Valerio Mastandrea

Five Seconds (2025)

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards. ...

Feeling Better (2025)

A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. I ...

Lumière, Le Cinéma! (2024)

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for "light," was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 yea ...

Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)

A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism. ...

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. ...

Troppo azzurro (2024)

Adagio (2023)

Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him. ...

Diabolik: Who Are You? (2023)

Captured by a ruthless gang of bank robbers, foes Diabolik and Ginko find themselves facing certain death. While Eva Kant and Altea forge an unlikely alliance to rescue their lovers, Diabolik reveals his mysterious past to the Inspector. ...

Quel maledetto film su Virzì (2023)

There's Still Tomorrow (2023)

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. ...

The First Day of My Life (2023)

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them. ...

Sei pezzi facili (2022)

Diabolik: Ginko Attacks! (2022)

Diabolik narrowly escapes Inspector Ginko's latest trap, leaving his partner in crime Eva Kant behind. Furious, Eva offers Ginko her help in capturing him, but the former has to face first the return of an old flame of his, noblewoman Altea. ...

Dry (2022)

In Rome it hasn't rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are ...

Il pataffio (2022)

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled. ...

Diabolik (2021)

1960s, the city of Clerville. The forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who'll be bringing a famous pink diamond with her, catches the attention of Diabolik, the infallible and elusive thief whose real identity is unknown: while trying to steal the jewel, ...

Esterno giorno (2021)

Zeros and Ones (2021)

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters ...

Dog Years (2021)

Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she's turning sixteen, s ...

In campo nemico (2021)

the story of SupportoLegale ...

Land Of The Sons (2021)

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his le ...

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti (2020)

Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission. ...

The Players (2020)

From campy lies to sexy surprises, this collection of vignettes captures the follies of several men as they fumble with fidelity and relationships. ...

Kidz (2020)

Sara and Nicola are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The birth of their second child, which disrupts the family balance, leads to tragicomic scenarios. ...

Se c’è un aldilà sono fottuto - Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari (2019)

Il grande salto (2019)

Nello and Rufetto are two second-rate robbers, both in their forties and living in a suburban neighborhood of Rome. After serving four years in prison for a botched robbery, resuming their business, and more importantly, successfully completing it, is no e ...

Detective Per Caso (2019)

Giulia dreams to become a detective since she was little. When one night her cousin dissapears, Giulia starts searching for him with the help of her friends. ...

Tomorrow's a New Day (2019)

When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano's failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Inste ...

The King's Musketeers (2018)

In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom. ...

Backliner (2018)

A journey through the music and poetry of Riccardo Sinigallia, singer-songwriter and producer, guided by the emotional narrative of Valerio Mastandrea and his artist and record producer friends, who will tell us about Riccardo in all his human and artistic ...

Little Tito and the Aliens (2018)

Professor Biondi is a depressed scientist. After his wife's death, he lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He supposedly works on a top-secret project for the US government, but in actuality, he spends his days on the couch, li ...

The Place (2017)

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them. ...

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 ...

Fiore (2016)

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations. ...

Perfect Strangers (2016)

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences. ...

The Complexity of Happiness (2015)

Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car acciden ...

Animeland: Racconti tra manga, anime e cosplay (2015)

FABISILVESTRIGAZZÈ Il Padrone della Festa - LIVE (2015)

For their first joint album, Niccolò Fabi, Daniele Silvestri and Max Gazzè revisit the European tours they have played together when they were young and then head towards a tour in Italian concert halls. To celebrate this journey, the three artists portr ...

Ogni maledetto Natale (2014)

Massimo Marinelli Lops and Giulia Colardo meet by chance in Rome and fall in love. Giulia asks Massimo to spend Christmas Eve with her family. ...

Pasolini (2014)

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo ...

The Face of an Angel (2014)

Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect. ...

La sedia della felicità (2014)

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead. ...

Caserta Palace Dream (2014)

The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and Sicily and of a special man, the greatest architect of his time, Luigi Vanvitelli. Their Love goes beyond their own human existence and becomes real i ...

My Class (2014)

The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lin ...

Balancing Act (2013)

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the same. Forty years old and father of two children, Giulio is forced by circum ...

Long Live Freedom (2013)

Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosoph ...

Garibaldi's Lovers (2012)

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

The Landlords (2012)

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town com ...

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 ...

Tormenti - Film disegnato (2011)

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 ...

Rust (2011)

In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the adults will never believe them, they decide to keep quiet. When one of their f ...

