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Italian Collection

Our catalogue of Italian language films includes:

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Doing for Naples what The Great Beauty did for Rome, Academy Award-winner Paolo Sorrentino's new film is a visually and aurally stunning, decades-spanning romantic drama about a Neapolitan woman’s search for happiness and fulfilment.

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Written and directed by dynamic Italian actress and singer Margherita Vicario, GLORIA! depicts the ebullient, music-fuelled story of an overlooked maid at a Venetian orphanage whose hidden talent helps inspire an uprising.

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Led by Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, the new film from Christophe Honoré is a joyous imagining of the daily lives of a creative family, centring on the legacy of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.

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Italy's #1 box office smash of 2024, the new dramedy from Riccardo Milani (A Cat On A Highway) follows a primary school teacher who struggles to adapt to small-town life after he relocates to a remote mountain village.

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The formidable Pierfrancesco Favino stars in Edoardo de Angelis' gripping new maritime thriller, based on the true story of a Sicilian WWII naval captain's act of wartime humanitarianism.

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Marco Bellocchio's gripping new historical drama follows the real-life story of a young boy whose abduction from his parents by the Vatican fuelled outrage in 19th-century Italy, and triggered a global scandal.

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Josh O'Connor stars in the captivating new fable of lost love from Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazzaro, The Wonders) as a young British archaeologist who gets caught up in an international network dealing in stolen Italian artefacts.

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Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen's breathtaking and richly involving story follows two people of different classes who forge a decades-long, life-defining friendship in the Italian Alps.

 

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Riccardo Scamarcio, Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in writer/director Michele Placido's engrossing historical drama depicting the struggles of the notorious Renaissance painter as he's investigated by the Vatican.

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Andrea Di Stefano's stylish new crime thriller stars the always-excellent Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor, Nostalgia) as an honourable Milanese police lieutenant whose spotless record comes undone over the course of a fateful night.

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The new film from Italian maestro Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre, The Son’s Room, Dear Diary) is a multi-layered comedy following a prolific movie director in the midst of personal and professional crisis in the age of the streaming giants.

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Written by and starring comic duo Pio and Amedeo, the smash-hit North-South culture clash comedy from Gennaro Nunziante (Where Am I Going?) follows two formerly inseparable friends who reunite in their hometown after years apart.

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Directed by, co-written and starring Edoardo Leo, this heartfelt romantic comedy follows two long-term couples in the eternal city contemplating whether their future lies together.

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Pierfrancesco Favino stars in acclaimed writer/director Mario Martone’s absorbing and suspenseful drama about a man with a troubled past who returns to his native Neapolitan neighbourhood after 40 years of absence.

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Suspense and a pinch of romance are the ingredients of Davide Minnella’s delicious dramedy about a mafioso sent to Rome to launder money through a restaurant who crosses paths with an ambitious young chef.

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From award-winning writer/director Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra, Mediterranea), TO CHIARA is a searing and remarkably poignant drama about a Calabrian teenage girl who learns some difficult truths about her close-knit family.

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Featuring an outstanding cast in top form, this stylish and involving drama from award-winning writer/director Daniele Luchetti (La Nostra Vita, My Brother Is An Only Child) charts the lives of a middle-class Italian family across three decades.

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From acclaimed auteur Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre, The Son's Room), the all-star drama THREE FLOORS traces the disparate lives of three families who reside in the same apartment block in Rome's stylish Prati neighbourhood.

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The seductive, high-stakes industry of professional global sport is at the heart of Ronnie Sandhal's TIGERS, an enthralling true story of a young Swedish football prodigy who, at sixteen, is bought by the prestigious Italian club Inter Milan.

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Bold and dazzling, acclaimed writer/director Pietro Marcello adapts Jack London’s novel about a self-taught and outspoken writer, provocatively transposing the story into a pivotal moment in Italy’s pre-War history.

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The multi award-winning crime thriller from writer/director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) is a hugely compelling, based-on-fact tale of a gentle family man pushed to protect what he loves.

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The smash-hit comedy of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, Alessandro Genovesi's hilarious, feel-good romantic comedy is a heart-warming story of a complicated trip to the altar, based on a long running off-Broadway hit play.

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Beloved by audiences and critics at Cannes (where it was awarded the Best Screenplay prize), Alice Rohrwacher’s beguiling film is an allegory of love, loss and compassion exploring the troubled soul of Italy.

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Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino.

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The multi award-winning new comedy of manners from Paolo Genovese is a fiendishly clever take on decorum in the age of modern technology, and poses the question: how well do we really know those close to us?

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Striking a delicious balance between non-stop gags and some very pointed cultural criticism, Gennaro Nunziante’s comedy is the highest grossing film in Italian cinema history.

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Writer/director Edoardo Falcone's wildly entertaining and multi award-winning debut feature pits a man with a God-complex against the charismatic local parish priest in an almighty battle of wills.

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Acclaimed Italian auteur Nanni Moretti semi-autobiographical and award-winning dramedy stars the stunning Margherita Buy as a filmmaker struggling to balance life and art.

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Hilarious, smart & thought-provoking, Italian comedian and satirist Pierfrancesco ‘Pif’ Diliberto’s hugely entertaining romantic comedy of childhood and first love is set in the tumultuous world of 1970’s Italy.

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Winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, THE GREAT BEAUTY is Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative tale of hedonism and lost love, and an extraordinary depiction of contemporary Rome.