Known for Acting
Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions.
Set between 1802 and 1818, it is the epic true story of a Spanish army officer and genius conspirator. Missioned by Spain, Domingo Badia, alias Ali Bey El Abbassi will meet Lady Hester Stanhope, an English aristocrat, better known under the name of Meleki, and they will live together an extraordinary destiny which will upset the Middle East.
In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.
Four sixty-something disgraced comedians - who used to work together - find themselves in a retirement home. They'll join forces again, this time to save the place from bankruptcy.
The feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
A teen comedy-drama set in an Italian public high school following an ensemble cast of students and teachers.
Italian police inspector Coliandro — an ignorant, boorish, but fundamentally kind-hearted oaf, whose entire worldview is informed by American cop movies — protects the good citizens of Bologna, routinely saving the day and foiling the plans of evildoers of all sorts by a combination of dumb luck and genuine bravery, while always falling hopelessly in love with the woman at the center of the case.
Two penniless cousins have a common passion: to be inventors, but they never managed to make money out of their patents. Their only hope is represented by their hateful and rich uncle.
‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest...
