Federico Pacifici

Duse (2025)

In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she ...

The Great Ambition (2024)

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escap ...

Fanum (2024)

The plot revolves around a young archaeologist expert on the Etruscan civilization, who finds herself close to an epochal discovery and becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders. ...

My Birthday (2024)

Riccardino has been separated for four years from his mother, a woman with strong personality disorders. Despite the thoughtful and attentive guidance of his educator, who wants to lead him towards a safe future in the family home, Riccardino decides to ru ...

The Monkey House (2023)

A once successful novelist tries to revive his fading career by launching a highly inventive scam. He recruits a reckless actress and trains her to assume the somber identity of a lit Masters student. Their lives will alter forever. ...

Orlando (2022)

Orlando and Lyse's is a fairy tale, a modern tale of an old man and a little girl who, unwittingly, find themselves facing the present together and the choices it brings, despite their being as distant as the rural life of a small inland village and the me ...

The case is closed, go in peace (2022)

A tough detective is on the trail of a dangerous new drug that is flooding the area. With a lot of nonchalance and a perfect wig, he gets closer and closer to the culprits, but doesn't miss out on regularly attending church services. He has to! The only pr ...

Titanium White (2022)

Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to Porto Ercole by order of a professor to collect material about the most mysterious period of Caravaggio's life. When he meets Silvia and the local priest P ...

Il giudizio (2021)

Mr. Devil (2019)

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself. ...

Pure Hearts (2017)

Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother – a harsh and devoted woman – is a regular church-goer and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is twenty-five, has a violent temper and ...

Stella Maris (2014)

A lost Italian village around the Mediterranean Sea. The annual fair. All the locals gather on the beach waiting for the arrival by sea of a traditional illuminated statue, the Stella Maris. The story of a craftsman and his daughter, a blind mayor, firewor ...

Ti sposo ma non troppo (2014)

SENZaria (2014)

A man. A small factory. A lot of debts. Suddenly the suffocating feeling of not succeeding corrodes everything, and the life of a man is turned apart. ...

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. ...

Boris: The Film (2011)

A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen. ...

Angel of Evil (2010)

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld's most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country's most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested ...

Left Out (2008)

Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The presence of G ...

The Past Is a Foreign Land (2008)

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known. ...

No Problem (2008)

For Arturo, a forty-year-old actor, success has finally arrived: the TV series in which he plays a separated father is doing quite well. Unexpectedly, however, comes the flipside of his popularity: Mirko, a boy who recently lost his father, has replaced hi ...

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 ...

Anotherworld (2008)

An experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in monologues performed by actors and adapted from interviews with ordinary It ...

The Omen (2006)

A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976. ...

The Remains of Nothing (2005)

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy. ...

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. ...

Hannover (2003)

The Cruelest Day (2003)

Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Moga ...

La banda (2001)

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. ...

Excellent Cadavers (1999)

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppo ...

The Scent of the Night (1998)

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome. ...

Open Sea (1998)

For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edo ...

Vacation in Hell (1997)

Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up. ...

The Truce (1997)

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace. ...

The Eighteenth Angel (1997)

Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautif ...

Snowball (1995)

Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no ...

Moses (1995)

When Pharaoh Rameses II begins to tighten the noose on his Jewish slaves, Israelite Moses, called upon by God, leads his people to freedom. ...

Fluke (1995)

Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, his memories return, and Thomas ...

Flight of the Innocent (1992)

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end att ...

The Raffle (1991)

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix. ...

18 anni tra una settimana (1991)

The King's Whore (1990)

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes. ...

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway (1988)

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World ...

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted (1987)

Directed by Felice Farina. ...

Night Ripper (1986)

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the ident ...

Secrets Secrets (1985)

Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a 'trance': moments befo ...

Circle of Passions (1983)

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife. ...

No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous (1982)

A mysterious killer eliminate the singers of a brand new music Festival in Naples. Some journalists will try to discover who is that murderer who seems to be obsessed by the song "Funiculi, Funicula". ...

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1981)

Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusio ...

Elective Affinities (1978)

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel. ...

Death at Work (1978)

A young man moves to an apartment where an actor has just committed suicide. There is a room with cabinets full of theatrical objects and posters of old films. A child spies on him and in the house opposite a girl haunts him. ...

Gangsters (1992)

Genoa, 1945. The war is over but not for 4 partisans who still try to capture the remaining fascists. They are not satisfied with the concept of justice that the new born Italian Republic tries to instigate. ...