Roberto De Francesco

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.

20세기 초, 벨 에포크(the Belle Époque)의 나폴리에서는 극장과 영화관이 증가하고 있다. 위대한 코미디언 에두아르도 스카페타는 흥행왕이다. 성공은 그를 매우 부유한 사람으로 만들었다. 그의 태생에서 비롯한 겸손함으로, 그는 그의 희극과 나폴리 관객들의 가슴에서 풀치넬라를 대신할 펠리체 스키오시아모카의 가면과 캐릭터로 현장에 자신을 확고히 했다. 20세기 초 나폴리 출신의 위대한 코미디 배우이자 극작가인 에두아르도 스카페타에 관한 영화이다.

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

안토니오는 나폴리 마피아가 지배하는 도시 리오네 사니타의 시장으로 군림 한다. 어느 날, 자신의 아버지를 향한 복수심으로 가득 찬 한 청년이 찾아오면서 예기치 않은 사건은 시작된다. 유명 희곡작가 에두아르도 데 필리포의 원작이 마리오 마르토네 감독의 탁월한 재해석과 미장센으로 새롭게 태어났다.

참전을 눈앞에 둔 1914년의 이탈리아. 카프리섬의 순박한 양치기 소녀 루치아는 카프리에서 이상향을 만들고자 하는 코뮨과 가까워지며 자유와 주체성에 눈을 뜨기 시작한다. 아름다운 카프리의 풍광을 배경으로 중견거장 마리오 마르토네의 카메라에 담긴 20세기 초 격동의 이탈리아.

재계 서열 1위, 미디어 장악, AC밀란 전 구단주, 망언 제조기까지. 이탈리아를 현혹시킨 최악의 이슈 메이커 실비오 베를루스코니는 정치 스캔들에 연루돼 총리직에서 사퇴한 뒤, 재기를 위한 발판을 마련하기 위해 개인 별장에 머무른다. 연예 기획자 세르조 모라는 실비오 베를루스코니의 권력을 통해 인생 역전을 꿈꾸며 그에게 접근한다. 성공을 향한 욕망으로 뒤틀린 두 남자는 자신의 목적을 이루기 위해 수단과 방법을 가리지 않고 폭주하는데...

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.

A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.

In Torino, a bittersweet crowd is bringing its own belongings to a pawn shop, waiting for a ransom or the final auction. Between the thousands of faces that tell the human inventory of the crisis, three stories intertwine unconsciously in the thin line of moral debt. Sandra, a young trans, in order to escape her past sells her fur coat. Her gaze will cross Stefano’s, a novice who just started working at the bank, and who drags her towards a tender obsession. Michele, a retired porter, asks for a loan to a family member, who will turn out to be fatally the wrong person to ask a favour from.

어머니의 수수께끼 같은 죽음으로 목가적이던 유년기가 산산조각 난 지 근 30년, 마시모는 부모님의 아파트를 처분하려 한다. 과거의 정신적 충격에서 헤어나지 못하는 그를 동정한 의사 엘리사는 그가 마음을 열고 유년기의 상처를 직면하도록 돕는다. 거장의 시네필적 감성이 충만한 영화.

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”.

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

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

교황의 급사로 새로운 교황을 선출한다. 새로운 교황 멜빌은 선언 연설(HABEMUS PAPAM)을 거부하고, 바티칸 교황청서 도망친다. 당황한 교황청 대변인은 경비병에게 교황 행세를 대신하게 한다. 잃어버린 시간을 찾아 나선 교황은, 진실한 소망과 소명의 참다운 가치를 발견한다. 전세계인들이 고대해 온, 진정한 휴머니티와 감동이 이제 시작된다!

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...

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who happens to shoot: with their children, Juliana and Roberto, and his sister, aunt Meme. Meanwhile, his wife Rosa is dedicated to the preparation of the sauce, which she will serve for Sunday's lunch, to which she invited the neighbors, the accountant Ianniello and his wife.

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.

정신과 의사 지오반니는 사랑하는 아내와 남매를 둔 단란한 가족의 가장. 그러나 평온했던 그의 가정에도 아들인 안드레아가 스킨 스쿠버를 하다가 익사하면서 파란이 닥친다. 아들을 돌보지 못한 자신을 질책하는 지오반니, 히스테릭하게 변해가는 아내 파올라와 딸 이렌느 등 붕괴 직전에 몰린 가족은 안드레아의 여자친구가 이들을 방문하면서 안정을 찾기 시작한다.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemployed gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and Giulio also become love rivals.

Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemployed gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and Giulio also become love rivals.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

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.

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

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.

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

Stefania Sandrelli is Evelina, a separated woman who lives with possessive teenage children. When you fall in love, problems arise.

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his own involvement in the youth protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.