Victor Cavallo

Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in his private life. The jail director entrusts her with the task to try re-educating Graziano, a young Sardinian sentenced for a kidnapping of which he always proclaimed himself to be innocent. Regina is way too much mature and lonely not to feel intrigued by the mysterious personality of the illiterate shepherd, who expresses himself only in his almost unintelligible Sardinian dialect.

A David di Donatello-winning short film about a junkyard keeper, in love with the portrait of the Mona Lisa, who is charged with teaching a young Slavic girl the tools of a much less honourable trade...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

A family of Polish immigrants tries to build a new life in Rome.

14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silvia and an absent father. One day, his four-year-old sister Domitilla accidentally pricks her finger on one of Silvia's used needles without her noticing. Seeking advice on the Internet, Siddharta is told to have her tested for hepatitis and AIDS. Thus he embarks on a odyssey of medical bureaucracy and both kind and uncaring adults.

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.

A week in the life of Claudia e Francesca and all their friends.

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

Franco is tired of his life as a shopkeeper in Rome and decides to leave his wife and daughter to begin a new life in Tunisia.

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.

Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry.

Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.

자신만의 원칙을 철저히 지키려 노력하며 사는 홀아비 마테오 스크로(마르첼로 마스트로이안니 분)는 퇴직을 하고 연금을 받으며 시칠리아 섬에 있는 카스텔베트라노에 살고 있다. 그는 언제나 죽은 아내 안젤라와 오래 전부터 이탈리아 전역에 흩어져 살고 있는 다섯 명의 자식들을 그리워한다. 그러나 휴가철이 되어도 자식들이 고향인 시칠리아에 오지 않자 자신이 직접 그들을 만나러 가기로 결심한다. 하지만 여행을 하면서 실망과 회한만 느끼게 된다. 그가 처음으로 간 곳은 아들 알바로가 가 있는 나폴리이다. 마테오는 아들이 차기 국회의원 정도의 위치에 있는 줄 알았으나, 실제로는 어느 국회의원 밑에서 자료나 수집해 주는 일을 하고 있다. 다음에는 피렌체로 가서 예쁜 용모를 가진 딸 토스카를 만난다. 마테오의 생각으로는 딸이 유명한 배우가 되어 있어야 하는데, 실제로는 속옷 광고의 사진 모델을 하고 있고, 게다가 아비 없는 자식까지 기르고 있다. 그리고 밀라노에서는 교향악단에서 베이스 드럼을 연주하며 음악가로서의 길을 걷고 있지만, 자신의 직업에 만족하지 못하는 아들 굴리엘모를 만난다. 마지막으로 토리노에서는 전화국의 중역이 된 줄로 알고 있었던 노르마를 만나지만, 노르마 역시 전보를 치는 일을 하는 일개 직원일 뿐이고 결혼 생활도 파탄 지경에 이르러 있다. 자식들 모두 고향에서 외로운 홀로 생활을 하고 있는 노부에게 심려를 끼치지 않기 위해 잘 지낸다고, 일도 가정도 모두 평탄하다고 속여왔고, 자식들의 말을 곧이곧대로 믿은 마테오는 자식들이 그렇게 힘들게 살고 있는 줄은 꿈에도 몰랐던 것이다. 쓰라린 마음을 안고 고향인 시칠리아로 돌아 온 마테오는 그토록 사랑했던 아내의 무덤에 찾아가 낮은 목소리로 이야기 한다. “모두 잘 지내고 있다오.”

Burro is the surname of a simple-mind boy. He lives in a little village in Emilia Romagna (north of Italy). He fallen in love for the picture of an actress (!) and transfers his love to every girls he meets. More, he is orphan and is afflicted with his father figure.

A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?

Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.

Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their differences they share accommodation. Paolo runs an “alternative” kind of library; Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully, when suddenly Paolo falls in love with one of his a customers - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn’t react well to the fact he’s got to share with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea - he flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she’s attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attraction of Carlo. This love triangle ends when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels guilty and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.

The emotional interplay between an arguing couple, in love but not happy with their relationship, is meant to be the sustaining force in this crime drama with little other action. Thomas (Christophe Malavoy) has been blackmailed into carrying a shipment of explosives in his Peugeot to Egypt, where the devices will be forwarded to guerrillas on Cyprus. He brings his lover Veronique (Victoria Abril) along for the dangerous ride from Switzerland to the south, knowing the explosives can be easily detonated by accident and enemy agents as well as government agents are out to capture him. Both protagonists have a short fuse themselves, and as they separate and then come back together, their final destination looms ever closer in more ways than one.

매혹의 눈빛과 달빛 같은 미소를 갖은 여인 로레타. 그녀는 핏자국의 기억속에서 몸부림 치는 한 사나이의 생의 비극을 멈추게 하려고 하는데...

Andrea, a nice girl, move from Veneto (north of Italy) to Roma. She is employed as a nurse in a medical practice. She soon is involved in a never-ending game of misunderstanding, couples exchange, sexual seductions.

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.

Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them to reflect on themselves and the loss of values in life.