Antonio Pennarella

Couple Therapy for Cheaters (2017)

Reckless and in love, Viviana and Modesto are bound by an uncontrollable passion. Their secret relationship ends up in front of an incredulous therapist, who'll anyway help them understanding their feelings and dealing with their desire to follow the true ...

The Ark Of Disperata (2017)

At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general stat ...

Nato a Casal di Principe (2017)

In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return ...

Due soldati (2017)

A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra. ...

Sensazioni d'amore (2017)

The Major Fisherman (2016)

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime. ...

Natale Col Boss (2015)

Alex and Dino are two enstablished plastic surgeons used to change their patients' physical aspect with a few cuts of scalpel. Leo and Cosimo are two clumsy cops on the trails of a powerful and dangerous boss of which no one knows the face. All these five ...

The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)

Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" sh ...

A Holy Venetian Family (2015)

Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of t ...

Perez. (2014)

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso's son, Perez has to cut through the moral ...

Dimmelo con il cuore (2014)

Song'e Napule (2013)

The police send an unemployed classically-trained musician—under the cover of a trashy wedding singer—to infiltrate the entourage of an elusive Mafia boss. ...

Those Happy Years (2013)

A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work. ...

Take Five (2013)

Carmine, a sewer worker for the city of Naples, finds himself working in the vault of the Bank of Naples one morning, and he gets the idea to pull off a robbery using the sewer system. To pull off the heist, he enlists the help of Gaetano, a former robber ...

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspi ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

Mario's War (2006)

A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple. For the three of them, living together is difficult and often painful, since they come from two different worlds. To cope with loneliness and displacement, ...

Vite a perdere (2004)

Follow the Shadows (2004)

The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It's 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small community doesn't seem to have been affected that much by it. Even so, certain suspicions take root in the brigadier's m ...

Upon My Skin (2003)

On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival. ...

Red Moon (2001)

The downfall of a powerful Mafia family by the hands of its young scion. Based on Aeschylus' tragedy, the Oresteia. ...

L'attentatuni (2001)

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

Lontano in fondo agli occhi (2001)

Nella terra di nessuno (2000)

Animali che attraversano la strada (2000)

In a Roman suburb, 14-year-old Martina, a child prostitute, navigates life with her father's unacknowledged paternity, her mother's profession, and a younger sister. She forms bonds with a slightly older boy, Sciu, and a fellow petty criminal. However, the ...

Il compagno (1999)

Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea (1997)

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Roman empire with poverty in present-day Naples. The film's narrator introduces the ancient town of Pozzuloi, home to Nero, his mother Agrippina, th ...

The Vesuvians (1997)

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. ...

Man Who Check the Meter (1995)

The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, which is told in flashback. ...

The Butterfly's Dream (1994)

This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other tha ...