Nanni Moretti

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. ...

A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems. ...

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone (2022)

Documentary by Marco Spagnoli. ...

The Hummingbird (2022)

Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Traged ...

Las Leonas (2022)

The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid soccer fans. The film follows them during the Las Leonas Trophy matches and shares with us their private lives, ...

We Are Cinema (2021)

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema. ...

Senza troppo recitare la follia (2021)

Three Floors (2021)

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood. ...

Santiago, Italia (2018)

After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy. ...

Piazza Mazzini (2018)

Nanni Moretti talks about the making of Ecce bombo while working out with his personal trainer. ...

Dalla quercia alla palma - 40 anni di Padre Padrone (2017)

Memories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone" ...

Evviva Giuseppe (2017)

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues. ...

Cheerful Ischia and Smiling Collarbones (2017)

Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer. ...

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' (2016)

A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015). ...

Venanzio Revolt: I miei primi 80 anni di cinema (2016)

The producer and writer from Turin, Lorenzo Ventavoli, talks to his friend, the critic Steve Della Casa, in a brilliant conversation that touches on the most diverse subjects, from Yiddish cinema and his encounters with Bunuel, Bergman, and Woody Allen. ...

Filmstudio, mon amour (2015)

The Legend of the Palme d'Or (2015)

From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments relating to the award ceremony which closes the Cannes Film Festival. This film brings to light moving and ...

Mia madre (2015)

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. ...

Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere ...

A Special Day (2012)

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera. ...

Voi siete qui (2011)

We Have a Pope (2011)

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But ...

Quiet Chaos (2008)

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drive ...

Film Quiz (2008)

Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him. ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

The Last Championship (2007)

Documentary by Moretti (later to become "Palombella rossa") about his last competitive waterpolo tournament (1986), accompanied by his voice-over. It narrates the different stages, the character of the coach, the teammates, the final and his last real matc ...

Say Something Left-Wing (2007)

The filmmaker Nanni Moretti recounts the story of his relationship with politics, both through his films and his political activism. ...

The Caiman (2006)

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

Te lo leggo negli occhi (2004)

Naples. Margherita, a singer who has always been distracted from her husband and daughter Chiara, is experiencing a profound existential crisis as she approaches her sixties. Life is not easy for Chiara either, given her conflictual relationship with Lucia ...

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto (2004)

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them. ...

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird (2003)

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile". ...

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Arch ...

The Son's Room (2001)

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. ...

Aprile (1998)

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a remat ...

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before. ...

Opening Day of Close-Up (1996)

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm. ...

The Second Time (1995)

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand the reasons behind her gesture. ...

The Only Country In The World (1994)

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio ...

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 friend on an island, who ropes him into an ...

Caro Nanni (1993)

Making of "Caro Diario" ...

The Yes Man (1991)

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli. ...

Palombella rossa (1989)

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a ...

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

The Mass Is Ended (1985)

Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giu ...

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema (1985)

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry. ...

Riso in bianco – Nanni Moretti atleta di se stesso (1984)

Part interview, part monologue, part documentary with Nanni Moretti talking about his work. ...

Bianca (1984)

Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, ...

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 ...

Ecce bombo (1978)

Four friends, former 1968 student protesters who have checked out of politics and struggle to come to terms with the present, try self-criticism to figure out what to do with themselves, only to end up doing what they do best: sinking into endless talk wit ...

Padre Padrone (1977)

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father. ...

An Autarchic at 'Palazzo' (1977)

A short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient" ...

I Am Self-Sufficient (1976)

Abandoned by his wife, who leaves him their child, Michele, a former '68 student protester with little going on in his life, struggles to be a good father. In the meantime, he spends his time acting in an experimental theater company directed by his friend ...

How Do You Speak, Brother? (1974)

A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who, however, in this upended version of the story is the victim rather than the perpretator of the violence. ...

Defeat (1973)

Demonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of view of an increasingly disillusioned young leftist. Film produced for Nuova Sinistra. ...

Bourgeois Pâté (1973)

A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie. ...

Vittoria (2024)

Jasmine is 40 and has everything she ever wanted: a devoted husband, three loving sons, and a thriving hair salon just south of Naples. But after her father's death, she experiences a recurring dream in which a young girl runs into her arms, offering Jasmi ...

