1. È pericoloso esporsi (È pericoloso esporsi)
During the women's demonstration on March 8, 1972, Mariasilvia SPOLATO was there with a placard: Liberazione omosessuale. A month later, Simone de Beauvoir came to Rome to give an interview, and this placard illustrated her article. Mariasilvia could no longer teach, ended up homeless and spent her life on the trains.
2. Cannoli, Couscous and Pistachios (Cannoli, Couscous und Pistazien)
Travel through Sicily with pleasure
3. Excellent Cadavers
In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. From Napoli With Love
Luca lives for pizza. In an attempt to create a documentary about the cultural exchange between Neapolitan and Windsor pizza, the Covid-19 pandemic diminishes any hopes of flying to Italy and exploring his cultural background. With an infinite amount of free time, , Luca and his twin sister, Gemma, aim to save the documentary.
5. Stories from Sicily
A documentary about the life of the filmmaker’s grandfather and his life growing up in Fascist Italy to meeting his wife and immigrating to America.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
6. Transumanza (Transumanza)
(Transumanza)
7. Ecce Omo (Ecce Omo)
Rome, a palimpsest: monuments, the Catholic church, the everyday life.
8. Being Women (Essere donne)
This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological. Starting from an analysis of the feminine role models proposed by the cultural industry, the film finds its protagonists among all kinds of women.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
9. Prampolini-Menarini Express (Prampolini-Menarini Express)
A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. The Amateur (L'amatore)
The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 years of the Fascist regime, comes back to life, both through the rediscovery of his work today and in a previously unpublished film diary in 16 mm, shot and edited throughout his lifetime. A man of great charm and power, Portaluppi lived through a grandiose but tragic era with ironic detachment, as if dancing across things as he created beauty. History marches on implacably, radically transforming the arena in which the eclectic artist and his large family lived and worked.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati (Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati)
Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi.
12. Italy's in Season
This short film presents a look at Italy's popular tourist spots.
13. Amanda Knox
This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.
It has an average vote of 6.644 on TMDB.
14. Porta d'Europa
A migrant boat has been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for 30 hours. As authorities ignore calls for help, the Sea-Watch Crew, an NGO, launches an urgent search.
15. Systrarna i Gallejaur (Systrarna i Gallejaur)
Documentary about three sisters in the small village Gallejaur. They live on a farm which they run in the same way it was run in the 19th century.
16. A Day in Barbagia (Un giorno in Barbagia)
Against the background of flocks of sheep at pasture, mules walking down unpaved roads, tractors in the fields, and isolated figures in a deserted village, a caption explains that Barbagia is a vast region in Sardinia; Orgosolo, Oliena and Mamoiada are villages of shepherds and the men spend most of the year far away, with their flocks. This is why the houses and the children are entrusted to the women, who cut the wood, work the fields and prepare bread, shepherds’ bread.
It has an average vote of 6.386 on TMDB.
17. Here I Am...Here You Are (ها أنا ... ها أنت)
Eccomi ... Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon. Conditioned to live in a long-distance relationship with his partner because of strict European visa regulations, the director patches together the shared moments in an attempt to create a possible day-to-day reality for their couple. With a lyrical, ambient soundscape set atop a dreamy, atmospheric visual style that oscillates between still photography and moving images, the film explores what it means to be gay in contemporary Beirut and existential discomfort that blocks one from reaching a sense of complete-ness. Does such in-completeness have to do, in particular, with being gay? Or is it related to a grander malaise endemic to the human condition?
18. Women's Bodies (Il corpo delle donne)
The representation of women in contemporary Italian media
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
19. Tour de Pise, l'inébranlable édifice (Tour de Pise, l'inébranlable édifice)
(Tour de Pise, l'inébranlable édifice)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
20. Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (Pier Paolo Pasolinis Reisen durch Italien)
In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.