Antonio Pennarella

Descargados de la pasión incontrolable de los primeros tiempos, Modesto y Viviana llaman a la puerta de un analista para someterse a una terapia de pareja. Solo hay un problema: no son una pareja. No es un oficial, al menos. Los dos amantes, ambos vestidos en bodas infelices, no saben cómo reaccionar al dilema que probablemente los desvíe: a la deriva en una aventura extramatrimonial e invertir en una nueva vida, como le gustaría a la intrigante Viviana (Ambra Angiolini); o seguir la sugerencia del saliente Modesto (Pietro Sermonti) y continuar con la retorcida doble existencia

In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return being an infernal descent into his past and his region's contradictions.

A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra.

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

Diego, Fausto y Claudio son tres cuarentones insatisfechos, que huyendo de la ciudad y de sus propias vidas, se juntan en la empresa de abrir un casa de turismo rural. A ellos se les unirá Sergio, un cincuentón comunista, y Elisa, una joven embarazada y a la que le falta un tornillo. Pero su sueño se obstaculizará con la llegada de Vito, un camorrista que viene a cobrar el "pizzo".

Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of the Neapolitan mob.

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

The police infiltrates an unemployed classically-trained musician into a wedding band in order to drive out an elusive Camorra boss.

1974, Roma. Guido es un artista que quisiera ser vanguardista, pero se siente atrapado en una familia demasiado burguesa e intrusiva. A Serena, su mujer, no le gusta el arte, pero le gusta mucho el artista, y le "invade". Sus hijos, Dario y Paolo, de 10 y 5 años, son testigos involuntarios de su irresistible atracción sexual, de sus desastres, de sus traiciones, de sus eternos conflictos amorosos. (FILMAFFINITY)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Como respuesta a la feroz represión borbónica de 1828, tres jóvenes del sur de Italia, Domenico, Angelo y Salvatore (Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco y Luigi Pisani), deciden alistarse en el grupo de resistencia dirigido por Giuseppe Mazzini (Toni Servillo). A través de cuatro episodios, seremos testigos de la corrupción, las conspiraciones y las pulsiones homicidas que se viven en el seno de la organización. La unidad de Italia es el objetivo, pero no parece que vaya a ser precisamente un camino de rosas.

A judge decides to take a difficult child, Mario (9 years old), from his family and entrusts him to a couple of unmarried forty-year-olds. For the three of them, living together is difficult and painful, since the couple and the child come from two separate realities. As relief from solitude and displacement, Mario creates his own world, where he meets Schad Sky, an imaginary playmate.

On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.

Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his operations. Amerigo is a killer who invites his mistress, Rita (Lucia Ragni), to live in the family house. Meanwhile, his wife, Irene (Licia Maglietta), has an affair with mob henchman Egidio (Antonino Iuorio), who fancies the Cammarano's teenage daughter, Orsola (Antonia Truppo). This leaves Irene to eye her own son, Oreste (Domenico Balsamo), who has taken to self-mutilation. Luna Rossa won the Wella Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

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

La cinta nos traslada al Nápoles de los años 50, donde un niño vive con intranquilidad el regreso de su padre mientras está rodeado de toda su familia (compuesta, exceptuando un cura, exclusivamente por mujeres, de las cuales también está acompañado en la escuela de monjas) celebrando los tradicionales festejos de la Navidad. Es la mirada de este niño la que Rocca rueda, llenando la pantalla de sus juegos y miedos, a través de su mirada y su imaginación, de sus complicidades y amistades, su ingenio e ingenua sabiduría, su inocencia y picardía.

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, the Sibyl of Cumae, and Christian martyr Artema. This historical drama is intertwined with a modern-day story of a poverty-stricken family, forced by earthquakes during the '70s to move to the country, a devastating blow to the close-knit family. After a 1997 Venice Film Festival screening at 125 minutes, the filmmakers announced their plans to re-edit to a shorter running time. Also known as Moonspins Between Land and Sea.

This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other than speaking dialog from classical plays, Massimo refuses to say a single word. His father, a classic-literature professor believes it reflects to a disappointing love affair. His new girlfriend thinks Massimo is rebelling against his mother, a poet. A director learns of Massimo and commissions his mother to write a play about him. Though Massimo plays himself in the play, and does speak, he returns to silence when the play is finished.