Luca Zingaretti

The House of Looks (2025)

20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve "the forgetting", that unconscious state that is impenetrable to his existential angst and other fears. He's fleeing pai ...

The Forbidden City (2025)

The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they'll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld. ...

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta (2021)

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 ...

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me (2020)

Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte. ...

Tuttapposto (2019)

Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives. ...

THANKS! (2018)

From the Gabriele Di Luca's play "Thanks for Vaselina", the story of Fil and Charlie. ...

Boys Cry (2018)

Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and mon ...

Let the Girls Play (2018)

Reims, France, 1969. Paul Coutard is a 30-year-old sports journalist at daily newspaper Le Champenois. Charming, childish and a womanizer, he does exactly what he pleases. Then one day, his boss forces him to plan the newspaper's annual fair together with ...

Il vegetale (2018)

Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a "vegetable" in fact. ...

Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells (2015)

Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of bankruptcy, a night, while they are digging for hiding some stems that it would cost too much to digest, they discover some oil. This will make contradiction ...

Perez. (2014)

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso's son, Perez has to cut through the moral ...

Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri (2014)

A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday. ...

Nicholas on Holiday (2014)

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage. ...

Maldamore (2014)

Il giudice meschino (2014)

The story of Alberto Lenzi, Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, cynical, indolent and disillusioned who, upset by the killing of a friend and colleague, finds the inner strength to fight in the service of justice and truth. ...

Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno (2013)

In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the wh ...

Garibaldi's Lovers (2012)

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist. ...

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)

Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans. ...

Paolo Borsellino: The 57 Days (2012)

The film traces the 57 days after the assassination of his friend and fellow anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone when Paolo Borsellino must come to terms with his own inescapable destiny. ...

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 Immature: The Trip (2012)

Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and show that true maturity is never really achieved. ...

Kryptonite! (2011)

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair an ...

Tormenti - Film disegnato (2011)

Mozzarella Stories (2011)

Ciccio D.O.P., undisputed lord of the mozzarella kingdom, sees his dairy empire imperiled when enigmatic Chinese producers unleash a half-priced, top-quality mozzarella on Italian shelves, igniting a brutal market war. As he scrambles to defend his realm, ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

Our Life (2010)

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. ...

Il Volo (2010)

Inspired by the experiences of some small southern Italian municipalities which chose to integrate a set of Kurdish refugees into the dwindling population of their own people giving new life to the dying villages. ...

Il figlio più piccolo (2010)

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor. ...

Hymn to Love (2009)

L'amore e basta looks at the relationships of nine gay and lesbian couples. How can one love, today? The answers given by Stefano Consiglio and the couples he met in four European countries are scandalously normal, simple like the feelings of a group of ch ...

Wild Blood (2008)

The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall. ...

Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight (2007)

A man jumps into the Tiber two days before Christmas. Alessandro and Irene chat over coffee, while Giorgio and Mariella discuss love and sex. Pietro confesses his pain to Cinzia, Nanni kisses Paola, who is engaged to another, and Andrea loves Veronica secr ...

Tutte le donne della mia vita (2007)

My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the for ...

Our Country (2006)

Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the engine of the ...

Cefalonia (2005)

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themsel ...

The Days of Abandonment (2005)

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. ...

Come Into the Light (2005)

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continu ...

Kiss Me First (2003)

Adele and Marcello, born at the same moment on April 16, 1927, were destined to be intertwined. Their friend Loris witnessed their childhood romance, playing bride-and-groom in an abandoned chapel. Separated by WWII, their lives ran parallel, occasionally ...

Doppio agguato (2003)

Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story ...

Sei come sei (2002)

Six shorts. ...

Texas '46 (2002)

Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. ...

The Theft of St. Peter's Treasure (2000)

Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery bu ...

Operazione Odissea (2000)

Jesus (1999)

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah. ...

L'anniversario (1999)

You Laugh (1998)

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his l ...

Rewind (1998)

Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in "virtual reality" in order to restore the identity of the mysterious criminal who prepared the assassination attempt that cost Paul hi ...

Kidnapping – Ein Vater schlägt zurück (1998)

Incompreso (1998)

Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quaratesi, an important producer of fine wines, while loving his wife Elisa and his two children, Francesco and M ...

Oltremare - Non è l'America (1998)

Artemisia (1997)

The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. ...

The Colors of the Devil (1997)

A young talented painter dreams of glory. A man promises it in exchange for his talent and his soul. ...

Castle Freak (1996)

John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature. ...

Strangled Lives (1996)

Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corr ...

L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci (1995)

This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his frie ...

The Pack (1994)

In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard. The only one who pulls back from the group is Raniero, the others willingly accept to follow him. Slowly ...

Una questione privata (1993)

Abissinia (1993)

Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town, but that is no reason for his boss not to pay him. When he takes the wages that he is owed out of the till, n ...

The Last Days of Humanity (1991)

The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai ...

The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy. ...

The House of Looks (2025)

20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve "the forgetting", that unconscious state that is impenetrable to his existential angst and other fears. He's fleeing pai ...