Ida Di Benedetto

Maria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace prize winner, is known in the whole world as the banker of the poor, because he pioneered and tested a funding system in Bangladesh: by lending little sums of money to the less well-off with no interest, and returning it by installments gained with their work, people are able to get free from extreme misery. Thus, what can happen if three boys, just graduated, who live in Naples, try to import this funding system that subverts every economic rule?

The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.

Feature film.

The film begins on New Year’s Eve 2001 when Angelica attempts suicide by somewhat theatrically cutting her wrists in the bath. Over the weeks that follow we learn all about the complexities of her life and her three best friends, the quartet of the title.

Las gentes de Jerusalén sufren bajo el reinado de Herodes, y esperan ser liberados de los invasores romanos por el mesías, cuya llegada se rumorea tendrá lugar pronto.

Scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite.

Remake del film homónimo de Ladislao Vajda. En el siglo XVII, tras una larga guerra, los monjes de un humilde monasterio encuentran a un niño recién nacido entre las ruinas de una casa y deciden llevárselo a vivir con ellos.

In a southern villa after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies live Donna Clotilde and Donna Gesualda. The first is a Bourbon baroness who rejects the new world and the Italian language. The other is the poor relative with duties as a maid. Apart from the village priest, they see no one. Then her nephew Ferdinando arrives at the villa, young, handsome, and squirming.

In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.

Basado en la historia de la mujer llevada a juicio por cargos de plagio moral y brujería.

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.

Tony is a young Neapolitan musician. He has a lot of problems and a past with drugs, but also with women. He is engaged to Susy, but he betrays her with a university professor, who has an invalid husband, but also with other young aspiring singers, who try in every way to break into the world of music. Among these there is Elena, engaged in various difficulties to organize a concert with the best names of Neapolitan music.

The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a prodigy who aspires to a normal life. He is studying music in Bologna when he falls in love with a local girl and makes friends with a boy his own age. Mozart is so elated that he fails a music exam on purpose so he can stay a little longer. Unfortunately, a priest rigs his test and the young composer is forced to move on.

Dea, gynecologist and scientist, and her colleagues have for the last few months been preparing a campaign against the local pharmaceutical industry. A campaign, which is linked to Dea's published findings concerning harmful side effects of the pill. For years Dea and her husband Rheinhard have been defending opposing sides as to the culpability of the company. Rheinhard, who is also a leading scientist like Dea, is a high-ranking employee of the concern. In the meantime Reinhard and Dea's 2 daughters have grown up. The daughter of the company's boss, Johanna, is Dea's assistant and Reinhard's lover.

Salvatore Di Donato is one of the most feared and respected members of the Mafia in Naples. His wife, Assuntina, is a young theater actress. During a pilgrimage to Madonna of the Arch, Salvatore and Assuntina meet Margaret, a woman proud and beautiful. Salvatore falls in love with her, leaves Assuntina and goes to live with his new love. Margaret, however, is a strong woman, free, resistant to bring controlled by Salvatore, and ultimately he is forced to return home, ridiculed in the eyes of all.

Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.

Italian movie

Carol es una mujer joven insatisfecha y exigente con la vida. Para probarse a sí misma se hace pasar por terrorista. Es internada y mantenida en observación en una residencia, a pesar de no estar enferma. El suicidio de un paciente la hará enfrentarse a la realidad y tratar de volver a la normalidad.

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.

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

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.

Lo primero que llama la atención es la austeridad casi documental con que Schroeter encara la parte inicial del relato, ambientada en un pequeño y paupérrimo pueblo de Sicilia. Schroeter va dando una visión bucólica de esa gente y su tierra, de sus ritos y tradiciones, pero no deja de señalar la miseria y falta de trabajo que los empuja a emigrar a Alemania. Con el viaje de Nicola hacia Wolfsburg, donde está ubicada la fábrica automotriz Wolkswagen, se inicia la segunda parte, tremendamente crítica para con la sociedad alemana, en donde Schroeter va descubriendo paulatinamente signos de indiferencia, violencia y racismo. La tercera y última parte de Desarraigo se concentra en el juicio al que Nicola es sometido, acusado de asesinar a dos hombres. Aquí, poco a poco Schroeter se va desprendiendo del tono realista que imprimió a las dos primeras partes del film y recurre a una puesta en escena operística.

Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)

Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.