Gianluca Costamagna

Who was Joe D’amato- Aristide Massaccesi under his civil status? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms capable of making over 200 films while simultaneously holding the roles of producer, director, author, director of photography and even camera operator. An artisan of cinema as he liked to call himself, capable of working on all film genres. From spaghetti western to post-atomic, decamerotic to glossy eroticism, and blockbuster porn to bloody horror. Guided by the aesthetics of extremes and supported by an undeniable technical ability, Joe D’Amato pushed himself, and the viewer, beyond all limits following with dedication three rigid principles that have become his stylistic code: Amaze, Shock, Scandalize.

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.

Grávida e com câncer terminal, ela deixa 18 presentes emocionantes para a filha que vai nascer – um para cada aniversário até que fique adulta.

O corpo de Ciro está afundando nas águas escuras do Golfo de Nápoles. E à medida que se afunda cada vez mais, surgem memórias. Os sons abafados pela água se fundem com os gritos das pessoas que fogem. É 1980, a terra treme, o palácio desmorona, mas sob os escombros você pode ouvir o choro de um bebê recém-nascido ainda vivo. Dez anos depois, descobrimos que o bebê recém-nascido sobrevive como pode nas ruas de Nápoles, filho de ninguém. Memórias vívidas de uma educação criminal que fez dele o que ele é: Ciro Di Marzio, o Imortal.

Tommaso e Giuliano são amigos há 30 anos. Um vive no Canadá, o outro em Roma. Um é reservado, o outro extrovertido. Um tem medo de avião, o outro é capaz de improvisar uma viagem de ida e volta a Barcelona no mesmo dia. Quando Giuliano, gravemente doente, toma uma decisão irreversível, Tomasso supera o medo de voar e vai visitá-lo em Roma para passar quatro dias de amizade e compartilhar juntos. Os dois não estão sozinhos: com eles está o inseparável cachorro Duck.

A woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the recollection for the day of the funeral grow all around.

Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?

Em plena guerra, o professor Alberto Manzi exerce a profissão pela qual é apaixonado. Ele consegue lecionar em uma prisão juvenil, onde os detentos são completamente desacreditados. E é neste momento que se inicia sua jornada em prol do aprendizado.

On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.

The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

Five ordinary people disaffected with traditional politics -- a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict -- kidnap an elected politician and plan to donate the ransom money to the family of a blue-collar worker who died on the job.

Documentary on the village of Viganella, in the Piedmont Alps, and on its mirror that reflects the sunlight on the hamlet, which otherwise would not reach the valley.

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero".

In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village gossip. It took little to stoke the fire once lit, and no one was immune. One of the worst humiliations a man can suffer was to have an adulterous wife. A man so disgraced would bear the mark of shame, with all eyes of the community upon him. It was said that "his horns were sticking out" for all to see.

Three stories that provide an irony-laden analysis of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie and of small-time intellectualism and aspiration.

A documentary on the world of motor racing fans.