Quasi a casa (2024)

Caterina is in her 20s, her dream is to become a musician but she's paralyzed by fear. One summer she meets her idol, the French singer Mia. It is the beginning of a complex and magnetic relationship that will accompany Caterina over the years and finally ...

A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems. ...

Las Leonas (2022)

The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid soccer fans. The film follows them during the Las Leonas Trophy matches and shares with us their private lives, ...

Piazza (2022)

Three Floors (2021)

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood. ...

Santiago, Italia (2018)

After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy. ...

Piazza Mazzini (2018)

Nanni Moretti talks about the making of Ecce bombo while working out with his personal trainer. ...

Cheerful Ischia and Smiling Collarbones (2017)

Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer. ...

Mia madre (2015)

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. ...

Gently Dig the Abdomen (2013)

Autobiography of the Masked Man (2013)

The King (2013)

Transposing the story of the Passion of Jesus to Sardinia, Su Re draws for the very first time on the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John together. Giovanni Columbu's distinct view is shot in a landscape unaffected by modernity and played out by a ...

We Have a Pope (2011)

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But ...

Block-notes di Habemus Papam (2011)

Quiet Chaos (2008)

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drive ...

Film Quiz (2008)

Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him. ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) (2007)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

The Last Championship (2007)

Documentary by Moretti (later to become "Palombella rossa") about his last competitive waterpolo tournament (1986), accompanied by his voice-over. It narrates the different stages, the character of the coach, the teammates, the final and his last real matc ...

The Caiman's Diary (2006)

The filmmaker's diary of the making of "Il caimano" and the political events that led up to it. ...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

The Caiman (2006)

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

Colpi di testa (2005)

Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, these women players remember with proud and a tinge of nostalgia how they stood up against all prejudices at a time when a woman wearing shorts was absolute ...

Te lo leggo negli occhi (2004)

Naples. Margherita, a singer who has always been distracted from her husband and daughter Chiara, is experiencing a profound existential crisis as she approaches her sixties. Life is not easy for Chiara either, given her conflictual relationship with Lucia ...

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird (2003)

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile". ...

The Last Customer (2003)

A New York pharmacy and the feelings of the people who have run it, putting their heart and soul into it, for two generations: the Gardini family. ...

Il salumificio (2002)

A builder from the province of Potenza tries to set up a large sausage factory to create employment and well-being in a predominantly agricultural town. But the company fails due to bad checks and unobtained loans, in the vain search to find valid partners ...

Zappaterra, (2002)

The Son's Room (2001)

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. ...

Aprile (1998)

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a remat ...

Opening Day of Close-Up (1996)

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm. ...

The Second Time (1995)

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand the reasons behind her gesture. ...

The Only Country In The World (1994)

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio ...

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 friend on an island, who ropes him into an ...

The Yes Man (1991)

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli. ...

The Thing (1990)

1989. Amid the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the largest communist party in Western Europe—Italy's PCI—announces that it'll change its name, vowing to become 'a new thing'. The film follows the debates taking place in various PCI branches across Italy ...

Palombella rossa (1989)

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a ...

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

Notte italiana (1987)

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extractio ...

The Mass Is Ended (1985)

Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giu ...

Bianca (1984)

Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, ...

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 ...

Ecce bombo (1978)

Four friends, former 1968 student protesters who have checked out of politics and struggle to come to terms with the present, try self-criticism to figure out what to do with themselves, only to end up doing what they do best: sinking into endless talk wit ...

An Autarchic at 'Palazzo' (1977)

A short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient" ...

I Am Self-Sufficient (1976)

Abandoned by his wife, who leaves him their child, Michele, a former '68 student protester with little going on in his life, struggles to be a good father. In the meantime, he spends his time acting in an experimental theater company directed by his friend ...

How Do You Speak, Brother? (1974)

A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who, however, in this upended version of the story is the victim rather than the perpretator of the violence. ...

Defeat (1973)

Demonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of view of an increasingly disillusioned young leftist. Film produced for Nuova Sinistra. ...

Bourgeois Pâté (1973)

A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie. ...