Francesco Benigno

Il Colore del Dolore (2020)

Francesco is a street boy who lives by his wits in Palermo. One day he accompanies a friend to the casting of an important film that will be shot in the city and so, almost by chance, he too finds himself taking part in the selections. In this circumstance ...

It’s the Law (2017)

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems. ...

Faccia di ladro (2013)

Roma nuda (2011)

Tutte le donne della mia vita (2007)

Blindati (2003)

Arresti Domiciliari (2000)

Stefano is caught with a bag of cocaine in his pocket and placed under house arrest. Yet the boy knows full well that he has never used drugs. There is someone who wants to frame him, but there are also drug traffickers on his trail, convinced that Stefano ...

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 ...

La stanza dello Scirocco (1998)

Palermo – Milan One Way (1996)

A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Sicily to the courtroom in the North, but it won't be easy. ...

Miracolo italiano (1994)

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce hi ...

Nineties Part II (1993)

Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV... ...

Nineties (1992)

Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV... ...

Un sogno perso (1992)

The Last Breath (1992)

Alfonso decides to rob a villa on the outskirts of Palermo believing it to be empty, but in the meantime the owner, Tony, who had an appointment with his lover, Margherita, bursts in and attacks him. Tony, councilor and doctor, wants to avoid the scandal a ...

Christmas Vacation '91 (1991)

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each fr ...

Boys on the Outside (1990)

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come ...

Mary Forever (1989)

Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand u ...

Il Colore del Dolore (2020)

Francesco is a street boy who lives by his wits in Palermo. One day he accompanies a friend to the casting of an important film that will be shot in the city and so, almost by chance, he too finds himself taking part in the selections. In this circumstance ...