Quel bravo ragazzo

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.

When a mother’s passing brings together her lawyer son and mobster husband.

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different ways they have chosen to live their lives.

As Pavithran and Haripriya's marriage withers away, he plans a trip to bring things back on track. But his marital bliss is threatened by a bunch of nutjobs.

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.

An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter.

While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.

Unsure of how to navigate a recent breakup, Penelope turns to a local community group for support. She soon discovers, however, that this eclectic mix is anything but normal, and everyone grieves in their own way.

When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and travels to Sicily from her home in the Carpathian mountains to join her daughter... without warning! But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland. An unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling to survive in the modern world. The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà... At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are!

Ciko, a film editor, faces a major dilemma when tasked with cutting several scenes of the lead actor due to acting flaws. Secretly, Jagad, the director, asks Ciko to edit the actor out of the film entirely, without the knowledge of Tasya, the producer. The situation becomes even more complicated as the actor is a special request from an important investor. During the preview, the investor demands more scenes of the actor, threatening to withdraw funding if his request is ignored. Tensions escalate as Tasya and Jagad clash over the final cut of the film, with Ciko caught in the middle. Feeling there is no way out, Ciko ultimately decides to leave the project.

On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.

The story of two inseparable friends born on the same day of the same year. As they grow up, their unique, idyllic world—understood only by them—begins to crumble when one of them finds a boyfriend.

Todd Barry is back with a brand new stand up special from The Den Theater in Chicago.

After distancing himself from his off-screen boyfriend, an IT graduate (and wannabe painter) finds himself on a suburban odyssey to get his best friend's laptop fixed, his only company being his imaginary friend (a walking talking goldfish).

Three kids find grenades in the ground when they are hunting wild quail in the forest. The discovery scares them, and they promise to keep the find a secret so they won't be caught by the police.

In this mystery-comedy, a young chauffeur investigates the disappearance of a client. He is aided by his Italian teacher, a homeless estate agent, and an artist who uses random stock photos to illustrate her dreams. Everything seems like a clue in this slightly absurdist world, but to what?