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During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Ramón Alvia is a professional boxer who, although he has won several international championships, is old and is at the end of his career. He resists. In the gym, Ramon discovers among the young boxers Deborah, a beautiful girl.

A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.

While Suzanna and her husband have just moved into their private property for the summer, it is shocked by a scene of violence they witness on the way races.

As Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.

Federico Fellini accepts the request of a television crew to be interviewed about his career, narrating memories, dreams, realities and fantasies.

Angela, an Italian-American woman, after many years returned to Sicily to attend the funeral of her father. During the ferry trip she meets Salvo, a teenager boy who claims to be hunted by the Mafia, because of a quantity of drugs he stole to some criminals. She decides to give him a ride and the two embark on a journey through Sicily. His amorous attentions are soon obvious, and leads to a fairly obvious ending.

Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.

A twelve-year-old boy from an abusive, dysfunctional family meets a kindred spirit during a summer holiday by the sea.

Marco is a 35-year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father.

Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.

Smart, quick-witted Julie is in her mid-20s. She marches to the beat of her own drum and has her own manifesto: do nothing. And she really means NOTHING: no work, no studies, no friends. Agnes is a happy-go-lucky nurse of the same age. With a husband and a child, she fits into society's expectations without giving them any great thought--until, that is, she meets Julie. Together they start a rebellion that brings them to the limits of their respective worlds. Stay Still is the story of a generation with a poetic, witty undercurrent. Dangerous, but very exciting.

A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.

Sent to cover a story on the exploitation of tribal people, Upin meets a woman he believes is the epitome of Indian beauty. His pictures of her change both of their lives forever.

In the 19th century, a wandering drunkard in Italy is cast out of his village for a crime. He is exiled to Tierra del Fuego, where he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption.

A series of vignettes set in a huge shopping mall.

Gianfranco Rosi's new documentary is an immersive portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.

Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.

Massimo is a dentist from Latina, happily married with two daughters. One day he goes down to the cellar for housework and finds a girl tied up and gagged, asking for help.

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities (Brazil, German and Italy) during World War II.

Mimì is an orphaned adolescent with malformed feet who works in a Naples pizzeria. He encounters Carmilla, a young girl who believes she is a descendent of Count Dracula, on a fateful day. They decide to leave their society together.

27 are the operas by the greatest Italian composer of all times. In the land of melodrama there's an exclusive 27 Club - not the Forever 27 of rockstars who died at 27, it's simply 27 men named after Giuseppe Verdi's operas. They introduce themselves as Traviata, Rigoletto, Giovanna D'arco etc. From the sweet wrath of these plain-dwellers everything was evolving peacefully until an eleven-year-old child came along: he's got their uniform, their pin - he really wants to be one of them. A new miracle of the Maestro? Maybe. Or more likely, considering these people's sinister musical inclination, as Bruno Barilli wrote, everything is carefully planned. Reality or fiction? That's what people who stumble upon this story ask themselves. It's a story so unbelievable it seems fabricated in every detail and so real it seems unreal when told on that silver screen which lies to tell the truth.