Sandro Petraglia Movies

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans...

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders...

When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for...

1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister...

Rome, late 1990s. Military service is still compulsory, and to avoid it, Marco, an ambitious young architect already on the rise, chooses...

Antonia travels with her children and sister from Italy to Canada to reunite with her husband Vincenzo. But when Antonia discovers Vincenzo has been...

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it...

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries...

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together...

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the...

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.

The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an...

In 1956, Italy is trying to cheer up after the World War Two devastation. Fedele Cova, freeway society engineer, has a dream: build a long highway...

Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker...