Italian Films 2009


1. 2009 Barbarossa

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor.
Director: Renzo Martinelli
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan

2. 2009 Un'estate ai Caraibi

Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua.
Director: Carlo Vanzina
Stars: Enrico Brignano, Carlo Buccirosso

3. 2009 The Double Hour (La doppia ora)

A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi

4. 2009 Generation 1000 Euros

In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired.
Director: Massimo Venier
Stars: Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini

5. 2009 Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

A young writer strikes up a relationship with his daughter's swimming instructor.
Director: Giuseppe Piccioni
Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino

6. 2009 I Am Love

A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti

7. 2009 Imago Mortis

A series of strange murders take place in an European school of cinema and nobody, except the professors, seems to understand what's happening.
Director: Stefano Bessoni
Stars: Alberto Amarilla, Oona Chaplin

8. 2009 The Man Who Will Come

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy.
Director: Giorgio Diritti
Stars: Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher

9. 2009 La matassa

La matassa (The skein) is a 2009 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giambattista Avellino and by Ficarra e Picone.
Director: Giambattista Avellino
Stars: Ficarra, Picone

10. 2009 Purple Sea

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara.
Director: Donatella Maiorca
Stars: Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese

11. 2009 The Sicilian Girl

Beginning in 1985 in Balata, Sicily, the eleven-year-old Rita Mancuso witnessed the assassination of her beloved father Don Michele by a rival Mafia family.
Director:
Marco Amenta
Stars: Veronica D'Agostino, Miriana Faja

12. 2009 Videocracy

A look at segments of the Italian population who are consumed with celebrity worship.
Director: Erik Gandini
Stars: Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore

13. 2009 Vincere

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi