Pasquale Catalano

Mimì is an orphaned teenager born with deformed feet who works at a pizzeria in Naples. One fateful day, he meets Carmilla, a young girl convinced she is a descendant of Count Dracula. Together, they decide to escape the cynical and violent world they live in.

Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.

Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an opportunity to discuss their abruptly interrupted relationship. Suspended between a past that made them happy and a present that oscillates between resentment and a desire for love, Salvo and Lea travel on a night that seems to have no end.

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

When his girlfriend Giorgia leaves him for his boss, journalist Giulio suddenly finds himself without a woman and with no job. Determined to win back his ex, he attends Valeria's classes, who teaches single men the art of seduction, convinced that relationships between people are motivated by simple biological stimuli.

A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century. His subjects, who are some of the biggest stars of Hollywood and the fashion world, provide testimonials.

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.

Mario Cavallaro is 50 and lives in the same district of always in Milano and fears changes until arrives Oba, a Senegalese seller of socks so he decides to kidnap Oba and take him back to Senegal.

Remake do filme alemão "Ele está de volta", a versão italiana imagina o retorno ao nosso tempo de Benito Mussolini em pessoa, provocando um clima de discução e reflexão. A comédia se move entre a hilaridade que evoca o personagem visto como uma paródia de si mesmo e a ansiedade que surge diante de sua habilidade para obter seguidores.

Em uma Nápoles suspensa entre magia e superstição, loucura e racionalidade, um mistério rodeia a existência de Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) oprimida por um amor súbito e um crime violento.

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!

Giovanni and Anna are a married couple in their sixties who have lived together all their lives, with honestly and dignity. However, in the past few years the economic crisis has hit town and work, Anna has not been able to keep up her payments and she has accumulated a debt with the tax authorities. For Giovanni and Anna this marks the beginning of an inexorable ordeal which will lead them to lose first their home, then their work, and ultimately their privacy.

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.

Nadine, uma linda jovem francesa e Fausto, um italiano que sobrevive em Paris como garçom, se apaixonam e enfrentam um mundo de obstáculos pessoais e externos ao seu amor improvável.

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.

Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to.

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

A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

No final de sua vida, Barney Panofsky relembra seus triunfos e tragédias, começando pela relação malfadada com Clara, com quem se casa quando ela fica grávida. Quando o relacionamento se desfaz, ele retorna a Montreal e se casa mais duas vezes, encontrando, finalmente, a felicidade com Miriam, sua terceira esposa. Em meio a isso tudo, Barney se sustenta com seu trabalho na televisão, cria os filhos e ouve os conselhos do pai.

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.

O filme conta a intrigante história de Sonia, a camareira de um hotel. Quando ela conhece Guido, um ex-policial, em um “speed date” (uma espécie de agência de encontros), ocorre uma atração mútua e aos poucos começam a se conhecer, bem como desvendar as próprias feridas. Estão a ponto de se apaixonarem, quando Guido morre inesperadamente em um assalto. Sonia se vê sozinha, vivendo um luto onde não consegue encontrar sentido. Enquanto o passado de Sonia é revivido, com todos os seus nós não desatados, a realidade que a circunda começa a entrar em colapso. Quem é a verdadeira Sonia? E, sobretudo, é mesmo Guido aquele que ela continua a ver, além de qualquer lógica plausível? O que fará quando lhe for oferecida uma segunda chance?

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

Titta Di Girolamo é um homem introvertido que vive num Hotel na Suíça há quase 10 anos, com uma rotina rígida, ignorando os que estão à sua volta. Até que um dia decide quebrar uma das suas regras e troca algumas palavras com Sofia, a atraente barmaid do hotel. A partir desse momento o terrível passado de Titta começa a revelar-se.

A camorrista follows a surreal path.

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.