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- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinPhilippe NoiretFour inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsGiorgio BasileGiuseppe BattistonClaudio BisioSeven friends have a passion: every week they play futsal. Each of them forget the everyday's trouble playing futsal.
- DirectorLuca MinieroStarsClaudio BisioAlessandro SianiAngela FinocchiaroOverwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."
- DirectorGiacomo CiarrapicoMattia TorreLuca VendruscoloStarsLuca AmorosinoValerio ApreaAntonino BruschettaA director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneEleonora GiorgiChristian De SicaSergio Benvenuti finds a job as musical agent to an important Italian publisher. This could be his final step before to marry Rossella. But his career does not rise, so he asks Nadia Vandelli, a more-experienced agent and a nice girl, to work with him for just one day to gain more experience. They must meet Manuel Fantoni in his own flat; Nadia is late, but Sergio goes ahead with the meeting. By the time she arrives, Sergio has found out that Fantoni isn't what he said he was. Things escalate quickly until Sergio lands in an incredible situation from which he can't escape.
- DirectorGiambattista AvellinoStarsLuca ArgenteroPaola CortellesiPaolo RuffiniThree former school friends meet after twenty years and realize that they pursued a common enemy: the recommended. Max (Argentero Luke) is a reporter for talent in a local newspaper that was forced to round to write the most unlikely of magazines, came a step away from much needed employment is undermined by the daughter of a famous writer. Irma (Paola Cortellesi), despite being one of the most respected doctors of the hospital, lives with scholarships, and just when the contract is for the favorite is the new girlfriend of the primary.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneNancy BrilliAlessandro BenvenutiFormer high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.
- DirectorUmberto Riccioni CarteniStarsLuca ArgenteroClaudia GeriniFilippo NigroWhat happens when an openly gay man decides to run for mayor in a super conservative town in North Eastern Italy, using his homosexuality as his secret weapon? What would happen if during the electoral campaign, our hero falls in love with his right hand man who happens to be a - woman? What will the voters say, the political opponents, his official companion? And what..in the end will his heart say?
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsSalvatore FicarraValentino PiconeClaudio BisioAnna is from Piedmont, she loves opera and French literature. Piero, her husband, is from Calabria, loves football and other women.
- DirectorMassimo VenierStarsAlessandro TiberiValentina LodoviniCarolina CrescentiniIn 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. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsDiego AbatantuonoLaura ChiattiFabio De LuigiBologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsFabio De LuigiDiego AbatantuonoFabrizio BentivoglioA screenwriter scared of happy endings is going through a creative crisis until a woman invites him to dinner. The dinner attendees become the characters of his new screenplay, but they try to interfere with his work.
- DirectorRoan JohnsonStarsClaudio SantamariaFrancesco TurbantiPaolo CioniSongwriter Pino Masi and two students decide to leave Pisa, Italy, during the tumultuous military coup building in the city.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsChristian De SicaLaura MoranteLuca ZingarettiAn amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaAmbra AngioliniTwenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into society and lost track of one another. One day they receive a letter from the Ministry of Education: because of a formal error, they must retake the exam. With the initial shock now past, they grasp the opportunity to meet again, to share laughters and to cram together like they used to. On the other hand, they are not the same persons they were two decades before...
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneLaura ChiattiMarco GuadagnoWhen Father Carlo returns home after years spent in Africa in an humanitarian mission, instead of getting the expected peace of mind with his family, he'll face their problems: for instance, his father has married Olga, a much-younger Moldavian woman, and his brother and sister are worried about their inheritance--or what's left of it.
- DirectorIvan CotroneoStarsValeria GolinoCristiana CapotondiLuca ZingarettiNaples,1973. Peppino is nine, comes from a large family and has an older cousin, Gennaro, who thinks to be Superman. But when Gennaro dies, Peppino's imagination rewrites reality and brings him back to life, as though his cousin really were the superhero he said. And it is thanks to this imaginary friend that Peppino manages to face up to the vicissitudes of his life. With Cristiana Capotondi.
- DirectorLucio PellegriniStarsPierfrancesco FavinoStefano AccorsiVittoria PucciniAn Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover. (Italian with English subtitles).
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsLuca ArgenteroViolante PlacidoNeri MarcorèMattia, a 32 year old building contractor in Perugia has lots of style, nice suits, nice car, gorgeous looking girlfriend but behind this facade is cutting corners with site safety and hiring immigrant workers. Taking to the golf course hoping to meet wealthy, upmarket clients he meets a doctor who offers him a contract to build a luxurious weekend getaway but not one Euro above 300,000 will he pay. Meantime back on site to save 12,000 euros in scaffolding he has illegally-hired worker Kamal working on a roof without any safety nets and Kamal falls from the roof, finishing up in hospital with his entire upper body in plaster. Kamal unknown to Mattia has won a position in a chocolate making competition at a nearby factory who are celebrating their centenary of operation. Before leaving Egypt, Kamal was a pastry cook in Egypt. By doing the chocolate course he hopes to gain a diploma to start a new career in Italy as a chocolate maker. First prize is enough money to start his own business. So Mattia has a choic;face the police or stand in for Kamal at the advanced chocolate making course. Egyptian laborer versus trendy Italian businessman. So goodbye pony tail, hello perm, goodbye smart phone and clothes. In the class are: a middle aged woman, a man whose father owns 4 pastry shops and the beautiful, passionate Cecilia, whose love life is littered with liars. Feeling sorry for our stand in Kamal she offers to coach Mattia, after hours, to improve his chocolate making. Mattia leads a double life of Egyptian by day, homework and contractor by day and night transforming in the process from being self centred to finding love and life at the same time.
- DirectorLuca LuciniStarsFrancesca InaudiRiccardo ScamarcioGabriella PessionLucia loves Paolo since her childhood. When Maria, her best friend, announces the engagement with him, she can't stand the situation and decides to take action.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneLuciana LittizzettoSilvio MuccinoFour intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsDiego AbatantuonoFabrizio BentivoglioCristina MarsillachA Spanish girl, Teresa, comes to Milan to meet Ponchia, Marco, Paolino, and Cedro, who haven't seen one another in years; her man, their old friend Rudy, is in jail in Marrakech and needs help and money. The five decide to drive to Morocco to get him out of trouble.
- DirectorFausto BrizziStarsPaola CortellesiFabio De LuigiLucia OconeThe love lives of the friends Walter, Diego, Renato, Marcello and Piero.
- DirectorNina Di MajoStarsMargherita BuyFabio VoloLuciana LittizzettoA single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.