Daniele Ciprì

Hey Joe (2024)

In 1944, American sailor Dean Barry arrives in Naples, a city destroyed by bombing after the liberation of Italy. Dean meets Lucia, a young and very poor girl with whom he falls madly in love. Two years later, at the end of his service, Dean has to return ...

The Flood (2024)

1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first ...

La Bottega dei Bottoni (2024)

We are in an unusual place, two bizarre characters and a unique story. What lies behind a simple button? ...

Winter Lemons (2023)

Pietro and Eleonora, both avid gardeners, are strangers who only meet because their two terraces are close to each other. The relationship that grows between them helps them to alleviate the pain each feels over something secret and very serious, a pain bo ...

Roma, santa e dannata (2023)

Don't Be Cruel (2023)

Ninni and his father Amelio wish to redeem their modest lifestyle. An opportunity will arise when the father, who works as an Elvis lookalike, is called to perform in a rich seaside resort. On that night, however, Ninni will be forced to come to terms with ...

Quei due: Edda e Galeazzo Ciano (2023)

Space Monkeys (2022)

Five teenagers during a late summer party play with an artificial intelligence that draws dangerous challenges: the most extreme of all will force them to abandon their innocence. ...

The Bone Breakers (2022)

Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man's arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents ...

My Soul Summer (2022)

A shy 17-year-old girl playing classical piano discovers soul music through a strange friendship with an old rocker in a summer that will change her life. ...

Guerra tra Poveri (2022)

In one of Rome's suburbs, a multiethnic and diverse neighborhood, a mother and her two sons are evicted from their home. The two brothers, convinced that it is being reassigned to an immigrant family, will decide to take justice into their own hands. They ...

La fornace (2022)

In the bowels of a city of the dead, in a world that has been ravaged and is now unrecognizable, Marcello lives surrounded by Sicilian puppets. Time and captivity have twisted him; in order to survive in a hostile, incomprehensible environment, he goes ahe ...

Tre volte alla settimana (2022)

The Berrezzella's sisters are avid lotto players; three times a week they try their luck, fueling it with due superstition and an ancient technique. One day, in Vico Scassacocchi, they are confronted with the scene of a betrayal. ...

Our Ghost (2021)

Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just ...

The Bad Poet (2021)

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. ...

Con i pedoni tra le nuvole (2021)

Holy Care (2021)

It follows Gaia, who works in a funeral home and one day something unexpected happens. ...

La confessione (2020)

A New Perspective (2020)

Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands adm ...

L'abbraccio - Storia di Antonino e Stefano Saetta (2020)

Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem (2019)

A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course. ...

Don Gino (2019)

Once Don Gino discovers his son's homosexuality, he'll have to choose between family and respect. ...

Vinicio Capossela: Il povero Cristo (2019)

Capossela denounces the impossibility for mankind to realize the Christian precept: "Love your neighbor as yourself". Thus Christ renounced his mission, made himself poor and ended up poor man. And now he is silent, while the man screams as loud as he can. ...

An Almost Ordinary Summer (2019)

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love. ...

Piranhas (2019)

A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves. ...

The First King (2019)

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother. ...

Goodbye Saigon (2018)

In 1968, five girls from Tuscany who dreamt of seeing the world were offered to tour the Far East as an all-girl band, finding themselves in the middle of the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, they tell the story of Le Stars' adventure amongst American soldi ...

Non è una bufala (2018)

Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It's been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood are pizzas and supplì that come home. Convinced that jihadist terrorism is on the verge of attacking ...

Eyes (2018)

EYES is a fictional short film (13' - genre: soft drama). It deals with a issue deeply connected with everyday life in present times: it denounces the daily frenzy of our lives and a spreading indifference. EYES strongly criticises our society, which is mo ...

The Fight (2018)

It is a sunny day on the river Trebbia. In the distance a patrol of German soldiers is approaching : they are nazis, guns blazing. It seems like they are chasing somebody. Tonino is the fugitive, a partisan with nothing left to do but dive into the river. ...

Il club dei 27 (2017)

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club. ...

Penalty (2017)

In the middle of nowhere, a group of guys play a game of football. At stake is much more than a simple victory. ...

There's No Religion Anymore (2016)

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who's always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the ...

Sweet Dreams (2016)

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo's idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an a ...

Clowns (2016)

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and fin ...

Il traduttore (2016)

Italy, third millennium. Andrei, a Romanian university student, ends up embroiled in an intrigue linked to the disappearance of a German antiquarian. ...

Fiore (2016)

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations. ...

Buffet (2016)

Gramsci 44 (2016)

Between 1926 and 1927, the Italian intellectual and Communist political figure Antonio Gramsci spent 44 days imprisoned on the island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily. Together with his fellow prisoners, he founded a school. This unique institut ...

A metà luce (2016)

Maria, wearing her blue dress, boyish shoes and her hair tied in a loose bun, after years of silence, returns to her father's home where she finds a little girl again. ...

Blood of My Blood (2015)

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico's twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a b ...

La trattativa (2014)

What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between th ...

The Hole (2014)

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent. ...

La vita oscena (2014)

The tragic 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". ...

