Francesco Acquaroli

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 ...

La coda del diavolo (2024)

Three Floors (2021)

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood. ...

Palla di pelo (2021)

Vincenzo is a scoundrel, a petty thief, and he wants to turn a corner. Here's his brilliant idea: kidnap the dogs of the rich, who those to get them back are willing to pay any amount of money. The abductee's name is Palla di Pelo, a beautiful Welsh Corgi ...

Il giorno e la notte (2021)

After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown. ...

L'esilio dell'aquila (2020)

L'ultimo piano (2020)

In the top-floor apartment of a large building on the outskirts of Rome, the lives of three young roommates intertwine with that of Aurelio, a former punk singer trapped in his glorious past. ...

The Best Years (2020)

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

Despite the Fog (2019)

According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents dr ...

Adults in the Room (2019)

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with ...

Simple Women (2019)

An epileptic director trying to make a film about the life of famed Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn discovers that her real-life subject bears little resemblance to the star she idolized. ...

Welcome Home (2018)

A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions. ...

Little Adventure in Rome (2018)

Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: the camera jams and the lens has to be changed. ...

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 ...

Dogman (2018)

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpec ...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem (2017)

Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killin ...

The Legionnaire (2017)

Daniel is the son of African parents born in Rome. He is a police officer of the State Police Department. One day he finds out that his unit will have to clear a building where his mother and brother live. Torn between the love for his family and the loyal ...

Sun, Heart, Love (2017)

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the s ...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass (2017)

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs. ...

Era d'estate (2016)

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy's Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the 'Mafia Maxi Trial' when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees the ...

Finché c'è vita c'è speranza (2015)

Sometimes you need to try unusual ways to start a family. ...

The Last Will Be the Last (2015)

Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she's always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn't always have a job and they both need to struggle to ...

Long Live the Bride (2015)

In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city's dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a nethe ...

Short Skin (2015)

Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation ...

Hope Lost (2015)

A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas. ...

Pasolini (2014)

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo ...

Arance & martello (2014)

A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democrat ...

I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society. ...

Like the Wind (2013)

The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide ...

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. ...

Scusate il disturbo (2009)

The Red and the Black (1997)

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children. ...

Il tempo del ritorno (1994)

Circle of Fear (1992)

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which h ...