Piera Degli Esposti

Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrupted when Bruno gives in once again and once too many to his gambling addiction, in spite of his efforts to quit. Gioia will have to follow him to a faraway town, where he will be treated in a specialized center. This will radically change her existence, forcing her to abandon the safety of the village, her friends and her habits. She will be all by herself to support her father, in his journey for a better life.

Gianni es un seductor en serie, pero su vida está destinada a cambiar cuando conoce a Chiara, una bella mujer parapléjica.

Dos amas de casa en Estados Unidos en la década de 1950, la Sra. Fairytale y su mejor amiga, la Sra. Emerald, se encuentran todos los días para compartir sus vidas tranquilas y burguesas, pero la fachada de perfección se desmorona lentamente para revelar terribles secretos.

A director and his assistant are traveling around Europe to seek financing for a film with and about four international artists: Polish Krzysztof Bednarski, Danish Thorsten Kirchhoff, American Mark Kostabi and Malaysian H.H. Lim; all of them stars from the world of art and in love with Italy. Hilarious and quirky, we follow the carnival of madness around the Italian countryside.

Sea Air - Massimo seeks help for his nightmares and depression. The uncles have it in for a blind choir conductor. Tizi find a dead body, which leads to Massimo and Vittoria, who wants her old job back.

Turín, 1969. Massimo es un joven de nueve años que disfruta de una infancia feliz junto a su madre, una mujer cariñosa pero psicológicamente inestable. Una mañana, el pequeño es invitado a pasar unos días en casa de unos vecinos, quienes le explican que su madre ha fallecido. Massimo, quien crece sin haber conocido las causas de la muerte de su progenitora y nunca entablar relación con su padre. Treinta años más tarde, Massimo se ha convertido en un reputado escritor y periodista, comienza a sufrir una serie de ataques de pánico. Cuando Massimo se prepare para vender el apartamento familiar, Elisa, una doctora, le ayudará a enfrentarse a las heridas de su pasado. Este drama italiano está basado en la novela de Massimo Gramellini 'Fai bei sogni'.

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.

Retrato testimonial que aborda aspectos desconocidos de la cineasta y escritora italiana Lina Wertmüller. Partiendo de fotos no publicadas tomadas en Cinecitta? cuando era la asistente de Federico Fellini en la película `8 1/2`, el documental nos lleva a los lugares donde se rodaron sus films más famosos, revelando el universo artístico y humano de una mujer que, con su ironía y su gusto por el grotesco, ha dejado su marca en todos los campos del entretenimiento en los que ha trabajado: cine, drama, televisión, música.

Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the Bari harbor. Ivo and Clara meet by chance and seem to immediately understand each other. They spend only one night together before Ivo's departure, but that is enough to create a bond and wanting to meet again. When Clara visits him in Romania, they fall in love. But is exile their only way to happiness?

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine.

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.

Jenny tiene 17 años y sueña con dedicarse a la natación sincronizada, pero su despreocupada vida de adolescente en Ostia, en la costa romana, se tambalea con la imprevista muerte de su madre. Con un padre enfermo y un hermano pequeño de nueve años del que ocuparse, Jenny se ve obligada a trasladarse a un pueblo montañés. Pronto, la chica comenzará a sentir el peso de esta responsabilidad mientras crece en ella el deseo de retomar el camino del que era su sueño. (FILMAFFINITY)

Cuando unos políticos hastiados nombran presidente a cierto personaje histórico, un humilde bibliotecario con el mismo nombre acaba convertido en líder de Italia.

February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The brothel is an institution that has spanned the centuries,thru different aspects, different forms. It is an institution that, in Italy, at least officially no longer exists. But it is also an institution that in other countries, still exists. The doc offers a journey that will start from the ruins of Pompeii brothel to get to the lights of Artemis in Berlin, with its soft drinks and its attention to the well-being and to the erotic papyrus from the Egyptian Museum of Turin and the giant Paradise in Girona, that El Pais has called the biggest brothel in Europe.

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs to attend the wedding of her granddaughter.

Un grupo de amigos alquila una magnífica casa en el mar para pasar el verano. La inesperada llegada de Shary, Diego y su hijo David, un muchacho enigmático y solitario, crea inmediatamente un clima de tensión y de incómodos silencios, que afecta especialmente a Matteo, un exitoso psicoanalista que está casado con Francesca. Las razones de esa embarazosa situación pronto empezarán a salir a la superficie. Y hasta tal punto que esas vacaciones marcarán la vida de todos.

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.

¿Qué siente un hombre cuándo lo abandona la mujer amada? ¿Y qué sucede cuando ese mismo hombredeja de estar enamorado y pone fin a una relación? El amor de Robert es un amor absoluto, de los que rompen el corazón o llenan la vida de alegría. Una historia de amor y pasión desde el punto de vista de un hombre.

