Valentina Lodovini

A Family Upside Down (2025)

The story follows a family, including three children who are driving their parents out of their minds. One morning, they all wake up inside each other's bodies. ...

When Mom Is Away... With the In-laws (2025)

After the phenomenal success of the first two films, "When Mom is Away" and "When Mom is Away… With the Family," the adventures of the Rovelli family continue! This time, they're heading to Puglia, where their eldest daughter, Camilla, is moving to atten ...

Group Therapy (2024)

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. ...

Alla ricerca di Rose (2023)

In a hypothetical near future (2029), a group of children, after a mysterious event, find themselves having to deal with a world without adults, electricity and technology, and set out in search of what appears to be the only woman left at the waist: "Rose ...

Conversazioni con altre donne (2023)

Two former partners reignite their spark at a wedding reception, but as the night wears on, fond memories fade into mutual regrets and their brief affair turns into a desperate attempt to recapture lost time. ...

The Land of Women (2023)

The 1950s: in the ancient and far-off island of Sardinia, two generations of women fight against restrictive age-old traditions to reach sexual and emotional freedom. ...

The Best Days (2023)

A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events. ...

Neighbors (2022)

A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors. ...

Love & Gelato (2022)

Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have "the summer of a lifetime" in Rome. Using her mom's old diary as a guide, she explores th ...

The Aphid and the Ant (2021)

Fatima is 16 years old and wears a veil. Her culture requires it, and her mother Amina imposes it on her. Born in Calabria to Muslim parents, the girl experiences all the conflicts and emotions typical of her age, but feels she is not like her peers: she i ...

Io sono... Italia (2021)

When Mom Is Away... With the Family (2020)

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the ...

Say It Loud (2020)

A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks. ...

Three Perfect Daughters (2020)

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner. ...

Spore (2020)

When Mom Is Away (2019)

A stressed-out mom takes off on a 10-day solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the dad tries to take over the household duties. ...

Forbidden School (2019)

Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy. ...

Cosa fai a Capodanno? (2018)

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy. ...

Si muore tutti democristiani (2018)

Enrico, Fabrizio, and Stefano are three lifelong friends and colleagues who share left-wing political ideals. They run a small production company, juggling commercials and wedding shoots, but hope to return to making social-themed documentaries. One day, t ...

La verità sta in cielo (2016)

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl. ...

La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto (2015)

Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto (2015)

Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)

High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE teacher himself. ...

Three Touches (2014)

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man ...

Good For Nothing (2014)

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. ...

Mafia Millionaires (2014)

The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and the deep impulses of oppression. Thirty years of history of one of the most beautiful and discussed cities i ...

The Games Maker (2014)

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save ...

A Woman as a Friend (2014)

Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing. ...

South Is Nothing (2013)

Set in a tiny seaside town, Fabio Mollo's feature debut is a quietly evocative drama about a family's attempts to cope with the loss of their son, and the impact of his absence on his teenaged sister Grazia. ...

A Liberal Passion (2013)

When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other. ...

Un Natale con i fiocchi (2012)

Welcome to the North (2012)

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limit ...

Things from Another World (2011)

Maroso Golfetto, a firm manager from Veneto, is known for his frequent yelling at his employees, who are either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel to denounce the evils of immigration, and his popularity extends t ...

Welcome to the South (2010)

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is ...

Woman of My Life (2010)

Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in lo ...

Generazione 1000 euro (2009)

In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica ...

Fort Apache Napoli (2009)

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985. ...

The Past Is a Foreign Land (2008)

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known. ...

Coco Chanel (2008)

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, ...

Riprendimi (2008)

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera. ...

The Right Distance (2007)

The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder. ...

Pornorama (2007)

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s. ...

Yesterday (2007)

Milan, 1969. Two young lovers, members of the student movement, have spent the night together. They are confronted with the consequences of a bomb attack on a bank. This attack marked the beginning of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in the 1970 ...

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 ...

The Family Friend (2006)

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affa ...

Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. (2005)

1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy. ...

Wherever You Are (2004)

A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river. ...