My favorite Italian movies and series

Terence Hill stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He's a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn't want to help.

A TV series following the story of the movie by the same title. Also in this case Pif tells the story of a young boy in the city of Palermo during the roaring seventies, when the mafia was not around, officially.......

This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.

A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

Overwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."

Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.

Told from two points of view, a couple begins dating during the era of the 56K modem and navigates their relationship over the next two decades.

Twenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into society and lost track of one another. One day they receive a letter from the Ministry of Education: because of a formal error, they must retake the exam. With the initial shock now past, they grasp the opportunity to meet again, to share laughters and to cram together like they used to. On the other hand, they are not the same persons they were two decades before...

Three friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.

Aldo, called Bancomat, has been detained for two years and four months in the San Vittore prison for forgery of credit cards.

Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.

A young man spends a week in a psychiatric ward, where he meets five other patients and must contend with research-happy doctors and cynical nurses.

The story of an encounter between an upper-class man with a working-class woman because their teenage children fall in love.

Two quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.

A university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.

A group of characters is implicated in the murder of Angelica. They all walk on a razor's edge searching for the truth, waiting for a verdict, which will establish, in a way or another, a new course for their lives.

Rome, 1943: Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are the main attractions of the "Mezza Piotta Circus" run by Israel, meanwhile someone starts looking for the four freaks with a plan that could change the fate of the whole world.

The life of serial seducer Gianni is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is a paraplegic.

Arturo is an up-and-coming manager who, without suspecting it, introduces the algorithm that will make him superfluous in his company. He loses his girlfriend, his job and his friends all at once. In order not to remain homeless too, he will adapt to work as a rider for FUUBER, a large multinational technology giant. The only consolation to his loneliness is Stella, a hologram born from an app developed by FUUBER itself. But after the first week of free trial, when Arturo is now attached to the figure of Stella, he cannot afford to renew the subscription. So Arturo will be forced to work hard to find love and freedom, if they really exist.

A romantic comedy about how hard it is to separate after many years of living together.

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

The last remains of a prison, guards and a few inmates, are waiting to be transferred and gradually the rules seem to make less and less sense and the waiting men become a new fragile community.

Antonio is a passionate but often unemployed actor. Faced with a lack of job offers, he accepts a job as a teacher in a theater workshop within a prison.

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists