Claudio Amendola

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.

Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.

An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

A montage paying homage to old Cinepanettoni.

História de quatro detentos durante as suas 48 horas de licença, que conta a realidade de cada um deles e como foram levados para a prisão. Os personagens desta história são mostrados com realismo, com suas contradições, seus medos, seu desespero, a tentação de fugir, mas a base do filme está na sinceridade dos sentimentos positivos de cada um deles: o amor de um pai para seu filho, o amor por uma mulher, pelos amigos, mas acima de tudo a busca da dignidade pessoal e do orgulho perdido ou que talvez nunca tenha existido. Quatro personagens de idades e origens sociais diferentes, três homens e uma mulher: Luigi, Donato, Rossana e Ângelo.

História de quatro detentos durante as suas 48 horas de licença, que conta a realidade de cada um deles e como foram levados para a prisão. Os personagens desta história são mostrados com realismo, com suas contradições, seus medos, seu desespero, a tentação de fugir, mas a base do filme está na sinceridade dos sentimentos positivos de cada um deles: o amor de um pai para seu filho, o amor por uma mulher, pelos amigos, mas acima de tudo a busca da dignidade pessoal e do orgulho perdido ou que talvez nunca tenha existido. Quatro personagens de idades e origens sociais diferentes, três homens e uma mulher: Luigi, Donato, Rossana e Ângelo.

História de quatro detentos durante as suas 48 horas de licença, que conta a realidade de cada um deles e como foram levados para a prisão. Os personagens desta história são mostrados com realismo, com suas contradições, seus medos, seu desespero, a tentação de fugir, mas a base do filme está na sinceridade dos sentimentos positivos de cada um deles: o amor de um pai para seu filho, o amor por uma mulher, pelos amigos, mas acima de tudo a busca da dignidade pessoal e do orgulho perdido ou que talvez nunca tenha existido. Quatro personagens de idades e origens sociais diferentes, três homens e uma mulher: Luigi, Donato, Rossana e Ângelo.

Conhecido como Samurai, um gângster deseja transformar a orla de uma pequena cidade perto de Roma em uma nova Atlantic City, repleta de cassinos. Um político corrupto apaixonado por prostitutas e cocaína está protegendo o criminoso com a ajuda de um poderoso cardeal. Os chefes da máfia local concordam com o projeto e trabalham para esse objetivo em comum, porém, uma guerra entre as gangues parece acabar com os futuros sonhos de Samurai.

Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.

Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.

Garota de 16 anos, solitária e tímida, aceita convite para encontro com amigo que a inicia no sexo e em jogos sádicos. Devagar, ela se envolve com esse mundo e passa a ter encontros ousados com outros parceiros.

The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.

The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.

Filme retrata o desastre em Marcinelle, mostrando a incompetência e até descaso das autoridades. Ocorreu na manhã de 8 de agosto de 1956 na mina de carvão do Bois du Cazier em Marcinelle , na Bélgica . Um incêndio causado pela queima de óleo de alta pressão desencadeada por uma faísca elétrica. O fogo iniciou no duto de ar principal, encheu toda a instalação subterrânea de fumaça, causando a morte de 262 pessoas dos 275 presentes, principalmente emigrantes italianos . O acidente é o terceiro em número de baixas entre italianos no exterior após os desastres de Monongah e Dawson.

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.

The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.

Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.

Não existe personagem da história cuja vida tenha sido mostrada tantas vezes e de maneiras tão diferente a não ser Jesus de Nazaré. Apresenta um Jesus que cativa pela sua simplicidade, pela sua ternura, pelo seu modo de agir e pelo seu entusiasmo.

For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.

This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Filme de investigação que dá destaque à figura de Giuseppe Pelosi, assassino de Pier Paolo Pasolini. Mais do que uma memória do diretor e escritor, uma análise da pista alternativa sobre o caso Pasolini não teria sido um crime passional entre os homossexuais, mas o último ato de uma conspiração chocado por o poder de eliminar uma voz estranha, crítico em o governo. Mas no filme, a questão permanece, é claro, não resolvido.

When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.

In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.

Paris, Reino da França, 18 de agosto de 1572. A fim de evitar o início de uma guerra religiosa, a princesa católica Marguerite de Valois, irmã do fraco rei Carlos IX, casa com o rei huguenote Henrique III de Navarra.

Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?

The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.

Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.

The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before. He has to realize that his best friend Red has not only taken over control of the group, but also has started an affair with his girlfriend. The rivalry between the hot-blooded Principe and the sensible Red causes an anxious mood within the group. When Smilzo, a member of the group, dies during a street fight with another fan group, Red knows that Principe is to be blamed for this catastrophe.

O último e faminto herdeiro da família Sigognac deixa o castelo de seus ancestrais para acompanhar um grupo de atores itinerantes em direção ao castelo do rei. Sua vontade é tornar-se Barão de Sigognac, um verdadeiro senhor. Adaptação do romance de Théophile Gautier.

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.

Two families of the neapolitan camorra fight for the power.

Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...

Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.

A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.

In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.