Marco Paolini

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. ...

Sex Game (2023)

Rachel and Ryan are two popular influencers who will do anything to get a few more likes and win the next virtual challenge. ...

Dog - Apocalypse (2022)

In 2023 unidentifiable radiation left 99.5% of the world's female population sterile. Man's fate is now divided in to two paths: extinction or the beginning of a new dawn. ...

Boys (2021)

Joe, Carlo, Bobo and Giacomo have always been friends, each with their own life and problems, but united by an authentic bond and the passion that brought them together: music. The Boys, the band's name, had had lightning-fast success in the 1970s. In thei ...

Oltre il fiume (2019)

Effetto domino (2019)

In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and in ...

Cento anni (2017)

On the Trail of My Father (2016)

A kid helps his troubled father to hunt a killer bear. ...

Sun In Buckets (2013)

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North. ...

ITIS Galileo (2012)

Shun Li and the Poet (2011)

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon. ...

Piazza Garibaldi (2011)

"Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning "La strada di Levi", Ferrario sets off on a journey: this time, on the traces of the expedition of the Tho ...

Ausmerzen (2011)

Miserabili: io e Margaret Thatcher (2009)

Miserabili - Io e Margaret Thatcher is a theatrical monologue by Marco Paolini, flanked with regard to music and voices sung by the Liquor Merchants. ...

Miserabili (2009)

La macchina del capo (2009)

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. ...

Album d'Aprile (2008)

Chi ga vinto? (2008)

The Sergeant in the Snow (2007)

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 ...

Ritratti: Luigi Meneghello (2002)

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect. ...

Vivere (2002)

War and love. tears and laughter, the worst and the best that can happen to someone - in brief, life, in Rome, ruled by the Nazis, in 1943. The man in question is called Vittorio, Vittorio De Sica. Easy to speak well of him now, but then he was just a 'com ...

Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat (2001)

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. ...

Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto (2000)

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language. ...

I-TIGI a Gibellina - Racconto per Ustica (2000)

Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern (1999)

Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern about—among other things—his well-known experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminating in the infamous retreat of the Italian troops, the difficult reintegration into civilian life afte ...

I piccoli maestri (1998)

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans into the mountains of Nazi-occupied northern Italy. There, group leader Gigi falls in love with his best fr ...

Vajont 9 ottobre '63 (1997)

Il Milione (1997)

Il toro (1994)

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money. ...

Caro diario (1993)

Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted, sun-drenched summertime Rome; in the second, he visits a reclusive writer friend on an island, who ropes him ...

Texas Twister (2024)

A small town worker believes he's seeing visions from God in the form of a violent tornado. ...

The smile of the cat (2020)

A look at reality as it appears today in the streets and cities as an image of the crisis and decline of western society in the era of globalization. Between wealth and poverty, between homologation and loss of identity, between reality and illusion, nothi ...

On the Trail of My Father (2016)

A kid helps his troubled father to hunt a killer bear. ...

The Sergeant in the Snow (2007)

After Midnight (2004)

A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman. ...

I-TIGI a Gibellina - Racconto per Ustica (2000)