Iaia Forte

Heartbroken that their children no longer want to spend time with them, two parents fake an inheritance to bring the family together for Christmas.

Красочная биография неаполитанского комедиографа-революционера, размышляющая над природой творчества и семейственности.

70-е годы. Неаполь, криминальная столица Италии. Наемный убийца по прозвищу Маленький Цицерон постарел и ушел на покой, оставив свой опасный бизнес красавцу-сыну. Но того вероломно убивают, и Маленький Цицерон вынужден вспомнить свое свирепое прошлое, чтобы безжалостно отомстить всем виновным. На помощь ему приходят бывший подельник Тото-мясник и верная боевая подруга Рита, которая не словом, а делом доказывает, что старая любовь не ржавеет, как и пули в хорошем пистолете…

Андреа Серрано - молодой начинающий писатель, который вынужден мыть трупы в морге, чтобы свести концы с концами, пока заканчивает свой первый роман об итальянской мафии Каморра. Мечтая об успешной карьере, он ждёт своего шанса. И вот, наконец, удача улыбается ему - крупнейший кинопродюсер хочет снять по его книге фильм.

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.

Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn’t so easy. Claudia is unwilling to let go and forget the life she’s built with Flavio, while Flavio, eager to move on, soon finds himself in a relationship with a much younger woman. Claudia soon reconnects with Nina, a student from her days as a professor.

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.

Итальянская драма посвящена трагической судьбе писателя Джакомо Леопарди. Будущий писатель родился в 1798 году и был настолько болезненным и застенчивым ребенком, что практически не выходил из дома. Свою недолгую жизнь Леопарди провел в огромной библиотеке отца, самостоятельно изучая языки и постигая другие науки. Отшельничество и чрезмерные умственные нагрузки еще больше подорвали его здоровье. Когда Джакомо все же пришлось покинуть родной дом, это стало для него невероятно сложным испытанием.

In Puglia, a cooperative wants to farm the land confiscated from a Mafioso, as it is legally entitled to do. But things are moving slowly. So the members of the cooperative turn to Filippo, who belongs to an anti-mafia organisation with its headquarters in the north. Filippo arrives in Puglia and realises that everyone, starting with the carabinieri, is taking huge liberties with the law.

Мария, Маттео и Йоле — трое неаполитанцев, живущих в непосредственной близости к Везувию. Это удивительное место, полное мифов, историй и легенд. Мария, которая имеет флористическое хозяйство прямо у подножья вулкана, является его верным сторожем. Маттео, талантливый художник, создает свои картины из пепла Везувия. Певица Йоле посвящает свое творчеству образу Богородицы, которая на протяжении веков была покровительницей этих мест. Герои делятся своими впечатлениями от жизни на вулкане и поднимают вопрос, что опаснее для Неаполя: Везувий, который может проснуться в любую минуту, или человек, который меньше чем за 100 лет нанес непоправимый вред природе?

Inspired by the novel by Aldo Nove, this is the dramatic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.

Аристократки, нувориши, политики, преступники высокого полёта, журналисты, актёры, декаденствующие отпрыски благородных семейств, священники, художники, подлинные или мнимые интеллектуалы... Всех их поглощает современный Вавилон, пока они ткут канву непрочных взаимоотношений, предаваясь суетной жизни на фоне старинных дворцов, огромных вилл и великолепных террас. Все они здесь, и никто не предстаёт в выгодном свете. Апатичный и разочарованный 65-летний Джеп Гамбарделла, писатель и журналист, не расстающийся со стаканом джина с тоником, наблюдает за этим парадом влиятельных, но пустых и потерянных людей, которые производят на него гнетущее впечатление. Головокружительная картина потери нравственных ориентиров разворачивается в атмосфере великолепного и безразличного римского лета. Вечный город подобен умершей диве.

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero receives the proposal to conduct a broadcast in Rome. Accepted the offer, he goes to the capital, where he will meet the famous Tatia Cortès, an irrepressible showgirl...

An italian short comedy

Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous differences that separate their ways of life.

On the day she learns of her pregnancy, a woman also finds out that her husband is sterile.

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly left by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in a flat in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political activism.

The true natures of love, commitment, and reality are called into question in this offbeat drama. One night in bed, Tomas (Tomas Arana), a magician, begins telling a story to his wife Desire (Marit Nissen) about Emma (Iaia Forte) and Sal (Tommaso Ragno), a married couple whose love life has gone stale. In order to fire up their relationship, Emma and Sal begin playing an increasingly elaborate series of role-playing games, in which they assume different personas -- Sal saves Emma as she is tied to railroad tracks, or Emma must seduce another man to pull her husband out of debt. But the question soon arises -- are Emma and Sal real? And who really holds the power in their lives? Chimera also features Franco Nero as one of the participants in Emma and Sal's sexual fantasies.

The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

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.

This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.

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.

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we can follow among fantasy, mythology and reality the absurd life of the protagonists.

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.

This high-energy three part comedy has a strong undercurrent of melancholy, as it shows three different women coping with difficult situations which are usually sexual in origin, even if the moment of romance is long past. In the first tale, Aurora has gotten used to a cozy, wealthy life, but begins to see her world destroyed when her husband is caught in bed with his secretary. Later, he flees the country to avoid getting arrested for something else he has done. Carmela is just welcoming her wayward son back to their slum home after he has spent a stint in "reform" school. Not only has he just confessed to her that he's gay, but he has become a heroin addict.Finally, Libera works at a newsstand outside of Naples as the sole breadwinner for her family. She is tired of her husband lounging in their house when he is not out tomcatting around with prostitutes, and decides to do something about it. So she secretly has him filmed in bed, and is marketing the tapes at her newsstand.

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making it... The only thing they all have in common is the place where they live.

Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exile. Short in a medieval setting, between ancient villages and naturalistic locations, focused on power conflicts: political, religious and gender.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.

Мэри (Дебра Фэйер), работающей в Нью-Йоркском ресторане, срочно надо лететь во Флоренцию в Италию к своему мужу Джулио (Жан Сорель), который по его словам провернул грандиозное дело и они теперь богаты. В аэропорту ее ждало разочарование. Билетов на этот день уже не было, если бы не адвокат Тито Торризи (Адриано Челентано), который как обычно покупает два билета, ограждая себя от нудных, плаксивых и вонючих соседей. Но перед мольбами очаровательной красотки он не удержался и продал ей билет... Тито возвратился из Нью-Йорка, после неудачного, но еще не проигранного дела. Он имеет важные документы, что дает ему основания надеяться на конечный выигрыш в этом деле. Но все документы оказались в чемодане, который он перепутал в аэропорту со своей новой знакомой...

Разнообразные комические сценки из жизни огромного супермаркета, где все перепутывается, все перепутываются и временами кажется, что проще разогнать всех служащих и снести здание, чем внести ясность в эту безумную сумятицу. Чего стоит одна девица, которая потеряла очки и в течение всего фильма не может найти выход из универмага, но при этом находится в полной уверенности, что у нее все в порядке.

Alba has Down syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca Trapanese, gay and Catholic.