Maurizio Calvesi

An unlucky in love woman meets an unlikely guardian angel that comes to her in the form of a real-life porn star.

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.

What if you could answer any question and eliminate all doubts before making the most important decision of your life? What if, by some sort of magic, you could live your life pursuing your wildest and deepest desires? That’s what’s about to happen to Andrea, a thirty-year-old man on the eve of his wedding with Laura, the girl he met in college and with whom he built a life together. Andrea starts waking up everyday in a different life and a different self, in realities where he and Laura never got together in the first place. Exploring the many paths his life could have lead him on to, from unapologetic womanizer to acclaimed musician, Andrea will have to face the void Laura’s absence left in his many different “iterations”. Will he try to break the spell?

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.

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…

Dj Steph is a young radio deejay on the rise, who gained a lot of popularity on social media and every evening hosts a radio show with a large following, during which he receives calls from his fans. One evening, a call chills him to the bone: a cold-blooded stranger announces on live radio that he plans to take his own life, making himself explode in the middle of the city.

A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.

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 group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material.

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.

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.

Roberto Salus (Toni Servillo) é um carismático monge que foi convidado para participar de uma reunião com ministros de finanças em um luxuoso hotel na costa do Báltica. Mas quem convidou o frade para a reunião? E quem matou um dos financiadores que tinham planos radicais de mudar a ordem econômica mundial?

O longa se passa nos anos 1990, na periferia de Roma, o hedonismo parece reinar. Um mundo que gira em torno do dinheiro, da luxúria, das casas noturnas e das drogas. Vittorio e Cesare, com apenas 20 anos, procuram sucesso em meio a esse cenário. Porém, ser iniciado nesse meio tem seu custo e Vittorio abandona Cesare para se salvar. Os laços que unem os jovens é tão forte que eles não se separam de fato, apesar de Cesare estar se afundando com a partida do amigo, mas Vittorio imagina um futuro para eles. Juntos.

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble.

Three very different women who are hiding a secret are forced to work together to save their own skin.

A candidatura do secretário principal do partido da oposição, Enrico Oliveri (Toni Servillo), não esta indo tão bem quanto planejada. Uma noite, após um debate, ele desaparece. Seu assessor e sua esposa dão início a uma busca sobre o porquê do desaparecimento e se mais alguém esta envolvido nessa história. De repente, o secretário reaparece, agindo de forma diferente. Suas atitudes surpreendem a todos e fazem a cotação do partido subir. Tudo vai bem até que alguém resolve segui-lo.

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

Tommaso é parte da tradicional família Cantone, proprietária de uma fábrica de massas no sul da Itália. Ele viaja de Roma, onde almeja uma carreira de escritor, para uma reunião com todos. Seu irmão será anunciado como eleito para tocar os negócios da família e Tommaso pretende aproveitar a ocasião para contar a todos sobre sua homossexualidade. Mas ele não esperava que seu irmão Antônio tomaria a dianteira e comunicaria aos familiares que também é homossexual.

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klára. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires, setting in motion a series of out-of-control events.

An ancient legend becomes a predicament to the faith of two lovers coming from very different cultural, religious and social backgrounds.

Promiscuous teenager Chiara gets herself and her equally debauched peers embroiled in a drug ring run by a dirty cop.

Antonio's first day as a thief is marked by tears. During an incursion at the mall, his mother is arrested. Some 20 years later, Antonio along with his two inseparable friends, after some minor robberies, take on a post office. Things don't go as planned.

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family – whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands – fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

Jeremy Taylor (Joshua Jackson) é um jovem escritor que está à procura de seu ídolo, Weldon Parish (Harvey Keitel). Parish vive atualmente recluso, decisão que tomou após passar por um grave bloqueio criativo. Jeremy consegue encontrá-lo no interior da Itália e, após uma resistência inicial, consegue se aproximar e tornar-se seu amigo. Parish passa então a lhe dar ensinamentos para que possa lapidar seu talento, ao mesmo tempo em que Jeremy se apaixona por Isabella (Claire Forlani), filha de seu mestre.

A period drama, set in 1946, about a village harbouring dark secrets.

Matt Benson é um agente do FBI que é enviado para Sicília, na Itália, para investigar o assassinato de uma família vítima de um atentado terrorista, cujo único sobrevivente é o menino Ettore, de 11 anos de idade. Preocupado com a segurança do garoto, ele resolve trazê-lo para sua bela casa, localizada de frente para o vulcão Ginostra, onde vive com sua mulher Jessie e uma filha de cinco anos. Matt só não sabia que, ao abrir a porta de sua casa para a única testemunha daquele crime brutal estava também transformando sua vida num verdadeiro iferno. Um inferno cujas matérias primas são o perigo, o medo e o inesperado despertar do vulcão, cujas chamas ameaçam a vida de todos.

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.

Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide attempt. Two young men hide out in a bedroom smoking dope; one of them has some dynamite. As midnight approaches, each group draws closer to grotesque tragedy.

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.

Loves and jealousies, abandonments and returns, of two couples on vacation in Africa.

Scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite.

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...

Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.

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?

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.

A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.