Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno 2017

6.70

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.

2017

A Liberal Passion

A Liberal Passion 2013

5.60

When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.

2013

There Is a Light

There Is a Light 2017

6.90

Paolo is a sceptical 30-year-old who works unwillingly as a sales clerk in a Turin department store. Mia is a back-up singer in a band and lives her life haphazardly, which leads her to being practically homeless. One night, they bump into each other by chance, in a gay club in Turin. It will be the beginning of an emotional adventure and a journey across the country looking for the father of Mia’s baby.

2017

A Five Star Life

A Five Star Life 2013

5.80

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

2013

Ae Fond Kiss...

Ae Fond Kiss... 2004

6.50

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

2004

Two Stepmoms

Two Stepmoms 2016

6.00

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?

2016

Il rosso e il blu

Il rosso e il blu 2012

6.00

The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

2012

The Man Who Loves

The Man Who Loves 2008

5.82

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

2008

Roman Summer

Roman Summer 2000

6.90

Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.

2000

An Italian Romance

An Italian Romance 2004

5.20

Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.

2004

Il posto dell'anima

Il posto dell'anima 2003

7.60

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.

2003

The Scent of Blood

The Scent of Blood 2004

5.40

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.

2004

Happiness Costs Nothing

Happiness Costs Nothing 2003

3.60

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.

2003

Visions of Europe

Visions of Europe 2004

4.90

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

2004

Salty Air

Salty Air 2007

6.40

An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.

2007

The Rest of the Night

The Rest of the Night 2008

5.30

A wealthy community in north-east Italy deals with its immigration fears.

2008

Signorina Effe

Signorina Effe 2008

6.60

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

2008

Raise Your Head

Raise Your Head 2009

6.60

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

2009

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea 2000

5.80

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.

2000

Love Returns

Love Returns 2004

5.90

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.

2004