Ivano De Matteo

A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.

5.3/10

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?

6.6/10

Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.

7/10

Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous differences that separate their ways of life.

6.8/10

A Donatello award nominated short feature about four former prison inmates who are incarcerated in a small plexiglass prison cell erected in full view of the public then interviewed afterwards about the experience.

A 17-year-old (Cristiano Morroni) helps an easygoing mechanic (Valerio Mastandrea) prepare his car for a street race in Italy.

6.5/10

a documentary about the story and characters of the Bar San Calisto - a famous bar located in the neighbourhood of trastevere in Rome.

In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals effort to build a sort of precarious family. In the end you could almost feel there's still a slender thread of hope for them to hang on

6.9/10