Film sobre una de las figuras más controvertidas de la política italiana, el que fuera jefe del gobierno en siete ocasiones, Giulio Andreotti. Narra las presuntas relaciones de Andreotti con la mafia siciliana, delitos por los que fue procesado en los años 90 y absuelto por falta de pruebas.

Irena, una inmigrante ucraniana asentada en Italia hace muchos años, combina la vida cotidiana con los fantasmas del pasado, lo que da lugar a un inquietante rompecabezas. Tras sobrevivir a un viaje dramático, Irena fue víctima de hombres brutales y sin escrúpulos. Las humillaciones y malos tratos sufridos vuelven constantemente a su memoria y no le permiten vivir en paz. Sólo permanece en su memoria un recuerdo hermoso: el de un melancólico y desgarrador amor perdido.

Ernesto es un famoso pintor e ilustrador de cuentos para niños. Separado de su mujer, mantiene con su hijo una estrecha relación. Un día se entera de que a su madre la quieren beatificar. La noticia lo deja pasmado, no sólo por el hecho de que su familia se lo haya ocultado, sino también porque se trata de algo incompatible con sus ideas de artista libre y ateo. Sus familiares lo presionan para que participe en el proceso de beatificación e, inevitablemente surgen conflictos. Sin embargo, inesperadamente, el recuerdo de su madre y de su sonrisa harán que Ernesto reviva su pasado y cambie radicalmente su forma de vida.

During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.

This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The woman moves her nine children to Bologna, where their living conditions are deplorable. To avoid a hike in rent, she tells her landlady (Dominique Sanda) that she is living alone. Also known as To Save Nine (a curiously brief English-language title for a Wertmuller film!), IL Decimo Clandestino was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes for its theatrical release.

Piamonte (Italia), siglo XIX. Don Bosco, un sacerdote piamontés de humilde origen campesino, se entregó apasionadamente a la tarea de recoger de las calles de Turín a los muchachos abandonados y carentes de toda protección social. Tuvo que vencer mil obstáculos e insidias para crear albergues, escuelas y talleres, donde pudieran recibir una educación cristiana y cívica. La culminación de su obra fue la fundación de la Congregación Salesiana.

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.

Anna y Gordon viven juntos y se aman. Han decidido no tener hijos, porque están asustados por la amenaza de las bombas atómicas. Hasta que conocen a Malvina, una chica solitaria y nómada que está embarazada de seis meses. Un extraño afecto se desarrolla entre ellos, mezclado de tentaciones y deseos.

Anna y Gordon viven juntos y se aman. Han decidido no tener hijos, porque están asustados por la amenaza de las bombas atómicas. Hasta que conocen a Malvina, una chica solitaria y nómada que está embarazada de seis meses. Un extraño afecto se desarrolla entre ellos, mezclado de tentaciones y deseos.

The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.

En un pueblo italiano vive Piera, una mujer que carece de principios morales. Sus modales no están bien vistos entre sus vecinos. Cuando era pequeña acompañaba a su madre a sus citas con hombres y ella misma inicia una relación incestuosa con su propia hija. La ausencia de moral y de estabilidad familiar que han marcado su vida desde la niñez acabarán creándole problemas de salud.

En un pueblo italiano vive Piera, una mujer que carece de principios morales. Sus modales no están bien vistos entre sus vecinos. Cuando era pequeña acompañaba a su madre a sus citas con hombres y ella misma inicia una relación incestuosa con su propia hija. La ausencia de moral y de estabilidad familiar que han marcado su vida desde la niñez acabarán creándole problemas de salud.

En un pueblo italiano vive Piera, una mujer que carece de principios morales. Sus modales no están bien vistos entre sus vecinos. Cuando era pequeña acompañaba a su madre a sus citas con hombres y ella misma inicia una relación incestuosa con su propia hija. La ausencia de moral y de estabilidad familiar que han marcado su vida desde la niñez acabarán creándole problemas de salud.

While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a moment of madness, she steals her daughter’s lifetime savings. She even pawns her own car - , she’s willing to do anything to try to win… Her only wish is for her lotto number to be the winning one… She tries, and tries, and tries… Till the day when that lotto number gets drawn - is it the truth or has the gambling driven her crazy and she can’t distinguish between reality and a dream anymore?

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.

Adaptación de la tragedia griega de Eurípides en la que Pasolini muestra la trágica confrontación entre dos culturas incompatibles: el mundo mágico e irracional de Medea y el mundo racional de Jasón. Supuso la única incursión en el cine de la gran diva de la ópera Maria Callas.

Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current inhabitants of Island #2 to flee with them to a mainland.

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.

Pasquale y Maria están casados y viven en un palacio. No pagan alquiler, porque presuntamente está habitado por fantasmas. Un día, Pasquale encuentra comida y piensa que los responsables son los fantasmas, pero, en realidad, es el amante de María, un hombre muy rico, que la colma de regalos.