Gianni Amelio

Battlefield (2024)

These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he not only takes care of soldiers who arrive from the massacre of the front, but also he fights simulation an ...

Lord of the Ants (2022)

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters ...

Hammamet (2020)

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's. ...

Pastime (2019)

A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it's a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher invites him to sit, he was waiting for him. He is dark skinned. He comes from Mali. Well dres ...

Someone Else's Home (2017)

We entered "someone else's home" with fear of being a disturbance. We didn't want to peer into a wounded territory with the eyes of the merely curious. The inhabitants of Amatrice, the few that are left, opened the door to us, greeted us without tears, off ...

Tenderness (2017)

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys a ...

Class Register. Second Book 1968-2000 (2015)

School registers are made to record the students' absences and grades. But not all students are equal, not all of them are given the same opportunities. In this journey lasting over a century, teachers, children, parents from every part of Italy reconstruc ...

Class Register. First Book 1900-1960 (2015)

School registers are made to record the students' absences and grades. But not all students are equal, not all of them are given the same opportunities. In this journey lasting over a century, teachers, children, parents from every part of Italy reconstruc ...

Happy to Be Different (2014)

The film takes us on a voyage to a hidden Italy rarely addressed on film: Gay Italy as it was lived in the 20th century, from the turn of the century up to the 80s. The documentary gives voice to those who personally had to bear the weight of being "differ ...

Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)

A meek middle-aged man takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to feel useful and keep his dignity—until something shakes his inexhaustible optimism. ...

The First Man (2011)

Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding i ...

The Missing Star (2006)

Vincenzo, former head of maintenance of a steel plant that's been outsourced, travels from Italy to China to warn about a defective blast furnace. ...

The Keys To The House (2004)

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager. ...

The Way We Laughed (1998)

Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his s ...

Lamerica (1994)

Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner ...

The Stolen Children (1992)

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation betw ...

Open Doors (1990)

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer f ...

Via Panisperna Boys (1989)

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys. ...

Blow to the Heart (1982)

The son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and has to decide what to do about it. ...

The Sailing Ships (1982)

After a kidnapping a boy is kept in the family castel to protect him. ...

The Little Archimedes (1980)

The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is fond of music and mathematics, with whom he becomes close friends. Alfred goes to Switzerland, but one day ...

Death at Work (1978)

A young man moves to an apartment where an actor has just committed suicide. There is a room with cabinets full of theatrical objects and posters of old films. A child spies on him and in the house opposite a girl haunts him. ...

Special Effects (1978)

A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, "Effetti speciali". As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything. ...

The Cinema According to Bertolucci (1976)

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci ...

The City of the Sun (1973)

1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the Government. Campanella, under the charge of the plot, is ...

The End of the Game (1970)

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria. ...

The Year of the Cannibals (1969)

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates th ...

The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2. ...

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967)

A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way ou ...

Almost a Man (1966)

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele re ...

Colpiti al cuore (2019)

Voi siete qui (2011)

Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula (1992)

The End of the Game (1970)

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria. ...