Even if you agree with everything The Confessions has to say about the problems of our era and who caused them, you’ll learn nothing new and will find little entertainment in hearing your opinions espoused.
The Confessions(Le confessioni)
Italy, France · 2016
1h 43m
Director Roberto Andò
Starring Toni Servillo, Pierfrancesco Favino, Daniel Auteuil, Connie Nielsen
Genre Drama, Thriller
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Andy Webster
An investigation among the attendees grants Mr. Andò the opportunity to pursue pithy, discursive exchanges about power, austerity and capitalism amid high-end accommodations and a tasteful classical soundtrack.
Director Roberto Andò takes the form of a classical whodunit and bludgeons it with naïve indignation and sanctimony.
RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire
The Confessions might remind viewers of films ranging from “The Name of the Rose” to Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth.” But Roberto Andó’s film disappointingly ends up being too flat-footed script-wise to deliver on either its dramatic or thematic promises.
Los Angeles Times by Kimber Myers
Italian director Roberto Andò’s film feels entirely manufactured, distancing itself from its audience and blunting its points in the process.
Users who liked this film also liked
The Trial
(Le Procès)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy, West Germany • 1962
- Director Orson Welles
- Cast Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli
- Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
Gomorrah
(Gomorra)
Under the rule of the Camorra, residents of Naples and Caserta think only of power, money, and blood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2008
- Director Matteo Garrone
- Cast Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale, Salvatore Cantalupo, Gigio Morra, Marco Macor
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Burnt by the Sun
(Утомлённые солнцем)
A moving and poignant story set against the corrupt politics of the Stalinist era.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia, France • 1994
- Director Nikita Mikhalkov
- Cast Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, André Oumansky
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Ladies Get Their Say
(Due partite)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2009
- Director Enzo Monteleone
- Cast Margherita Buy, Isabella Ferrari, Marina Massironi, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Valeria Milillo
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Raise Your Head
(Alza la testa)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2009
- Director Alessandro Angelini
- Cast Sergio Castellitto, Giorgio Colangeli, Anita Kravos, Augusto Fornari, Duccio Camerini, Gabriele Campanelli
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
(En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy that follows two traveling novelty salesmen.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, Germany, Norway • 2014
- Director Roy Andersson
- Cast Holger Andersson, Nisse Vestblom, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Törnros, Jonas Gerholm
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, FlixFling, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex
Human Capital
(Il capitale umano)
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a car accident on Christmas Eve.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 2014
- Director Paolo Virzì
- Cast Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Fabrizio Gifuni, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Matilde Gioli
- Genre Drama
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States • 2016
- Director Garth Davis
- Cast Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Abhishek Bharate
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Plex
Devil's Gate
When a woman and her young son disappear, a small town will learn that nothing is as it seems.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2017
- Director Clay Staub
- Cast Milo Ventimiglia, Bridget Regan, Amanda Schull, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Frakes, Javier Botet
- Genre Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, The CW
The Salesman
(فروشنده)
Emad and Rana move into a new flat, but an incident with the previous tenant dramatically changes their life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran, France • 2016
- Director Asghar Farhadi
- Cast Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Mehdi Koushki, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Freevee
Lupin III: The Italian Game
(ルパン三世 イタリアン・ゲーム)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director Kazuhide Tomonaga, Yuichiro Yano
- Cast Kanichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Miyuki Sawashiro, Daisuke Namikawa, Koichi Yamadera, Yukiyo Fujii
- Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV
Worldly Girl
(La ragazza del mondo)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 2016
- Director Marco Danieli
- Cast Sara Serraiocco, Michele Riondino, Marco Leonardi, Stefania Montorsi, Pippo Delbono, Lucia Mascino
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Just Like Our Parents
(Como Nossos Pais)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2017
- Director Laís Bodanzky
- Cast Maria Ribeiro, Paulo Vilhena, Clarisse Abujamra, Felipe Rocha, Sophia Valverde, Annalara Prates
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
At Eternity's Gate
The story of Vincent van Gogh's artistic genius — and the misunderstanding public.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Switzerland, Ireland, United Kingdom • 2018
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand, The Roku Channel, Freevee
Freaks Out
Four circus “freaks” use their supernatural powers to try and save their Jewish circus owner in World War Two era Italy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Belgium • 2021
- Director Gabriele Mainetti
- Cast Claudio Santamaria, Aurora Giovinazzo, Pietro Castellitto, Giancarlo Martini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Max Mazzotta
- Genre Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, War
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
I Hate Summer
(Odio l'estate)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2020
- Director Massimo Venier
- Cast Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Lucia Mascino, Carlotta Natoli, Maria Di Biase
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.