1. My Name Is Tanino (My Name Is Tanino)
During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...
It has an average vote of 6.322 on TMDB.
2. Kisses and Hugs (Baci e abbracci)
A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
3. Towards Evening (Verso sera)
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
4. Ashes from the Sun (Cenizas del Cielo)
Environmental drama set in Asturias, Spain. A Scottish travel writer is forced to stay in a valley town in northern Spain when his camper van breaks down. There he gets to know the different inhabitants, some of them struggling to close down the nearby power station and some trying to make it more prosperous.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. The Cats of Mirikitani
Documentary about red-bereted Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him. The young woman delves into the California-born, Japan-raised artist's unique life which developed his resilient personality, and fuel his 2 main subjects, cats and internment camps. The editor films Jimmy's remarkable journey.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
6. The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
A live concert in tribute to Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen. Mercury died of AIDS and so some of the proceeds of this concert went to AIDS research. Features performers such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Elton John, Axl Rose, Extreme, George Michael, and many others. Performers alternate between doing their own hits, covering Queen songs, or jamming with the surviving members of Queen.
It has an average vote of 8.276 on TMDB.
7. My Mother's Smile (L’ora di religione – Il sorriso di mia madre)
A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
8. Every Blessed Day (Tutti i santi giorni)
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
9. Hot Potato (La patata bollente)
A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
10. Napoleon and Me (N (Io e Napoleone))
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 recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
It has an average vote of 6.096 on TMDB.
11. The Ladies Get Their Say (Due partite)
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.
It has an average vote of 7.169 on TMDB.
12. Amore a prima vista (Amore a prima vista)
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
13. The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le Mulet)
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.
It has an average vote of 7.01 on TMDB.
14. The First Beautiful Thing (La prima cosa bella)
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 the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
15. Giovanna's Father (Il papà di Giovanna)
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
16. Ammutta muddica al cinema (Ammutta muddica al cinema)
(Ammutta muddica al cinema)
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
17. Ovosodo (Ovosodo)
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
18. Serving Sara
When Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texan husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe, that sets them off on a wild trip across the country.
It has an average vote of 5.322 on TMDB.
19. The Duel
A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
It has an average vote of 5.352 on TMDB.
20. Neruda (Neruda)
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
It has an average vote of 6.291 on TMDB.