Luigi Maria Burruano

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.

Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop

Они знакомятся в вагоне поезда, священник и слепец. Что может быть между ними общего? Скорее всего, ничего. Но на деле оказывается по-другому - в жизни оба совершили столько грехов, что потребуется немало сил и мужества для их искупления...

Четто Ла Квалункве — простой человек. Он хочет всего и сразу, и ему все равно, каким образом. После продолжительного «отпуска» за границей он возвращается в свой родной город в Калабрии с новой подругой и её дочкой, чьих имён он не помнит. Пока Четто отсутствовал, город накрыла волна законопослушания, и его бизнес оказался под угрозой. После долгих и мучительных размышлений в обществе благосклонных женщин Четто решает любой ценой идти в политику.

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.

Эпический фильм, рассказывающий о жизни трех поколений одной сицилийской семьи в городке Багерия

История семьи, которую раздирают политические разногласия в конце Второй мировой войны: сын присоединяется к партизанским бригадам, а дочь, наоборот, вступила в милицию Республики. Все начинается 19 июля 1943 года во время бомбежки Рима.

Тури Леофонте, «бухгалтер мафии», сотрудничавший с полицией, выходит на свободу после 11 лет заключения. Рокко Скалия, сын босса мафии, горит желанием отомстить за предательство Леофонте и получить от него деньги мафии. Для этого он похищает внука Леофонте, Стэфано и держит его на Сицилии. Заново собранной команде Нино Венанцио предстоит путешествие на юг, чтобы свести счеты со Скалия.

Todor, a Serbian smuggler in Trieste, Italy, earns his daily bread by smuggling fake brand cigarettes. He sails out in a small boat to collect his freight if there is enough mist to make his illegal mission possible. One day he reluctantly accepts a much larger cargo. In the crate he finds a wounded and drugged woman. Todor decides not to deliver the freight and takes the woman home with him. He takes a chest full of stones to his client and it soon becomes apparent that he has got himself into big trouble with this manoeuvre. Todor takes care of the woman, who slowly but surely overcomes her fear of him. By the time he manages to get her a passport, an unbreakable bond has silently grown between them and he asks her to go away with him. Fate decides otherwise.

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.

Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life.

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.

A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.

One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina.

Сицилия, конец 1940-х годов. Два брата-скульптора решают открыть свою кинокомпанию. Один из местных богачей соглашается вложить деньги в производство картины «Возвращение Калиостро». И непрофессиональные режиссеры берутся за дело.

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.

An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.

Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfilling, to say the least. His father Cenzo (Luigi Maria Burruano) lost his job after a local chemical plant closed; shortly afterward, Cenzo's wife Paola (Anita Zagaria) dumped him for a politician. Fed up, Vince travels to the beach town of Pescara and lands a job as a junior cook at a tourist resort. While there, he falls in love with Genny (Nicole Grimaudo), a waitress plagued by a phobia of traveling. Just as the romance begins to take off, Cenzo appears at Vince's doorstep demanding that his son help him get Paola back. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.

In a country (alluded to be Chile) under dictatorship, a police night raid comes up with a few usual anti-regime suspects. They are sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere. Their friends on the outside start to plan their escape.

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends will ask them to marry them.

Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.

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

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.

Сто шагов — таким было расстояние между домами Пеппино Импастато и Тано Бадаламенти, крупного босса Мафии, хозяина маленького сицилийского города Чиничи. Фильм — подлинная история Пеппино Импастато, молодого левого активиста, который в конце семидесятых, когда почти никто не смел говорить о Мафии, а политики вообще не признавали её существование, неоднократно осуждал преступления Бадаламенти и всю мафиозную систему, используя для этого ироничные по стилю передачи местной маленькой радиостанции.

A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...

Luna is an endearingly prudish teacher in Milan, who lives with her grumpy father. Often teased by students and co-workers alike, her only ally is the janitor, Angelo, who harbors a secret crush on Luna. When a carnival comes to town, Luna meets a man who possesses a magic lamp, which he uses to free her "shadow self." This doppelganger is Luna's polar opposite, whose presence poses both a problem and an opportunity for Luna.

Приключения фотографа, путешествующего по маленьким поселениям Сицилии и притворяющегося, будто он работает на большую римскую киностудию.

Сатирический взгляд на итальянскую историю и современность. В фильме высмеивается историческое значение Рима, закон и демократия, гладиаторские бои, театральное искусство и иные факты.

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

В сицилийский город Трапани приезжает новый прокурор Микеле Де Франческо. У него репутация смелого и неподкупного человека. Одна из его задач – раскрыть недавнее убийство судьи Риццо. Самым верным помощниками прокурора становятся четверо его охранников. Формально их обязанность – прикрывать своего подопечного. Но они подходят к своей работе неформально.

In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.

Хроники жизни Сицилии 30-х годов. 12 летнего мальчика по имени Акла родители продают хозяину подземного рудника, где добывают серу, где тому приходится работать каждый день, кроме воскресенья, чтобы помочь прокормить семью. Жестокий хозяин часто избивает его, к нему пристают с сексуальными домогательствами, так как гомосексуальные отношения в те времена для Сицилии являются нормой. Акла, одинокий ребенок, мечтающий о море, выстаивает… Правдивый, страшный и жестокий фильм. Но в то-же время, в определенном отношении — это очень трогательная история!

Городские истории о парнях из одного квартала: официант по прозвищу «Кинг-Конг», промышляющий кражей из автомобилей; мальчики, наблюдающие через забор за жизнью богатых; нелепое пари... Многие из ребят вступают в конфликт с законом и становятся преступниками.

Учитель Марио Терци оказывается по распределению в тюрьме для несовершеннолетних. Несмотря на молодость, у заключенных, сидящих здесь, богатое уголовное прошлое: убийства, грабежи, насилие, проституция. Работа Марио сопряжена с огромным риском, зачастую его жизнь находится на волосок от смерти, но именно здесь он находит свое призвание.

Мирный американец сицилийского происхождения по имени Марио владеет пиццерией в Бруклине. Марио не знает горя, но однажды мафиозная семья призывает его в Палермо. Здесь владелец кафе узнает, что ему уготовлена роль наемного убийцы. Отказаться невозможно. Слабое утешение - высокий гонорар, обещанный за исполнение. Марио дает согласие и отправляется по указанному адресу, но по пути заходит в дом своих обедневших родственников. Он пытается уговорить своего брата Микеле стать соучастником убийства.

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.

In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of class and cultural differences.