Piera Degli Esposti

La California (2022)

Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions. ...

Anima bella (2022)

Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrupted when Bruno gives in once again and once too many to ...

Run to You (2022)

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic. ...

Fairytale (2018)

Two housewives in America in the 1950s, Mrs Fairytale and her best friend Mrs Emerald, meet every day to share their quiet and bourgeois lives, but the façade of perfection slowly crumbles to reveal terrible secrets. ...

Lievito madre – Le ragazze del secolo scorso (2017)

Caro Lucio ti scrivo (2017)

I delitti del BarLume - Aria di mare (2017)

Sea Air - Massimo seeks help for his nightmares and depression. The uncles have it in for a blind choir conductor. Tizi find a dead body, which leads to Massimo and Vittoria, who wants her old job back. ...

Louise by the Shore (2016)

On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. As the weather turns for the worse and with no one to k ...

Sweet Dreams (2016)

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an a ...

Ears (2016)

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragic ...

The Isle of Medea (2016)

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century. ...

Assolo (2016)

A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman. ...

Behind the White Glasses (2015)

It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller. ...

The Journey (2015)

Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the Bari ha ...

Somewhere Amazing (2015)

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine. ...

Senza Lucio (2015)

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla's side. And much more: da ...

A Holy Venetian Family (2015)

Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of t ...

Chlorine (2015)

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams a ...

Welcome Mr. President! (2013)

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precar ...

Pulce non c'è (2012)

Case Chiuse (2011)

February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The bro ...

Lost Kisses (2011)

A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles. ...

Il pranzo di Natale (2011)

Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso (2010)

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy. ...

The Other Half (2009)

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs ...

David's Birthday (2009)

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly? ...

Principessa (2009)

Among the many odd jobs Matilda, a provincial girl, takes on to make ends meet is playing the role of a princess in historical costume reenactments. But when she finds herself pregnant, her boyfriend Pietro refuses to take any responsibility. Matilda then ...

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret. ...

The Man Who Loves (2008)

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved. ...

Il Divo (2008)

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant ...

4B Movie (2007)

Some images come out from the darkness, fragments from 'Steamboat jr.", "Film", "Persona" and "Nostra Signora dei Turchi". ...

Giuni Russo: La sua figura (2007)

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot tha ...

Tre donne morali (2006)

The Unknown Woman (2006)

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her q ...

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo (2006)

Four stories about football. ...

Lettere dalla Sicilia (2006)

Il vestito da sposa (2004)

A young woman is raped the day she goes to the dressmaker's to try on her wedding dress. ...

My Mother's Smile (2002)

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint. ...

Nerolio (1998)

This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was a ...

The Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirlwind of Sex and Politics (1996)

During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. ...

L'appassionata (1989)

To Save Nine (1989)

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their liv ...

Don Bosco (1988)

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. ...

The Malady of Love (1986)

15th-century physician Robert Briand runs a leper colony that accepts new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Briand finds she displays no apparent signs of disea ...

The Future Is Woman (1984)

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least. ...

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit (1983)

The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them. ...

Giocare d'azzardo (1982)

While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a moment of madness, she steals her daughter's lifetime sa ...

Sweet Dreams (1981)

Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, M ...

Fantasia, ma non troppo, per violino (1976)

Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973)

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramat ...

Oplà, noi viviamo (1972)

The story of Karl, a Spartacist revolutionary who, upon his release after eight years in a psychiatric hospital, finds himself in an inhumane and corrupt society, with his former comrades now assimilated into the system. ...

Medea (1969)

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman. ...

A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)

Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later. ...

Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current ...

Johnny Belinda (1969)

Le Case del Vedovo (1968)

Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. ...

Trio (1967)

The lives of three young people in their teens are linked through their experiences in this drama from director Gian Franco Mingozzi. A girl wins a pop singing contest and begins a successful career, at the same time taking on various lovers, discarding th ...

The Trojan Women (1967)

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the anci ...

La California (2022)

Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions. ...

The Future Is Woman (1984)

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least. ...

The Story of Piera (1983)

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter ...