Claudio Santamaria

In the Hand of Dante (2026)

A writer helps a mob boss steal Dante's handwritten "Divine Comedy" manuscript as a parallel tale follows the 14th-century poet creating his masterpiece. ...

Ídolos (2026)

A fiery young motorcycle racer throws away his shot at the junior championship in a reckless crash, only to receive a surprise offer from a top Moto2 team that gives him a chance at redemption. But to claim it, he must train under his estranged father, a d ...

The Negotiator (2025)

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission. ...

Somebody to Love (2025)

On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation. ...

The Return (2024)

After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war. ...

Una terapia di gruppo (2024)

I'm a little bit crazy... and you? (2024)

In the film, the disabled children, empathizing with their director, will try to solve the anxieties and fears of well-known characters who turn to them, looking for them in the most diverse places in the city. Professional actors will confess with irony a ...

Non riattaccare (2024)

It's one of the many anonymous nights of quarantine when Irene's phone rings. It's Pietro, her ex. Irene hasn't heard him for months, since their story ended, she hesitates, but in the end she answers. Pietro is beside himself and his confused words sugges ...

Elf Me (2023)

A bumbling Christmas elf whose Santa's helper job is jeopardized by a complete inability in building toys teams up with a kid harassed by bullies. ...

My Summer with the Shark (2023)

School's out and 13-year-old Walter has lost his father. In his seemingly aimless wanderings around the Roman coast, a fascinating and mysterious place catches his eye: an abandoned villa with a huge, murky swimming pool. But the villa is not unguarded... ...

Gym Class (2023)

Three middle school parents are summoned by the principal after their children are implicated in a serious incident. In the gym, transformed into an impromptu courtroom, they wage a fierce battle of denials and obfuscations to suppress the truth. ...

Freaks Out (2021)

Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis. ...

CareBonara - The Origins of Carbonara (2021)

Rome, 1944. An Italian cook meets a young American soldier with a mission: to set up a special meal for the Allied forces stationed in the city. ...

The Best Years (2020)

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends. ...

Volare (2019)

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America. ...

Forgive Us Our Debts (2018)

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs. ...

Ugly Nasty People (2017)

Four physically disabled lowlifes plot the perfect heist, but things go south when each reveals an agenda of their own. ...

The War of Bumpkins (2017)

Global politics in a fairytale nutshell: the eternal struggle between the ruling elite and the underclass, condemned to ignorance. ...

PIIGS (2017)

PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant political c ...

They Call Me Jeeg (2016)

Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg. ...

Three Touches (2014)

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man ...

Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the pe ...

Non è mai troppo tardi (2014)

Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper school, who he deems inadequate. At that time the public broadcasting network Rai decides to realize a prog ...

The Medicine Seller (2013)

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system. ...

Pauline détective (2012)

After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a cri ...

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. ...

The First on the List (2011)

It's June 1st, 1970, and Pisa is the epicenter of the movement Lotta Continua. There are rumors of an imminent coup d'état, and the most visible exponents fear being arrested before dawn. One of them is Pino Masi, a singer-songwriter who wrote the hit "La ...

Drifters (2011)

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee. ...

Terraferma (2011)

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island. ...

In Gold We Trust (2010)

A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over. ...

Kiss Me Again (2010)

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio. ...

The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires... ...

Birdwatchers (2008)

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground. ...

Life Sentence (2008)

A college student gets caught up in a spiral that leads him to become a real Mafia godfather. ...

Aspettando Il Sole (2008)

Italy, 1980s. Three thugs stumble upon a remote, out-of-place hotel: a refuge at the edge of the world. But this isn't just their story. Because at the Bellevue Hotel, other guests exist, breathing or crying behind a door with worn numbers, gestures of lov ...

Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (2007)

Apnea (2007)

Casino Royale (2006)

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 0 ...

The Fourth Sex (2006)

Initially produced for the Surreal Sit-Com "The Fourth Sex" starring Claudio Santamaria in the role of Jesus that on the night of his 34th birthday goes to visit his new neighbors. ...

Melissa P. (2005)

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way. ...

Romanzo Criminale (2005)

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throu ...

Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005)

Agatha and the Storm (2004)

The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers ...

The Card Player (2004)

Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to ...

Il posto dell'anima (2003)

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work. ...

Life as It Is (2003)

A wealthy dentist who spends the weekend wargaming with friends provokes a dangerous reaction from his wife, who slips a real gun among the fake ones. An old couple turns to child kidnapping to cover their gambling debts. A young librarian saves the mother ...

Past Perfect (2003)

A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories of events that took place in the house that they are sharing, which has a particular significance for all ...

Sei come sei (2002)

Six shorts. ...

Paz! (2002)

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism. ...

Il mondo è fatto a scale (Frammenti) (2001)

Fragments of what would've been Piero Natoli latest film before his untimely death. ...

The Son's Room (2001)

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. ...

Amarsi può darsi (2001)

During their divorce trial, Davide and Giulia go back through episodes of their life together while they listen to a series of witnesses. Do they really want to go different ways? ...

The Last Kiss (2001)

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a ...

Almost Blue (2000)

A detective suspects an unreported serial killer is preying on the population of a college town, luring in his victims through online video chats and assuming their identity after the murder. ...

Tierra del fuego (2000)

The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the in ...

Ecco fatto (1998)

Matteo and Piterone, lifelong friends, try to pass their high school exams for the third time, but then Margherita arrives and love enters their lives. Muccino's debut film. ...

The Last New Year's Eve (1998)

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a ...

Besieged (1998)

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her. ...

Fireworks (1997)

Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women. ...

Dead Train (1997)

The Millionairs (2017)

Over the course of one long night, mountain roads crisscrossing wooded slopes become the scene of a series of gruesome murders, all committed by an array of characters trying get their hands on a mysterious suitcase. ...