Maurizio Donadoni

Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths of the three will intertwine in a dangerous love triangle that will change the course of their lives forever.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his legacy. This singular contribution to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre tells of a humanity in crisis, while at the same time conveying the adventurous spirit of adolescence.

A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.

O escritor Martin Eden entra em conflito com a burguesia. Encarando o novo, ele se apaixona e descobre como autores são vistos na sociedade aristocrática, enquanto se questiona sobre sua própria natureza como criador.

Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.

Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.

Rosario é um homem que assassinou 32 pessoas, ganhou poder e depois se sentiu acuado, porque muitas pessoas queriam matá-lo. Em uma manhã ele desapareceu. Por anos, todos acreditaram que ele estava morto. Porém, ele vivia numa pequena pousada perto de Frankfurt. Quando o passado retorna com a chegada de dois italianos à pousada, Rosario é obrigado a acertar as contas com ele.

Um número primo é inerentemente uma coisa solitária: só pode ser dividido por si próprio ou por um; nunca encaixa verdadeiramente com outro. Alice e Mattia também se movem nos seus próprios eixos, sozinhos com as suas tragédias pessoais de infância. Mas à medida que vão entrando na idade adulta, os seus destinos parecem irrevogavelmente ligados...

O pobre, bondoso e solitário carpinteiro Gepetto esculpe um boneco e o chama de Pinóquio. Para sua alegria, a fada azul dá vida ao menino de madeira e transforma a vida do bom velho. Cabe a um grilo falante orientar Pinóquio a viver os valores que seu pai ensina, mas mesmo assim o garoto de coração de madeira insiste em mentir e se meter em confusões.

The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the regime until the very end. Accused of collaborationism and torture, they were summarily executed by Partisans during the Liberation.

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.

Investigando a morte de uma jovem mulher, um inspetor de polícia se vê explorando o lado tórrido e misterioso da vida noturna da Roma. Esta investigação acabará se tornando uma obsessão, levando-o a arrastar seu próprio companheiro para um jogo perverso...

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?

The story of Eugenio, young soldier of the Napoleonic army, in the Napoli of 1815 after the era of Gioacchino Murat.

Mais do que uma biografia, Nero é a recriação de um período de mudanças radicais vividas por Roma durante o governo de um dos seus mais famosos e enigmáticos líderes. Durante os 31 anos em que comandou o imbatível Império Romano, Nero enfrentou poderosos inimigos externos, além da inveja dentro de sua própria família, que fez de tudo para destruí-lo. Quando criança, cresceu entre homens e mulheres escravas, e acabou se apaixonando por uma delas. Mas quando chamado pelo dever, o jovem é obrigado a abrir mão de seu amor, para assumir o poder e se casar com alguém à altura de suas raízes nobres. Depois de proclamado imperador, a loucura passa tomar conta do novo líder, colocando em risco todo o Império Romano.

Ernesto é um pintor reconhecido, ilustrador de histórias infantis, separado de sua esposa Irene, pai do pequeno Leonardo que ele está profundamente ligado. Ele aprende a partir da misteriosa Don Pugni, Secretário do igualmente enigmático Cardinal Piumini que a Igreja quer para santificar sua mãe. Ernesto fica chocado com esta notícia, não só porque ele percebe que tem sido mantido no escuro sobre sua família, mas também porque este evento está em completa oposição a sua vida artística, de Freeman e ateu. Dentro de algumas horas, as pressões e os passos que ele participa do processo de beatificação se intensifica. Conflitos explodir. A memória de sua mãe e seu sorriso induz uma confusão que vai empurrá-lo a reconsiderar seu passado e viver o presente de forma diferente.

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby (Blue) must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local Italians, and he meets Wanda (Bobulova), a beautiful local girl who helps him learn Italian so he can escape. Slowly, their small friendship turns into a romance, but with the Germans looking for Eric, they are kept apart, not knowing what will happen.

In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.

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.

A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.

In a sordid account of mutual charity, an alcoholic doctor tries to make a captive heroin addict kick her self-destructive behavior — and vice-versa.

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

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend themselves. The police and all the other prostitutes agree with the four and the hunting is open. Who is the cruel killer?

The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing His divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with His mother Mary, Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life.

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.

Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.

Antonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved daughter When Emilia announces to him one day that she has decided to get married, Antonio is filled with joy, he can finally fulfill his dream by giving her the reception they have always dreamed of together being able to count on the savings of a lifetime.However, the bank of which he has always been a client seems to be hiding something, the employees are suddenly elusive and the director inexplicably changes constantly.The task of paying for his daughter's wedding will prove increasingly difficult and Antonio will discover, against his will, that those who keep our treasures don't always keep our dreams as well.