Tommaso Bianco

El querido actor y dramaturgo napolitano Eduardo Scarpetta, padre de Eduardo De Filippo, dedicó toda su vida al teatro, logrando el éxito con obras atemporales como “Miseria e nobiltà”. Sin embargo, todo por lo que trabajó parece perdido en 1904, cuando se ve envuelto en una desagradable batalla legal que podría comprometer su libertad de expresión.

Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) is now in top form and wants to run for Pope again. Therefore, he relies on his exuberant manager for the media relaunch that he has always dreamed of.

Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.

A princess has to pretend to be in love with a rude and ignorant boy to obtein success among her citizens.

At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.

The body of one of the Villa owners is found lifeless in the tub. The accusations are immediately turned against the plumber.

A psychiatrist is murdered and a rich heiress fears her disturbed lover will be implicated as the killer. She hires an ex-lover lawyer friend to help her defend him but when he turns up dead, the lawyer realizes he´s in over his head.

Al llegar la Navidad, y con toda la familia reunida en casa, una pareja de ancianos comunica a sus hijos su deseo de pasar los últimos años de su vida con uno de ellos, al que transmitirían la mayor parte de la herencia. El problema es que ninguno quiere asumir esta responsabilidad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Three episodes about the relativity of time.

Nino establishes a club of supporters of Naples, fighting against the violence in the stadiums. But the Camorra hinders its project.

After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.

In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual.

A 1983 Italian film.

Segunda parte de las aventuras de cuatro amigos toscanos. Durante dos horas se asiste a ruleta de bromas y desventuras privadas del presente, que se alternan con flash-backs que narran viejas aventuras de cuando aún vivía Perozzi.

En la Roma de principios del XIX, el noble Onofrio del Grillo dedica su vida a los placeres mundanos ignorando sus obligaciones con el Papa Pío VII.

Tres jóvenes aficionados al "cinéma verité" y un productor de Cinecittà (Gassman) colocan una cámara en la habitación de un hotel con la esperanza de que registre algo interesante que sirva de base para hacer una película. El problema es que lo que ocurre es demasiado escandaloso.

Narra las tragedias desiguales que asola las vidas de dos mujeres de los estratos económicos más bajos en Nápoles. Inmaculada esta casada, es bisexual, y lleva una carnicería que no está reportando mucho dinero. Conchita es lesbiana, hace trabajos manuales y ha sido condenada por disparar al marido de su amante. Inmaculada también ha ido a la cárcel por inducir a una joven a ejercer la prostitución. Inmaculada y Conchita desarrollan una relación intensamente apasionada en la cárcel y después de ser liberadas, desafían al marido de Inmaculada y el desprecio de la sociedad por irse a vivir juntas. Pero, al final, las amenazas externas no son tan dañinas, las como contradicciones internas.

Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.

Peppino decide emigrar a Estados Unidos con objeto de hacer fortuna y encontrar a su padre, que hizo lo mismo veinte años antes. En el barco conoce a la protegida de un gángster que le ayuda a sobrevivir en Nueva York.

Tras cumplir una condena de dos años por robo, Tonino Russo, hijo de un pobre y honrado zapatero, y novio de una obrera llamada Ana, es desafiado en duelo por un compañero de barrio. A la lucha, que se realiza a navajazos y de la cual Tonino sale vencedor, asiste el miembro de la Camorra don Mario Capece. Sorprendentemente impresionado por el joven, le ofrece una plaza en su propia organización. A partir de este momento, empujado por una insaciable sed de poder, Tonino sólo se preocupa de subir lo más alto posible... (FILMAFFINITY)

Maddalena va a Nueva York a reunirse con su prometido Michele, que emigró cuatro años antes. Como Michele estaba casado y en Italia no existía el divorcio, no podían casarse. En el aeropuerto, a Maddalena la retiene la policía aduanera por llevar una mortadela en el equipaje. Su estancia en la terminal le servirá para conocer la verdadera América y al verdadero Michele.