Francesco Acquaroli

Relato sobre los miembros de tres familias cuyos apartamentos están en el mismo bloque de clase media. Se trata de un joven matrimonio, Lucio y Sara, que sospecha que su vecino Renato, ha abusado de su hija; una madre, Monica de dos hijos cuyo marido Giorgio está siempre fuera trabajando; y una juez jubilada, Dora que ejerce el mismo trabajo de su marido Vittorio.

Vincenzo is a scoundrel, a petty thief, and he wants to turn a corner. Here’s his brilliant idea: kidnap the dogs of the rich, who those to get them back are willing to pay any amount of money. The abductee’s name is Palla di Pelo, a beautiful Welsh Corgi who lives as if he were the Ferragnez’s son in the mansion of designer Paki Furlan, a haughty homosexual who treats the dog as if it were his own son. Vincenzo, is together with the only accomplice he can afford: his son Alfredo, whom he treats like a dog instead. They prepare the ransom letter, as in the movies: letters taken from the newspaper, no sender. The designer, as per the request of the mysterious kidnappers, shows up at the appointment with the fifty thousand euros in cash. Happy ending for everyone? Not at all, because we know very well that the most beastly beings are precisely men.

After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown.

La historia de cuatro amigos Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, Riccardo, contada durante cuarenta años, desde 1980 hasta la actualidad, desde la adolescencia hasta la edad adulta. Sus esperanzas, sus decepciones, sus aciertos y fracasos son el entrelazamiento de una gran historia de amistad y amor a través de la cual también se cuentan Italia y los italianos. Un gran fresco que dice quiénes somos, de dónde venimos y también a dónde irán y quiénes serán nuestros hijos. Es el gran círculo de la vida que se repite con la misma dinámica a pesar de que en el fondo pasan años e incluso períodos diferentes.

Paolo, dueño de un restaurante en un pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Roma, regresa a casa después del trabajo en una tarde lluviosa. En el camino ve a un niño acurrucado en una parada de autobús y decide llevarle a casa. El niño se llama Mohammed y es un refugiado que perdió a sus padres durante el viaje a Italia. La presencia del niño molesta a la mujer de Paolo, Valeria, quien al principio se muestra indecisa y recelosa, aunque finalmente se aviene a acogerle durante aquella noche. Al cabo de un tiempo, Valeria cambia de opinión y decide quedarse con Mohamed contra viento y marea…

Una tragedia tiene lugar a puerta cerrada. El tema es universal: una historia de personas atrapadas en una red de poder inhumana. Se suceden las reuniones del Eurogrupo, que imponen a Grecia la dictadura de la austeridad y que ignoran cualquier signo de humanidad y compasión. Una trampa claustrofóbica que no tiene salida y que ejerce presiones en los protagonistas y, finalmente, los divide. Una tragedia en el sentido de la Grecia clásica: los personajes no son buenos ni malos, pero que se ven arrastrados por las consecuencias de lo que ellos perciben que es lo correcto. Esta es una tragedia de plena actualidad.

An epileptic director trying to make a film about the life of famed Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn discovers that her real-life subject bears little resemblance to the star she idolized.

Con la intención de encender de nuevo la chispa de su deteriorada relación, Brian y Cassie alquilan una romántica villa en Italia. Poco después de instalarse en la casa, Cassie se hace amiga de Federico, un amable y apuesto vecino que provoca los celos de Brian. Federico utiliza estos celos para manipular a la pareja. El perverso y peligroso juego que pone en marcha hará que Brian y Cassie se enfrenten el uno al otro y acabarán descubriendo que la persona que más aman quizá sea la persona en la que menos pueden confiar.

Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: the camera jams and the lens has to be changed.

Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It's been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood are pizzas and supplì that come home. Convinced that jihadist terrorism is on the verge of attacking Italy, he decides to take justice on his own by sending a bombshell to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, a nation guilty, in his opinion, of financing terrorists. Not everything will run smoothly as he had expected.

Marcello, un pequeño y apacible peluquero de perros, se encuentra involucrado en una peligrosa relación de subyugación con Simone, un ex boxeador violento que aterroriza a todo el vecindario. En un esfuerzo por reafirmar su dignidad, Marcello se someterá a un inesperado acto de venganza.

Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.

Daniel is the son of African parents born in Rome. He is a police officer of the State Police Department. One day he finds out that his unit will have to clear a building where his mother and brother live. Torn between the love for his family and the loyalty to the police, Daniel will have to choose between the two and go with it until the end.

While her best friend Vale can afford to be a full-time performer, aspiring dancer Eli has an unemployed husband and four children to take care of, and works all day long in a cafe on the opposite side of the city, meaning she has to wake up before dawn and comes home late at night. Her kind and effervescent nature still manages to overcome this hardships.

La banda del neurobiólogo Pietro y sus cultos compañeros se enriquece con nuevos integrantes, los llamados cerebros en fuga, en una misión que los llevará a ser “el brazo universitario de la ley”. El grupo se ve obligado a cambiar de bando: a cambio de un expediente limpio de antecedentes policiales, deberá colaborar en secreto con la policía para acabar con la propagación de las nuevas drogas, bajo las órdenes de la ambiciosa inspectora Paola Coletti.

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.

Sometimes you need to try unusual ways to start a family.

Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.

Una chica rumana , aburrida de la vida de su pequeño pueblo sueña con entrar en el glamoroso mundo que ve en las telenovelas italianas. Una noche en un club, conoce a Gabriel, que dice ser un productor de televisión italiana y acepta ir con el. Pero cuando llega, ella se vende al proxeneta Manol y obligada a ganarse la vida en la calle. Las cosas se ponen más oscuras con la llegada de Ettore, un sádico que hace películas snuff.

La noche del 2 de noviembre de 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini es asesinado en Roma. El director era el símbolo del arte revolucionario que lucha contra el poder. Sus escritos eran escandalosos; sus películas, perseguidas por los censores. Era tan amado como odiado. Ese día, Pasolini había pasado sus últimas horas con su madre y con sus amigos; por la noche se lanzó a la calle en busca de aventuras. Al amanecer, su cadáver fue hallado en una playa de Ostia, en las afueras de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)

A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democratic Party, which is separated from the market by a concrete wall, built to allow the construction of the subway.

Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.

Siete cerebros brillantes, licenciados de las carreras más complejas, pero sin trabajo, tienen una idea genial y, sobre todo, eficaz para combatir la crisis: producir y distribuir drogas sintéticas "legales".

The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide

Basada en hechos reales, la película narra la noche en que se organizó la Contracumbre del G8 en la ciudad de Génova, en forma de rebatimiento a la Cumbre del G8 por parte del movimiento antiglobalización. Esa noche se produjeron varios incidentes, entre ellos, el trágico asalto a la escuela Diaz, un lugar de acogida para periodistas acreditados y para manifestantes. Varias personas se hallaban delante de esta escuela manifestándose. Tras un aviso por parte de los vecinos de la zona, se denunció un ataque hacia el cuerpo policial, por lo que las fuerzas del Estado italiano decidieron asaltar la escuela. Diaz, no limpiéis esta sangre narra desde la posición de policías, manifestantes y periodistas, los sucesos trágicos de noche del asalto a la escuela, que terminaron con personas heridas y numerosos detenidos.

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.