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5.6

Laura Bispuri Director

Alba Rohrwacher as Adelina

Carolina Michelangeli as Alma

Yle Vianello as Isabella

Dominique Sanda as Nena

On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are.

Come Undone

2010

5.9

♡ 7

86%

Silvio Soldini Director

Alba Rohrwacher as Anna

Tatiana Lepore as Bianca

Pierfrancesco Favino as Domenico / Miriam's husband

Antonino Bruschetta as Fratello di Domenico

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.

The Ties

2020

♡ 3

73%

marriage crisis

Daniele Luchetti Director

Adriano Giannini as

Simona Tabasco as Fattorina

Laura Morante as Vanda

Alba Rohrwacher as Vanda giovane

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

Le pupille

2022

6.8

♡ 4

92%

Alba Rohrwacher as

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as

Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Rosa

Tatiana Lepore as Signora delle pere

During WWII, in the days leading up to Christmas, a woman arrives at an Italian Catholic boarding school for orphaned girls with a large cake and a plea for them to pray for her boyfriend, who is having an affair.

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

7.2

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli Director

Alba Rohrwacher as Anna

Lisa Gastoni as Gemma Montesano

Massimo Poggio as Giuseppe Montesano

Paola Cortellesi as Maria Montessori

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.

Happy as Lazzaro

2018

7.5

♡ 24

91%

Alba Rohrwacher as Antonia

Agnese Graziani as Antonia bambina

David Bennent as Ingegnere svizzero

Alessandro Genovesi as Maresciallo

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

La Chimera

2023

7.3

♡ 27

95%

Josh O'Connor as Arthur

Yle Vianello as Beniamina

Isabella Rossellini as Flora

Alba Rohrwacher as Spartaco

Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.

The Eavesdropper

2016

French

6.2

♡ 1

Thomas Kruithof Director

François Cluzet as Duval

Simon Abkarian as Gerfaut

Sami Bouajila as Labarthe

Alba Rohrwacher as Sara

Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.

The Wonders

2014

parent child relationship

6.7

♡ 4

96%

sibling relationship

teenage girl

woman director

André Hennicke as Adrian

Alba Rohrwacher as Angelica

Monica Bellucci as Milly Catena

Alessandro Genovesi as The Judge

In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of them—led by the eldest, Gelsomina, who takes on the responsibilities of the family. When a small boy is sent to stay with them for rehabilitation, their routine is disrupted. As financial troubles threaten their home, Gelsomina sees an opportunity in a reality TV contest searching for 'Italy’s Most Traditional Family.' Willing to expose their secluded life for the prize money, she clashes with her father’s rigid ways in a bid to secure their future.

Lucia's Grace

2018

6.0

♡ 2

43%

Gianni Zanasi Director

Thomas Trabacchi as Guido

Hadas Yaron as La Madonna

Alba Rohrwacher as Lucia

Andrea Pennacchi as Psichiatra

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.

Hellhole

2019

Dutch

5.3

♡ 3

80%

Bas Devos Director

Kristof Coenen as

Alba Rohrwacher as Alba

Jeroen Van der Ven as Boris

Lubna Azabal as Samira

Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter jet pilot on a mission in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man from Algerian descent is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple favor. An Italian woman, who works in the heart of the European Institutions, is slowly losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. The same question that seems to haunt the city looms over their lives : where do we go from here?

Daughter of Mine

2018

6.1

♡ 8

86%

Laura Bispuri Director

Alba Rohrwacher as Angelica

Udo Kier as Bruno

Fiorenzo Mattu as Elifisio

Valeria Golino as Tina

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

Blood of My Blood

2015

6.1

♡ 6

75%

Marco Bellocchio Director

Toni Bertorelli as Dott. Cavanna

Alba Rohrwacher as Maria Perletti

Patrizia Bettini as Moglie del conte

Ivan Franek as Rikalkov

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico’s twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a burial on consecrated grounds. In modern times, Federico Mai, a Minister inspector, knocks on the doors of the very same convent, in order to broker a sale of the property to a Russian millionaire. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious "Count" lives there.

Out of Season

2023

French

6.4

♡ 2