ...

The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as ...

A.A.A. Achille (2003)

Achille, nine years old, intelligent, sympathetic, and stutterer. The parents decide to treat him and entrust him to Dr. Aglieri, who begins the therapy. ...

Vola sciusciù (2000)

In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves to guide them to safety. He brings them to his trusted friend Annamaria's farmhouse, persuading her to hid ...

At the Sports Bar (1983)

Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and h ...

La follia della rivoluzione (1978)

For a long time, psychoanalysis failed to make inroads into Italy. Idealism, Catholicism and fascism each regarded it as a pseudo-science, while Marxism saw it as a bourgeois ideology. It was only after 1968 that the situation gradually began to change: nu ...

Perché droga (1976)

This documentary intends to contribute to the analysis of the drugs problem, by studying a huge district in a peripheral area of a large city: the Mirafiori South suburb of Turin, a vast ghetto where 15.000 people live in huge 9/10-storey buildings without ...