Paolo De Vita

Amenazado por sus acreedores, un hombre que acaba de perder su trabajo acepta trabajar para un cobrador de deudas, pero pactar con el diablo tiene costes inesperados.

Sara, a young and diligent elementary school teacher, is about to marry Andrea, but two more men are competing for her. She needs a friendly hand to help her manage work, friends and love.

A bizarre group consisting of a refined chef with unusual recipes, an assistant cook with taste disturbances and an improvised pastry chef takes part in a competition between chefs to win the contract for the G7.

Chinese Whispers - a dead psychic is found in the trunk of a car and the uncles find briefcase full of dough ($).

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Cuatro historias independientes con un escenario común: la ciudad de Roma. En la primera, un matrimonio americano (Woody Allen y Judy Davis) viaja a italia para conocer a la familia del prometido de su hija. En la segunda, un italiano (Roberto Benigni) es confundido con una estrella de cine. En la tercera, un arquitecto californiano (Alec Baldwin) visita Roma con sus amigos, y en la cuarta, unos reción casados (Alessandro Tiberi y Alessandra Mastronardi) se pierden en la capital italiana, a la que han ido a visitar a unos familiares.

Inglaterra Isabelina, siglo XVI. El film plantea una cuestión que, durante siglos, han debatido académicos y grandes escritores desde Mark Twain y Charles Dickens hasta Henry James y Sigmund Freud: ¿quién fue el autor de las obras de teatro atribuidas tradicionalmente a William Shakespeare? Se han escrito muchos libros y se han barajado muchas hipótesis al respecto, entre ellas la que ofrece Anonymous. La Inglaterra Isabelina fue un época de intrigas, de amoríos cortesanos ilícitos, de conspiraciones promovidas por una nobleza ávida de poder; y todo ello quedaba reflejado en el lugar más inesperado: el teatro londinense.

Young laborer Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry Cinzia, his lifelong fiancée. His uncertain feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, engaged in the renovation of a house in Trastevere, he comes across Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by her lifestyle, light-years away from his.

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

Cuando Jan decide casarse con su novia Sara, no está al tanto de su oponente: su padre, que es italiano...

An italian transposition of the S. S.. Van Dine novel.

Fabio's work consists in helping ex prisoners to find their way in the outside world, but his quite life changes after he meets Mr Sparti, now he has to fight his own ghosts.

Crónica sobre la emigración italiana durante el siglo XX a través de las experiencias de los Mancuso, una familia siciliana que, en 1900 parte de Agrigento con destino a los Estados Unidos. Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), sus hijos y su madre, Donna Fortunata (Aurora Quattrocchi), deberán enfrentarse a un mundo nuevo muy diferente al que habían imaginado...

Esta película relata la historia de San Antonio de Padua, figura extraordinaria y carismática del año 1200 hasta su muerte. Tras sobrevivir de un naufragio, se convierte en sospechoso de ser el portador de un tesoro que garantiza la riqueza y la felicidad perpetua. Una vida apasionante y llena de aventuras, aunque siempre en pro de la defensa de los oprimidos, combatiendo la usura y el abuso de poder.

Una sombra permanece quieta y solitaria en un laboratorio. Es un hombre con aspecto abatido, volcado sobre su escritorio y su cara está pintada demencialmente con pintalabios. Y es así como encuentran el cádaver del que parece será uno de los casos más díficiles para el veteran inspector Maigret.

El inspector Maigret tiene que resolver el caso del asesinato de cinco mujeres, prostitutas en su mayoría, a manos de un asesino en serie. Debido a la destreza en el uso de armas blancas, Maigret supone que el asesino es un cirujano. (FILMAFFINITY)

A Donatello award winning short film about the Archangel Tarturro who declares that he will learn to play the cymbals - a skill he acquires, even if he is not quite as good as the other members of his band.

Elena, a young trainee psychiatrist, dreams of bringing "mad" people back to a normal life; she makes them talk, she provokes and incites them in the hope of finding the distinguishing signs of normality. Fausto is a boy judged "mad", who has been hospitalized against his will several times, an extrovert musician, he shows clear signs of normality.

Historia de una familia italiana desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días. Dos hermanos, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) y Matteo (Alessio Boni), comparten las mismas esperanzas, los mismos sueños; disfrutan de los mismos libros y de los mismos amigos hasta que conocen a una chica desequilibrada, Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), que perturba su destino. Mientras Nicola ejerce como psicólogo, Matteo abandona sus estudios e ingresa en el cuerpo de policía.

Maria es una niña italiana nacida a finales del siglo XIX, que pertenecía a una familia muy humilde. Un sacerdote los ayudó bastante, de manera que Maria se hace muy católica, pues ve que la Iglesia ayuda a su familia. A pesar de ser pobre, lo cierto es que Maria es una adolescente muy guapa, por lo que un chico que trabajaba con ella se enamoró perdidamente. Él la buscaba constantemente, pero había prometido morir antes que cometer un pecado. Un día que estaba sola, el chico aprovechó la circunstancia para intentar llevarse a María a una habitación, con la finalidad de forzarla. Ella se negó, por lo que recibió catorce puñaladas, que causaron su muerte un día después. Con el tiempo, la Iglesia la convirtió en santa, siendo venerada por muchos italianos en la actualidad. A su fama contribuyó que su madre defendiera al asesino de su hija cuando éste salió de la cárcel, afirmando que si su hija y Dios lo habían perdonado, ella también lo hacía.

Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he's double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife for, who runs off with the money while he gets arrested. In prison, Guido is forcefully involved in the escape plans of two lifers, an old Moroccan and a Turkish gangster. Once out, he plans to find Antonella, who has since become a TV reporter, but things get complicated...

Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from those he considered his friends. Luisa and Mariano have nothing in common except for a deep sense of the failure they are experiencing and which attracts them to each other. Between the young woman, exploited and disillusioned by an ambitious colleague, and the mature ex-criminal, the spark of friendship is kindled.

En una pequeña ciudad del Norte de Italia, vive apaciblemente una familia formada por los padres (Giovanni y Paola) y dos hijos adolescentes: Irene, la mayor, y Andrea, el pequeño. Giovanni es psicoanalista. En su consulta, situada al lado de su apartamento, sus pacientes le confían sus neurosis, que contrastan con la calma de su propia existencia. Su vida se rige por una serie de costumbres o aficiones: leer, escuchar música, aislarse y agotarse haciendo largas carreras por la ciudad. Un domingo por la mañana, un paciente llama a Giovanni por una urgencia. No puede salir a correr con su hijo tal y como le había propuesto; Andrea sale a bucear con sus amigos, pero no volverá...

by joseph sargent

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.

For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.

Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names.

The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.

La bella y joven Francesca se ha quedado viuda con una hija pequeña. Para pagar las deudas de su marido, ha de vender todos los objetos de valor que posee. Tanto esfuerzo es para poder pagar el piso en el que vive y el colegio de la niña. Sin embargo, dado que sus problemas económicos no acaban ahí, decide rifarse como amante entre los hombres más ricos que la desean.

The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.