Emanuele Salce

Mostruosamente Villaggio (2024)

The Prince of Rome (2022)

In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a deal with a prince for the hand of his daughter, he'll find himself caught in a magical journey between pa ...

Dry (2022)

In Rome it hasn't rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are ...

La voglia matta di vivere (2022)

DNA - Definitely Not Suitable (2020)

What happens when two very different former elementary school classmates meet again as adults and decide to swap genetic codes to improve their lives? Between clumsy scientific experiments and DNA hacking with disastrous effects, the two will prove to be d ...

Magical Nights (2018)

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who†...

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia (2018)

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all'itali ...

The Stolen Caravaggio (2018)

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it's the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happene ...

La voce di Fantozzi (2017)

The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. ...

Black Star (2012)

On a former abandoned soccer field in the heart of Rome's Pietralata neighborhood, four Italian friends hold training sessions for their soccer team, whose members are mostly political refugees. Unfortunately, however, some local residents disagree and cla ...

The Father and the Foreigner (2011)

Diego, Italian, and Waid, Syrian, live in Rome and are both fathers of disabled children. They become friends, but Waid mysteriously disappears and Diego is targeted by the Secret Service. ...

Il figlio più piccolo (2010)

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor. ...

L'uomo dalla bocca storta (2009)

At a Glance (2008)

Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two something's born and soon she becomes Adrian's lover and ...

Unfair Competition (2001)

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But t ...

Three Wives (2001)

After being abandoned on New Year's Eve and discovering that their husbands have committed a robbery, three very different women choose to go to Argentina in search of their spouses. ...

Di padre in figlio (1982)

L'uomo dalla bocca storta (2009)