Italian terrorism
Films about the 'leaden years' and political violence in Italy
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- DirectorRenzo MartinelliStarsDonald SutherlandGiancarlo GianniniStefania RoccaOne of the main players in Italian politics, Aldo Moro, gets kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. One judge finds evidence that sheds dangerous new light on the case.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsCarlo De FilippiNicoletta BraschiToni BertorelliA film on the poet, writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini focusing on his brutal murder and on the judicial proceedings that followed. The case is reconstructed via the trial of Pino Pelosi, the street kid who was found guilty of the murder. The trial becomes a metaphor of the Italian society in the 1970s.
- DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsGian Maria VolontèMattia SbragiaBruno ZaninThe story of the infamous 1978 kidnapping of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorists from the Red Brigades.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFausto RossiLaura MoranteEmilio is a clever and introverted teenager who lives with intolerance the confidential relation between his father Dario, a left wing university professor, and his former student Giulia. When Sandro Ferrari, Giulia's lover, is killed at a roadblock, Emilio tells the police how the young man used to go to their home.
- DirectorWilma LabateStarsClaudio AmendolaSilvio OrlandoFrancesca NeriA terrorist is taken from South to North of Italy to meet his woman. What is happening in his mind? Could he betray and speak? It's what the Army official who's taking him to the woman is thinking. And will the woman meet him? She's not sure of her own will.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMariangela MelatoDelphine SeyrigAurore ClémentMichele is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsLuigi Lo CascioAlessio BoniJasmine TrincaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsFlavio BucciMicaela PignatelliAgnès NobecourtSvitol has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed.
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsClio GoldsmithVittorio MezzogiornoYves BeneytonWho is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She shares his destiny right up to its unexpected conclusion.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartAnna MouglalisPierfrancesco FavinoSet in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
- DirectorFranco BerniniStarsFrancesca NeriClaudio AmendolaEnzo DecaroDr. Martinelli is a young psychoanalyst who is treating Dario Campisi, and a surprising truth emerges from the latter's stories during psychoanalytic sessions.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèMarcello MastroianniMariangela MelatoParty leader and power broker M. is holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansing.
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsLina SastriRossana PodestàGiulia BoschiYoung terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
- DirectorMimmo CaloprestiStarsNanni MorettiValeria Bruni TedeschiValeria MililloProfessor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa Venturi who's currently in jail for having severely wounded Sajevo fifteen years before; he will finally and dramatically reveal himself.
- DirectorMarco TurcoStarsMassimo BellinzoniEnnio FantastichiniIsabella FerrariBy all appearances, Dario leads a lush life in Paris: his sweetheart is stylish, his daughter is appealing, he's successful in business, and he has a circle of Italian friends in town. Beneath this veneer is a violent past and fear of discovery: a life suspended. Peeling away this veneer inadvertently is Dario's younger brother, Jacopo, who idolizes a brother he hardly knows, visits Paris, asks questions, and learns about his brother's terrorist past. What does Jacopo now make of his brother, and how do Dario and his circle respond to Jacopo's presence, especially when one of their number is arrested and when an ID card of Jacopo's indicates he may be a cop?
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsValerio MastandreaPierfrancesco FavinoMichela CesconA chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
- DirectorLuigi Maria PerottiStarsIda PeciRoberta PeciAlberto FranceschiniIn 1980 Patrizio Peci was a leaders of Red Brigades (left wing terrorist organization). His brother Roberto was a normal worker fascinated by Red Brigades political project. When Patrizio was arrested, he started to cooperate with the State, destroying his Organization. Red Brigades answered kidnapping Roberto. They wanted to punish Patrizio so, they forced Roberto to admit in front of a camera that he was the traitor and they killed him. It was the first media action made by terrorists. Ida, the sister, tried to save Roberto. After 26 years she decided to tell her story.
- DirectorMassimo PirriStarsLuc MerendaLou CastelAndrea FranchettiAbout a group of terrorists trying to execute their mission. A human drama dealing with the double lives lead by the terrorists and the emotions they must deal with in order to achieve their goal.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaruschka DetmersFederico PitzalisAnita LaurenziA sizzling, erotic thriller about a triangle between a teenage boy, an older woman an her fiance, an imprisoned terrorist, set in a world of intrigue, betrayal and erotic pleasure, from which may be no escape.