Pietro Ghislandi

Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer helping the inmates — however, like a modern-day Cinderella, every day he must leave and be back to his cell before midnight... will they manage to live happily ever after?

Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware that she is the mother of Paolina, a student that has been sending him "I love you" notes written in every language in the world.

A 3D animated short which gracefully mocks the italian 3D world and ita subjection to the fully developed american technology

Un técnico de efectos especiales que está en Isquia por trabajo conoce a una mujer fascinante que cambia su cínica opinión sobre el amor... pero las apariencias engañan.

Un juez jubilado recibe un video con imágenes inéditas del secuestro del Primer Ministro italiano, Aldo Moro. Sin embargo, ese material contradice la versión oficial.

After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.

Inspirada en hechos reales. En el valle de Vajont (Italia) se está construyendo la presa más alta del mundo (163 metros) y se da por supuesto que propiciará el turismo y la prosperidad de los pueblos circundantes. Cuando la obra alcanza más de cien metros de altura, la empresa descubre una tremenda hendidura que podría provocar un desmoronamiento. A pesar de ello, se decide seguir adelante, sin pensar en las posibles consecuencias. El resultado es aterrador: el 9 de Octubre de 1963, la montaña se desliza hacia el agua a una velocidad de 80 kilómetros por hora. Seis localidades quedan inundadas, dejando más de dos mil muertos.

Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when they're reached by Rita, Tommaso's daughter.

During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very charming girl.

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?

Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...

Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.

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.

Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...

Una serie de sketches en los que participan clientes y personal de la tienda de varios departamentos de un centro comercial.

Ovidio y Raf son dos hermanos, físicamente son muy parecidos, pero están en las antípodas: el primero es un profesor honesto, torpe e inseguro, mientras que el segundo es un músico temerario, un bromista y un delincuente barato. Los dos no se han visto durante veinte años, hasta que Raf decide visitar a su hermano, trastornando su vida ...

Italian comedy about a man on a bicycle outing who constructs a monumental sandwich for his lunch. The sandwich lurches out of his hands and leads him on a wild romp through the countryside. He finally catches up with it, high on a mountain top. The surprise ending reveals that the joke is really on him