Salvatore Ruocco

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

Американский солдат, дислоцированный в Риме во время взрыва Ватикана, отправляется в героическое путешествие, чтобы найти неизвестного врага, угрожающего всему миру.

Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.

История последних дней жизни итальянского режиссера Пьера Паоло Пазолини.

Ciro is 14 years old. He lives in Scampia. He spends his days at school, at work and on the football field. He has no one to look up to, except his trainer and Anna, his childhood friend. In the neighbourhood lives Lello, a local crime boss surrounded by people who admire and respect him, and a myth that will slowly begin to crumble for Ciro.

A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.

Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

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.

В фильме параллельно развиваются, ни разу не пересекаясь, несколько историй с героями разных поколений и разных сфер деятельности. Общее только одно: все они оказываются подчинены интересам преступного сообщества. Пожилой держатель общака, который выплачивает субсидии родственникам отбывших на отсидку. Два великовозрастных оболтуса, окончательно теряющих голову, когда им удается разворошить тайник с оружием. Тринадцатилетний разносчик продуктов: ему приходится навсегда распрощаться с совестью, наведя бандитов на свою клиентку. Выпускник университета, которого втягивают в бизнес по захоронению токсичных отходов под крышей мафии. Талантливый портной, которого перекупают китайские конкуренты и который чуть не гибнет от мести клана.