italian suburbs

7 movies and shows

Ovosodo

Fri, 12 Sep 1997

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Tutti giù per terra

Thu, 24 Apr 1997

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui.

Living It Up

Thu, 22 Sep 1994

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

Milan, western suburbs. In one of the nine districts ("zone") of the city, the students of the "Rosa Luxemburg" trade school meditate over the meaning of living in the suburbs. And they do so using their smartphones, filming their days and looking for a common thread among their lives. Crossing and mixing video-diaries, documentary shooting and fictional scenes, the project struggles to take a definite shape: every character and perspective channels the tale in a different direction, escaping from linear narrative lines and bringing us to some kind of archipelago.

Itiburtinoterzo

Thu, 14 May 2009

Documentary about the desolate lives of youngsters living in the Roman suburbs.

Baia del Re

Fri, 20 Sep 2024