Paolo Virzì Movies

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

Four stories about football.

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house...

In the summer of 1987, the 13-year-old Camilla Randone falls in love with Adelmo Franci, the boy who cleans the pool of his villa at the Argentario...

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome...

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it...

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the...

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers...

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.