Lello Serao

Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.

После провала очередной операции и гибели любовницы профессиональный киллер Джек решает завершить свою карьеру. Остается последнее дело, заказанное ему таинственной женщиной, для выполнения которого он тайно едет в Италию и поселяется в маленьком городке, затерявшемся в живописных горах. Здесь неожиданно для себя самого Джек сближается с местным священником и влюбляется в красавицу Клару. Впервые в жизни раскрывается сердце человека, вынужденного таиться всю свою жизнь. Джек спокоен и счастлив настолько, что теряет бдительность…

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

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.

1975: poet, intellectual, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is bludgeoned to death and run over with his own car in the outskirts of Rome. Charged with murder, 17-year-old hustler Pino Pelosi pleads self-defense -- after all, Pasolini was a well-known pederast. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version of events, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also murdered for another reason?

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Простая житейская история. Отца нет, мать лишили родительских прав, детей двое (мальчику - 8, девочке - 11). Карабинер Антонио сопровождает их в сиротский приют. Путь не близкий и в дороге спутники становятся друзьями. И оказывается, что совсем немного нужно этим обездоленным детям для счастья...