Pasquale Catalano

Mimì is an orphaned teenager born with deformed feet who works at a pizzeria in Naples. One fateful day, he meets Carmilla, a young girl convinced she is a descendant of Count Dracula. Together, they decide to escape the cynical and violent world they live in.

Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.

Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an opportunity to discuss their abruptly interrupted relationship. Suspended between a past that made them happy and a present that oscillates between resentment and a desire for love, Salvo and Lea travel on a night that seems to have no end.

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

¿Cuánto tiempo se necesita para enamorar a alguien? Y una vez conquistada a la mujer de tus sueños, ¿Cómo hacer para que siga a tu lado? ¿Y podría una espectacular mujer caer a los pies de un torpe y tímido?

A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century. His subjects, who are some of the biggest stars of Hollywood and the fashion world, provide testimonials.

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.

Mario Cavallaro is 50 and lives in the same district of always in Milano and fears changes until arrives Oba, a Senegalese seller of socks so he decides to kidnap Oba and take him back to Senegal.

Mussolini reaparece en Roma 72 años después de su muerte, encontrando un país todavía lleno de problemas como el racismo y el odio hacia los políticos. Disfrazado para un actor, se pone del lado de un joven cineasta y comienza a viajar por Italia para reconquistarlo.

Nápoles es una ciudad misteriosa cuyos palacios y callejuelas sirven de telón de fondo para una historia oscura de amor perdido y recuerdos reprimidos.

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!

Giovanni and Anna are a married couple in their sixties who have lived together all their lives, with honestly and dignity. However, in the past few years the economic crisis has hit town and work, Anna has not been able to keep up her payments and she has accumulated a debt with the tax authorities. For Giovanni and Anna this marks the beginning of an inexorable ordeal which will lead them to lose first their home, then their work, and ultimately their privacy.

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.

Fausto y Nadine se reúnen por primera vez en los pasillos de un gran hotel en París, descubriéndose frágiles, solos y obsesionados con una idea de la felicidad que parece inalcanzable. Fausto es italiano, pero vive, o más bien sobrevive, en París, con la esperanza de que algún día la vida le ofrecerá algo mejor que trabajar como camarero. Nadine es una joven francesa de conmovedora belleza. Después de reunirse, perderán, se amarán y sufrirán.

Una Roma repleta de políticos, malhechores, figuras de las instituciones, eclesiásticos y mafiosos que, en lugar de verse perjudicados por los escándalos de corrupción, aumentan de manera exponencial: “una gangster movie que refleja el final de una era, de un mundo político y un mundo criminal que se está convirtiendo en otra cosa, aún no sabemos bien en qué, y que, por tanto, se agita dejando a su paso restos de sangre a la espera de una especie de nuevo orden”, lo define el director. Un gran proyecto inmobiliario que inundará de cemento la periferia de la ciudad sirve de trasfondo para relatar la historia de un político y el hijo de un constructor sin escrúpulos.

En el año 2000, a partir de la mirada más que de la palabra nace la atracción entre los dos jóvenes protagonistas, la camarera Elena y el mecánico Antonio, rudo, racista, homófobo y lleno de tatuajes, que la chica roba a su mejor amiga. La historia da un salto de trece años. La atracción se ha convertido en una relación estable. Están casados y tienen dos hijos. Él ha ganado peso y es incapaz de una relación madura, por lo que la traiciona. Ella dirige una discoteca de éxito, es ambiciosa. Un día descubre que tiene cáncer de mama. Le rodea el cariño y afecto de su amigo homosexual Fabio, su madre Anna y la extravagante compañera de ésta. Sin embargo, tendrá que luchar contra la enfermedad con la duda de si su marido sabrá ayudarla.

Three very different women who are hiding a secret are forced to work together to save their own skin.

A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

Basada en el best-seller homónimo del escritor canadiense Mordecai Richler. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), un viejo productor de televisión, aficionado a la bebida y fanático del hockey, lleva una vida bastante caótica. Se ha casado tres veces, tiene un padre extravagante (Dustin Hoffman) y un amigo encantador (Scott Speedman).

Tommaso es el más joven de la numerosa y excéntrica familia Cantone, dueña de una fábrica de pasta en una ciudad italiana de provincias. Su madre es una mujer encantadora pero asfixiada por las convenciones burguesas; su padre tiene unas expectativas desorbitadas sobre sus hijos; su hermana es un ama de casa frustrada; su hermano trabaja con su padre en la fábrica; y su rebelde abuela vive atrapada en el recuerdo de un amor imposible. Tommaso, que aspira a ser escritor, vuelve a casa para una importante cena familiar en la que su padre les cederá la dirección de la fábrica a su hermano y a él. Resuelto a defender sus elecciones personales, planea revelar en la cena su homosexualidad.

Sonia es una emigrante en Italia de origen esloveno que limpia habitaciones en un hotel de Turín, y que acude a un lugar de citas rápidas para encontrar pareja. Allí conocerá a Guido, un ex policía convertido ahora en guardia de seguridad de una mansión de lujo en medio del campo.

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

Lugano, Suiza. Titta Di Girolamo es un hombre discreto y huraño que vive desde hace casi una década en una modesta habitación de hotel, prisionero de una rutina atroz, aparentemente sin propósito. Su pasado es un misterio, nadie sabe a qué se dedica, responde con evasivas a preguntas indiscretas. ¿Qué secretos esconde este hombre enigmático?

A camorrista follows a surreal path.

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.