1. Zemanlandia (Zemanlandia)
We live again through a film documentary the story of Foggia in the 90’s , one of the most amazing football adventures in the history of Italian football. Telling the story are the protagonists, Casillo, president at that time and Zdenek Zeman, the bohemian trainer who transformed players from the minor divisions into great champions submitting them to exhausting training sessions and ingenious tactic studies, he took the provincial team to dominate the Italian league. When football was not yet a business, Zeman’s Foggia carried out a miraculous ascent from division C to Premier League, dominating the richest and the most titled clubs of the championship and brought to victory the sporting values of honesty and rigor.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
2. Seven Winters in Tehran (Sieben Winter in Teheran)
After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
3. Before We Say Goodbye (Prima di andare via)
Andrea is a young man who lives with the surprises and hardships of life. He lives with his best friend, seeks to complete his studies and has an ex-girlfriend who plays with him like cat and mouse. When he discovers that he has an incurable disease, the world collapses on him. Can an illness change a person's life... for the better? Thanks to Giulia , Andrea will understand that the time has come to assume what remains of her own existence.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
4. Man's Favorite Sport?
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
It has an average vote of 6.935 on TMDB.
5. The Bad Poet (Il cattivo poeta)
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
6. One Fine Morning (Un beau matin)
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. Casanova's Return (Il ritorno di Casanova)
Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
8. I migliori giorni (I migliori giorni)
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
It has an average vote of 5.902 on TMDB.
9. The Price of Family (Natale a tutti i costi)
Heartbroken that their children no longer want to spend time with them, two parents fake an inheritance to bring the family together for Christmas.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
10. L'immensità (L'immensità)
Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara and Felice and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria; he rejects girlhood and instead goes by the name of Andrea . Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a Roma girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
11. Desert Flower
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
It has an average vote of 7.577 on TMDB.
12. Into the Labyrinth (L'uomo del labirinto)
When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.
It has an average vote of 6.355 on TMDB.
13. The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
14. Dry (Siccità)
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 linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
It has an average vote of 6.459 on TMDB.
15. The Last Letter from Your Lover
A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
It has an average vote of 7.446 on TMDB.
16. Takers
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings, John Rahway, A.J., and brothers Jake and Jesse Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost, a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "Takers" carefully plot out their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer inches closer to apprehending the criminals.
It has an average vote of 6.208 on TMDB.
17. Dark Places
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
18. Women Talking
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
It has an average vote of 6.887 on TMDB.
19. White Noise
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
20. Triangle of Sadness
A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
It has an average vote of 7.091 on TMDB.
