Giorgio Colangeli

The elderly inspector Quinto Cruciani, an alcoholic and habitual drug user, lets the young psychopathic drug dealer Michele Loi escape immediately after his arrest. To avoid suspending him, Chief Inspector Bonanza gives him three days to find the fugitive. He thus begins a no holds barred thief hunt.

Academy-Award winner Juliette Binoche gives one of the finest performances of her career in this dazzling and emotionally rich debut feature from Italian wunderkind Piero Messina, who previously worked as the assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty. In the vast rooms of a beautiful Sicilian villa, Anna (Binoche) receives an unexpected guest. Twenty-something Jeanne (the gorgeous Lou de Laâge) has arrived from France, declaring herself to be the girlfriend of Anna's son, Giuseppe, who has invited her to the house to spend Easter together. But this is news to Anna, and Giuseppe is not yet there. Despite the disruption to her routine, Anna invites her young guest to stay, and as the two women await Giuseppe's arrival, they slowly begin to form a connection. Jeanne, dislocated and a little mystified at first, gradually gives in to the charms of the volcanic island. She swims in the nearby lake and makes new friends, while Anna - watched over by a long-time family friend - comes out of her shell. Yet still, her son's absence remains unexplained.

Three Italian pensioners in their seventies decide to leave their lifelong, comfortable neighborhood in Rome behind for the unfamiliar abroad.

In the difficult Roman neighborhood of Tor Bella Monaca, Mauro is about to discover whether evil is something one is born into or becomes.

Based on a tale by Roberto Saviano (author of Gomorrah), Italian number one advocate against criminal organizations, the movie deals with the story of Michele, who finds, thanks to boxing, an alternative path to a condemned criminal life. Boxing becomes salvation. During his journey, from the abyss of Caserta's outskirts, crossing clandestine rings' hell in Berlin, Michele becomes a man.

Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

Giulio Andreotti, arguably the most famous and notorious Italian politician of the post-war era, was Prime Minister in his country no less than seven times. Accused of corruption and Mafia involvement, this is far from stodgy history.