Ernesto Mahieux

I'm Not a Nobody (2025)

March 8th, 1972. Maria Silvia Spolato is the first woman to come out as a lesbian in Italy publicly. This act of courage will turn her life upside down. ...

Tutto per mio figlio (2022)

Raffaele Acampora is a man like many others. He has a wife, Anna, whom he loves, and four children, the eldest of whom, Peppino, is fourteen years old and, like many boys his age, is beginning to find his way in the world. But it's not easy to do so when y ...

La cura (2022)

During the Covid-19 lockdown, a film crew is shooting an adaptation of Camus' La Peste. Reality and fiction start to blur between each other. ...

Din Don 4: Il Paese Dei Balocchi (2022)

After six months spent meditating in the high mountains, Don Donato returns to Pellizzano to pack his bags and leave for Rome, where he will return to wearing civilian clothes. However, he finds the country much changed, full of arcades and women of easy v ...

Towards Happiness (2021)

Andrea is a labor consultant and his married life with Lucia is winding down. Once a week Andrea crosses the border of the Neapolitan nightlife to give life to Octavia Meraviglia: the most famous drag queen in Naples. ...

Anime Borboniche (2021)

A married couple must reach the Royal Palace of Caserta for a historical reenactment. During the journey, however, the woman, tired of arguing, incredibly leaves her husband stranded in the middle of the road. The poor man, dressed as a Bourbon coachman wi ...

The Finch Thief (2020)

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected. ...

The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019)

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father. ...

Announced Tragedy (2019)

A young woman walks out of a building. Enter and go down a staircase. There is a knock on the door, a man is waiting for him sitting at the desk of a small and badly lit office. He offers her a coffee. Start asking questions. The woman will discover a bitt ...

Beware the Gorilla (2019)

Lorenzo is a lawyer who files a lawsuit against the zoo of his town but after winning it he has to take home a gorilla. ...

Gramigna (2017)

Fausto & Furio (2017)

Fausto and Furio are two Romans with a precarious lifestyle. Fausto squanders his winnings while Furio lives thanks to small jobs. The death of their parents will make them meet because they inherit a repair shop. After some hesitation, the two, helped by ...

La barba (2017)

The War of Bumpkins (2017)

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

La Parrucchiera (2017)

A woman decides to start her own business and open a salon in the Spanish Quarter, but a rivalry with her former owner will begin. ...

Mister Happiness (2017)

A slacker switches up his cleaning job by pretending to be a mental coach's assistant and consults an injured ice skater who has lost her confidence. ...

Quel bravo ragazzo (2016)

On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild. ...

Ballad in Blood (2016)

Jacopo, Duke, and Lenka wake up in the apartment Lenka shares with her roommate Elizabeth to find Elizabeth mysteriously murdered. None of the three has any memory of what happened and they spend a drug-fueled day finding clues and piecing the event togeth ...

Uno, anzi due (2015)

A bartender finds himself crushed by debt after his father's death and decides to repay it by hiding everything from his wife and son, who in the meantime are busy planning his father's wedding. ...

Ganja Fiction (2015)

In order to raise money and win the love of Bianca, the owner of the funeral parlour accepts his friend's proposal to take part in a Texas hold 'em tournament. However, the pair need a loan. ...

Soldato Semplice (2015)

In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War because of his libertine and anti-interventionist behavior. With the threat of being expelled from all school ...

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 ...

The Tailor's Wife (2014)

Una domenica notte (2014)

At 46, Antonio Colucci realizes his dream of becoming a great horror movie director is far from being accomplished and he tries hard to seize what might be his last chance of getting a story of his on the screen. ...

Il ragioniere della mafia (2013)

Based on Donald Vergari Best Seller Book. In the middle of the crisis a man loses his job, starts gambling but cannot pay back his debts, the only way out is to accept an offer that he cannot refuse, his next job will be the bookkeeper of a new mafia organ ...

Nina (2012)

The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a young woman in a depopulated Rome during one hot summer. This heartwarming tale of a lonesome girl who teac ...

