Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Locked In

2022

Italian

5.0

♡ 2

covid-19

Drama

Luca Solina Director

Roberta De Santis as Flavia

Stefano Moretti as Loris

Loris and Flavia are forced to live together for two long months. An impossible love story will be born and the national lockdown will oblige them to face it.

Hands Over the City

1963

Italian

7.6

♡ 1

Francesco Rosi Director

Gaetano Grimaldi Filioli as Amico di Nottola

Angelo D'Alessandro as Balsamo

Pasquale Martino as Capo dell'archivio

Rod Steiger as Edoardo Nottola

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

Mom + Mom

2018

Italian

5.1

♡ 4

artificial insemination

Karole Di Tommaso Director

Lilith Primavera as Lilith Primavera

Fabio Giacobbe Doria as Marco

Alessandra Mola as Piccola Olimpia

Paola M'Bia as Wennichet

Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won't be as simple as they'd hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must believe in the power of their desire and support of their loved ones. If they can do that, miracles will happen…

Dear Diary

1993

Italian

7.2

♡ 10

67%

85%

actor playing himself

Nanni Moretti Director

Roberto Nobile as Dermatologist

Marco Paolini as First Salina Couple

Michael Rooker as Henry

Jennifer Beals as Self

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.

Fit to Be Untied

1975

Italian

7.4

♡ 1

Documentary

human condition

observational documentary

prisoners

psychiatric hospital

Marco Bellocchio Director

Marco Bellocchio as Self

Stefano Rulli as Self

Silvano Agosti as Self

Sandro Petraglia as Self

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be released without harm to society, and to their advantage.

Fulci for fake

2019

Italian

6.6

♡ 4

100%

Action

Biography

Documentary

Simone Scafidi Director

Paolo Malco as Self

Lucio Fulci as Self

Michele Romagnoli as Self

Sergio Salvati as Self

«Fulci for Fake» is the first biopic on Lucio Fulci. Lucio Fulci is an enigma. The mystery that surrounds Fulci is linked in part to his personal life. The director only rarely spoke about himself in interviews. But he did let his experience be reflected in his films. The setting of the film sees Nicola, a successful actor, agree to play the part of Lucio Fulci in a biopic on the director. Nicola will ask himself probing questions about the real nature of a man who, in his own lifetime, had already rewritten his biography.

The Big Step

6.5

Antonio Padovan Director

Giuseppe Battiston as Dario Cavalieri

Luisa De Santis as Direttrice Clinica

Roberto Citran as Piovesan

Ludovica Modugno as Teresa

At the age of six, Dario watched the first moon flight on television. Since then, his dream has been to fly to the moon. For the past three decades, the ingenious but difficult by nature Dario has been building a moon rocket on his farm in the Veneto countryside. Rocket technology represents applied rocket science. Its systems are implemented on a do-it-yourself basis, and the components are obtained from the local hardware store. The initial launch of the rocket fails. The neighbor's cornfield burns down and Dario is arrested. When his Roman brother Mario hears about the difficulties that have arisen, he goes to his aid and Italy's secret space program finally gets going.

Feather

2016

Italian

6.3

Drama

Roan Johnson Director

Blu Yoshimi as Cate

Sergio Pierattini as Franco Pardini

Bruno Pavoncello as Glauco

Francesca Antonelli as Rita

Ferro and Cate, two kids trying to get to grips with an unplanned pregnancy, their families (rebellious Ferro’s hospitable, ‘normal’ family, and level-headed Cate’s unhinged, atypical one), exams at school, friends and a general lack of jobs.

Les Unwanted de Europa

2018

Italian

5.7

♡ 3

Action

Drama

History

Fabrizio Ferraro Director

Marco Teti as

Marta Reggio as Henny Gurland

Raphael Bismuth-Kimpe as Joseph Gurland

Jean-Louis Tribouley as Vincent Azéma

In February 1939, the paths of those fleeing Francoist Spain on one side and the advancing Nazis on the other crossed along the Pyrenees. Anarchists and socialists, Jews and partisans, in an exodus with no safe destination. Among them Walter Benjamin, one of the greatest European intellectuals of the 20th century.

The Taming of the Scoundrel

1980

Italian

7.6

♡ 8

Franco Castellano Director

Gianni Franco as

Pippo Santonastaso as Don Cirillo

Adriano Celentano as Elia Codogno

Ornella Muti as Lisa Silvestri

A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...

Credimi!

2022

Italian

5.8

♡ 1

overactive imagination

single mother

single parent

superhero

Luna Gualano Director

Salvatore Arena as Ettore

Cristian Ruiz as Gabriella

Alessandro Frezza as Powerboy

Matteo Amici as Salvatore

Vittoria lives in the suburbs with her son Salvatore, a great fan of superheroes. Salvatore shape the harsh reality that surrounds him by imagining himself as the protagonist of the adventures of Astroman, the idol of his favorite web series.

Marx Can Wait

2021

Italian

7.3

♡ 1

100%

Marco Bellocchio Director

Michel Piccoli as Agostino

Sergio Castellitto as Ernesto Picciafuoco

Benito Mussolini as Self

Marco Bellocchio as Self

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

2012

Italian

4.4

♡ 8

39%

Renzo Martinelli Director

Antonio Cupo as Charles V Duke of Lorraine

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko as Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Daniel Olbrychski as Marcin Kazimierz Katski

F. Murray Abraham as Marco D'Aviano

In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.

Little Italy

1978

Italian

5.9

♡ 1

Bruno Corbucci Director

Emilio Messina as Convict on the Roof

Eli Wallach as Don Gerolamo Giarra

Benito Pacifico as False Priest

Franz Beckenbauer as Self

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

2013

Italian

7.1

♡ 10

Pif Director

Sergio Vespertino as Filippo Marchese

Antonino Bruschetta as Fra Giacinto

Turi Giuffrida as Generale Dalla Chiesa

Totò Borgese as Salvo Lima

While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.

Ennio

2021

Italian

8.2

♡ 29

91%

Giuseppe Tornatore Director

Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness

Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren

Robert De Niro as Self

Leonardo DiCaprio as Self

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.

Michelangelo - Infinito

2017

Italian

7.2

♡ 3

Emanuele Imbucci Director

Ivano Marescotti as Giorgio Vasari

Enrico Lo Verso as Michelangelo

A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.

The Stranger Returns

1967

Italian

6.2

♡ 5

Luigi Vanzi Director

Jill Banner as Caroline

Dan Vadis as En Plein

Marina Berti as Ethel

Marco Guglielmi as The Preacher

The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net