Iaia Forte

Cuando Alessandra y Emilio se mudan a la ciudad dejando solos a sus padres Carlo y Anna, la vida cambia para todos. En unos meses, los hijos se olvidan de sus padres: algunas llamadas telefónicas, cumpleaños perdidos, funerales perdidos. Pero la gota que colmó el vaso para estos padres es saber que sus hijos no estarán presentes en Navidad. La pareja enfadada y desesperada hace un último esfuerzo: pretenden haber heredado seis millones de euros de una tía anciana. Dinero para comprar afecto.

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.

Peppino, un sicario retirado de la Camorra, ahora ha transmitido completamente su trabajo y conocimientos a su hijo soltero, Nino. Pero cuando Nino es brutalmente asesinado, el anciano vuelve al negocio para vengarse. Aparte de su amor eterno Rita y su secuaz Totò desde hace mucho tiempo, Peppino hará todo lo posible, incluso si eso significa derribar la Camorra.

Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.

Matteo es un joven emprendedor con tanto éxito como tan pocos prejuicios, fascinante y dinámico. Su hermano Ettore todavía vive como profesor de escuela en el pueblo en que ambos nacieron. Es un hombre cauto e íntegro que se esfuerza por no cometer errores dando siempre un paso atrás, hacia la sombra. Todo lo que separan dos personalidades aparentemente opuestas habrá de superarse a raíz de una difícil situación que aproximará a los dos hermanos, obligándolos a conocerse y descubrir el vínculo que los une, en un vórtice de fragilidad y ternura, miedo y euforia.

Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.

Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn’t so easy. Claudia is unwilling to let go and forget the life she’s built with Flavio, while Flavio, eager to move on, soon finds himself in a relationship with a much younger woman. Claudia soon reconnects with Nina, a student from her days as a professor.

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble.

Relata la maravillosa creación y la durísima y corta vida de Giacomo Leopardi, gran poeta de la Italia del siglo XVIII. Condicionado por sus terribles padecimientos corporales, Leopardi transita desde la Recanati de la biblioteca paterna hasta la Nápoles del cólera, dejando una obra tan personal como trascendente.

In Puglia, a cooperative wants to farm the land confiscated from a Mafioso, as it is legally entitled to do. But things are moving slowly. So the members of the cooperative turn to Filippo, who belongs to an anti-mafia organisation with its headquarters in the north. Filippo arrives in Puglia and realises that everyone, starting with the carabinieri, is taking huge liberties with the law.

Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idolatric.

Inspired by the novel by Aldo Nove, this is the dramatic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.

Una historia ambientada en la ciudad de Roma. Se trata de un retrato desde la mirada de Jap Gambardella, un periodista de 65 años, que regresa a la ciudad en la que nació para recuperar sus recuerdos y esencia juveniles, y con ello reflejar la brillantez, hermosura y variedad de la capital italiana.

Irene tiene 30 años y vive sola en una casa junto al mar, no muy lejos de Roma. Bajo el nombre en clave de MIELE, ayuda en secreto a morir dignamente a las personas que se encuentran en fase terminal y quieren hacer más corta su lucha contra la muerte, dándoles un potente barbitúrico. Un día le facilita una de esas dosis mortales a un nuevo "cliente", el Sr. Grimaldi. Para su sorpresa, descubre que está perfectamente sano y que quiere utilizar el fármaco para poner fin a sus días, después de haber perdido el interés por la vida. Grimaldi, de 70 años, cree que ha vivido suficiente. Decidida a no ser responsable del suicidio, Irene hará todo lo posible por evitarlo.

Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero receives the proposal to conduct a broadcast in Rome. Accepted the offer, he goes to the capital, where he will meet the famous Tatia Cortès, an irrepressible showgirl...

An italian short comedy

Alfredo es arquitecto. Susana es psicóloga. Gente educada e idealista. Cincuentañeros de aspecto joven e inteligentes. Viven en Roma, pero pasan sus fines de semana y gran parte de sus veranos en su casa de campo. Un día, mientras conduce hacia al pueblo cercano a su casa de campo, Susana queda conmocionada por la visión de una joven prostituta humillada y golpeada por un hombre al borde de la carretera. En un instante, las vidas de de Susana y Alfredo cambian cuando esta decide salvar a la chica...

On the day she learns of her pregnancy, a woman also finds out that her husband is sterile.

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly left by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in a flat in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political activism.

The true natures of love, commitment, and reality are called into question in this offbeat drama. One night in bed, Tomas (Tomas Arana), a magician, begins telling a story to his wife Desire (Marit Nissen) about Emma (Iaia Forte) and Sal (Tommaso Ragno), a married couple whose love life has gone stale. In order to fire up their relationship, Emma and Sal begin playing an increasingly elaborate series of role-playing games, in which they assume different personas -- Sal saves Emma as she is tied to railroad tracks, or Emma must seduce another man to pull her husband out of debt. But the question soon arises -- are Emma and Sal real? And who really holds the power in their lives? Chimera also features Franco Nero as one of the participants in Emma and Sal's sexual fantasies.

The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

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.

Última película de Marco Ferreri, un director inclasificable. Se trata de un personal homenaje al séptimo arte que revive la historia del cine y su evolución técnica y artística durante sus más de 100 años de historia. Pone, sobre todo, de manifiesto la extraordinaria influencia que ha ejercido y ejerce sobre los corazones y la mente de los espectadores.

Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who possesses a magic lamp, which he uses to free her "shadow self." This doppelganger is Luna's polar opposite, whose presence poses both a problem and an opportunity for Luna.

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we can follow among fantasy, mythology and reality the absurd life of the protagonists.

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.

This high-energy three part comedy has a strong undercurrent of melancholy, as it shows three different women coping with difficult situations which are usually sexual in origin, even if the moment of romance is long past. In the first tale, Aurora has gotten used to a cozy, wealthy life, but begins to see her world destroyed when her husband is caught in bed with his secretary. Later, he flees the country to avoid getting arrested for something else he has done. Carmela is just welcoming her wayward son back to their slum home after he has spent a stint in "reform" school. Not only has he just confessed to her that he's gay, but he has become a heroin addict.Finally, Libera works at a newsstand outside of Naples as the sole breadwinner for her family. She is tired of her husband lounging in their house when he is not out tomcatting around with prostitutes, and decides to do something about it. So she secretly has him filmed in bed, and is marketing the tapes at her newsstand.

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making it... The only thing they all have in common is the place where they live.

Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exile. Short in a medieval setting, between ancient villages and naturalistic locations, focused on power conflicts: political, religious and gender.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.

María es una camarera que vive en Nueva York. Está recién casada y no es muy brillante para los negocios. Un día, recibe una llamada de su marido, que le pide que se tome el próximo avión a Florencia porque se han hecho ricos. Sin embargo, cuando llega a Italia, no encuentra a su marido por ninguna parte. Se alía con un abogado a quien conoce al llegar a Italia y de mala gana deja que se convierta en su aliado y protector, mientras buscan a su esposo desaparecido.

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

Alba has Down syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca Trapanese, gay and Catholic.