Italian Collection

At the turn of the 20th century, Lili dAlengy, a famous Parisian courtesan and darling of the Parisian cabaret scene has a shameful secret a daughter with a disability, Tina, whom she must hide to protect her career. Unwilling and unable to care for Tina, Lili decides to leave Paris for Rome. In ...

After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan jungle of Rome, primary school teacher Michele Cortese moves to an idyllic village in the heart of the Abruzzo National Park, population 1800, to teach at a tiny school with only a handful of students aged seven to ten. He quickly has trouble adjusti...

In Tuscany, early 1980s, Arthur emerges from a brief prison term, reminiscing about his past love, Beniamina, now absent. He befriends the Tombaroli, a group masquerading as farmers, who plunder ancient Etruscan tombs for valuables. Amidst this, Arthur is drawn to Italia, Flora's maid and music s...

1858, the Jewish quarter of Bologna. The Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the bourgeoisie Mortara family: by order of the cardinal (Filippo Timi), they have come to take six-year-old Edgardo (Enea Sala) to Rome. Unbeknownst to his parents Momolo (Fausto Russo Alesi) and Marianna (Barbara Ro...

A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s - a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended - with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law. She rises...

Tommaso and his girlfriend Zoe have been together for ten years. A writer, he answers the Agony Aunt column of a women's magazine under the pseudonym Marquez, a secret he has never revealed to Zoe.

Carmine runs a restaurant to launder dirty money, and finds himself collaborating with Consuelo, a chef in search of perfection. The love for food and the dream of winning a Michelin star will give them an opportunity for redemption.

Carmelo Catalanotti was murdered by a stab to the chest, but this murder if only for the strange composure of the body and the absence of blood, immediately presents something strange. Montalbano soon discovers that the victim was a loan shark, albeit in a "fair" way or at least not particularly ...