The Rebel (2011)

The adventures of Guido Picelli, a man who was a leading light in the history of twentieth-century Italy and Europe. Guido Picelli fought untiringly for the affirmation of social justice and opposed every form of totalitarianism. ...

Escort in Love (2011)

35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time ...

All at Sea (2011)

Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, ...

The First Beautiful Thing (2010)

The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in th ...

Nine (2009)

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wi ...

Good Morning Aman (2009)

Aman and Teodoro meet one night on a roof and start a friendship. ...

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. ...

All Human Rights for All (2008)

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration. ...

A Perfect Day (2008)

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescen ...

Chi nasce tondo... (2008)

A Whole Life Ahead (2008)

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploita ...

Basette (2008)

Antonio's first day as a thief is marked by tears. During an incursion at the mall, his mother is arrested. Some 20 years later, Antonio along with his two inseparable friends, after some minor robberies, take on a post office. Things don't go as planned. ...

Un volto tra la folla (2008)

Don't Think About It (2007)

Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business. ...

Night Bus (2007)

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the Presi ...

Last Minute Marocco (2007)

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents. ...

Napoleon and Me (2006)

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins r ...

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

Four stories about football. ...

AD Project (2006)

A girl gets involved in the affairs of a mysterious society that supervises the activities of the aliens on Earth. ...

The Caiman (2006)

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the '70s. ...

Piano 17 (2006)

While trying to plant a bomb in a high-rise building to destroy incriminating files, a man gets stuck in the elevator with two unaware employees—and a ticking bomb. ...

Under the Leaves (2005)

A man is hired by a giftshop. Soon he notices the frequent visits of a woman who stares at him from her car. ...

Amatemi (2005)

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers. ...

Sorry, You Can't Get Through! (2005)

Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to ...

L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi (2005)

The film is about two worlds, different and parallel, living together in the same territory: the Gran Sasso of Italy. The contact between the two realities occurs through the characters of Max, a nuclear physics researcher who works tirelessly in the labor ...

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement. ...

The Vanity Serum (2004)

A troubled detective investigates the disappearance of junk TV celebrities who hosted the same controversial talk show. ...

People of Rome (2003)

Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration.. ...

Gli insoliti ignoti (2003)

Ladri ma non troppo (2003)

Maximum Velocity (V-Max) (2002)

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, but gets himself involved with the latter's former girlfriend. ...

Ultimo stadio (2002)

The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a modern Greek theatre, where five dramas touch one another, only to fade away in a few minutes. The main ch ...

The Nest (2002)

Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a Eur ...

Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat (2001)

Empty Eyes (2001)

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Tomorrow (2001)

This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation. ...

Zora la vampira (2000)

Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene. ...

La carbonara (2000)

Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecil ...

Asini (1999)

Rugantino (1998)

Barbara (1998)

Aldo e Pino two layers go to Barbara to find out new sexual experiences. ...

The Scent of the Night (1998)

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome. ...

Abbiamo solo fatto l'amore (1998)

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. ...

Da cosa nasce cosa (1998)

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Viola Kisses Everybody (1998)

Three friends see their end-of-summer motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from both the law and the mob after a robbery. ...

In barca a vela contromano (1997)

We All Fall Down (1997)

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui. ...

La classe non è acqua (1997)

Infiltrato (1996)

Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo (1996)

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married. ...

Bruno aspetta in macchina (1996)

Un inverno freddo freddo (1996)

Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon. ...

Palermo – Milan One Way (1996)

A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Sicily to the courtroom in the North, but it won't be easy. ...

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 ...

Heartless (1995)

After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage. ...

Mirko e Caterina (1995)

Ladri di cinema (1994)

No-budget satire on the bleak state of Italian film industry & distribution circa late-'80s-to-early-'90s. Mercurio, a down-to-earth, perennially underseen independent filmmaker, tries to get a distribution company to release his latest movie. ...

Feeling Better (2025)

A man spends peacefully his days in hospital without too many worries. He has been hospitalized for a while but that condition seems like the best way to live his life, safe from everything and everyone, without responsibilities and problems of any kind. I ...

The Armadillo's Prophecy (2018)

A 27-year-old suburban slacker entertains daily conversations bordering on paradoxical with his conscience, which manifests itself in the form of a human-sized armadillo. Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Zerocalcare. ...

Fiore (2016)

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations. ...

Showbiz (2015)

Don't Be Bad (2015)

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success. ...

The Landlords (2012)

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town com ...

Scattered Cloud (2011)

Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, while working on the renovation of a luxury home, he meets Viola, his boss's granddaughter, a ...

Chi nasce tondo... (2008)

3.87 (2005)

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them. ...