All'ultima spiaggia (2012)

La meravigliosa avventura di Antonio Franconi (2011)

Just before sleeping, a small boy finds a crate of ancient toys: a little circus, lead soldiers and a book about circus legend Antonio Franconi - whose dream was creating a great show mixing all possible forms of art. ...

Make a Fake (2011)

The Last Fashion Show (2011)

The triumph of the designer Federico Marinoni in the world of Milanese fashion was marred by the tragic death of the maison's main model and the designer's muse, Alexandra Larsson, who was hit by a hit-and-run car while on her way to celebrate her consecra ...

L'imbroglio nel lenzuolo (2010)

1905, the cinematograph has reached Southern Italy, and casts fear among the people to whom it seems a devilish trick. They call it "o 'imbroglie din t'o lenzuolo" - "The Trick in the Sheet", as white sheets were used for screening. ...

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2010)

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 ...

La valigia sul letto (2010)

Fort Apache Napoli (2009)

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985. ...

Pane e libertà (2009)

About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio. ...

Hotel Meina (2008)

How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselve ...

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! (2007)

In 1976, Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting away his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what could be his big break when he joins the summer tour of a washed-up maestro from the big city. ...

Il punto rosso (2007)

A Dream House Nightmare (2007)

A couple's pleasant new life in the country is threatened by the mysterious new next door neighbors. ...

Mi fido di te (2007)

Two different men living in Milan lose their job at the same time. They will become a funny couple of thieves thanks to the poorest of them that was already a thief. ...

Salvatore. Questa è la vita (2006)

Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social Services soo ...

Golden Door (2006)

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British ...

...e se domani (2006)

Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life. ...

All the Invisible Children (2006)

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist. ...

Too Beautiful (2005)

Costantino and Daniele are two friends which have very success with girls. Their wish is to work in the show business and they can achieve their goal when meet Valeria, top model and actress, who offers both guys the chance they are looking for: meet Mr. G ...

Raul - Right to Kill (2005)

In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... ...

Call Me Salomè (2005)

Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious partner. Salomè is a young, immature and beautiful girl, desired by many men including her stepfather Herod. John is a protester held in captivity by the ...

Te lo leggo negli occhi (2004)

Naples. Margherita, a singer who has always been distracted from her husband and daughter Chiara, is experiencing a profound existential crisis as she approaches her sixties. Life is not easy for Chiara either, given her conflictual relationship with Lucia ...

Vaniglia e cioccolato (2004)

Penelope, a mother of three kids, gets tired by the infidelities of her husband and leaves him. She goes to live at her grandma's house, while he has to take care of the children. His interest is awakened when he finds love letters held by his wife, indica ...

Ventitré (2004)

In a small village of Naples three friends, Francis, Mimmo and Lello, manage to get a meeting with three beautiful Bulgarian girls known on the Internet, scheduled for Christmas. The wives alarmed try to stir the spirits of the three hot husbands, but the ...

Gli angeli di Borsellino (Scorta QS21) (2003)

The last 57 days of magistrate Paolo Borsellino, killed by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992, as seen by the six brave officers of his security detail who will die with him. ...

Doppio agguato (2003)

Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story ...

Pater familias (2003)

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L'avvocato de Gregorio (2003)

The Embalmer (2002)

Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mista ...

Chiari di luna (1988)

Ternosecco (1987)

On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation. ...

Macaroni (1985)

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax. ...

Torna (1984)

Salvatore manages a gas station and a cafeteria in the outskirts of Naples, but bad luck has stolen his beloved wife, left alone, the pain has crushed all the projects and removed any desire to live. Then one night, Angela, eager for a different and simple ...

Guapparia (1984)

Salvatore Di Donato is one of the most feared and respected members of the Mafia in Naples. His wife, Assuntina, is a young theater actress. During a pilgrimage to Madonna of the Arch, Salvatore and Assuntina meet Margaret, a woman proud and beautiful. Sal ...

Giuramento (1982)

Due to their dire economic circumstances, Salvatore and Concetta cannot get married, nor can they afford to have her mother's blindness operated on. To remedy the situation, the woman decides to leave with her brother Nino for the United States to ask a we ...