Isaac (2013)

A child is in the park playing with his plasticine figures, that he modeled himself. His favorite character is Isaac. Isaac is a little boy just like he is, who dreams, hopes and confides in the world. Isaac is happy because this is the day he will accompa ...

Salvo (2013)

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush. ...

Viva Palermo, viva Santa Rosalia (2013)

Dormant Beauty (2012)

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state. ...

It Was the Son (2012)

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the ...

The Cricket (2011)

A short movie based on a true story; no dialogues, only sounds and images. In a construction site of an international airport, a migrant labourer works for a few money; suddenly he's disquieted by an annoying jangle who distracts him and forces him to a vi ...

The Black Sheep (2010)

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's ...

Vincere (2009)

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. ...

Saggio sull'intelligenza umana (2007)

A Sicilian boy tries to expose the meaning of some proverbs that risk being forgotten. ...

The Dark Sea (2006)

While investigating the murder of a woman that occurred in the sado-masochistic club scene, Inspector Luca Moccia discovers fantasies that threaten his relationship. Will he overcome them? ...

How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004)

The Return of Cagliostro (2003)

In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failur ...

Angela (2002)

True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey. ...

Pasolini secondo Sergio Citti (2001)

Miles Gloriosus (2001)

Arruso (2000)

In relation to some of Pasolini's visits to Palermo for this last film, in 2000 Ciprì and Maresco shot Arruso, which begins with a phrase by Pasolini ("I banished the word hope from my vocabulary") and consists of imaginary interviews with some local char ...

Sud Side Stori (2000)

In Roberta Torre's "true story of Romeo and Julet", Toni Giulietto is a vulnerable street singer and Little Tony-impersonator (who is himself an Italian Elvis-impersonator) who is constantly deceived and hoodwinked by almost everyone he knows. Romea is an ...

Enzo, domani a Palermo! (1999)

Ciprì and Maresco's delicious documentary portrays Sicilian super-agent Enzo Castagna, a man with some 20,000 extras on his books, who has worked with the likes of Loren, Pasolini, Rosi, Coppola and Cimino (indeed, virtually anyone who's ever chosen to fi ...

Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)

The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead now) by his ...

To Die for Tano (1997)

Shot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women. ...

Grazie Lia (1996)

Ciprì and Maresco are fierce critics of post-modern society. They bear witness to the colonization of the imagination attributable in part to the omnipresence of mass communications and the globalization of neo-capitalist values. Their works, scatological ...

Aspettando Totò (1996)

A memoria (1996)

The Italian duo Ciprì & Maresco, known to be cynical deconstructionists, weave a fascinating film around memories of a decadent Sicily. Ruins, memories of ruins - memories are ruins. This thoroughly surrealist piece unfolds like a dream, with no clear dir ...

Il manocchio (1996)

A melodic singer, a man in his underwear, and two people with telekinesis abilities with a saint. ...

Ai Rotoli (1996)

A visit to the Rotoli cemetery in Palermo, while film director Carmelo Bene reads a fragment of Antonio Pizzuto's book "Signorina Rosina". ...

Incertamente! (1996)

Ritorno alla vecchia casa (1996)

Risate di Boia (1996)

Vittorio De Seta: Lo sguardo in ascolto (1995)

Interview by Ciprì and Maresco with Vittorio De Seta and Fofi. ...

The Uncle from Brooklyn (1995)

Set in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of three-middle aged brothers who are coerced, by local Mafia honchos, into hiding a mysterious old man known as t ...

il Gattoparve (1995)

A Silvio (1994)

A grotesque tribute to Silvio Berlusconi following his 1994 entry into Italian politics. ...

Cucù (1993)

Tre visioni (1993)

Senza Titolo 1 (1993)

Senza Titolo 2 (1993)

Sicilia da Oscar (1993)

Lontane (1993)

An evocation of work and the frantic activity of factories through the contrast provide by images of desolation, ruin, and abandonment. Among these, the human figure, represented by a completely motionless Marcello Miranda, appears as a triviality incapabl ...

Cinico tv (1992)

"Being born in Palermo is a kind of punishment, but I've never left because it would feel like betrayal. Moreover, I can't imagine Cinico Tv in any other place in the world." To Franco Maresco, a brilliant, solitary director from Palermo, his city was the ...

Shock Corridor (1992)

Short 35mm experimental film featuring Sam Fuller. ...

Venerdì Santo - Sabato Santo - Domenica di Pasqua (1992)

Keller (1992)

Martin a Little... (1992)

Samuel Fuller (1992)

An avant-garde short filmed in striking black and white, with legendary US director Samuel Fuller playing himself in a surreal setting. ...

L'abbuffata di Paviglianiti (1991)

binge eating, burping, vomiting and farting ...

Pel di carota (1991)

Seicortosei (1991)

Santa Maria (1991)

Addio o Arrivederci (1991)

Loro di Palermo (1990)

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis (2023)

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the g ...

An Almost Ordinary Summer (2019)

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love. ...

L'ultimo metro di pellicola (2014)

A compassionate look at the way the digital revolution has affected the Sicilian movie theater industry. ...

Aspettando Totò (1996)