Tony Sperandeo

Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.

En la República Dominicana, el endurecido policía Manolo intenta acabar con un infame cartel de la droga; mientras tanto, su hija se ha enamorado de Lorenzo, un trabajador de la construcción que, sin saberlo, se ha visto envuelto en los tratos del cartel de la droga.

A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.

January 6, 1980. The President of the Sicilian Region Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family. A young man approaches the car window and shoots Piersanti in cold blood and kills him. Despite the confusion of the moment with a series of misdirections towards left-wing terrorism, the crime appeared anomalous in its modalities. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty, that day of the Epiphany, will be Pietro Grasso, future Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Senate. The investigations will be continued by the Instructor Judge Giovanni Falcone, who will uncover dangerous relationships between the Mafia, Politics, Nar and neo-fascists, the Magliana gang, Gladio and Secret Services.

Gaetano decided that he would bury his deceased brother with his family at all costs, even if it meant defying the laws of his Sicilian village and putting himself and his family in danger.

Los vecinos del pequeño pueblo siciliano de Pietrammare viven acostumbrados al caos que conlleva “saltarse la ley”, pero están hartos. Las carreteras tienen socavones, el tráfico es insufrible, la basura se acumula en las aceras y no hay día que un vecino no pise un excremento de perro. Tampoco les falta un gran puerto... sin barcos, y una fábrica altamente contaminante. Pero parece que ha llegado la hora del cambio: en las elecciones, un nuevo alcalde ha salido victorioso y viene con la firme intención de cumplir todo su programa electoral.

A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez.

Based on Donald Vergari Best Seller Book. In the middle of the crisis a man loses his job, starts gambling but cannot pay back his debts, the only way out is to accept an offer that he cannot refuse, his next job will be the bookkeeper of a new mafia organization - and his challenge is to get out from it...what a risky work for Mr Angelo Bianco.

Relato épico que abarca tres generaciones, desde los años 30 hasta la actualidad, usando como telón de fondo el nacimiento del fascismo (Marcha sobre Roma, 1922), la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) y la política italiana de la postguerra. Fue seleccionada por Italia como candidata al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa.

Película de drama de guerra italiana del dirigida por Michele Soavi . Basada en una novela de Gianpiero Pansa . Jay Weissberg criticó duramente la película, refiriéndose a ella como "un ejemplo peligroso de manipulación histórica disfrazada de relativismo".

Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.

One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina.

Italian thriller

The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.

Sicilia, años 50. Cinisi es un pueblo de la provincia de Palermo, conocido por el aeropuerto de Punta Raisi, que los jefes de la mafia local utilizan para sus negocios. Aquí vive el pequeño Peppino Impastato, a cien pasos de la casa del boss Tano Badalamenti, con el que su familia mantiene una estrecha relación, marcada por la ley del silencio. Peppino agobia a su padre con continuas preguntas acerca de la actividad del mafioso, pero a cambio sólo obtiene silencio. En 1968, ya adolescente, comparte los ideales sociales y políticos de su generación y participa en una manifestación contra la ampliación del aeropuerto, que les quitaría las tierras a los campesinos. En los años siguientes, funda un periódico local y una emisora independiente ("Radio Out") en la que se mofa de la mafia y de los que la protegen, llegando a suscitar la ira de Badalamenti (Tano Seduto) y la reprobación de su familia.

Palermo, Sicilia, 1984. El juez de instrucción Giovanni Falcone se alía con Tomasso Buscetta, un mafioso arrepentido, con el propósito de derrotar al clan de Corleone, la despiadada facción mafiosa que gobierna la Cosa Nostra con mano de hierro, eliminando cruelmente a todos aquellos que se atreven a oponerse a su inmenso poder: otros criminales, policías, jueces, incluso civiles inocentes. Uno de ellos quiere venganza, el otro quiere justicia. Pero solo uno de los dos puede sobrevivir a una lucha tan desigual.

Ciprì and Maresco's delicious documentary portrays Sicilian super-agent Enzo Castagna, a man with some 20,000 extras on his books, who has worked with the likes of Loren, Pasolini, Rosi, Coppola and Cimino (indeed, virtually anyone who's ever chosen to film in Palermo). It's typically weird, witty and wonderful, partly due to its subject, a self-styled 'little big man' who consents to be described as 'almighty' and 'the greatest contributor to Italian cinema in the last 35 years'. The local favourite has also done time for bribery, but refuses to comment on Cosa Nostra. The film is as astonishing as its subject. Shot in luscious b/w, it's driven forward by an offscreen interrogator who alternates between ludicrously hyperbolic flattery and forthright questions about corruption and crime. It also serves as a study of the way ethics get abandoned in the unending pursuit of fame, wealth and self-esteem.

1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape the many small daily harassment. His desire would be to become an airplane pilot and for this the notes of "Volare" by Domenico Modugno accompany his days.

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.

Turi Leofonte (Giannini) es un ex mafioso que acepta ser testigo en un proceso que involucra a gente muy importante de la organización. Para la mafia, Leofonte es peligroso, por eso tiene que ser sacrificado. Un grupo de policías dirigido por Nino Di Venancio (Bova) acepta protegerlo y acompañarlo hasta Milán, donde el proceso debe llevarse a cabo.

Sicilia, años cincuenta. El pícaro Joe Morelli, con su obsoleta cámara Ascania a cuestas, asegura que es capaz de hacer realidad los sueños de cualquiera que aspire a ser una estrella de cine. Con el pretexto de descubrir nuevas caras para una película, llega a un pueblecito y exige a los ingenuos lugareños 1.500 liras por hacer realidad sus sueños.

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.

In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.

In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.

Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?

The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.

In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...

Dante es feliz conduciendo el autobús escolar de niños con discapacidad mental, pero no puede evitar pensar que le falta algo en su vida amorosa. Un día casi es atropellado por un coche, y conoce a María. Parece que está encantada con él, incluso le invita a su preciosa villa, en Palermo. Dante no podría estar más contento, pero lo que no sabe es que todo es parte de una trama. Es casi igual al marido de María, un gángster, a quien le iría muy bien fingir su muerte.

After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.

En plena Copa del Mundo de Fútbol, en Roma, Marie Christine encuentra una bolsa perteneciente a una tal Miriam, que se marcha al día siguiente. Decide devolvérsela para que re recupere el pasaporte, pero un tal Giuliano intenta impedirlo...

June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.

Un profesor se traslada de Milán a Palermo para trabajar como docente en un reformatorio lleno de jóvenes con un comportamiento agresivo y provocador. Con el tiempo, el profesor aprende que algunas de estas actitudes de los internos no son sino un grito de auxilio y ansia de libertad.

El director de "El cazador" adapta una novela de Mario Puzo (El Padrino) que relata la historia de Giuliano, un bandido que intenta liberar Sicilia de la corrupción del gobierno de Roma y de la Mafia.

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.

Mario (Plácido), un italo-americano que regenta una pizzería en Nueva York, está acusado de asesinar a un juez en Palermo. Mario abandona los estados Unidos y vuelve a Sicilia para reclutar a Michele y a su hermano menor buscando un poco de ayuda. Michele es un buen tipo que no participa en la mafia y que está tratando de construir su vida con honestidad y trabajo duro.

Adaptación cinematográfica de cinco hermosos relatos del escritor seciliano Luigi Pitandello.